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This is a Earth bender. From what I know it that they can make land slides, can controle rocks in mid air, can crush
pices of rocks into one big one, and can just hurdle rocks and kind of ice skate or serf on them. They dress in green and
live on the bigest piece of the in the world.
Origin of Earthbending
Humans first learned earthbending by observing and imitating the earthbending powers of badgermoles that naturally inhabit
the mountains in what is now Earth Kingdom territory. According to legend, two star-crossed lovers named Oma and Shu (à la
Romeo and Juliet) learned the art to meet within the mountain that divided them. The pathways they made by earthbending became
known as "The Cave of Two Lovers".
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Fighting style
Earthbending is generally based on the Hung Gar style of Kung Fu, which features heavily rooted stances and strong kicks
and punches that evoke the mass and power of earth. There are exceptions to this rule -- the blind Earthbender Toph's style
is based on Southern Praying Mantis Kung Fu. Unlike other bending disciplines, earthbending maintains a balance between offensive
and defensive capabilities. [1]
Earthbending uses a balance of strength and defence to overwhelm opponents. Common attacks involve levitating nearby earth
and stone, and propelling them at foes by way of a punch or kicking motion. A levitated slab of rock can also double as a
shield when positioned in front of a Bender. Striking the ground with feet, fists, or hammers creates localized earthquakes
or fissures to throw opponents off-balance. Earthbending Masters can even turn the ground to quicksand to immobilize an enemy,
or catapault into the air and soften the earth and ensure a safe landing. Some can even tunnel through the earth to out-maneuver
their foes. Earthbenders even illustrate limited ferrokinetic abilities, able to magnetize their limbs and climb sheer rock
walls. Earthbenders are typically barefoot, to increase their connection with the earth. Earthbenders have been known to use
hammers (males) and fans (females) to augment their bending, but it is unknown if they use any other weapons. It is also known
that Master Earthbenders such as Toph can create armor out of Earth. Avatar Level Earthbenders can move hill size statues
at will and even fracture landmasses, as demonstrated by Avatar Kyoshi in the episodes "The Avatar State" and "Avatar
Day".
The principle of Jing is the essence of battle strategy, with a total of 85 possible actions. Positive Jing occurs when
one chooses to fight while negative Jing is when one chooses to retreat. The earthbending discipline stresses Neutral Jing,
which involves listening, waiting, and doing nothing. King Bumi stresses this in his tactics against the Fire Nation. It is
likely that the other 84 Jings are differing degrees of Positive and Negative Jings (Neutral would be the two in perfect balance),
though this is up to debate.
Earthbending is not limited to rock or soil alone. A powerful Earthbender can also manipulate sand, coal, gems, crystals
and other earth-based materials, even converting them from one form to another. They can even control rock candy. However,
Earthbenders are unable to affect processed metals and possibly glass. The Fire Nation exploits this weakness by smelting
the metal used in their armor, ships and forts.
Earthbending is the opposing bending art to Airbending. When first learning to earthbend the pupil must first learn confrontational
tactics.
Like all of the bending arts, Earthbending has no inherent advantages or disadvantages against the other disciplines.
The series has repeatedly illustrated that it's the skill and prowess of the user that determines victory.
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Sandbenders
Sandbenders are Earthbenders who have adapted to live in the Si Wong Desert. Their skills differ greatly from those of
ordinary Earthbenders. As their name indicates, Sandbenders bend sand. They move quickly in the desert on specialized wooden
catamaran sailers that are propelled by bending sand twisters behind their sails. Since economic opportunities are limited
in the desert, Sandbenders get by however they can. They've been known to scavenge for dead animals, or even steal from passing
travelers at the nearby cantina.
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Earthbending Animal
Badgermoles are giantic animals, a cross between a badger and a mole. Badgermoles use Earthbending to make tunnels and
caves and travel underground, where they hunt for prey and live. They are natually blind but use their Earthbending to feel
the ground and "see". A little known fact about the Badgermoles is their love for music -- if the right music is
played, one can get a badger mole to do just about anything. Badgermoles can control the earth just as easily as humans can
and are said to be where the first two human Earthbenders learned how to control earth.
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Elemental Symbol
Earthbending Symbol
Earthbending Symbol
The symbol for earth and earthbending is a tall rough isosceles trapezoidal shape, the base of which is made up of the
Bagua trigram "Kun," denoting "earth." Inside, at the top, is a spiral. The symbol is present on wooden
"elemental solitaire" cards owned by the Fire Nation's General Iroh.
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Notable Earthbenders
* King Bumi
* General Fong
* Haru
* Toph
* Aang
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