What It Does
The body takes on the weight of the earth — the skin hardens, the breath slows, and the fighter is the wall for as long as the breath holds. It is the answer to the long sword and the flail, and it is the reason the earth school is the school of the man who is paid to stand.
The Cost
Circle 2 · Earth · Exchange: breath — casting time one round. On the ladder in The Veil, the breath rung is the price, and the meter pays the budget while the exchange pays the spell.
The Failure
The skin holds the shape a beat too long, and the weight keeps the tension — the fighter is the wall, and the wall is the one who cannot move, and cannot move is the one who is hit.
In Stories
The journeyman's earth spell; the one the line casts before the line breaks.
The door's scale anchor is Stonewrought — the dragon casts it without thinking, which is how a reader learns the shape of the thing.