Terra Carver

Even other earth elementals and creatures of stone fear the formidable terra carver. Their four arms end with sharpened stone tools that can cleave through the toughest rocks—and anything that wanders into their territory. Despite having powerful forms, their bulky upper bodies appear comically large compared to their stout legs. They lumber slowly through their territory and spend most of their time cutting stone deep in the bedrock to create elaborate networks of tunnels.

They prefer isolation, and when two terra carvers meet, it typically ends with one hewing the other. Instead of taking their enemy's territory, a terra carver collapses the tunnels, continuing elsewhere with their own designs.

Voiceless Miners

Terra carvers are talented miners, and their tunnels are some of the longest lasting on any plane. However, the reason for these tunnels is unknown. Scholars have theorized that their tunnels function as a form of written language for the otherwise voiceless elementals. Unfortunately, attempts to map abandoned tunnels often end where another terra carver collapsed an encroaching tunnel, and mapping active tunnels often results in the cartographer never making it back.