Like a golem or gargoyle, Earthshaker was one with the earth but now
walks freely upon it. Unlike those other entities, he created himself
through an act of will, and serves no other master. In restless
slumbers, encased in a deep seam of stone, he became aware of the life
drifting freely above him. He grew curious. During a season of tremors,
the peaks of Nishai shook themselves loose of avalanches, shifting the
course of rivers and turning shallow valleys into bottomless chasms.
When the land finally ceased quaking, Earthshaker stepped from the
settling dust, tossing aside massive boulders as if throwing off a light
blanket. He had shaped himself in the image of a mortal beast, and
named himself Raigor Stonehoof. He bleeds now, and breathes, and
therefore he can die. But his spirit is still that of the earth; he
carries its power in the magical totem that never leaves him. And on the
day he returns to dust, the earth will greet him as a prodigal son.
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