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Inai calls his scattered kin together, but none has yet taken a seat.

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Earth Spirit
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Earth Spirit

Celestial

Kaolin the Earth Spirit, an elemental force carved into a jade likeness of a great general and buried at the head of a funerary army of ten thousand stone soldiers.

“Through conflict, one's nature is revealed.”

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Stories

Appears in 6 stories

Dota UnderlordsStory thread

The Search of the Warrens

Medusa turns to Earth Spirit for help finding her missing sisters, and the two tear apart 's looking for them. Medusa gives Kaolin no reason for the asking; why him, what pointed her at the district, and whether a sister came out of the rubble, the search itself does not answer. The Warrens belong to , who poisoned his way to their throne and guards them jealously against every outsider, so a Gorgon and a jade general pulling the slums apart is an intrusion on his kingdom, even if he is never heard to react.

The search is still a search. The raid, the masked assailants and the unnamed sisters are all anyone knows of what was lost.

Told in Dota Underlords, as its own continuation of the Dota 2 biography.

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The hero's story

Kaolin the Earth Spirit, an elemental force carved into a jade likeness of a great general and buried at the head of a funerary army of ten thousand stone soldiers. Cut off from the world's lifeblood, the spirit in the jade gathered its strength for a thousand years and dug itself free. He calls Nature's Prophet his own prophet and claims to know the true nature of Tiny.

Connections
  • Ember SpiritCanonFamily

    Kin of the celestial line who feud openly whenever they meet.

  • Void SpiritCanonFamily

    Kaolin is the brother who doubts. 'I suspected we might see your face, brother,' he tells Inai, and asks how the earth feels beneath his feet. The brothers, he warns, are not what Inai thinks they are.

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Ability lore
  • Boulder Smash

    It is with the power of a mountain that Earth Spirit strikes his enemies.

Official biography
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Deep amid the Upland crags and cliffs there runs a seam of sacred jade long foresworn by highland miners. From this rare material, the likeness of the great general Kaolin was carved and buried at the head of a stone funerary army ten thousand strong--a force of soldiers and holy men, jesters and acrobats, carved by crafstmen and entombed for millennia in the dark embrace of the Earth.

What the craftsmen had not known was that within the strange seam of jade flowed the spirit of the Earth itself--an elemental force at one with the planet. When the force within the carved jade found itself cut off from the life's blood of the world, it gathered its strength over the course of a thousand years and dug itself free and into the light. Now the great Kaolin Earth Spirit strides the Upland roads, fighting for the spirit of the Earth; and in times of need calls forth remnants of his buried army still locked in the loving embrace of the soil.

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