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Habitat
The Earth Dragons are fossorial creatures, meaning that they are burrowing dragons who spend their lives primarily, but not solely, underground. As such, their home is within their own element of Earth, dwelling in complex networks of interconnected tunnels and chambers that can span for approximately more than hundreds of meters, and even bigger if it is excavated by an eldwurm. In these darkling warrens, Earth Dragons lay their clutches in nesting chambers.

A vast and seemingly bottomless earth dragon warren was found beneath a mountain and its foothills, just without of the town of Barrowhaven. It was home to many nests and clutches as well as hatchlings, wyrmlings, and a certain Eldwurm.

According to the show's writer, Ashley Miller, Uldorak the Earth Eldwurm terrorized and destroyed Candoness in life, albeit offscreen. It's unknown if this is canon or not.

Characteristics
Incarnations of the material plane's gritty essence, all earth dragons are the element of earth made flesh.

Morphology
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Life Cycle
All eight dragon types undergo a life cycle that consists of four stages, excluding birth and death, the two of which are an obvious part of the life cycle: hatchlings, wyrmlings, adults, and eldwurms. So far, we have seen only hatchlings, wyrmlings, and eldwurms of the earth variety. The stage when earth dragons may reproduce and oviposit is currently unclear. By definition, the adult dragon should be sexually mature, but air wyrmlings are seen ferociously guarding their nests, implying that the earth dragons can also reproduce once they have grown into wyrmlings. However, it is also currently unknown if this applies to other types. The size of dragon eggs varies from species to species, with earth dragon eggs almost reaching the size of an adult human. Egg size seems to be proportional to the hatchling's size, hence earth hatchlings are quite large.

An earth dragon's lifespan is currently unknown, but a rogue void dragon named Kashurra lived for more than 3000 years. Dragons, including this earth type, might be comparable to that. But given the circumstances surrounding Kashurra's unique existence, this may, or may not apply to other dragons. Like everything else in this material world, these lesser dragons are not eternal or immortal and will eventually succumb to old age as an eldwurm (the oldest stage of a dragon's life), or die from other causes. Their lives may wane as they age, but their elemental power will grow stronger (but never weaker) as they grow older and reach the summit of their powers when they grow into an eldwurm.

In the reincarnation cycle of a primordial Eldwurm spirit, there is a special phenomenon where an incarnated Eldwurm goes mad.

When the dragon body of a Pillar of Creation is at its oldest and final stage of its life, the spirit within may now be afflicted with the madness. This is a natural process among all the eight Pillars. The time when this madness will occur seems to be random, since Uldorak's madness coincided with his final moments as the one with the oldest dragon body among the Thunder, while Slyrak's madness happened way before his ember eldwurm body can die of old age. In this state of madness, the eldwurm becomes uncontrollably angry and disoriented, flying into a blind rage where it will kill anything it sees, even if their victims happen to be one of their own kind.

Elemental Powers
Like all other elemental and fundamental dragons, their power remains active and ready to be used even after their deaths, the amount of powers preserved in their remains is roughly proportional to the dragon's age before it died. Besides their mundane ability to dig through the earth, some earth dragons have special superpowers over the earth itself. As a possessed corpse puppeteered by Terrorblade, Uldorak struck the ground with a glowing claw, causing a large pillar of rock to burst out. His pillar was tall enough to reach Slyrak who was flying at most tens of meters above the floor. This ability may be unique to the old earth eldwurms only, since all kinds of dragon in the Dragon's Blood series grow more powerful as they age, possibly gaining new masteries over their inherent element, or fundamental force of the universe.

This scene on the right also shows Uldorak seemingly surviving Slyrak's flame breath, and removing said flames off of his body after using his own powers that have been corrupted by Terrorblade's possession, implying some sort of fire resistance. His extinguishment might be from the demon instead of Uldorak, given that the former was completely in control of Uldorak's body and power.

Davion states that an awakened earth eldwurm can bring death and destruction spanning several miles from its nest. Within its range was the town of Barrowhaven and the city of Hauptstadt. How they might manage to do that with their powers over the earth element or with their sheer size is up to speculation.

Behavior
Earth Dragons are the Avatars of the Earth element. Thus they are as strong as the earth itself, since they embody its aspects of physical strength. Their strength allows them to effortlessly break down the earth to dig tunnels that can vary in size, depending on the size of the dragon that dug it. They break into the earth with their claws, or simply dive into it headfirst as if it were water. Such strength is required to loosen up tons of rock at high speeds.

Burrowing allows them to ambush their prey from below, although they can still be detected by the paths of broken earth that they leave and the ground movements that occur when they're digging. This technique is much more effective when both the Dragon and its prey are underground, because there's naught for their prey that can signal their presence and where they may strike, besides the earth that shakes whenever they dig. Although one may be occupied with anticipating where and when an earth dragon may breach, one must also be aware of them even when these beasts are still digging. Subterranean tunnels that are dug close to the surface can damage its structure. Anyone who stands above these tunnels may be consumed by this brittle earth and fall into their tunnels, potentially putting them in harm's way, or even the harm itself. Even when not in the path of a burrowing dragon, standing too close to a breaching dragon is dangerous as this sudden discharge of rocks can harm. Thus it's best to stay out of the path of a burrowing earth dragon, lest one may fall into their tunnels or be caught once they burst out of the earth.

Earth dragons are very vicious creatures. Even the hatchlings of their kind can kill a grown man and tear apart other hatchlings of their kind.

A joint and coordinated siege on Dragon Hold and its knights by swarms of earth wyrmlings and water wyrmlings controlled by Terrorblade was noted by Kaden and Ritterfau as an unnatural and impossible behavior, implying that Dragons from different species naturally do not cooperate with each other for a mutual purpose, let alone plan and work together to attack nondragon settlements in a seemingly organized manner, like pack hunting.

Intelligence
Like all other physical dragons, Earth Dragons have no will of their own. That's not to say that they are brainless, but they are merely flesh puppets being controlled by their respective Eldwurm, which is Uldorak. But a more appropriate comparison would be a finger to a human body. A finger has no will of its own, and it may only move when the being that it belongs to wills it to move. In this analogy, the finger (and other parts of a human's body) would be the earth dragon, while the human being that controls it is Uldorak himself.

As such, their mental link with Uldorak ensures that all Earth Dragons must be affected by anything Uldorak's mind is going through, be it good or bad. A good example of this is when Uldorak was afflicted with the state of madness that naturally occurs to the Eldwurms near the end of their body's life. His madness spread to all of his earth dragons who are vessels of his will, also causing them to go mad. This was shown when Davion, Bram, and Frühling found a nest full of dead earth hatchlings that slew each other in a fit of madness.

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The Song
With Uldorak's mind permeating the sum of his witless earth dragons, all of these beasts hear and are connected to the Thunder's song.

The Eldwurms
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Hunting
The Dragon Knights of Dragon Hold slay all kinds of dragons as part of their purpose to protect this world from its dragon scourge, including the earth dragon species.

Despite all the death, destruction, and suffering that they inflict upon lesser beings, the Dragon Knights still respect these creatures, with the full knowledge that they are still savage and wild animals. Part of these Knights' Creed includes honoring every Dragon that they kill. This is not an empty credo, for they respect these dragons by making them useful even in death, harvesting every part of their remains—scales, flesh, and bone—to fashion into many useful things: armors, weapons, miscellaneous equipment and even food and other luxuries. Sometimes, a community that survives a dragon-strike may keep the remains of their Dragon terrorizer as a trophy, courtesy of the Dragon Knight who responded to that strike. Profaning slain dragons, such as cursing and damaging their corpse out of hate, is disrespectful to them and may be punishable by death.

Kaden wears a pair of bracers made from the remains of an adult earth dragon, imbuing him with the same strength that it had when it was still alive.

Trivia

 * Uldorak and his earth dragons' design may have been influenced by the original depiction of Uldorak in the Wyrm Helm of Uldorak cosmetic for the . The helm's features included a pair of long forward-facing horns and green eyes, both of which carried over to the earth dragons' design.