The mountain gnome representative looked like all the wind had been taken out of his sails. It wasn't normal that there was a being other than the true earth sage or one of the more powerful guardians that could put them all in this state.
"There is no gem, crystals, or fossil my people can not find. We have the strength to carve in to mountains with our bare hands. We will not be beaten in a fight of strength." From what the mountain gnome said, it seemed that the skills their race had were related to the value and denser mana in rarer items of earth affinity.
Fossils were an interesting note though. While the fossils Walker knew of in the world would be formed due to various elemental reasons, it seemed that within the earth elemental planes fossils formed due to just the pressure and movements of rock. Meaning that they would also have a little more earth mana within. Becoming more valuable as fossils than what they might have had as living beings.
