The Sunrise Lantern is a durable, sap filled pod. It can be broken with an arrow shot or with the Ikran Smash ability.
Description[]
These young seedpods of the sunrise lantern plant are frequently gathered by Na'vi, containing sticky sap which is valued in crafting and can be used as a glue or a varnish depending on its freshness.
The sunrise lantern is uniquely adapted to thrive on the floating topology of Pandora. The plant body is a woody, rough vine that grows at higher altitudes, on the underside of rock structures. Rooting deeply into the rocky medium, each vine branches into trailing stems, terminating in flowering buds with distinctive purple or crimson pigmentation.
Once fully grown, the head of the flower detaches from the plant. Composed of a large pod shell containing feathery “pappus” and topped with a spongy and thickly petaled flower. Sodium and potassium solutions within the petal cells react, creating a weak bioelectric charge.
This bioelectric charge "tethers" the seed pod to the electrostatic field of its parent plant, which in turn clings to Pandora's strong magnetic fields via the rocks it roots on, and its own charge.
From its tethered, floating point in an invisible web of magnetic fields, the pappus seeds feely scatter in the high-altitude winds. Assuming it remains undisrupted, the seedpod can remain in the air for months before the bioelectric charge dissipates and it drifts to the ground.
Gathering and Crafting[]
Sunrise lantern sap is commonly found under floating rocks throughout the skies of the Spires. Rarer sap can be found below Father's Judgment in the Tangled Peaks subregion of the Spires.
It is best gathered at night. When used in a crafting recipe for your ikran's armor, it will give the player 10% weakspot damage.