Ice Flower is a hostile type flora that could possibly do damage to living and non-living things on Coda. It may even do possibly damage to javelins in its vicinity. Contact with this dangerous plant-life can be lethal to living organisms. Humans dealing with Ice Flower must handle it with care. Ice Flower is a valuable resource. These plants or products derived from them are used throughout the world in several ways.
Etymology and Anatomy
Ice Flowers plants get their name from “ice” (frozen water), and their prominent bulbous flowers. They can only grow in extremely cold temperatures.
Ice flowers are weird plants that grow as tall as a javelin, but only inside Shaper Ice Globes. These plants have flowers that are shaped like dark blue bulbs with glowing spots. These bulbous flowers are filled with a special white sap with a few useful properties.
Narrative Involvement
Ice Flowers have always grown inside Shaper Ice Globes whenever these globes show up—always during the time of Icetide. These plants have been harvested for their sap with the help of lancers.
A decade ago, and perhaps even earlier, the Freelancer Enclave of the proud city of Freemark used to run the harvesting event for the Ice Flower Sap. But since the city’s destruction, it is unknown where such an event would occur.
Since the silencing of the Heart of Rage in 468 LV, Fort Tarsis became a new hub to run the harvesting event during Icetide. However, outlaws have tried to cause a frenzy to harvest the sap for unknown reasons. The good news is that the brave lancers of Bastion have stopped them. The Freelancer also took part in this effort.
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— From “A Guide To Living Things That Will Kill You” by Timon Batrok |
For a Collection of similar Cortex Entries, See: Flora (Cortex Collection) |
Behavior and Abilities
Although the plant cannot be damaged, the sap collected in the canisters can be destroyed by doing damage to it, which will release the sap. Ice flowers are dangerous to handle. They can damage any living or non-living thing that touch its sap. The sap, although explosive, does ice damage and instantly freezes anything around it, including a javelin. The chilling effects of these flowers can drive creatures mad. Fauna such as Burtes and Wyverns linger around the ice flower during harvest times. Even rare chimeras like Storm Wyverns can be found around these plants wreaking havoc.
Arcanists and Engineers of Bastion have devised a contraption that can collect the ice flower sap through tubes and deposit them inside special canisters. These containers come out of a machine and has only a short time to be gathered into Cargo Mules. If the gathering takes too long, the canisters will explode and cause severe ice damage and freeze the collector. Fortunately, only pilots inside javelins are permitted to harvest them, minimizing the damage. But the javelin will still freeze if the canisters explode, or if they are destroyed before collecting them from their machines.
Hidden Attributes
- Seasonal Emergence
- These plants can only grow and bloom in extreme cold conditions, such as Icetide.
- Explosive Sap
- The delicate sap of these plants can explode and instantly freeze anyone coming in its contact.
Trivia (May Contain Spoilers)
- Ice Flower may be a play on Frost Flowers.
- The design for ice flowers is unique and not based on any known plants. Thy may be based on tubers like potatoes or purple yams.
- When Ice Flower sap inside coolant pods is carried around in a javelin, it will get more and more frosty, which can be seen with the additional deposition of frost on the javelin.
- If the coolant pod is not inserted inside the Cargo Mule within 30 seconds, the javelin carrying it will automatically drop it. Fortunately, it will not damage the javelin in this case.
Anthem is the game which has the most unique number of plant or flora designs when compared to any other Bioware game.