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Seed bank

The store of living seeds waiting in the soil or locked in fire-opened cones, insulated from the heat, ready to germinate into the cleared and fertilised ground a fire leaves behind. Many fire-adapted ecosystems do not merely tolerate fire but *require* it, holding their next generation in reserve precisely against the day everything above ground turns to ash. To burn such a forest to bare earth is not to end it but to trigger it. Pandora's drifting woodsprites, the atokirina', play exactly this role as a mobile, airborne seed bank for the living network.