#wispfire lantern

Cultish

Another crest corpse, this one being the Reaper Crest.

Closeup below

Like I get Volt Filament says it only buffs Silk Skills but like... Wispfire Lantern uses silk and it would be so cool to have a hidden effect like this.

With the Silkshots I get it, 'cause Pollip Pouch exists and at least Weaver Silkshot deals some pretty great damage already. But Wispfire Lantern's little guys do just about no damage for the same price as a Silkshot! (minus the beast shards but I don't think that's substantial enough ESPECIALLY when Wispfire constantly steals your silk while you can save uses of Silkshot for when you need them)

Also the Wispfire guys can just... miss sometimes. And that has little to do with any sort of player input.

My idea was that Volt Filament not only buffs Wispfire Lantern's damage, but also creates an explosion radius upon hitting an enemy or the ground. This would do less damage than a direct hit, but it would allow some shots that miss to still do something.

They are shaped the same, the wisps look like "flipped upside down" silkflies. whilst we know that silkflies were a product of soul extraction from bugs in pharloom (resulting in death im pretty sure), the wisps spawn from lanterns. (father of the flame was a bug inside a cage, so perhaps the wisps are also a product of soul? maybe when hornet uses the lantern it uses both soul and silk?). (my theory is that both use soul but how they behave is dictaed by feelings/ intensions of the bug). The wisps burn away silk, but silkflies seem to be attracted to it. the wisps are enemies whilst silkflies "help out" hornet several times in the game. the wisps are connected to the buring bugs which are frenzied in their devotion, which gives the wisp connotations of ecstasy/ crazy happiness (there's also same needolin dialogue about dancing). The process of extraction from bugs past their prime and the way the silkflies linger near corpses (i count the construct corpses too) seem to connect them to feelings of sadness/ grief. The wisps represent a quick life and a quick death, whilst silkflies represent a never ending life due to citadels silk experimentation. it could also be read as wisps representing strong emotion and the silkflies representing a lack of emotion at all (the way that constructs behave and talk, solely focused on their tasks)