With the sky people's threat growing, Toruk Makto’s word carries immense weight. Jake Sully recalls stories from the Olangi and other distant clans about a mountain-dwelling people whose armor-like textiles can deflect sharp shrapnel and whose silver-ore smithing creates the sharpest spearheads on Pandora. Though Jake has never climbed the misty karsts himself, he convinces Tonowari and Ronal that the Kanyù Clan is the missing piece to securing the coastlines. Ao’nung finds himself falling for one of the Navi in the Kanyù clan.