The Rise of the Hungry Empire

I have been reviewing my old journaling. And in doing so, I stumbled across this old entry. It is a reasonably neat and concise explanation of the rise of the Hungry Empire. It is told entirely from a mythological perspective. But I think the explanation is all the better for it. I plan to rewrite this for the Historia Papavera Apocrypha. But for the moment, this is a perfectly acceptable explanation to use. I will drop in into the Liber Essentialium, after giving it an edit. But for the moment, you can read it here first.

How did the Hungry Empire arise? The Hungry Empire arose when The Locust King raised an army and began to wage war in a way never before seen by the Free Tribes, overrunning and destroying tribes un a manner unseen for generations.

But how did the Locust King raise such an army? The Locust King chained the Broken; first the Devourer, then the Harvester and Contagion, then the Messiah, then Falsenight, and then Starheart and Ashdawn. The Locust King did this using the power of the Grey Locust.

But how did the Locust King gain the power of the Grey Locust? The youngest of the Seven Siblings made a deal with a Locust Spirit and the Elder known as the Grey. And in so doing, the Grey bonded with the Locust Spirit and allied itself with the young warrior and transformed him into the First Locust King.

But why did one of the Seven Siblings ally with the Grey? The sibling known as Lion acts as the vanguard to the tribe, seeking out new insights and pushing boundaries. In so doing, Lion encountered and befriended the Locust Spirit. And during their adventures they encountered something that they could not overcome on their own. They faced annihilation, and in desperation they called out to the Grey for assistance. Many scholars believe that they actually encountered the Grey and that they made a deal with the things that was killing them. But this is uncertain. The process resulted in the creation of the Locust King, and his first action as Locust King was to murder his elder sister: The Corn Lady. From the murder of Corn Lady, the Locust King was able to gain the power to bind the first of the Broken: The Devourer. And so began the Ten Thousand Darkness. So began the Age of Eternal Summer.