Hunger is universal amongst living things. The photosynthetic plant reaches towards the light, inhales Carbon Dioxide and exhales oxygen. Look where you like for life and you will find hunger. Life is the process of satisfying hunger to maintain homeostasis and hold of Mother of Discord’s entropy and inescapable heat death.
That which survives knows that hunger is the drive which moves all life and the method by which everything survives. The Pale Shepherd knows that adapation is caused by creative methods of satisfying hunger when the traditional path is blocked.
Hunger is all and the Locust Spirit is the manifestation of hunger.
But woe to the living organisms lose control of their hunger, those which give in too fully to their hunger, those who gorge themselves too fully. Death is boneland’s mechanizm for control and those who seek to fully embrace their hunger will grow unbalanced in the ecological equations that the bonelands enforce, and then the bonelands will exact a permanent payment to balance its equations: extinction.
This is of course all speculation from a Shadowland scholar attempting to interpret the sonar blips received of the bonelands. In the long term, the Bonelands tend to entropy, but in the short term, the bonelands tend to equilibrium.
| 12 And the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over Egypt so that locusts swarm over the land and devour everything growing in the fields, everything left by the hail.” 13 So Moses stretched out his staff over Egypt, and the Lord made an east wind blow across the land all that day and all that night. By morning the wind had brought the locusts; 14 they invaded all Egypt and settled down in every area of the country in great numbers. Never before had there been such a plague of locusts, nor will there ever be again. 15 They covered all the ground until it was black. They devoured all that was left after the hail—everything growing in the fields and the fruit on the trees. Nothing green remained on tree or plant in all the land of Egypt. Exodus 10: 12- 13 |
The Locust Spirit is not villainous alone, twisted by addiction and fear. A plague of hunger and paranoia devours those it does not convert. The Grey Locust is some bizarre gestalt form, a minor spirit empowered by one of the fear touched Elders, latched parasitically upon a nameless lost Magus of a long forgotten Demon Court. This strange legion of beings is what transformed the youngest of the Seven Siblings from the Archetype known as Lion, into the Archetype now known as the Locust King.
Professor Harbinger's School for Villains 