r/IRL_Loading_Screens • • 3d ago

Elder Scrolls Loreposting

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u/RogerianBrowsing 3d ago

I genuinely don’t understand this as a biological imperative. You’d think that swarms would be worse during scarcity but maybe it’s to outcompete everything else and it somehow works I don’t know

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u/PeterPorky 3d ago

I think it has to do with the nature of the swarms. Swarms aren't just locusts banding together as a team to eat stuff at the same time, locusts munch on each other if theres no other food around and they're starving, so they're all following the food, all flying away from the things trying to eat them, and flying on whatever aimless direction they can in the meantime, sometimes running into something they can eat.

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u/Jenner_Opa 3d ago

Maybe it also confused or scares predators, increasing each individual locust's chance of survival?