Grist (Post-Mending)

Grist's History

Grist, known as the Hunger Tide, is an insect planeswalker from an undisclosed plane.

For years, Grist had traveled the planes, arriving at locations where vegetation was ready for consumption. After about a week, she would summon a swarm of biblical proportions from the local host of insects and would lead the swarm to a feast that would leave the land dry as a bone. At times, she would call the swarm into a condensed form acting as one, creating the illusion of a horrible zombie-like creature. Kamigawa and Eldraine were two such locations ravaged by Grist.

Tamiyo, noticing similar stories across the Multiverse of large numbers of insects that devastated farming communities, sought out Ajani Goldmane to help her solve the mystery of the flashes that appeared before and after each of these events. Ajani searched the swarm for a soul with a spark, and in this way, he discovered and spoke with Grist. Just as Ajani was unaware such planeswalkers existed as Grist, Grist had been unaware that humans/humanoids were people or that she had been hurting them. Tamiyo suggested Grist and her swarm feed on the Wilds of Eldraine instead of the fields planted by the hurting village of Mossverge, and Grist agreed to relocate the feast, as well as to not eat the bark from the trees so that the leaves would regrow in time. Ajani and Tamiyo agreed that Grist had committed no crime yet, but that if she resumed knowingly destroying fields constructed by people, they would then know whether she could be trusted. For now, Grist is a friend.