Lexicon:Modern/Ryda
| Ryda | |
|---|---|
| Stage | Modern CLT |
| Pronunciation | /ˈɾɪ.da/ |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Etymology | from Middle Ridē, from Proto rid |
| Related words | Naevla, Chirska, Graen |
Ryda — the swarming crop pest. Strips a standing field in a day.
Notes
Arrives without warning in numbers nothing can eat through, takes everything green, and moves on. A field caught by a Ryda swarm is not damaged; it is gone.
Nothing kills them at that scale and nothing ever has. What works is Naevla, planted in strips through every field in the Known World, which they will not touch and will not cross. A field in strips loses the strips’ width of ground and keeps the rest, and every farmer plants that way because every farmer’s father did.
Engineered pre-Fall to destroy an enemy’s standing crop, as the Chirska was made to destroy their stores.