Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

The Harbingers

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### Other Names

Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Harbingers of the End Times, Riders of Revelation, Heralds of the End, Children of Sin, Evils Born of Humanity, Heralds of Armageddon, Representatives of Calamity, Four Knights of the Apocalypse

### Allies

Themselves, Banes of Job, The Whore of Babylon, Beast of the Earth, Beast of the Sea

### Enemies

Humanity, White Council, Council on Foreign Relations, Gods, Empyrean, Grigori, Order of the Fly

### Goals

Kickstart the Apocalypse
Transform the Earth into a living Hell
Aid Sin in recreating the world in his image

> Should the first four of the Seven Seals of Revelation be broken, from the horizon shall come four beings riding on a white, red, black, and pale horse. They shall bring with them many plagues, conflict, hunger, and death as they are the harbingers of Earth's Last Judgement.
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The **Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse** are four primordial spirits embodying the four burdens of mankind; conflict, hunger, illness, and mortality. Created at the dawn of time, the Horsemen are intended to ride at the End of Days; each one cleansing the Earth of humanity's presence.

## Overview

The Horsemen were born from Sin, the Outer God the soul of the Void. All Horsemen are born with a "name" that is associated with a concept. These four mighty beings embody four apocalyptic forces that are said to have gained power over the world. They can range from highly tangible (Famine and Pollution) to completely abstract (Death and War).

They manifest according to the collective consciousness surrounding their names (eg: Death is depicted as a massive hooded skeletal figure with a scythe in hand and an hourglass pendant). They are the embodiment of the fear that the "name" represents, so as long as that "name" instills fear, they keep reincarnating.

The concept of Horsemen in itself should not be scary in itself, rather its power depends on how scary an image it has in the general minds of people. Precisely because of this, of the four, Death is the strongest, embodying the world's greatest fear: Death. Despite the idea that death is neither good nor evil, The Pale Horseman is the negative of that concept. While war can also be fought in the name of a just cause, The Red Horseman was the fear of the violent and horrific consequences and experiences. The same applies to Famine and Pollution.

The Horsemen are believed to either serve God or Satan depending on the version. However, the Horsemen themselves confirm that they answer to no higher authority implying that not even Heaven holds sway over them nor do the legions of Hell. All they are committed to is the task that they have been preparing for since the time of their conception.

## Characteristics

The Four Horsemen will travel across the globe as they leave a trail of destruction and despair in their wake from the forces that they embody. The Horsemen have a very slanted view of humanity, and some see themselves as just bringing out the evil that is already in humans. Both War and Famine, for example, have said humans "only need a little push" in order to do horrible things, and both have shown a level of disgust and contempt toward how easily corruptible humans are, and what they can do.

## Abilities

Each Horsemen, holds the same level of power, on par with Elohims and other Primordial Species Level Entities. The Horsemen are very dangerous as even their certain traits and concepts have allowed them to even cause trouble for those above their level of power.

The Four Horsemen are some of the most powerful agents of the Apocalypse with their sheer presence alone being enough to turn society into ruin and death. According to Vali, facing the horsemen together would be suicidal. Moreover, even facing the horsemen individually their chances of beating them are quite slim.

The Horseman are ancient primordial concepts which have tormented the Earth since time immemorial personified. The forces which they embody affects all around them as War's presence caused the people of Oklahoma to become barbaric and battle-crazed lunatics. The more humans give into their instincts which are nurtured and instigated by the Horsemen, the more the Horsemen themselves become stronger. The air that reeks of chaos, ruin, and death that happens around them because of their actions is absorbed by them, which in turn empowers and provides them with more than enough power to raise the Four Towers of Babel.

The Horsemen are for all intents and purpose unstoppable, however, even though they can be defeated by some other mighty force, they merely rise up once more to finish their task.

The Four Horsemen embody some of humanity's greatest fears and thus count among the strongest creatures on the Earth. All Horsemen are born with a "name" that associates them with a concept. Horsemen feed on the fear that humans and other creatures have of this concept, drawing their power from it. Because of this, Horsemen's power is deeply conscious of how people perceive the concept and the visual images their "name" inspires. The more fear associated with a "name", the stronger the Horsemen who owns it becomes.