The Four Horsemen

Joy's picture of the Horsemen after an accident caused by Kindel. Delivered to her for Valentine's day.

### Current Members

Joy Morningstar, Modurk the Remorseless, Leonan Crestfist, Kindel Inferno

### Notable Members

Joy Morningstar, Modurk the Remorseless, Leonan Crestfist, Kindel Inferno

## General Overview

The Four Horsemen are a legion of Black Spider's four most powerful mages and warriors from all over Phandelver. This group was formed by the Spider himself as means of spreading his influence and guarding him in his city while he conquers all of Phandelver. As the name suggests, it consists of four members. They represent the foils of the main cast in Lost Mines.

## History

10 years prior to the main story, Black Spider was in search of powerful members to add to his ever-growing thirst for power and control. He sought out for individuals who both can support and agree to his cause. Black Spider found four individuals over the span of 6 years to join his legion, they formed the name "The Four Horsemen" after their last member, Kindel, joined.

As the name suggests, they are harbingers of the apocalypse which Black Spider will enact in his grand plan to release Fenrir, but they all have their own reasons for working for Black Spider, personal gain.

Each Horsemen so far has had a connection or history with some of the members of the main cast. Modurk has a history with Lo Long, as he is his current nemesis and the only fight he was not able to complete so far.

Kindel Inferno is the younger sister to Dante Inferno, a close friend to the main cast and specifically Silk. She has a special rivalry with the cast's rogue, Hitori as he was the first one to actually confront her personally, foil her plans and take her down.

Joy Morningstar was a former astrologian, and classmate of Soleil Caldera and Visitor, who is the magical advisor for Osiris Blackwig in Tribe of All. She also has a connection to Silk as she is seen as her more demented counterpart as a tiefling wizard.

Leonan Crestfist is a hunter and poacher of the most dangerous animals in the world(s). We first meet him in the Feywilds after hecate scorns the party for turning the Fey Queen into a fern. They discover he'd hunted every fairy in the town and was after the Queen. Before he killed them, he was summoned by Tasha to participate in a test.

### Order of recruitment

- Joy was the first member to be recruited by Black Spider, he bailed her out of prison in exchange of a trial run of working for him.

- Leonan Crestfist was the second member to be recruited, Black Spider offered the chance to hunt the greatest game of all, man.

- Modurk was the third member to be recruited after he was banished from the Lord's Alliance for his brutal ways, Black Spider saw his vision and it appealed to Modurk. He offered his allegiance in exchange of enforcing it.

- Kindel was the last member, and is the youngest of the four. Despite this she is one of the more dangerous ones. She was exiled to Midgard by Eitri and was found by Black Spider, he offered a job to build his army's artillery and weapons in exchange for swearing his allegiance to him.

## Appearances (In Order)

The Four Horsemen made their first public debut after Silk's birthday when Black Spider sent a continent wide live stream of him revealing the identities of the Horsemen.

Joy Morningstar was the first one the main cast met during their trip to Helheim to look for the Hunting Horn of Hela. She incapacitated Hela and kidnapped Charlie to mess with the Horsemen. She is seen to be a woman of her word and gave the heroes the Horn after defeating Charlie.

Modurk was the second one they had encountered in Jotunheim during the "Rumble of Ragnarok" wrestling event for Thor's Hammer. He requested to go up against Lo Long, but promptly lost after the party dropped Thor's Hammer on his head before he struck his final blow on Lo. The other Horsemen can be seen in the background prepping him up. Leonan unfortunately stole the Seashells of Jotunheim before the party could take it in amidst of the chaos.

The Horsemen would have a brief cameo in the snowball fight at the end of the Christmas Special where they claimed it was their holiday off, so they would not need to fight the heroes. They used their various skills and weapons during the snowball fight who had no clear winner. Beforehand, they were being berated by Black Spider as shown by the ghost of Christmas Present.

The Horsemen would then be seen again in Alfheim, under the influence of Jon Miscellaneous. Joy was the one to step up and ask the heroes for help to take Jon down as they all agreed he's the worst.

Joy would make a brief appearance in the Valentine's Day special "Hecate's Late Valentine's Deliveries" where she ordered a picture of the Four Horsemen.

Kindel would be the one that the heroes would face next, as she took control of the GlamourNet and stole the Sun of Nidavellir to power her weapons and herself. She placed the heroes in a dungeon and livestreamed it to her Glitch account for all her followers to see. She was defeated and foiled by Hitori when he confronted her head on, and the heroes later joining him to make the task easier. She hid the Sun in her prosthetic arm as it powered her as well. She is later kidnapped by the same party and brought along to Niflheim to be reunited with her brother Dante.

The heroes would face Modurk off next in Tasha's castle, he'd become an echo knight fighter at this point. The Horsemen would have to work together to pass Tasha's test. When they didn't, they fought the party in an epic duel for the ages before escaping.

Kindel was brought back to the party after a while.

They would go to Yggdrasil into the Atrium and meet with Leonan, this jungle was his element and they were his prey. He hunted them down while they tried to defend themselves. Lo met up with Modurk and his endless echoes in a fight.

Joy faced off Silk who punched Joy off the tree in a fit of rage.

when they got back to Tribe of All, they realize that the Horsemen in the Atrium were fakes and so was Kindel, they were actually here with Nezznar to try and destroy the tribe.

The final appearance with all Four Horsemen would be the Neight Assault, where the party would fight all Four Horsemen. Lo killed Modurk finally, and Kindel let Hitori go after he confessed to her.

Leonan escaped like a coward and Joy vanished to fight another day.

Kindel hosted a game show in Muspellheim called Muspell Mayhem to separate the party who were trying to get the Eternal Flame.

## Jon Miscellaneous

Black Spider's "Jester" Jon was not a Horsemen, he wanted to join though, but could never live up to the task. Eventually he found his shot at it when Black Spider allowed him to partake in the mission for the Moon of Alfheim's retrieval. Jon was the one who found the Moon, and when he saw its power, Jon knew what he had to do. He found a way to put the Horsemen under a spell, as for the rest of Alfheim so that they could not harm him and the would do his bidding of making the most entertaining show in the Nine Realms.

His goal was to gain enough power to eventually overthrow Black Spider, and the Horsemen would be forced to help him. Luckily Joy found a loophole through the Heroes of Phandelver and asked for their help. When Jon lost his connection to the Moon and was bested in battle, Black Spider came to see him and blew his head off as a punishment for trying to overthrow him.

Recently Jon was resurrected via genie wish by Mr. Hunky Dory. It is unknown why he did this, or where he escaped to when resurrected.

## Relationship with Black Spider

While they all have their own reasons to join him, they all collectively fear his power and authority, see Jon Miscellaneous as an example. Aside from that, they do respect and share his vision for the greater good of the world.

During the Christmas Special "The Ghosts of Ducks Manor", Black Spider is seen berating the Horsemen for constantly failing. They obviously fear him, even in his deteriorating state at the time.

Joy believes in bringing people together, and the best way to bring people together is in a crisis, which Black Spider will provide.

Modurk has a saying, "The weak lack worth, strife is how we keep the strong-willed" and he believes that Black Spider can help with that. By becoming his general, he can enforce his vision his way, unrestricted by the rules of his previous rulers.

Kindel sees (or rather cant) Black Spider as a way of getting what she wants, the ability to do what she wants. Through him she gets unlimited resources, unrestricted experiments on technology and soldiers, also fear and power as a Horsemen. To Black Spider she's a tool, to her HE'S the tool, in both ways too.

It's unknown so far why Leonan joined his cause besides the fact he gets to hunt man without restrictions, it will be revealed when we meet him.

## Trivia

* Kindel is one of two members with a disability, for she is blind. Although she can see thermal signatures, making anything cold invisible to her.
* Joy is the moral support of the Horsemen, but also considered more deadly than she lets on.
* Modurk did not kill Lo in their first encounter due to the Dragonlord and Xue Long interfering
* Leonan is missing a hand
* A running joke amongst the party and the Horsemen is how bald Modurk is.
* Joy's dress is based off of futuristic depictions of how women from the future, like the Jetsons, would dress.
* Joy's accent and facial look is also inspired and based off of Jester Lavorre from Critical Role
* Kindel is the founder and creator of Finnore tech, which is an anagram of her surname Inferno.
* Modurk would have killed Lo, if it weren't for the interference of Thor's Hammer during the match.
* Kindel's Divine Hand is the only Divine Hand in existence so far that was made by someone other than the Hands of Steel, herself.
* The Four Horsemen were not meant to be foils of the main heroes, this idea was conjured though when Hitori and Osiris mentioned they were basically the opposites of them.
* Kindel is the only member who does not fully agree with Black Spider.
* Leonan is the most mysterious at the moment.
* Leonan's ultimate ability is based off of Hanzo's ultimate in Overwatch.
* Joy Morningstar is also a pun relating to her weapon "Starpocalypse" which is a morningstar.
* Modurk's wrestling names are "The Maelstrom of Misery" and "The Half-Orc of Havoc"
* The crime Joy was arrested for was stalking.
* Kindel amputated her own arm for the prosthetic she stole from Hecate, the arm has been since returned to Hecate and left Kindel one handed.
* Hitori has repeatedly commented on how "hot" Kindel is, before their first encounter.
* Kindel may or may not have feelings for Hitori as well, but it's been implied.
* Joy is the happiest of the Horsemen, but after the death of one of her own, she is gonna become more deadly.
* As cold hearted Leonan is, he has class in his pizza choices.
* Leonan's dragon's name is Ygdris.
* Modurk before dying was in possession of two Divine Hands, the Storming Fury Gauntlets and Gorehammer.
* Kindel is the most interesting one to me (the guy who made her) because while she is completely insane, she isn't all the way evil. She's just messed up.
* This page and these characters were made by Jacob Baguio.