Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

## Four Horsemen

### Summary

Four Archreapers tasked with the duty of heralding the Armageddon in the Book of Revelation.

**Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse**, often referred to as the **Four Horsemen**, are the quartet of Archreapers tasked with the duty of releasing END and heralding the apocalypse. The group consists of Hutriel, Maalik, Mors, and Maveth.

## Overview

The **Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse** (often referred to as the **Four Horsemen**) are figures in Christian religion, first appearing in the Old Testament's prophetic Book of Zechariah and in the Book of Ezekiel, where they are named as punishments from God, and later in the New Testament's final book, Revelation, a Christian eschatological text written by John of Patmos.

Revelation 6 tells of a book or scroll in God's right hand that is sealed with seven seals. The Lamb of God/Lion of Judah opens the first four of the seven seals, which summons four beings that ride out on white, red, black, and pale horses. Zechariah describes them as "the ones whom the Lord has sent to patrol the earth," causing it to rest quietly. Ezekiel lists them as "sword, famine, wild beasts, and plague".

In John's revelation, the first horseman rides on a white horse, carries a bow, and is given a crown - he rides forward as a figure of Conquest, perhaps invoking Pestilence, Christ, or the Antichrist. The second carries a sword and rides a red horse and is the creator of War. The third, a food-merchant riding upon a black horse, symbolizes Famine. He carries The Scales. The fourth and final horse is pale, and upon it rides Death, accompanied by Hades. "They were given authority over a quarter of the earth, to kill with sword, famine, and plague, and by means of the beasts of the earth."

Apocalyptic Christianity sometimes interprets the Four Horsemen as a vision of harbingers of the Last Judgment, setting a divine end-time upon the world.

## Summary

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are a primordial group of pure angels who once served within Azrael's choir and each represent an aspect of death. They are Hutriel (Decay), Maalik (Destruction), Mors (Greed), and Maveth (Nihilism) who is the leader.

These four Seraphim are tasked by God with the duty of controlling END, the primordial force of destruction who represents the End of Alls, and to release it onto the worlds and universes whose time has come to an end so that new worlds and universes can be born and the balance of the natural order be perfectly maintained.

The first time they went into action was in antediluvian times, when they released END onto the Edenith civilization, bringing forth the extinction of the First Men and the Nephilim, as well as the destruction of Tellus Mahte. Since then, they have continued to do their task for eons and brought forth the apocalypse to numerous civilizations across Creation.

On Earth, their legends and infamy were recorded by several prophets, first by Cassandra and later by John of Patmos, in the Book of Revelation. However, rather than being known for their original titles, they were given new titles by the authors: Hutriel as the White Rider or **Pestilence**, Maalik as the Red Rider or **War**, Mors as the Black Rider or **Famine**, and Maveth as the Pale Rider or **Death**.

Originally, they were supposed to herald Earth's destruction thousands of years ago with the deaths of Jesus Christ and Azrael, but due to END being sealed by the Biblical God and the following Great War, the prophecy of the Book of Revelation never came true.

Although most of the supernatural world had already figured out that it was already the end times, it was only at the Battle of Tel Megiddo, the supposed Malhama Al-Kubra, did the Three Factions realize that the events of the apocalypse were happening. However, due to the on-going conflict, none of the Three Factions' figureheads could allow the apocalypse to happen without admitting defeat, the Four Horsemen included, and thus, Earth's destruction was put on hold for indefinitely.

## Image Gallery

The White RiderThe Red RiderThe Black RiderThe Pale Rider
## Trivia

* It's unknown where the image of a horseman originated from as none of the Four Horsemen have ever appeared using any method of transportation other than either with Teleportation Magic or using their feather wings.
	+ It's later revealed that the color of their supposed steeds matched that of the respective rider's wings' colors.