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Even if the actual diagetic name were "Riders of the Apocalypse" someone would probably still prefer "Apocalypse Rider" for the singular.

Like "Szuriel is an Apocalypse Rider" scans better than "Szuriel is one of the Riders of the Apocalypse."

I wholeheartedly disagree, the latter is structured better and more spaced out, it conveys a grand title ('Rider of the Apocalypse') rather than a mere creature type ('apocalypse rider').

At the end of the day, the 'Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse' are a well-recognised staple in the soup that is Western mythology. Most people are even aware of the line "Behold, a pale horse, and its rider was Death".

I doubt people in-universe would use 'apocalypse rider' for the same reason that no one in our real world uses 'apocalypse horseman' for 'horseman of the apocalypse' (outside of modern fantasy worldbuilding, like in Marvel). The cadence and inertia of the phrase is what gives it weight.

I know this thread is 4 years old, but I found a solution which might be of use to people who have the same problem and find this thread via Google (as I did).

Extract the PDF page as a separate PDF, then save that PDF as a Word document (saving the original PDF may crash some PCs!), ungroup the desired image from the page's other images (right click the desired image, go to 'group', click 'ungroup', repeat as necessary), then just copy and paste as normal. Inexplicably, it worked! I copied it into Word (where I write up my notes), and I couldn't see it - because it was merging with the text weirdly, so 'format --> wrap text --> in line' fixes it.

Again, apologies for the extreme necro-thread, hopefully this solution helps some people! Paizo art is g%%-d*&n gorgeous, and I love it in my notes.

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