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Your 'fifth horsemen' is interpreted as being Christ in glory. (thus The Word of God - as in John 1, and the blood on his robe from the crucifixion/side-piercing).
Terry Pratchett writes about a fifth horseman, Kaos, who 'left before they got famous' :)
The 5th horseman only shows up on the apocalypse though, he isnt around on our daily life like the other four. He could be any good divinity that join up the riders to bring down reckoning.
On another note, where is the Plague?
Some gnostic scripts call the fifth horseman Destriction and Oblivion, he who brings the end of all life, all things and all gods.
The 5th horseman only shows up on the apocalypse though, he isnt around on our daily life like the other four. He could be any good divinity that join up the riders to bring down reckoning.
On another note, where is the Plague?
He is interchangeable with conquest apparently. The exact four are different depending on the source.
Your 'fifth horsemen' is interpreted as being Christ in glory. (thus The Word of God - as in John 1, and the blood on his robe from the crucifixion/side-piercing).
Terry Pratchett writes about a fifth horseman, Kaos, who 'left before they got famous' :)
Pratchett also mentions another in Good Omens, Polution (who took over from pestilence who left muttering something about penicillin)
Although i note that pestilence isan't on the above list from revelations and the difference between war and the conqueror is only in semantics isant it?
May not be that relevant to you, as you can always change the setting as needed, but I thought that the 5th Horseman had been mentioned in Pathfinder. Isn't the theory that the Oinodaemon or whatever it's called that's hidden away somewhere in Abbadon is actually the Fifth Horseman? The one so vile and wrong that the Four joined to lock it away?
There's been some interesting takes on the horsemen over the years too. Three of my favourites:
I do love Pratchett's versions. Mrs War the Valkyrie, who now runs War's life with an iron fist never fails to get a laugh when I read about her. And I adore Kaos, who left before they got famous, also known as
Pratchett/Gaiman's work in Good Omens. War as the best war correspondent in the world, because somehow she's always where the wars are ABOUT to start. Pollution (who, as mentioned above, took over from Pestilence), working odd jobs in all kinds of interesting places, like nuclear power plants with bad safety records, rusty cargo ships carrying vast amounts of highly toxic weed killer just waiting to spill, and so on. Famine, the celebrity diet peddler and owner of a chain of fast food restaurants designed to provide no nutritional value at all. And Death/Azrael. Everywhere. Watching. Waiting. Working.
I also really enjoyed the Darksiders games, where you play as War in the first one (accused of kicking off Armageddon early, and trying to clear his name) and Death (voiced by Michael Wincott... *squee!*) in the sequel. Good, solid action adventure games with some RPG elements (moreso in the second than the first). The other two horsemen were renamed, to Fury and Strife. I think Fury was the sister. The backstory for them was very different in these games though, with the Four being the last remaining Nephilhim, who betrayed the rest of their people to save the multiverse from them by selling their services to the Charred Council, who maintain the balance between Heaven and Hell. They became the council's enforcers, with unbelievable power, and served faithfully until the events of the first game.