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A while back I favorited a post by @ImProbablyJoking where they included the four horsemen by Ryan Begley. I put them all together in a 1920 x 1080 wallpaper for anyone who wants it.
ManimalDeification24
There's a man, going 'round, takin' names
Deathofrats
Sǫᴜᴇᴀᴋ?
idonthavetimeforthiseither
Which one is Moe?
PurveyorOfInsanity
Prepare for the Skeleton War!
PurveyorOfInsanity
Also, neat artwork
Tredecim
thanks @op I was looking for this !!!
madlisa
1/2 - I thought they drove the following: War: A cherry red 2009 Ford Mustang. Famine: A black Cadillac Escalade.
madlisa
2/2 Pestilence: A green Hornet Wagon. Death: A pale grey 1959 Cadillac Series 62.
DrunkBenedictCumberbatch
woogigooie
ashackatak
Oh shit! You got it son. It's a Psi Op!
easylikerain
The way Death is darker than the others reminds me that, while the other three are always around mankind, it's Death that never rests.
easylikerain
And yes, Good Omens is a great book and you should read it.
GhostInShiningArmour
These are super cool! Part of me is sad that the artist didn't color the horses. But still I love this type of art
JakeHawke
And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.
SkeletonRecruiter
phantomLord1983
Bokse
How very Alphonse Mucha
Cebrail
Bleh, all of them are skeletal, Death does not have his pale white horse, it looks more like cards for an RPG about undead.
mycroft999
This style reminds me of some of Peter Nixon's work.
fartinacolander
Dawkins, Harris, Dennett and Hitchens
Lepercake
The leading horse is white, the second horse is red, the third one is (a) back, that last one iiisagreeeeen.
ashackatak
As a kid I always thought it was kind of redundant. Wtf death doin there anyways. These guys kill with cause...I'll just take the old ppl ?
TallGuyWithAHoodie
Upvote and Favorite for getting Conquest right. Thumbs up.
JoeyWheelersRedEyesBlackDragon
JakobThor
Monkeybone5581
I need a reapers of the apocalypse deck of cards.
QUIBICUS
Awesome
SillyWillyWanker
nyaargh
tzxAzrael
i love the art, but conquest/war ruins it for me. but they all seem like they're simply facets of Death... i just analyze things too much.
DredeKnig
It's an allegory for the progression of war. Starting with glorious conquest, to primal war, to the following famine, to death taking all.
tzxAzrael
well i guess that makes sense.. but also kinda makes it much less cool.
DredeKnig
Eh, I quite like it, but I'm also a huge fan of good usage of literary devices.
chuckyDancer
Yeah, conquest is NOT one of the horsemen of the apocalypse. Redundant of war. Real pretty though. But where's my fucking pestilence bitch?
DredeKnig
Conquest is, pestilence is a modernization that fits better for the modern uses of the four.
biggreencow
Made famous by Alphonse Mucha https://www.private-prague-guide.com/wp-content/alfons-mucha3.jpg
Galaad974
Great Art, I love the Art Deco touch.
mimomisu
*Art Nouveau
Galaad974
You're absolutly right !
mimomisu
no biggie
obscurereferenceorsarcasm
They seem like nice enough chaps.
pdunn32
Honey, there's a Mr Death at the door! Well invite him in!
RunShadowfax1
it was the salmon mousse
pdunn32
But I didn't have the salmon.
DemonicCarnage
I thought the 4 horseman were War, Pestilence, Famine, Death
EmilinRose
pestilence and famine are considered the same in some old interpretations of the bible, leaving the fourth as conquest.
ElbowdeepinElmo
And I thought the horsemen...you know, had horses.
SoulHeart
Interpretation is that conquest is the equivalent of greed and the constant fight about different ideals. Like we fight to show we are right
LiskoBirb
I thought it was just Eredin, Imlerith and Caranthir.
Bortus
Seems like most of them are made irrelevant by death.
thomasthetankimgurine
I feel it needs some modernisation: Ignorance, Entitlement, Apathy and Gluttony make the older horseman look like teddy bears.
screenaholic
That's because Conquest doesn't sound evil enough, and media always uses them as evil.
Blacksmith80
The only horseman named in Revelations is Death. The others are not named.
AsAHistorian
You made me look it up. Nice!
Altanese
Correct! "I looked, and behold, an ashen horse; and he who sat on it had the name Death"
raminagrobis
How can some people not believe it is a fairy tale ? It's strikingly written like one.
JohnnyWalkerTexas
Dudu du du du dudu. There's a man goin' round....
SPECTREagent
Universal Pictures presents DAWN of the DEAD
TheBadassGunslingerFromtheChi
Taking names. And he decides who to free and who to blame.
Quigonjinnandjuice
Demonic carnage would know
LordofSadFace
I thought they were War, Death, Fury and Strife
Mindshard
No, you're thinking gonads and strife, the song.
justleaveittome
Damn, took my line.
Dweebert113
GONADS IN THA LIGHTNIN!
PassTheGiggles
No that's from the Darksiders series. Good games though.
TheVakarian
Pestilence quit during the 1930's.
StoneThrowingDevil
Mumbling something about penacillin
CC2332
Is that from good omens?
MaggGyver
It is indeed. He's Pollution after that.
BeardedSailorman
If only the old chap knew what was coming
IainG101
Or to go with the other option: it's those 4, plus Kaos, who quit before they were cool...
drakeistheantikanye
I thought it was death, rock, paper, scissors.
NyamoDarrath
I thought they were 5 you forgot Kaos the milk guy.
professionallazyperson
What I don't get is, why are there 3 things that causes massive amounts of death, and then ALSO "Death"? Why not just Death?
ProfessorSprayAndPray
They're allegories for war and tyranny. Conquest drives men to take over other lands. War (or Battle or Murder) appears after Conquest (1)
ProfessorSprayAndPray
because the Conquerors bring war with them. Famine comes in this context as a result of war, as resources are rationed and brought to (2)
ProfessorSprayAndPray
the front. And then Death appears, as a result of Famine and War and Conquest to harvest the souls and to wreak their own havok (3)
ProfessorSprayAndPray
It's important to note that in the Bible only Death is named. The others are simply representative of war and its effects.
JadeMcLeod
I would also assume that conquest is redundant to war. Pestilence makes more sense anyway.
DredeKnig
Most seem redundant to Death. the four horsemen is an allegory for the progression of war. From conquest to war to famine to death.
AsksTooManyQuestions
Conquest can also be done with money and politics.
jaslbrown
The reason we've moved to using conquest instead of pestilence is because it fits more with what the original author was (1/4)
jaslbrown
trying to convey. He wants to show how war progresses within culture. It starts out flashy and amazing with triumphal parades, but (2/4)
jaslbrown
eventually that turns quickly to the gruesomeness of war and its not so pretty anymore. Finally it take its toll on economies and (3/4)
jaslbrown
livelihoods and finally leaves people without their loved ones. He's showing how the we spiral in a cycle of killing one another. (4/4)
RoosterHogburn
Pestilence is a more modern interpretation, older Bibles have it listed as Conquest. They're interchangeable though.
TheKnight1509
Good to know!
KraftPunkIsLookingForACheeseWife
JohnnyKantPiss
I'm glad I know that now, +1
IndigoWendigo
Maybe a translation error?
TheDiabeticHeretic
And it's more widely used in pop culture. Which is why most people are more familiar with it than with Conquest.
OddOod
Almost as if there wasn't one authoritative version
jkwi
pestilence would be more like disease than conquest, which seems closer to war. I think pestilence refers to the plague epidemic.
Marikhen
"Pestilence" should also cover things like locusts swarming, and if it covers them then swarming Mongolians ought to be covered as well.
jkwi
fair enough =)
LilChefy
HungarianOxPenisInABlender
I think pestilence being iterative in the nature of spreading makes it replaceable with conquest.
FrostyBuns
I thought conquest was interchangeable with war?
Altanese
Conquest is listed as: "... a white horse ... and he went out conquering and to conquer." Some interpretations list this as Attila 1/
Altanese
who was of the White Huns. War is "... a red horse, went out; and to him who sat on it, it was granted to take peace from the earth..." 2/
Altanese
So white horse is more a conqueror, and red horse is more a war bringer.
k4nd1337
Pestilence, aka disease makes more sense than conquest indeed.
DredeKnig
It might feel that way due to what we're used to, but by the descriptions in the bible, conquest makes more sense.
Nemoxx
Famine can lead to disease, and death kinda covers everything so you can interchange any really
Marikhen
Pretty much. "Pestilence" can lead to famine as the crops or field hands die from a disease or the crops are eaten by a plague of locusts.
TheLazyDragoon
If death covers everything can we replace the other 3 with cooler ones, like a trumpet skeleton and the one stuck on a wheel that rolls
Altanese
Maybe from a storytelling perspective, but from a historical interpretation, the horsemen represented disasters and events that were 1/2
Altanese
contemporary to early Christianity. In this case, some scholars say that Conquest, the White Horse, is Attila, the White Hun. 2/2