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And now properly introducing one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse, Anabelle! The most extra of them all, never bested and never phased (just ignore that initial question Clara, it’s totally fine).
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We appear to have ventured off the canonical account, here. I don’t remember an ad copy writer in the original….
For the better it seems it is Trade’s APOC.
Now who is King? I don’t think we’ve met him or her yet.
While the pop culture version has the four horsemen as war, plague (or pestilence), famine, and death; the account from John in Revelation 6 is that they are Conquest, War, Famine, and Death. And Conquest, the one who is sometimes swapped in for Pestilence, is described as riding a white horse, wielding a bow, and wearing a crown. He is also sometimes conflated with either the Christ or the Antichrist depending on interpretations.
Anyways, Conquest seems a clear fit for Anabelle here.
I’d say the pop culture version is War, Famine, Pollution, and Death – but maybe that’s just me, here. I can’t cite Misters Pratchett and Gaiman as biblical, but they are definitely popular!
In Good Omens, Pollution took over when Pestilence retired (after Penicillin was invented), so it still follows the pop culture version, just with a bit of an update.
I’ve never heard of “Pollution”.
All my time here on Earth, and I somehow overlooked that nugget. Good one.
I was always wondering just how did the old horseman turned into the new versions because they dont exactly seem fitting into each other. From the 4 only 1 changes the rest, war, famine and death stays the same.
How does conquest turn into pestilence? Whats the logic here?
It’s just how the texts have been re-interpreted over time. A few people read the White Horse as an infectious disease rather than as Conquest, and so opted for retranslating the horseman to Pestilence. That idea then got picked up by pop culture way more often than older interpretations, but I personally prefer the more traditional Conquest as it adds more variety to the destruction! 🙂
That’s incredibly OP! I seriously hope there’s SOME kind of limitation on that! Yikes!