Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
In John's revelation the first horseman rides a white horse, carries a bow, and is given a crown as a figure of conquest, [2] [3] perhaps invoking pestilence, or the Antichrist. The second carries a sword and rides a red horse as the creator of (civil) war, conflict, and strife. [4]
The final level in NetHack features the three riders Death, Famine, and Pestilence as the game’s final bosses. The fourth rider, War, is assumed to be the player. In "Payday 2", there are a series of masks named Conquest, Death, Famine and War, with notes to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in their description.
They are enhanced or endowed with new abilities, and are always given the same titles based upon the biblical Four Horsemen Death, Famine, Pestilence (replacing the biblical Conquest), and War. While Apocalypse has empowered other individuals to do his bidding, the Four Horsemen remain his elite minions, always playing a key role in his plans.
Why is conquest instead of pestilence [ edit ] It's more common for pestilence than conquest as it will be redundant for war and conquest when they are thought of as the same 24.214.117.142 ( talk ) 22:45, 7 August 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]
Pestilence may refer to: Infectious disease; Pestilence, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse; Pestilence (band), a Dutch death metal group; Pestilence (comics), a Marvel Comics supervillain, based on the biblical horseman "Pestilence" (Medici: Masters of Florence), a television episode "The Pestilence", a song by Kreator from Pleasure to ...
He concluded: "Many aspects of this holy war text may be troublesome to a contemporary reader. But understood within the symbolic world of the ancient writers of Numbers, the story of the war against the Midianites is a kind of dress rehearsal that builds confidence and hope in anticipation of the actual conquest of Canaan that lay ahead." [2]
Pestilence or Conquest (there is no clear consensus), the rider of the White Horse in the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse; White Rider (Skrewdriver album), a 1987 album by British white power rock band Skrewdriver; White Riders, characters in The Dark Tower novel by C.S. Lewis
The plague weakened the Byzantine Empire at a critical point, when Justinian's armies had nearly retaken all of Italy and the western Mediterranean coast; the evolving conquest would have reunited the core of the Western Roman Empire with the Eastern Roman Empire. Although the conquest occurred in 554, the reunification did not last long.