Mr. Dead, Earl the Eater, Pesky Pete, Mane the Mauler – The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
https://www.wizard101central.com/wiki/Creature:Mr.Dead(Rank_17)
https://www.wizard101central.com/wiki/Creature:Earl_the_Eater
https://www.wizard101central.com/wiki/Creature:Pesky_Pete
https://www.wizard101central.com/wiki/Creature:Mane_the_Mauler
https://www.wizard101central.com/wiki/Quest:Defeating_a_Dead_Horse
https://www.wizard101central.com/wiki/Quest:How_to_End_the_World
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Apocalypse
Below (l-r) Earl the Eater, Pesky Pete, Mane the Mauler
Mr. Dead and his minions (Earl the Eater, Pesky Pete, Mane the Mauler) have spread rumors about ending the Spiral by putting fluoride into Wizard City’s water supply. In actuality, they wanted to lure you, Bartelby’s Scion. to a confrontation and destruction.
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse ride out on four different horses white, red, black, and pale. The white horse represents Conquest or Pestilence (Pesky Pete). The red horse represents War (Mane the Mauler). The black horse represents famine (Earl the Eater). The fourth and final horse is pale and represents Death (Mr. Dead)
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are figures in the Christian religion, first appearing in the Revelation of Saint John, an apocalypse (a prophetic revelation, especially concerning a cataclysm in which the forces of good permanently triumph over the forces of evil.) written by Saint John while on the Island of Patmos.
Revelation 6 tells of a book or scroll in God’s right hand that is sealed with seven seals. The Lamb of God/Lion of Judah opens the first four of the seven seals, which summons four beings that ride out on white, red, black, and pale horses.
In John’s revelation, the first horseman rides on a white horse, carries a bow, and is given a crown – he rides forward as a figure of Conquest, perhaps invoking Pestilence or the Antichrist. The second carries a sword and rides a red horse and is the creator of (civil) War, conflict and strife. The third, a food-merchant riding upon a black horse, symbolizes Famine. The fourth and final horse is pale, and upon it rides Death, accompanied by Hades, “They were given authority over a quarter of the earth, to kill with sword, famine, and plague, and by means of the beasts of the earth.”
From left to right are Death, Famine, War, and Conquest; the Lamb is at the top.
Christianity sometimes interprets the Four Horsemen as a vision of harbingers of the Last Judgment.
Wikipedia has a fascinating article detailing the mentions of the Four Horsemen in Pop Culture from films, to TV, to literature.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Apocalypse_in_popular_culture
The current list of all the Wizard City references can be found here.
Mr. Dead, Earl the Eater, Pesky Pete, Mane the Mauler images are from Wizard101, and are (c) KingsIsle Entertainment.
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Four Horsemen of Apocalypse, by Viktor Vasnetsov. Painted in 1887. is borrowed from Wikipedia and is in the public domain.
Text for this article is excerpted from the linked wiki pages
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