Re: Timedrop23’s Characters

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Four days gone by, and I finally have a Pestilence character (the more common, pop-culture name for the biblical Horseman of Conquest) that I’m happy with. I looked at several images of the White Horseman online, and most of them had incorporated his bow into his body or his armor, and that idea spoke to me so I included it in my Pestilence as well. I also saw one or two that rode a white horse with six red eyes, something I had incorporated into Dhanusha’s horse prior to this discovery, so I continued that trend into Pestilence as well. But I had already done a rider, and thought Pestilence would look better as a full Centaur. Here is what I came up with:

Name: Pestilence
Alias: Conquest, White Horseman
Race: Proto-Sagittarian
Birthplace: The Vedanga Dimension
Powers: Superhuman strength, Impenetrable skin, Spreads disease through his bow and energy arrows.
Bio: Ages before Beelzebub’s rule, Vedanga was on the verge of collapse at the hands of its immortal peoples. Livestock had been mutated into grotesque, carnivorous monstrosities by warring factions seeking control of each other’s land. In an effort to purge the land of this destructive force, the being we call God sent down his Angels, led by four creatures designed specifically to bring about the Apocalypse in Vedanga. Though they fought valiantly for survival, the early Vedangans and their war-beasts were no match for the plagues, famine, infighting, and numerous deaths that dwindled their forces. But it turned out the Horsemen could not be controlled, and quickly turned on their Angelic subordinates once there were no Vedangans to fight. Using the blood of his defeated Angels, God devised a seal that would bind the Horsemen to the four points of the compass, ensuring that no one who was not of Heavenly origin could free them. He also gathered the blood of the Horsemen and that of the fallen Vedangans, and combined them to create new races to re-populate the newly cleansed dimension. The blood of Pestilence spawned the Sagittarian people, Famine gave birth to the Ekronian race, and War became the foundation for the Ka’Lians. Death’s blood was divided evenly among the three races, in an effort to control their populations by making them mortal. But as we know from the stories of Beelzebub, Dhanusha, and Tetra, mortality does not strictly imply weakness, nor does it mean a peaceful existence. With the surviving war-beasts still roaming the borderlands of Vedanga, the dimension was not a hospitable place to live. And when a powerful being made its first journey to Vedanga, breaking the seal that held Pestilence captive, things would only get worse for Dhanusha and Tetra, and for the people of the Earth realm as well.
Upon arriving on Earth, Tetra finds herself in London, where she begins hunting down Beelzebub and aligns herself with the Earth hero Strong-Arm. Together, they are able to subdue all of the giant flies and destroy the Staff of Baal, which Strong-Arm uses to impale Beelzebub, forever trapping him in the Dipteran pocket dimension.
SPOILER: Strong-Arm and Tetra would later forge a romantic relationship. Their children would later become Fortress and Tetra-Man, members of the post-Meridian Clockwork Team.
Meanwhile, God had ensured Dhanusha would remain in Vedanga for the time being, transporting him to the location of the broken seal of Pestilence rather than allowing him to continue on to Earth. He had Dhanusha use his amalgamation powers to absorb the Angel blood from Pestilence’s seal before completing his journey. Dhanusha would encounter Pestilence somewhere in Mexico, where attendees of a Dia de los Muertos celebration were being turned into soldiers in Pestilence’s army. Infused with Angel blood, Dhanusha was resistant to the infectious touch of the skeleton demons, and he was strong enough to stand toe-to-toe with his Apocalyptic ancestor. Dhanusha would ultimately fuse himself with the Horseman, dying from Pestilence’s poisonous magic, but sealing the Horseman away by transfusing his half-Angel blood into the creature in the process. The skeleton demons immediately reverted to their former selves, restoring some order on Earth but leaving Vedanga without a ruler and on the brink of war once again.