The White Horseman

Conquest (Pestilence)

Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, in his 1916 novel The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (filmed in 1921 and in 1962), provides an early example of this interpretation, writing "The horseman on the white horse was clad in a showy and barbarous attire. [...] While his horse continued galloping, he was bending his bow in order to spread pestilence abroad. At his back swung the brass quiver filled with poisoned arrows, containing the germs of all diseases."

The first of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse to arrive, the spirit of Conquest who rides the white steed arrives to fill the earth with disease.

While the White Horseman is often interpreted as the aspect of military conquest, I have chosen to build on the writings of Vicente Blasco Ibanez, who takes a more provocative and darker tone to the character to represent the horseman as the bringer of pestilence. On horseback, with endless quivers of diseased arrows, shooting and filling the earth with their germs.

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