White Rider

"Disease gets a bad rep, don't you think? For being filthy, chaotic. Uh, but, really, that just describes people who get sick. Disease itself... very... pure. Single-minded. Bacteria have one purpose: divide and conquer. That's why, in the end... it always wins."

- Pestilence

The White Rider, also known as Pestilence/Conquest and Moreyn Frewer, is the infamous Nephesh tasked with the duty of heralding the Armageddon and was recorded in the Book of Revelation. He is one of the primary members of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

Overview
"One of the four horsemen in the Book of Revelation. He wears a crown, rides a white horse and is tasked to bring undeniable victory. The four horsemen have the power to conquer and kill and are often thought to bring chaos."

- Compendium about the White Horseman

The White Rider, or White Horseman, is the first of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse to appear before John the Apostle, according to Christian scripture. It traditionally represents Conquest, bearing a bow of conquest, with the "Pestilence" association first appearing in the 20th century.

This Horseman is one of confusion amongst theologians as some believe he is representative of divine conquest (and thus a force of good) while others think of him as a representative of unlawful conquest (and thus a force of evil).

Other interpretations include the rider of the white horse as Christ, whose conquest represents the spread of Christianity, or the Antichrist, who rides across the world to deceive those who are pious and faithful. Regardless of his morality the Horseman is said to arrive and sweep across the world, unleashing civil war and internal strife, which separates him from War, who embodies more open warfare.

Appearance
Pestilence has the appearance of a young boy with skin so white that it's easy to be mistaken for a marble statue carved to perfection. He has short, slightly-tousled, silver-gray hair and pink-colored eyes. He poses himself with a regal aura that forces others to submit to his will unconsciously, akin to a divine emperor from ancient legends. According to Issei, he is divinely beautiful in a way a crazed overlord would see beauty in power and corruption.

He usually dressed casually, his regular outfit consists of a light-blue dress shirt with dark-colored tie, dress pants, and dress shoes. He also wears a light-purple hooded-jacket.

However, his more inhumane nature is revealed when he enters the shade, with his face morphs and reveals a skull with a white serpent coming out of his eye-sockets and a foul green-colored gas comes out from his mouth whenever he speaks. The longer he's in the dark, the more terrifying he becomes. His lower anterior half and fore-legs morph into that of a wolf, while his tailed half becomes a giant mass of coiling serpents spewing poison. His upper half, while remains humanoid and has turned chalk-white, has its flesh rotten away and appears to be eaten by glowing neon-colored maggots.

Despite many people's beliefs, this isn't his true form, as his true form is so terrifying and immense that its shadow alone is enough to obliterate one's mind and sanity beyond any salvation, angelic or divine alike.

He is also mentioned to possess a total of six feathered-wings, each with a wingspan of around 2-meter, which resemble that of an albino eagle.

Personality
Pestilence can only be described as a natural emperor. He is charismatic, charming, and is capable of naturally manipulating others with ease. He's a natural leader and is the one who leads the other Horsemen into the battlefield, even acting as the group's sub-leader whenever Death's unavailable.

He has shown to be quite prideful, arrogant, and extremely confident about his own powers, believing himself to be greater than all of those from the mortal world. However, his arrogance is somewhat justified as his strength is as powerful as he said himself to be, as not only he's the second most powerful among the Horseman, as well as one of the most powerful entities in existence.

Like his celestial aunts and uncles, he has a low view of humanity, and while it's not as low as his siblings, he still thinks of them as undeserving of being protected by Heaven. He doesn't care how many people he kills and doing so quite naturally, even when he's around other Angels. The majority of his hatred toward humanity is because of his origins, being born from his father's despair over the sinful nature of humanity, thus making him more focused on the wickedness of humanity than their virtuous parts.

He considers disease to be a pure and wonderful thing, whose reputation as loathsome and chaotic is actually because of sick people. As a result, he openly admires bacteria and regards being infected with chicken pox as a "fascinating experience".

He also has a habit of hiding his feelings and appearing calm and even friendly, then revealing his true feelings in explosive outbursts. He also shows no fear of defying the Heavenly Council's orders. When an Angel pointed out that they had orders not to harm any member of team DxD, he showed no consideration and merely stated that the Rit Ziens would just "fish them out and glue them back together".

According to William, in private, he's a kind and gentle person who treats his lovers with the utmost love. He is also said to be a "beast in the bedroom", though both War and Famine became too horrified at the thought of hearing their brother's sex life that they magically silenced William before he could say more.

Along with the other Horsemen, he's looking forward to heralding the Armageddon and bringing forth the end of Earth and the mortal world.

History
Pestilence was one of the first Nephesh, alongside War, Famine, and Death - ancient beings born directly from Raphael's despair over the sinful actions of humanity. He, in particular, was born first and far before the rest of his siblings, being from the moment Abel's magical and physical abilities were deemed superior to his brother Cain's, though he only came into form during the funeral for Abel by latched on the sorrow of Adam, Eve, and their remaining children.

The moment he came into existence, he and his siblings were summoned to the Abrahamic God and they were tasked with the duty of heralding the Armageddon, releasing END onto the mortal world so that the world may be born again more beautiful, which they accepted with the greatest of honor.

Their first mission was on Tellus Mahte, with them marking the end of the Edenith era. However, due to the fact that several Nephilim managed to survive the Great Flood despite the Angels' direct order, their mission was deemed unsuccessful. Embarrassed, the four of them vowed to one day kill the last of the Nephilim and end the remnants of the Edenith civilization once and for all.

Afterward, they continue their duty, heralding the end throughout Creation, bringing forth the end to countless planets and universes, as well as the species and civilizations living within them.

At some point in history, the four of them founded the Apocalyptic Alliance, consisting of gods and mythological figures associated with the apocalypse within multiple mythologies and civilizations across the mortal world as means of minimizing the paperwork for both themselves and the Abrahamic Heavens. They also created the Lesser Horsemen, who act as their envoy and each embodies a concept that would ultimately lead to the Apocalypse.

Eventually, the gods quickly turned the Alliance into an organization that served the purpose of decelerating the world's inevitable destruction by any means possible, regardless of the sacrifice. Their efforts, however, were not unnoticed by him though he didn't report it back to his siblings for unknown reasons. He did, however, cursed all the gods so that they became infertile and took away the immortality of gods that were once mortals or half-mortals as punishment.

Throughout history, he had taken numerous lovers into his bed, much to his siblings' confusion and his father's amusement. All of his lovers were conquerors, many of which were even known as the most (in)famous conquerors in recorded human history, all thanks to the numerous "courting gifts" he presented to them. Occasionally, he would even give some of them immortality if they pleased him, both sexually and romantically.

Abilities
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Powers
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Equipment
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Harming, Trapping, & Banishing
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Killing
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Quotes
"I am the white knight! I am victory incarnate! To join your side would be a compromise! I will permit nothing less than total conquest! Now, fight me! Let the strongest between us be the victor!"

- Pestilence

"I'm waiting to hook up with my siblings; I've got a... couple more. We're gonna have so much fun together."

- Pestilence

"What are you yammerin' on about!? You think for just one second you could talk your way outta this? Now come 'n get me, and don't go holding back!"

- Pestilence "Mewling creature. Please! Shut up! My physicality is irrelevant, my blessing are infinitely vile. Toilers of the anathema toil no longer. The immaterial veil rends and from it comes the march of the enlightened disease. Your resistance? Nominal. The power of your "faith"? Negligible. The prognosis of you and your wretched world? hahahahahAHAHAHAHAHA! I fear its quite... terminal."

- Pestilence to Team DxD

"Then I saw when the Lamb broke one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures saying as with a voice of thunder, "Come." I looked, and behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it had a bow; and a crown was given to him, and he went out conquering and to conquer."

- Revelation 6:1 - 6:2

Trivia

 * Pestilence's appearance is based on Aru Akise from "Mirai Nikki".
 * His name Moreyn is a reference to the term furste moreyn ("first murrain" or "first pestilence"), which is used to refer to the Black Death - the most fatal pandemic in recorded human history and resulted in the death of 75-200 million people in Eurasia and North Africa - as a way to distinguish the mid-14th century phenomenon from other infectious diseases and epidemics of plague.
 * Murrain is an antiquated term for various infectious diseases affecting cattle and sheep, literally meaning "death" and was used in medieval times to represent it. It is one of the causes for the Black Death, along with the Little Ice Age and the Great Famine of 1315-1317.
 * His last name is a reference to Matt Frewer, who portrayed Pestilence from "Supernatural".
 * He is both the oldest Horseman, as well as the youngest because of the circumstance of his birth.
 * He is often accompanied by flies, drawn to his presence, perhaps by his very being.
 * He is the only Horseman to have human lovers. Some of his well-known lovers are Genghis Khan, Atilla the Hun, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar...
 * It's implied that their victories were "gifts" from Pestilence himself to his lovers.
 * In the Holy Templars of the New Age, he is considered the father of "false gods of the plagues, of Nergal and Reshef and Shakpana and Ruohtta...".
 * In some satanic cults, he is said to be the father of Pollution, Delusion, and Denial.
 * He owns a sickly-green '72 AMC Hornet with a license plate that spells SIKN TRD ("sick and tired") in addition to his white motorbike.
 * He shares the same license plate with Pestilence.