Pale Rider

"It's for the greater good. Once you consider that, this makes all the sense in the world."

- Vigil Richings

The Pale Rider, also known as Vigil Richings, is the infamous demiurge tasked with the duty of heralding the Armageddon and was recorded in the Book of Revelation. He is one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

Summary
"When the Lamb broke the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature saying, "Come." I looked, and behold, an ashen horse; and he who sat on it had the name Death; and Hades was following with him. Authority was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword and with famine and with pestilence and by the wild beasts of the earth."

- Revelation 6:7 - 6:8

The Pale Rider, or Pale Horseman, is the fourth and final Horseman of the Apocalypse, according to Christian scripture. The rider traditionally represents Death and bears a scythe of death.

Despite typically being portrayed carrying a scythe as his weapon (much like the Grim Reaper), in the Book of Revelation, he is described as bringing Hades (Hell) wherever he rides as his symbol. His color being pale, as opposed to an actual color, could be reflecting the sickly appearance of a corpse (though old translations could be interpreted as the rider being pale green and yellowish green).

Unlike the other three Horsemen, Death has also been specifically mentioned in texts surrounding the Day of Judgement where God himself takes both Hades and Death, alongside the Devil and all his followers and places them in the Lake of Fire for all of eternity.

Appearance
Richings has the appearance of a young man of Asian descends, with a beauty that can only be described as a cross between morbidly beautiful and divinely handsomeness. He has short and neatly combed brown hair that looks like he just comes out of a funeral, with mournful light-brown eyes.

Like all angelic beings, he possesses a total of eight feathered-wings, each with a wingspan of around 13-feet. His wings resemble that of a raven's, thus making him more sembles a fallen angel than someone affliated with the Abrahamic Heavens.

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Quotes
"A world heading towards death, and a world steeped in death. How canst thy life shine so brilliantly amidst it? Show me... thou blue knight filled to th'brim with death...!"

- Vigil Richings "So... a son of man hath called me from one underworld to another... I am the Pale Rider, one of the Four Horsemen. The end times approacheth..."

- Vigil Richings to Dulio Gesualdo "You have an inflated sense of your importance. To a thing like me, a thing like you, well... Think how you would feel if a bacterium sat at your table and started to get snarky."

- Vigil Richings to Issei Hyoudou "Try to bind me again, you'll die before you start. Nice Pickle Chips, by the way."

- Vigil Richings to Issei Hyoudou "You've met, Vigil, right? He's got rules. Clean hands. No interference. Well, no direct interference anyway."

- Gabriel talking to Team DxD about Vigil Richings "The Grim Reaper, Death will wait. It will stand back, allowing the world to approach it, just as all does. When the world is close, the Grim Reaper will seize it and drag into the apocalypse."

- Sun Wukong talking about Vigil Richings "Origin: Middle East. One of the 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse. He is Death incarnate, riding a pale horse. Some sources say the Four Horsemen will kill 1/4 of the world's population."

- Myth about the Pale Horseman

Trivia

 * Richings' appearance is based on Light Yagami from Death Note.