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PFS RestrictedApollyon (Prince of Plagues)

Source Divine Mysteries pg. 300
The Prince of Plagues seized power for himself after the disappearance of the previous Rider of Pestilence by obsessively eliminating all potential rivals. Apollyon commands his vast army of leukodaemons to spread oblivion like a virus. He wastes no time on trivial acts of violence and lacks the patience to wait for longterm schemes to come to fruition. Instead, his plagues carry oblivion through cities like lightning, decimating entire kingdoms in the span of a few days. His greatest creations have been diseases that corrupt the soul itself, ensuring that my Lady must send his victims to Abaddon once they’ve succumbed.

Apollyon appears as a hulking, bruised giant wrapped in black leather strap, with the head of a rotting ram. His cloak is stitched from the skin of angels who attempted to rescue the souls he had claimed—after flaying the angels alive, he preserved their faces in permanent agony upon the cloak. Apollyon delights in witnessing the deaths his diseases cause, not in dispassionate obligation but self-righteous glee. He sends his plague carriers out across the Universe knowing that even if they are defeated quickly, the sicknesses they carry will spread and take more lives than they could ever hope to alone. The moans and wails from the infected are prayers that fill him with more power to launch his next sickness onto the living.

Apollyon spends most of his time on his Throne of Flies, in a grotesque palace built long before his life Apocalypse Riders as a mortal from the corpse of an ancient being. He anxiously amasses power against a fear he has never voiced—the reappearance of his predecessor, whose fate remains a mystery. Apollyon is always working, spreading his influence farther and mutating his diseases to grasp those who thought themselves inoculated. For Apollyon, the only cure for existence is its end.

Category Horsemen
Edicts End all mortal life through disease and poison, cultivate diseased animals
Anathema Prevent plagues, bury or burn the dead
Areas of Concern Pestilence
Religious Symbol Diseased yellow scythe
Sacred Animal Horse, rat
Sacred Color(s) White

Devotee Benefits

Divine Attribute Strength or Constitution
Divine Font harm
Divine Sanctification must choose unholy
Divine Skill Medicine
Favored Weapon scythe
Domains air, decay, plague, swarm