Colour: Red/Orange
Goals: Uprising societies or countries; Creating mayhem; Inciting conflicts; Endorsing bloodshed; Tapping into the aggressive side of human nature
Description:
From the goals themselves, you can already surmise that War is seriously out to incite fights among people. While Pestilence was discreet in terms his modus operandi, War on the other hand couldn't care less about subtlety. Like all the mythical or biblical depiction of a deity of war, they are usually very blatant about matters because it's just so easy to create chaos. All you have to do is to punch someone in the face for no reason and the next thing you will know you be throwing punches here and there.
In the picture above, I illustrated War in its typical manner and form. Here, it has a fiery face (which was a pumpkin from the Batman series btw), two massive weapon on each hand, a red cape and a very stout body (which I borrow from the Bionicles series). As you can see, typical masculine, in your face kind of person. Everything is either in red or crimson or orange because typically, these colour has been associated with blood or anger. The fire in the background was an additional effect I used to portray the fiery of things - how we often feel fire in our head whenever we are pissed off. The dead body and limb illustrate just how things can easily get out of hand when you are angry.
Historically, War is a common event many people in the world are familiar with. In spite of massive war such as WW2, there are numerous other "great battles" found in folklore and legends. So, if you think about it, War has been integrated into our society since almost forever. From minor scuffle to verbal bickering, it's these little things that eventually contribute to a great fight, be it directly or indirectly (e.g., Cold War).
Similar to Pestilence, War often deprived those who participated in it and those who stayed away from it. Nothing good at all comes from war. Even on the winning side, the nation or whatever may be a victor but if they compare the losses or the destruction both sides have created, everyone still losses in the end. Properties are damaged; people do not have proper medical healthcare (which leads to disease); there is a shortage of food because properties are destroyed (which leads to famine) and eventually, people dies. All these Horsemen are interrelated. I will explain this in my final post of the project.
That is why War, from my perspective, is depicted as a flaming fury because like fire, when it is out of control, it burns everything down. It's a Fiery Destroyer.
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