The Path of the Pale Horse

The Path of the Pale Horse is a religion centred around the Pale Horse and the worshipping of skeleton horses, holy beings that are believed to be sent by The Three. The Three included: Aquaros (The Horse of the Sea), Maronum (The Horse of the Blaze) and Terreris (The Horse of the Land). The creator of The Three is named The Sacred One, who is a mysterious figure which was created by mystic and dark matter, the gods' true forms are skeleton horses, or basically the spirits of a skeleton horse, though they can morph into anything they wish to become. Cities that have turned to the Pale Horse include: Heidelberg, Valoria and Greytide (destroyed). The Path of the Pale Horse originated in the Frosterium in Greytide, a destroyed town.

NOTE: The Lore and History is not fully completed and may be flawed, some details like the names may be changed later

The Beginning
In the start, there were The Three, whom are the three gods of the religion. There was Aquaros (The Horse of the Sea, AKA The Aquarius), Maronum (The Horse of the Blaze) and Terreris (The Horse of the Land), they came together to create the world with their mythical powers which only they possessed, Maronum had the power to destroy and create magma and fire, Aquaros had the power to create life, water and the ability to protect anyone from death (by sacrifice or not), and Terreris had the power to landscape the soil, create beautiful lands and had a passion for art. The Three were created by the Sacred One, who controlled all.

Opaqius
While the gods were at tranquillity, The Sacred One was in the process of creating the fourth god, Opaquis (The Horse of the Withers) whom was supposed to have the power to create chaos and punish those who apposed him or the gods, no matter how powerful that certain person was (even if it's a god or a mortal person, he can punish anyone he wants to, to punish he needs a good reason to do so). When Opaquis got consciousness, the Sacred One favoured him with gifts, more powers and more of everything, this made Opaquis feel hated by the other gods whom were jealous. Soon enough, Opaquis became power hungry so he can punish the other gods for loathing him, particularly due to his sinister feelings, but when the Sacred One refused to give him more powers, he was extremely furious and angry.

The Withered Ones
Opaqius, deeply conflicted and outraged at the Sacred One and the other gods, wanted revenge and believed he had the right to punish the gods, so he secretly formed his own cult called The Withered Ones, where over time his followers would grow his power by sacrificing various rare minerals, materials and luxuries to Opaqius. Finally, when Opaqius believed he had enough power, he strikes by using his powers to punish The Sacred One for not following Opaqius' orders. The Sacred Ones powers were gone in an instant, Opaqius' punishing powers allowed him to punish possibly one of the most powerful beings in the world, Opaqius then proceeded to try and kill him, but what was standing in between him and The Sacred One was Aquaros, Aquaros had blocked the killing blow on The Sacred One and saved him, but in return Aquaros sacrificed himself, which protected him.

Since Aquaros had sacrificed himself to save The Sacred One, Opaqius couldn't kill him until the end of time, the only thing he could do was torture him (indirectly), he proceeds to kill the two other gods, trying to make The Sacred One suffer, regret his decision to not give Opaqius powers. At this point, Opaquis had damaged his spirit by killing three gods, and those said gods are channelling their spirits to strengthen The Sacred One to recover from the curse/punishment. Opaqius slowly started to lose his powers until finally he couldn't live on with his severed spirit, scarred from his crimes of killing many innocent lives, however he found a secret way to cheat death, he carried his spirit to live on another innocent one, he grabbed one of his followers to be his heir, the heirs name was called The Opaque Horse (or The Withered Horse). Opaquis later dies as one without a spirit cannot live.

The Pale Horse
With the combined help of the 3 spirits and The Sacred One, they all together created a shared, new and holy one named The Pale Horse whom was powerful enough to kill Opaqius' heir The Opaque Horse. They found The Opaque Horse eventually after a treacherous and long journey and destroyed him forever, never to be seen on the face of the world ever again, The Pale Horse however successful in killing Opaquis' heir was unsuccessful in staying alive, as during the battle The Opaque Horse injured him badly, the spirits lived on however, searching for a new one to reside in. They were able to find a horse near the town of Greytide and decided to reside their, where they revealed themselves to a few inhabitants of the land.

New Beginnings
Despite their success in finding a new home, the spirits of Maronum, Terreris, Aquaros and The Sacred One were soon fading away, the home they were in was not enough for their endeavour to make sure the Withered Ones were never to return again and they have lived for so long that their spirits aren't doing so well, so they left their home in search of a new one, instead they found someone sacrificing to them to revive their horse, Valor and Bruvix were trying to revive Jeff the III, a deceased horse whom they deeply admired, so the spirits granted them their wish, Jeff the III was revived, this time with the soul of the four inside, The Pale Horse has been revived! But as soon as they were revived, a dark figure attempted to attack The Pale Horse reborn, just barely killing the pale horse before being chased away by Bruvix, it seems that The Opaque Horse has been revived too...