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Would you rather have a story which is technically inaccurate but which applies popular perceptions of a certain concept, or one which is accurate but which is not as familiar?
The reason I ask is because I'm trying to decide if the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in my story are going to be Death, Famine, War, and Pestilence, or Death, Famine, War, and Conquest. The former is the popular notion of the horsemen, but the latter is more Biblically accurate.
This may not actually matter that much for a NaNovel, but if I ever have to use the concept of the Four again, I probably need to be able to decide whether I want to deal with the people going "but the rider is Conquest, not Pestilence!" or the people going "but the rider is Pestilence, not Conquest!"
The reason I ask is because I'm trying to decide if the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in my story are going to be Death, Famine, War, and Pestilence, or Death, Famine, War, and Conquest. The former is the popular notion of the horsemen, but the latter is more Biblically accurate.
This may not actually matter that much for a NaNovel, but if I ever have to use the concept of the Four again, I probably need to be able to decide whether I want to deal with the people going "but the rider is Conquest, not Pestilence!" or the people going "but the rider is Pestilence, not Conquest!"