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Famine is an anthropomorphic personification, and one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocralypse. As such he has obligatory appearances in Sourcery and Thief of Time. Naturally, Famine's appearance is that of a starving man and he is always hungry even though he eats large amounts of food quite fast. When bored, he goes around eating up the food stocks in pubs. His horse looks like a toastrack. Unlike Death and War, Famine is a human invention. Natural draughts are never as bad as man-made ones. For this reason, Famine has picked up the human trait of arrogance: the arrogance to, for example, over-use the land for farming.