The Colour Countries

The Colour Countries are a set of 7 distinct countries that were located in close proximity to each other, associated with 7 different colours; Red, Yellow, Blue, Green, Pink, Brown, and Black. Each colour had unique cultures and ties to certain geographic locations, and many of their influences linger even after their destruction during The Apocalypse.

The colours controlled a large part of the overworld for a significant length of time before The Apocalypse, with a high level of diversity within each country in origins of the people who lived there. The colours were also known to go to war with each other regularly, often over differences in ideology, as each colour held to certain ideals and lifestyles.

* Red was associated somewhat with the nether and redstone, more specifically with potions and innovation. They were known for creating complicated machines and potions of all kinds, much more potent and varied than modern alchemy can manage. They lived in largely plains biomes, and it's theorized some villagers still use methods and technologies Red had refined long ago.

* Yellow was associated with combat, and the training of animals. They were said to have tamed all creatures they could find, turning them against their foes as it was necessary, alongside the many varied kinds of weaponry they had created and refined. They lived in largely forest biomes, and the ability to tame wolves and other fauna is sometimes attributed to the methods discovered by Yellow.

* Blue is associated with riches and magic, including forms of magic not possible today. They were known to work closely with Lapis Lazuli, and there are signs that the people of blue had even managed to acquire a mote from the fragment at some point. The records written by blue are the most numerous of this time period, as they were known to live in mountainous biomes and extremely deep underground within the earth and stone.

* Green is associated with a religion that believed in destruction and rebirth. They were known to be strong willed and deeply connected to each other, and idolized creepers among other explosive creatures. They are responsible for many desert temples, as well as being responsible for some degree of lost information on other colours, unfortunately. They lived in deserts and mesas, deeply connected to the ever changing nature of the sands.

* Pink is associated with trade and travel, and were frequently heavily tied to luck. The people of Pink are mentioned by many other faction's histories, but have little recorded history of their own and rarely if ever built permanent structures of any kind. They were said to travel between all the factions, allowing for the exchange of materials between all the factions to be more widely available. Ties between the ways of Pink and Wandering Traders have frequently been made, and there may still be descendants of the faction alive today.

* Brown is associated with nature and knowledge, although the information on them is sparse. This is because they rarely made physical records, considering such to be a disrespect to the natural wild way of the world. They were known to live in jungles, and rarely, jungle temples have been found that were built by these people.

* Black is associated with power and the oceans, and is especially associated with pirates. They were known to have extensive underwater societies, with pirates above water working as enforcers of their territories and a way the faction could gain above-ground resources. Many stories and legends have been passed down and recorded of the pirates of black, but extremely little is known of the vast cities within the oceans from the colour.

Information beyond this on any individual colour is scarce, as is to be expected of any society that existed most notably before The Apocalypse.

However, some information persists on aspects of the wider practices of the countries. The most notable of which being the existence of champions who were referred to as "Flagbearers," individuals responsible for protecting the beliefs of the colour they represented, symbolized by a flag that was always kept on their person. Notably, Illagers also designate certain individuals to bear a flag of their beliefs, and it's widely thought that this practice was lifted from the original Flagbearers.

The most well known group of Flagbearers, however, are The Pumpkin Masked Flagbearers, also known as The Last Flagbearers, with no records of any flagbearer existing after their collective deaths in The Pumpkin Revolt. While this may have been a result of the revolt itself, it is likely also due to The Apocalypse, which happened shortly after.

*\*\*The Colour Countries are no longer around, they are a society that existed pre-apocalypse! Characters may be descended from certain colours, but are not able to have been from them actively if not somehow dramatically displaced in time.\*\**