The Pumpkin Masked Flagbearers

The Pumpkin Masked Flagbearers, also known as "The Last Flagbearers" and generally just referred to as "The Flagbearers," are 7 individuals who attempted a pre-apocalyptic revolution against the countries they resided in. The history of these individuals is scattered in vague references throughout various ruins, at best, and has largely been lost to time.

*\*Your character may have never heard of these people! They are from extremely distant history, characters that have archeological and historical interests would be most likely to know of them!\**

The Flagbearers were defined by the two most striking features of their appearances exclusively; A flag that was one of 7 colours associated with the Colour Countries and kept on their person at all times, and a mask that was made of pumpkin with a unique face carved into it. There are no details known on the origins or physical appearances of the flagbearers, beyond the knowledge that none could be considered inchlings in the modern day.

Each Flagbearer was considered the most highly skilled warrior of their time, specializing in various kinds of combat and tactics individually. The tactics each flagbearer used are unknown, but assumed to align with the colour they were associated with, given they would have trained with those of their own colour initially.

All 7 Flagbearers were confirmed to have died in The Pumpkin Revolt, leaving behind a field that still produces Illunite to this day after the magnitude of death that occurred at that event.

There are sparse legends modernly about the flagbearers, both as a group and as individuals, although some stories have elements of their appearances integrated into them. There are, however, various legends about individuals throughout history who's appearances mirrored the flagbearers closely, and these tales may have been inspired by them somehow.

Legends of people who tried to cling to their old ways of life after the apocalypse, believing that they could revive their people from the dead, only to bring to life a spirit of hatred and death that killed them for attempting such an atrocity.  Pirate legends of a powerful captain who sailed alone, appearing throughout the seas like a ghost and killing entire crews of pirates, leaving nothing behind but the memory that they had existed, once. A cautionary tale of someone who attempted to summon a being of immense destruction and succeeded, only to be unable to control it, with all they loved being destroyed soon after in a furious inferno. All of these characters of legends being described as having a face obscured by a pumpkin, carved into some kind of expression- a trickster's smile, a look of violent mirth, a wide grin.

Whether these stories are connected to the flagbearers or not, they show that there is a memory somewhere of these individual's influence, with many still recounting tales of powerful people who's faces or heads are obscured or replaced by only a carved pumpkin.

*\*\*You are allowed to make up stories of pumpkin-masked individuals who do not exist! Go ham! Make false information! The world is full of it, and not every story will be true, so have fun with the legends!\*\**