Weekly Flag Challenge #168 POLL

Which Flag is Better?

  • Order of the Cathar

    Votes: 14 50.0%
  • Neo-Jacobin Club

    Votes: 6 21.4%
  • State of The Almighty Druids

    Votes: 5 17.9%
  • The Royal Archive & Research Library

    Votes: 3 10.7%

  • Total voters
    28
FLAG CHALLENGE #167: secret proceedings, secret oaths, and secret societies

Your challange this week is to create a banner or flag for a Secret Society, fictional or historical. Good Luck

Submissions Open: Now
Submissions Close: 1st July, 2017
Voting Period: 2nd July - 8th July 2017

Entry 1 said:
Order of the Cathar
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Catharism was a Christian dualist movement that thrived in Southern Europe during the 12th and 14th centuries. They believed there was a good God of immaterial things (such as light and souls) and a bad God of material things including the world and everything in it. They believed that the Catholics were following the bad God (Satan). Because of their beliefs they were persecuted and massacred in the Albigensian Crusade by the Catholic Church.

In this alternate history a secret society of Cathars is formed to preserve their beliefs and undermine the Catholic Church. Their goal is to do away with high ranking members in the church by any means necessary. Their aim is to replace them with secret practicing Cathars. They hope to infiltrate the church so that they can eventually dismantle it.

Their banner is blood red to represent the blood that must be shed to preserve the Cathar beliefs. In the center is a Cathar cross surrounded by a sun. The sun represents the divine and the order's desire to follow God's will.

Entry 2 said:
Neo-Jacobin Club
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After the failure of the French Revolution, the original Jacobin Club was hunted down and destroyed. Those few who survived formed the seed that would eventually become the Neo-Jacobin Club. As time moved on the neo-jacobins developed a plan to infiltrate high ranking military positions in almost every country. Then when the time was right they would rise up and simultaneous revolution to destroy worlds monarchies and in force their rule by any means necessary. While one of the main ideas of the neo-jacobins is that all humans are equal, the modern interpretation of this has become all "enlightened humans" are equal. Those the neo-jacobins see as unenlightened, (anyone that does not agree with them) is obviously would have a less evolved brain unable to comprehend the enlightenment ideals.

Entry 3 said:
State of The Almighty Druids
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The STAD, while not internationally recognized as an actual state, is a secretive and mysterious organization thought to have several secret bases scattered all around parts of Western Europe and parts of Northern and Southern Europe, though much of this is speculation.

Almost nothing is known about who their leader is or even if they have a leader, STAD seems to be very decentralized with no single supporting figure, though, so maybe they have several. STAD's ideals are not that obvious, but they draw heavily from druidist teachings, abeit in a militarized manner, and seem to be targeting several religious figures and organizations across Europe.

No one knows what their intentions are for sure, but some suggest that they fashion themselves as the bringer of a new golden age and they have a strong disdain, almost a hatred, of other religious cults and states. They seem to be hellbent on wiping out Christianity and other organized religions from the continent, seeing them as corrupt and powermongering. Despite being so little known, their military is even larger than most European Nation's armies, which strongly suggests that they are doing everything they can to hide something from the rest of the world. An extremely dangerous super weapon? Knowledge of highly advanced technology? Maybe the key to life itself? No matter who you ask, no one knows for sure...

One of my first attempts at a fascist looking flag in a while, I'm quite pleased with how it turned out! You can definitely get a mysterious and dangerous feel from it, it really does say "We're the bad guys" IMO.

Apart from the obvious nods to various fascist flags around, the main symbols used are the Awen and Spiral, which are 2 seperate symbols associated with druidism and Celtic religion/culture. There's also a large white ring surrounding them, which could also be interpreted as the circle used in the Celtic cross, which represents the pagan part of Celtic religion. The green colour is also associated with various parts of Druidism/Celtic culture as well, often representing nature.

Entry 4 said:
The Royal Archive & Research Library
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The Royal Archive and Research Library, formerly HM Archive of the Arcane, formerly The Lord Protector's Commission on the Arcane, is the QUANGO responsible for archiving and investigating allegedly paranormal events, where such events do not fall under the explicit purview of national defence.
Set up in 1654 by Oliver Cromwell "whereso the Souldiers of the New Modelled Armie shall defende our Bodies, these Commissionaires shall defende our verie Sowles", following the Restoration the Commissioners were absorbed into the King's "Archive of the Arcane" as a department separate from Parliamentary control. HMAA officially became The Royal Archive and Research Library during WWII as part of the Crown & Goverment's maximisation of the war effort along scientific means.
During the reign of Queen Elisabeth, TRARL has followed her apolitical approach and distanced itself from party political associations.
The official emblem of TRARL is an open book above the acronym in faux-engraved script.
 
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