These war banners for Drago's Army that were drawn and illustrated by the artist Kristen Kawamura are all varied each in design as well as seen amongst the Battle of the Bewilderbeasts. This chapter will be updated infrequently due to the amount of detail that goes into each of them for all four factions found in the army
These four factions are Slavic (Black and Red), Sami (White and Blue), Inuit (Black and White) and Asiatic (Red and Yellow)
There were two bonus factions as well which were Equatorial (Red and White) and Mongolian (Green and Yellow) for the record, but were cut from the second film along with the Inuit faction entirely with their banners in that regard suggesting they were removed at a later time than the former two
He who prioritizes the hardest to write of the banners to these four factions shall feel the downhill effects as the details become simpler. Let us begin
Slavic (Most of these banners depict dragons being stabbed through the skull and the body)
The first banner was a vertical rectangular shape which was bordered by a red outline that's got red to black squares filling the spaces in between all around while the background itself was black, the crest was red to stand out among the background. This dragon looked down to the lower left where the rounded edged inverted teardrop shaped handle of the sword that pierced through it's chest down across next to it's tail was. The head of the beast had at least five backward curving upper fangs with two upward barbed lower fangs on the top to bottom respectively, the thin tongue that separated the two went straight outwards before it sloped a little bit up as it then curved downward into a narrow half oval shape and went back up into upward line that stopped right then and there at the front upper fang on top. The black eyes without a pupil was a forward slanted scalene triangular shape that went downwards, as the nostril was also in the shape of a horizontal downward curving fang shape; atop of the head is a nasal horn that curved up backwards as well as two others in front of it above the black eye, which was a long up and backward curving horn that went out further than the one under it as it was shorter in length. In between the front and back was a black line that went down from behind the head sloping downward towards the curving body though stopping in front of the sword's blade, continuing behind it which then curved into a upwards tilted crescent line that stopped at the coiling midriff and went on behind it sloping downward with a curving edge as it once again came to a stop at the blade; from there there two ways that it started off with it curving upward on the top to the bottom which the former was shorter, but the bottom went onward to stop at the tip of the dragon's dual curling tipped tail that had four upwards curving stands on the back and down below which then went diagonally up at the lower right side. It had it's ten outward and downwards curving spiked mane going out for the first five before going downwards for the rest of the other five which even curved inward towards itself, the midriff coiled into a single spiral before the next three below it curved out and upwards; the lower three of which had the longest one on top curl back for a short time while the rest had curved downwards, after that it's flat before the last four at the tail curve forwards to the left side and upwards where the two mentioned curling tips of the tail was with four inner barbs that curved up. The sword's crossguard was a round inverted oval shape while the blade was medium in between thick and thin at first before thinning out at the tip, downwards towards the lower right corner. Below the banner was a thinned out section that thickened out just right underneath the rope strapped, upward barbed black claws that went out horizontally on both the left to right sides going from the bottom to the center to the top; which had two X-letter rope lashed bones atop of each other, the bottom was longer than the one atop of it. What's then following it was two outward facing short overarching bones that were laid against both sides, three small bones from shortest to longest then went upwards respectively; following that is two vertical rope lashings on the left to a single one on the right and a long one that's running down the middle. Finally, like the sails of the Dragon Trappers these war banners of the four different nationality factions all came in different shapes and styles; some of them didn't have banners at all!
The second banner was a round shape as the background was a solid guardsman red color, it wasn't the only thing that was red as the staff which it was supported on was a rosewood red; the wheel on the otherhand where the banner was fitted onto is a tamarind brown color and the sixteen thin rectangular straps that formed sixteen gaps in total to make that shape was a bramble brown color. In the center there was a beast created in black and it looked like this: the beast's horns was in a slightly out and upward curving U-letter shape as the near bottom had two parallel lines that stroked across, a single ribbed line that sloped upward from both the farthest left to right sides as these horns were shaped like a inverted fang shape that was sharpened at the top for both of them; with the middle in between the two sides having the upper half spherical shaped cap underneath to form the snout as the face was facing forward towards the looker of this banner. Both sides slightly curved overhead as they went upwards and a short bit outwards for both of the tips, though the right side had a short secondary tip of which that branched out and curved downwards; the second outward branches however is where both sides differed from each other as the left formed into a downward curving inner connecting round shaped ring above the left eye, and the right simply curved outwards only to then slope down into a hook shaped tip as did the undereyes that curved upwards to meet with their respective upper eye tips. The left eye branched up and out slightly before curling into a pupil while the right eye had a thicker spiral branch down and out, being thicker as the small hole formed the shine for the pupil and actually looked like an eye. The lower left side had the lower upper curving tip situated above three outward spiking horizontal spiked fur as each of them were tilted a little bit downwards, the lower right had the top one beak out and curve down with the second one going more so down as the lower two then had the shape of two outward facing rectangular shaped clumps; both of which had a inward diagonal slant on both the top to bottom sides appearing as they were katana blades or other thin and fast type of slim rectangular swords, the left side slanted inward down to the bottom horizontal line as the right curved into a small overhead slope that met up with the left in the middle. From the bottom in the middle there was an upper half spherical shape as the it formed the similar gap too as if it were a traditional rainbow, the upper line was aligned with fourteen triangular shaped fangs that faced the sides and top of the upper half spherical shape on the bottom; leaving a small horizontal slit that curved overhead to the other side and around the upper half where it was thinner than the previous one. The middle of the beast's snout featured a downwards slanted slit atop of a scalene triangular shaped nostril on either side, both facing the center of each other; and on top of the head in between the horns there were what looks like three wavy lines as the first one on the left curved up before going inward and then out at the top, the second going for the same but curving out at the right in the middle and then the third forming a rectangular line that had a upward slanted tip as it was smaller than the other two. We're not sure what this beast is exactly, but if it's meant to represent a dragon like all the other Slavic war banners than that might just be the exact intended purpose for Drago's campaign to liberate mankind from the dragons; even then like the sixth sail for the Dragon Trapper yachts this one was a bitch to describe in clear detail but the payoff is worth every one of the dragons that were caught to be subjugated in their leader's rule. The black ring acting as the border was a thin circular shape to match up with the banner itself, from in between the top to bottom was two threads of rope going diagonally downwards on the left with a single thread going diagonally down to the right side on the top; in between from the second horizontal rectangular segments that was side by side from the first ones as the single threads reached to the farthest edges of the two sides, going diagonally upward to a small to four threaded coil of rope going around the top but that was underneath the actual upper tip. The top had a thicker coil of three horizontal threads as there was a equally horizontal masala grey colored bone in the middle, while having a second dark zeus grey bone going diagonally downwards to the lower left side also in the middle; the top of it all was tipped off with the inverted triangular shaped pyramid bone that had all three sides slant down inwards and on the lower diagonal bottom edges of this round banner, there was a brown strap that held an forward facing claw on both of the two segments that were facing the red colored pole. This then continued downward with eight spinal cord segments as six of them had a single hook that curved upward on the left side, the second one had nothing while four of them had one upward curving hook on the right side with the eighth segment on the bottom having a single one that was tilted upward to the upper right; the seventh segment had a outward triangular barb and the second segment had a short dual barb on both the left to right sides, the first of them all had a square half jutting out. Finally, describing the beast on the banner was a pain in the ass but so is the Slavic war banners themselves as five remain to be written
The third banner had the top form into a inverted rounded edged triangular shaped skull with both eyes diagonally slanting downward at least for the right eye hole, since the left is shorter and didn't go down as much as the right; the vertical nasal hole was slim as it slanted downward to the right side. The two horns at the edges were curving up and slightly inward as both of the two horns were ribbed horizontally from the bottom to the top, the inner two horns slanted off to the sides diagonally as both them were also horizontally ribbed from the bottom to the top respectively. Underneath was dual rope threads which were wrapped downwards to the left as well as a singular rope thread which went down to the right side. Going across and curving ever so slightly upwards were two inward curving tipped bones as the top was shorter than the one at the one on the bottom, there were even solid walls which sloped down outwards in between the top and bottom bones; underneath that one was a horizontally straight bone with both tips being the condyle of a human and dragon bone, all of which were a charcoal to shadow and an grizzle to ash grey color as there two black rectangular strips near each of them. The banner as a whole, was a rectangular shape at the top before both lower ends slanted inwards toward the tip at the center bottom. Now for the crest which the borders will be explained first as they're not as difficult as the main crest itself in the center, from the top to the sides and down toward the bottom tip there were oval shaped links that had a oval shape in the center of each one of them; leaving behind a thin black stripe that ringed around each of them as they and the crest in the middle was a rufous and rosso corsa red color against the black background and the outer edges themselves. The top of the head was a rounded edged horizontal rectangular shape that went across with a inward beaking triangular shape in the middle as both horns on either of the two sides went up, the outer sides curving off to the left and right before going straight with the ones close to the center going up and curving a little inward as each of them were ribbed four times horizontally represented with black lines which made up the details of the red crest itself. The two main horns on the furthest left and the furthest right sides went straight for a little bit before curving vertically up and going overhead where they then curve inwards forming a short number-six shaped tip, all while having a singular line run through from the base to the tip as well as have a circular rounded half shape protrude on either side leaving a rectangular shaped gap in between; nine on the outer side and six on the inner side with the triangular beaking gap on the middle being the result of a oval shape in between the two inner and outer ribbed horns of this animal. Above the down and inward facing trapezoid shaped eyes was a underhand line forming a circular shape, the nasal hole was a vertical rectangular line in the center while under the eyes on either side there were diagonally upward slanted inward curling tips; underneath both of the main horns the sides sloped down and outward to either side forming a sharpened tip at the furthest sides, curving back inward at the top of the rounded inner curling tip shapes. The two sides went vertically downward and formed a vertical circular shaped mouth as there were two fangs in the top center, a large inward curving fang on either side and three upward fangs that went across the bottom center. The vertical staff of the banner had a horizontal line of fourteen hazelnut to fawn and sand to sunwashed meadow tan rope threads, with a upward single barbed-in-the-center clawtip that was a wood to coffee brown color which transitioned to a beige tan and to an alabaster white color; all three on either side going outward and even curving upwards at the tips as well. Finally, this banner was one of the less bitching ones when it came to writing in full appearance; and after the next one there were only three more left, that is a good thing
THREE MORE REMAIN, STAY DETERMINED