# Banners

> Society for Loot. Art for all.

Banners is an NFT collection providing a society and politics layer for the Lootverse, featuring text-based, painted, and pixel art banners.

Banners creates NFT collections that serve as the society layer for the Lootverse. Starting with text-only NFTs representing house banners, the project expanded to include hand-painted and pixel art versions. Each banner contains elements from four categories: Mythicals, Animals, Weapons, and Items, establishing connections between houses in the fantasy realm.

- Type: Project
- Sector: NFTs
- Status: Active
- Founded: 2020-10-01
- Profile: https://thegrid.id/profiles/banners_nft

## Products

- [Call the Banners](https://thegrid.id/profiles/banners_nft): Call the Banners is a free-to-play sell-sword game hosted in the Banners Discord server. Players participate with minimal rules, competing for prizes including Banners and other Lootverse NFTs. (Game, Live, Main Product)

## Assets

- [The Painted Banners (for Adventurers) (BANNERS)](https://thegrid.id/profiles/banners_nft): BANNERS is an NFT collection of hand-painted house banners on parchment from the Lootverse. It is used to represent houses in the fantasy realm and to participate in Call the Banners, a Discord-based game where players compete for prizes. The artwork depicts houses from "The Painter," a novel set in the Lootverse, with all elements hand-painted by the real-life artist who inspired the story's main character. (NFT)
- [Pixel Banners (for Adventurers)](https://thegrid.id/profiles/banners_nft): Pixel Banners (for Adventurers) is an ERC-721 NFT collection on Starknet featuring pixel art versions of house banners from the Lootverse. It is used to participate in Call the Banners, a Discord-based strategy game where players recruit mercenaries and compete for prizes including Banners and other Lootverse NFTs. The collection features 9,337 unique banners crafted by the community, with each banner containing customizable elements including background, pole, bannerfield, and decorative components that represent the heraldry of different houses in the fantasy realm. (NFT)

## Links

- [Main](https://www.bannersnft.com)
- [Whitepaper](https://docs.google.com/document/d/17usMEoU4lbzDteXWC2iHM0JHEwEwg6qSHQY15EUKZDM)
- [Twitter / X](https://x.com/bannersnft)
- [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/@bannersnft1466)
- [Discord](https://discord.com/invite/UNNeqeppEE)

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