Badges

Badges are mysterious and colorful artifacts sprinkled across 750 Words. They just showed up one day and seem to have no intentions of going away. Nobody can quite explain why they sometimes inspire people to write, but some hypothesize that they come from an arcane magic that mustn't be trifled with. There's a growing sentiment amongst some that they're kinda cute and silly. There's also a contingent of very serious biologists and archeologists who been attempting to create a taxonomy of the badges spotted in the wild. Here's an incomplete and frequently outdated list of what we know about them.