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Re: Flags
Can we please stop this obsession with RGB? This is a Flags thread...
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Re: Flags
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This is the flag for the Chompi.
The flag represents seven sacred peaks under a starless night. This is an allusion to the Chompi holy texts.
This is the flag for the Chompi.
The flag represents seven sacred peaks under a starless night. This is an allusion to the Chompi holy texts.
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This is the flag of Boyevania, a dictatorial and mighty country in my conworld.
http://imageshack.us/f/690/300pxboyevaniaflag.png/ (sorry, when I posted the link in [img] the flag didn't apear)
According to the lûndôyon (the Flokrati word for 'leader'), the red colour stands for the blood, which the soldiers have lost in the wars against their enemys from the "Rotten Empire". The green stands for the nature.
"Boye" is the name of the lûndôyon. The symbol on the bottom of the flag, which looks a bit like a human upside down, is the official symbol of the Boyevism, the religion of the country. By the way is silver the colour of religion, thats why every symbol is in silver. The key left on the top is actually the coat of arms from "Bremburg", which has a friendship with Boyevania. The bomb shall only represent the military power and superiority.
http://imageshack.us/f/690/300pxboyevaniaflag.png/ (sorry, when I posted the link in [img] the flag didn't apear)
According to the lûndôyon (the Flokrati word for 'leader'), the red colour stands for the blood, which the soldiers have lost in the wars against their enemys from the "Rotten Empire". The green stands for the nature.
"Boye" is the name of the lûndôyon. The symbol on the bottom of the flag, which looks a bit like a human upside down, is the official symbol of the Boyevism, the religion of the country. By the way is silver the colour of religion, thats why every symbol is in silver. The key left on the top is actually the coat of arms from "Bremburg", which has a friendship with Boyevania. The bomb shall only represent the military power and superiority.
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el f., may we know your age?el flokratisson wrote:This is the flag of Boyevania
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I'm 17, why do you ask?
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My guess:el flokratisson wrote:I'm 17, why do you ask?
Why does your conworld use the Latin alphabet?It would be better if you made a calligraphic example of the Boyevanian script.
The bomb looks immature.
Rotten Empire?
Bremburg?That name sounds like a small German village.
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It is apparently derived from the German city of Bremen, which has a silver key in a red field in its coat of arms.randomusername wrote:My guess:el flokratisson wrote:I'm 17, why do you ask?
Why does your conworld use the Latin alphabet?It would be better if you made a calligraphic example of the Boyevanian script.
The bomb looks immature.
Rotten Empire?
Bremburg?That name sounds like a small German village.
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Yeah, no country which wanted to be taken seriously would put a cartoon bomb on their flag. You might as well put a mustache-twirling man tying a woman to train tracks on it.
Also, El-F (that would be bomb-flag, not Weeping), is English your L1 (first) language? I don't mean to be rude. I can understand you but something is just off, like your use of the term "the nature".
Also, El-F (that would be bomb-flag, not Weeping), is English your L1 (first) language? I don't mean to be rude. I can understand you but something is just off, like your use of the term "the nature".
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Well, I admit it seems to be a bit childish, but I take my conworld quite seriously. They have realistic political systems, they have wars like in real life etc. and yes, it has homouristic tendencies, but this motivated me to work on and for me its more interesting. I work on the conworld with a friend, so we sometimes we wanna laugh so we write funny things about the countries. The bomb seems to be a bit ridicoulus but hey, Saudi-Arabia has a sword in the flag. By the way the reason for the name "Rotten empire" isn' the meaning of rotten, it has another background. Bremburg is like a special country for me and my friend, because he is from Hamburg and I'm from Bremen and usually the cities don't like each other, but we thought it would be great to unite the cities.randomusername wrote:My guess:el flokratisson wrote:I'm 17, why do you ask?
Why does your conworld use the Latin alphabet?It would be better if you made a calligraphic example of the Boyevanian script.
The bomb looks immature.
Rotten Empire?
Bremburg?That name sounds like a small German village.You can put "JAL" in your signature .jal wrote:el f., may we know your age?JAL
The idea is, that the world is more a new world after the doomsday, instead of a parallel world. That a few people survive the doomsday (I assume that the doomsday will be in more than 100 years und it's easier for people to flee by spaceship) and establish a new civilisation on the moon or another planet... and of course they bring their culture to the new world and so it's normal that there is a country with german culture like Bremburg (there is also a country with turkish culture) We have founded also new cultures, boyevanian culture, pasacian culture etc but most of them have an example in the real world. For me is important that the countries have special features, and things which are typical for the country. It's hard for me to invent TOTALLY new cultures although it's exciting I think.
p.s. I think it wouldn't be worthwhile to invent a new alphabet and I'm not able to do this.
Finally I wouldn't call the world childish, I would call it a mixture between serious und fun work.
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The reason for this has been explained by others. It seems to me that your conworld is the continuation of childhood fantasies, and thus displays many traits that would be best described as "childish".el flokratisson wrote:I'm 17, why do you ask?
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Apart from the fact that I don't like signatures and don't display them, I have written 3942 posts (this being the 3943rd) that include two blank lines, followed by "JAL" on the third line, below my post, and I intend to continue to do so.randomusername wrote:You can put "JAL" in your signature
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Re: Flags
Lots of negativity here. Let's all toke up and forget this nonsense.
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Since this thread was revived from the dead thanks to the magic of Thread Necromancy (TM), I would like to take advantage of this re-animation and offer the following flags of the regions/provinces/cantons of the Telemor Federation:
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Pretty flaggies *eyes glaze over*
No, seriously, those look awesome. Congrats for yet another permutation of Blue/Red/White horizontal stripes … Also, Abervon kicks ass. Quite unusual for European-style nation flags, I think, with that uneven proportion of colored fields and the blossom/wreath thing on it. Yet esthetically pleasing.
No, seriously, those look awesome. Congrats for yet another permutation of Blue/Red/White horizontal stripes … Also, Abervon kicks ass. Quite unusual for European-style nation flags, I think, with that uneven proportion of colored fields and the blossom/wreath thing on it. Yet esthetically pleasing.
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Yeah, they look really nice. Some of them don't really follow the classic good-flag-guidelines - looking at the Abervon one, for example, yellow against white is generally not recommended, and yellow against other shade of yellow would be a big no-no. Nonetheless, it looks like a flag one could easily get behind.
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That said, they're probably a good ratio of "good" flags to "bad" flags, especially compared to the real world where "bad" flags are all too common (US state flags are a bit of a nightmare; most of them are blue with a complicated seal)Chuma wrote:Yeah, they look really nice. Some of them don't really follow the classic good-flag-guidelines - looking at the Abervon one, for example, yellow against white is generally not recommended, and yellow against other shade of yellow would be a big no-no. Nonetheless, it looks like a flag one could easily get behind.
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Yes, it depends on what you're trying to do - make them as good as possible, or as good as is realistic.
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QFT.Jipí wrote:Pretty flaggies *eyes glaze over*
No, seriously, those look awesome. Congrats for yet another permutation of Blue/Red/White horizontal stripes … Also, Abervon kicks ass. Quite unusual for European-style nation flags, I think, with that uneven proportion of colored fields and the blossom/wreath thing on it. Yet esthetically pleasing.
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Quite beautiful, except for Hecesta (horid) and Otaria (unrealistic).vampireshark wrote:flags of the regions/provinces/cantons of the Telemor Federation
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Why should a pattern in black and gold be less realistic than the same in blue and silver (Bavaria)? I agree that Hecesta's doesn't look particularly beautiful.jal wrote:Quite beautiful, except for Hecesta (horid) and Otaria (unrealistic).vampireshark wrote:flags of the regions/provinces/cantons of the Telemor Federation
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Otaria reminds me of the Maryland flag.jal wrote:Quite beautiful, except for Hecesta (horid) and Otaria (unrealistic).
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Wait, what? Otaria's flag looks like part of the flag of Maryland. I'd say that Hecesta's flag is the "unrealistic" one (from the POV of natflags), but even so it doesn't seem horrid. Actually, I wouldn't call any of these "bad" flags. But yeah, there's a pleasing mix of really good ones and not-so-good ones which is pretty naturalistic. It rocks.jal wrote:Quite beautiful, except for Hecesta (horid) and Otaria (unrealistic).vampireshark wrote:flags of the regions/provinces/cantons of the Telemor Federation
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Re: Flags
While we're at it, Istret is just a recolored Democratic Republic of Congo flag with different proportions.
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Re: Flags
I don't know what country this flag is for, but it is an old design.
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