Flag of Rythene

Rythene
Use	Civil and state flag
Proportion	5:8
Adopted	1 September 1986
Design	A green field, charged with a white and dark red Tyrnican cross, emblazoned with a raven

The flag of Rythene is a modern form of the popularised Tyrnican cross. In its current form, it has been the official flag of Rythene since the inception of the Third Republic on the 1st of September 1986. The colours on the flag originate from the eighteenth century republican movement; green to represent democracy and the people, and the darkened red to symbolise the blood of the old regime. Unlike a typical Tyrnican cross, the cross is not positioned to the left, rather it is in the centre of the flag to represent the balance of power following the revolution.

History

Upon the declaration of the Kingdom of Rythene in 1048, a variant of the Casmirean’s royal standard was used; a white stag on a red field. The white deer was the sigil of the Casmirean royal family, and Alaric the Great was often compared to his dynasty’s founding figure, Agar the White Stag. The red of the flag was a brighter tone than the Casmirean standard, which represented the youth of the newly founded Kingdom.

With the death of Osmund II marked the end of the Alaric dynasty. The new King of Rythene, Alden I, had the flag changed to become more synonymous with the nation itself rather than one dynasty. The flag featured a dark red field, charged with a white Tyrnican cross. The red was darker than the previous flag, which was symbolic of the bloodshed the nation had undertaken, as King Alden believed history was too invaluable to be ignored. This flag lasted from the dawn of the twelfth century until the reign of Eadmund the Enlightened, and was used by historians as a timeframe in which to define the Old Rythenean Kingdom. In 1592, the flag changed to a white field with a red Tyrnican cross, almost an inverse of the prior flag. King Eadmund had the flag changed to symbolise the break from the sins of the past, and decreed that Perende had absolved the nation from their prior bloodshed. However, the cross still remained red to represent the memory of the past and the foundations of the Kingdom, which should never be forgotten.

Following the success of the Rythenean revolution in 1793, the new government implemented the revolutionary standard as the national flag. The republican flag featured a green field charged with a centred red Tyrnican cross. The cross represented the balance of power and the blood of the old regime, whilst the green symbolised the power of the common people. Upon the re-establishment of the monarchy in 1816, the flag featured a combination of the previous kingdom flag and the republican flag. The flag of the short lived Constitutional Monarchy had a white background, a green centred Tyrnican cross, and a red diagonal stripe extending from the top left to the centre. Some historians argue over the significance of the red stripe, as it can possibly represent the monarchy, or the blood shed of the revolution marring the ‘pure’ history of the kingdom since Eadmund. After the second revolution, the same flag as the First Republic was adopted, and remained that way until the establishment of the Third Republic in 1986. In this version, the republican flag was modernised and the Rythenean Raven represented on a variant of the Coat of Arms was emblazoned on the cross, which symbolised the long lasting democracy of the nation.