Osiris Fraternal Order

From the Office of the Chief Vizier
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Osiris Flag Contest 3.0!!! The Osiris Fraternal Order will be hosting a flag contest for a new design to be the next official flag of Osiris.

1. Any citizen, diplomat, or someone with a Guest Visa can submit a flag for the contest in this thread.

2. Flag submissions must include a flag for the region, and an equivalent flag with an alternative color scheme for the Sekhmet Legion.

3. Participants may submit flag designs in this thread from Monday, April 10th at 5:00 p.m. (CST) to Monday, April 17th at 5:00 p.m. (CST).

4. Any submission that doesn't abide by site rules will be disqualified.

5. Citizens of Osiris will then vote on the flag submissions over a three day period. The flag with the majority of votes will be deemed the winner.

6. The Pharaoh and Chief Vizier reserves the right to conduct a second run-off vote in the event of a close vote.

7. The Pharaoh and Chief Vizier also reserve the right to disqualify any flag that is regarded as offensive.

This thread will be opened at the time submissions open and will close again once they finish. You have less than a week until they open, so start designing!
BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE! There will also be a contest for the worst flag! That's right, if you're not good at making a somewhat decent flag, or you don't really want to try, you can draft up one of the most memiest, silliest, horrible looking flags that you can think of. The winner of the worst flag contest becomes the flag flown by Syberis for the next month! All above rules apply, and voting for the worst flag will follow the conclusion of the general flag contest. Please submit your worst flags in this thread, and label them appropriately so I know which one is legitimately terrible and which ones are supposed to be good but are still terrible.

Due to some difficulties (my laptop got stolen lol), I am just now getting to opening this two hours late. No big deal, but the Osiris Flag Contest 3.0 has officially begun! If you have any questions, please PM me on discord or shoot me a telegram.

EDIT: Please label the joke flag submissions to be flown by Syb appropriately.

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In hieroglyphics it says, "Syb stole pills"

A reference to this...

Koth - 02/04/2017
The pills I ordered from that one neat e-mail
Syberis - 02/04/2017
I took them all, I have about 20 minutes left in the 4 hours til I need to call my doctor
Koth - 02/04/2017
For whatever reason it put it in my junk box, but I think it just misinterpreted what kind of "junk" the e-mail was talking about(edited)
Dr_PelIcaN - 02/04/2017
sets timer for 20 minutes
Sygian - 02/04/2017
uh koth...
don't take those D:
Dr_PelIcaN - 02/04/2017
syb stole them

Made these ages ago....
One for Sekhmet Legion



One for the Regional Flag

Here's what I built over the week.

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The purple and yellow are, of course, the colors of Osiris, or at least they are last time I checked. The Crook and Flail is a historic symbol of both the God Osiris and the authority of the Pharaoh, so I'd call it two birds with one stone. It's a nice departure from the traditional eye of Horus or a Scarab.

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Just changed up the colors, nothing special. Maybe if there's demand, the background can be purple instead of white.

Here are some variations, your choice on what to use for what. I can make any of these in other colors if you wanted.

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I may come up with some other designs over the course of the week.

These are all really great. And then there's mine
I spent time on these, though, so they ain't going to waste.

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Version One



Version Two

So, I've spent a reasonable amount of time thinking about this, and put a lot of effort into the symbolism of my design.

The Crescent Moon represents the feminine aspect in Classical and Christian mythology, with particular association with Diana/Artemis, goddesses of the hunt. Considering the masculine name of all three sinkers I felt a feminine symbol was appropriate. The crescent moon is also a symbol associated with Egypt through the 14th to 20th century. Considering that Osiris is one of three sinkers, I choose to use three crescent moons arranged in a triskellion. This represents the unity and equality of the three sinkers. It is also relevant that Egypt has used flags with three crescents moons in the past, though never in this triskellion pattern.

The colours are the red and purple of the current flag of Osiris.

Two colour variants, you guys would know best which to use for what. Other colours are easy enough to do if you plan on using them.






For info: If I've got the heiroglyphics right (and I am definitely no expert), the flags actually say "Osiris".

These are my first designs. If they're chosen, I'll definitely fix a few flaws. Also, Aumelodia, those are killer!

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