D&D General Creating a Pride Flag for my D&D setting

[Yaarel]

Thoughts about this elven flag?

 

[Faolyn]

I assume aroaces can have fun at a festival? Heh, even if they roll their eyes at other peoples obsessiveness? The festival is an opportunity to meet new people generally.

At a festival entirely about love, romance, and sex? Maybe some can, but at best I would be bored to tears and would have absolutely nothing to do.

 

[Blue Orange]

Thoughts about this elven flag?

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1. Elves classically live in the forest and live in harmony with nature. Squares are unnatural shapes associated with human civilization (the natural world has circles occasionally but very few right angles). (Though I'm sure those awful dwarves in their halls of stone would love a square...)
2. For the same reason, maybe a tree or leaf shape rather than a circle or square?
3. The colors look a little too reminiscent of RGB or CMYK to me. Recall that the modern pride flags with their tertiary and quaternary colors are the result of an age of high-quality color printing when you can dial up any color you want. Historically, flags stuck to primaries and secondaries--classic European heraldry had black, white, red, yellow, green, blue, and sometimes purple or orange, as well as 'furs' represented by patterns. Of course, elves have access to magic, and obscure colors might reflect that. Still, given that elves usually live in the forest, using more shades of green or brown, perhaps with 'natural' colors like blue (sky), yellow (sun), and red or orange (fire), might give it more of an elven feel.

 

[Yaarel]

At a festival entirely about love, romance, and sex? Maybe some can, but at best I would be bored to tears and would have absolutely nothing to do.

Aroaces are part of the diversity of the Revelry. What kind of events and activities would you want to see there?

 

[Faolyn]

Aroaces are part of the diversity of the Revelry. What kind of events and activities would you want to see there?

Personally? Anything that had nothing whatsoever to do with love, sex, or romance. Although even more personally, I hate crowds and parties so I wouldn't be going in the first place.

 

[Yaarel]

Personally? Anything that had nothing whatsoever to do with love, sex, or romance. Although even more personally, I hate crowds and parties so I wouldn't be going in the first place.

What about a tent playing D&D games?

There could be separate booths, like at some restaurants.

Or something analogous?

 

[Yaarel]

1. Elves classically live in the forest and live in harmony with nature. Squares are unnatural shapes associated with human civilization (the natural world has circles occasionally but very few right angles). (Though I'm sure those awful dwarves in their halls of stone would love a square...)
2. For the same reason, maybe a tree or leaf shape rather than a circle or square?
3. The colors look a little too reminiscent of RGB or CMYK to me. Recall that the modern pride flags with their tertiary and quaternary colors are the result of an age of high-quality color printing when you can dial up any color you want. Historically, flags stuck to primaries and secondaries--classic European heraldry had black, white, red, yellow, green, blue, and sometimes purple or orange, as well as 'furs' represented by patterns. Of course, elves have access to magic, and obscure colors might reflect that. Still, given that elves usually live in the forest, using more shades of green or brown, perhaps with 'natural' colors like blue (sky), yellow (sun), and red or orange (fire), might give it more of an elven feel.

Shakespeare mentions for the fairyfolk, the colors black, gray, white, and green. I take this to associate the Celticesque elves with nocturnal moonlit forests. Whence the "moon elves" have darkvision and are earthy and vegetative.

For the Norsesque elves, the yellow or white circular sun and the reds and blues of the sky, all work well enough. Whence the "sun elves" are skyey and solar.

Leaves around a circle might work?

 

[Blue Orange]

Shakespeare mentions for the fairyfolk, the colors black, gray, white, and green. I take this to associate the Celticesque elves with nocturnal moonlit forests. Whence the "moon elves" have darkvision and are earthy and vegetative.

For the Norsesque elves, the yellow or white circular sun and the reds and blues of the sky, all work well enough. Whence the "sun elves" dont really associate are more skyey and solar.

Leaves around a circle might work?

I think it sounds more elf-y. Of course, it's your game. But you asked for our opinion.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

One of the reasons I suggested a multicolored ring (kinda buried in my first post) is that rainbows- seen under the right circumstances- are fully circular as opposed to the more commonly seen arch. Implied, but not explicit in my post was that the multiple colors would still be arrayed as if on a color wheel as opposed to a true rainbow, to make clear that something else is being signified.

Or- playing up the elven (we’re still just talking elves, right?) connection with nature, they could use special fabrics that use threads that create interference patterns. That’s when different layers of a material interact to display a color without using actual pigments (like in butterfly wings). Such a debris, artfully woven, different colors would appear depending on the angle at which the viewer sees the flag. Whipping in a wind, such a flag would resemble an ever-changing riot of bright colors.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Actually, instead of having a whole flag thing, you might want to look into, well, things like the old handkerchief codes that gay men used back in the day. There's probably still variants on it today, but I wouldn't know; I'm one of those aroaces who stays home. Elves wear ribbons in their hair or face paint or charms on a belt chain or whatever that shows their interests, and that's how they do it.

Given my most recent post and Faolin’s insight, I could see dwarves coding- if needed- involving opals. Maybe fire agate. (Among the most colorful stones out there.)

Or perhaps- like in a short story I read- they have an intricate code of glass beads woven into their hair.

OTOH, Dwarven coding might not involve color at all…. Maybe it’s all about mineral types.