I’m still around.
So I thought I’d share something that I cooked up awhile ago for some alternative generic enemy icons: flags. Why? Because I like them. All of the following are F2E

Like this; this puts the dragon icon from FE7 onto a flag.
This idea came around about 10-11 months ago when I was talking to a friend about what a Western Isles colonial administration would look like, and this is what I came up with…

The canton is for the Etrurian crown, the big triangle is for the mountain where those mines that Etrurian colonial overlords use for prison labor are.
Now, what would a liberated Western Isles flag look like, perhaps?

Teal has to be the main color, since both Echidna and Bartre are sporting it, and they have very… anti-colonial politics. From that, I interpret teal as the main color… and how about the islands themselves? Well, I depicted them as three stars in what’s vaguely their geographic positioning. None bigger than the others, to signal unity. An orange stripe for the land over the ocean. I opted not to use the crossed axes. Did I overthink this? Absolutely.
So what would the Etrurian crown flag look like?

That, just going off their FE6 icon.
This is an approximation of Verdane’s flag in Fire Emblem 4, according to the TCG and made into a 1:2 scale as opposed to 1:1.

Some miscallaneous flag icons. Most of these are pretty simple but for half of these, the point was to test the concept. A lot of these used the exact same palettes, but I think that won’t be reflected well here.
Indonesia’s flag, also Monaco’s, also a good example of these
Denmark’s flag IRL
saltire
saltire and sword

vertical tricolor





dragon
dragons with stars
dragons on a cross
generic bandits
Jolly Roger in black (intend to steal), red (intend to steal and kill), and brown (FC St. Pauli?)
… the Fossil icon from the Pokemon Trading Card Game. Maybe good for monsters.
eyeball icon intended for monsters when used in other colors.
more eyeballs, just less good ones
So how do these look in-game? I think they look fine.

Music time:
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I heard another version of this in Cygnus’s ROM when I was sitting in and watching them playtest. It had… enough problems to motivate me to re-convert this and fix them.
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WiiSportsRemote asked for this one on the discord server. A quick conversion.
This went harder than expected!