Wymgani flag
The Wymgani are the Indigenous people of the Ariddian Isles. Despite historic conflicts, Wymgani today enjoy the same rights as all Ariddian citizens, as well as specific rights as Indigenous people. Most Wymgani therefore consider themselves, to a significant extent, part of a broader Ariddian society, and identify primarily with the black, red and green Ariddian flag.
Nonetheless, there is also a Wymgani flag. There have, in fact, been two:
Fourteenth century
The first ever Ariddian flag was designed and flown by Indigenous explorer Wa We's expedition shortly after its arrival in Europe in the late 1360s. The flag was flown from the expedition's ship, in imitation of European flags, and to legitimise the Wymgani as official representatives of a nation.
To what degree the flag was intended to encompass all Wymgani (and therefore all of Ariddia) is unclear. The concept of nationhood was non-existent in Ariddia at that time, and the flag seems to have been designed quite quickly, then forgotten once the expedition returned to the Isles. It is now sometimes honoured as Ariddia's first national flag, despite the possible anachronism inherent to that view.
The flag was green and brown, with green representing the Wymgani homeland and brown the people themselves.
Eighteenth century
The current flag is thought to have been designed around 1765, shortly before the peak in the Ariddian Land Wars. Its designer(s) is (are) unknown. It was flown in Wymgani villages, and gradually spread throughout the country. It was flown by some Indigenous rights campaigners in the nineteenth century, but never met with particularly widespread use or popularity. Most Wymgani referred to the 1683 Treaty of Espérence and demanded full rights as Ariddians, rather than seperate nationhood. This was in great part a matter of de-legitimising any idea of an Ariddian nation distinct from its Indigenous inhabitants.
The flag was belatedly officialised with the Indigenous Flag Act of 1967. Today it is flown outside the Wehela Iolih (Indigenous Parliament) - one of the few places it can actually be seen in use.
In 2125, when Ariddia sent a team to the football World Cup for Indigenous Peoples, the team decided to use the national Ariddian flag rather than the Wymgani flag.
The flag makes use of the 14th century flag's colour scheme, and adds dark blue to represent the ocean around the Isles. The people (in brown, united in a circle) are depicted as being but a small part of the Isles' natural environment (in green), and as living in harmony with it.
