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These are absolutely gorgeus! I hope you don’t mind me using them. Ofc ill credit you and link to this thread xD
When it comes to Khmer, Thai and Champa.
The Champa is a bit tricky. the Dai Viet pretty much erased their heritage and everything off the map.
The only thing I have:
But I do not think they used that color palette.
Here is colorpalette commonly used in Cham-Textiles, pretty much only cultural remnant left of the Champa Kingdoms, made my the minority Cham people in Vietnam and Cambodia. (Remnants of the Champa kingdoms)
and I also always keep coming across this Champa motif you see on the shield/breastplate.
I think this is also the motif supposed to be on that flag.
When it comes to the Khmer Empire, this was their flag.
(They just had a triangle, kinda like Nepal, or typical signalling flags)
For the thai people. They were as creative as the Abbasid in the beginning. Just having a red flag.
But this account for the Ayutthaya kingdom and onwards into modern thailand.
Ayuthayya often used this emblem aswell
Pre Ayutthaya, the Sukhothai often had this Motif which is used today in they Provincial flag.
and the Lan Na coat of arms was this:
If this is any help.
So for the Champa Kingdom, you’re pretty free to be creative in the design.
The Khmer shud be pretty straight forward.
And the Thai-kingdoms would need to have some creativity mixed in. Figuring out a way to incorporate the motifs. But personally I think maybe just going for the Ayutthaya might as well be good enough. Majority of Thai identity falls into Ayutthaya anyway.
You can like whatever you want but the Byzantines did not use this fantasy bright purple flag. Their color of preference was the porphyra, which had a dark hue and resembled deep red, closer to crimson than purple.
This is how some Byzantine flags look like in actual historical records:
Contemporary recreations:
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A certain purple hue is called “Byzantium” or “Byzantine Purple” even today, in English language also. The purple version of the state symbols / flag was associated with Byzantine royalty (purple was the most expensive color to make), the red version with commons.
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Can you do the Ainu flag?
It’s a recent creation like the wiphala.
That looks amazing
(20 characters)
Fun Fact: Purple was rarely used in flags because Purple Dye was worth its weight in gold! And ultra rare at the time.
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Man, it is so good, they should really get you to team 
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The color named “Byzantium” has absolutely no historical association with the Byzantine empire. It’s a modern designation. I understand though how some people can be misled into thinking that these bright purple paints have something particular Byzantine in them - they don’t. Although both purple and pink could exist depending on the number and kind of dippings the material received, the dye favored by the Byzantine royalty as mentioned was the porphyra which is often translated from ancient Greek to English as purple but had a much darker and reddish hue. We might say today “born in purple” for the nobility but that’s just a simplification that came with the translation of Porphyrogennetos that is literally “born in porphyra”. Of course people use purple today to describe a wide variety of different hues - some of which look like porphyra - the one in the flag above however does not.
Kameho3742 is also right that it was extremely expensive. It was mostly reserved for imperial clothing, diplomatic gifts or architectural decorations. For instance, the room in the imperial palace of Constantinople where the Empresses were giving birth was covered in porphyry, hence Porphyrogennetos or ‘purple-born’.
This is how it looks like and if you look up the system of color designation, it’s categorized as very deep red.
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Fantasy is not my cup of tea, but I want to say I appreciate these flags very much. 
Could you maybe do the Chola and / or Vijaynagara flags? I don’t want them to be forgotten.
Yea yea friend, purple Byzantine flags are everywhere out of pure coincidence.
Mayans and Aztecs (these are modern ethnic flags, the second one is for the Nahua peole, which include Aztecs)
There’s also one for Berbers
I saw you make the flag of scotland, however that’s the Scottish monarchist flag.
Could you make one with the st.andrew cross?
I think it might be the more correct use, as both flags came about around the same time.
but the St.Andre, more commonly the known Scottish flag was used by those who wanted to show Scottish loyalty.
henche it was flown more often in war and peacetime amongst commoners.
The other flag was actually only allowed by monarchs or those representing the monarchy
