Traits

• Can be the color of any metal, such as gold, silver, copper, bronze, etc. Uncommon metal colors are allowed, it's recommended to list what metal you referenced if it might not be immediately clear!
• Gilded presents typically as mostly-shapeless blobs or simple gradients, and can appear anywhere on the body, but should cover a maximum of 50% of the total body space including mutations. Galactic Markings should generally be soft-edged or textured-edged. Gilded can have the same shape as simple markings, such as Sable, Pangare, Gradient, and Points, but should not take on the shape of complex markings like Tabby.
• Gilded may have a metallic sheen, gradient, and/or glitter texture to it.
• To avoid confusion with Forgeblood, Gilded should not present exclusively on blush zones, which are visible in the Forgeblood guide.

Examples:

• Blur alters any hard-edged marking on the Rixixi to be soft-edged. Blurred markings can go very slightly out of range due to being blended out of the range.
• If Blur is the only marking on the Rixixi (or if the only other markings are soft-edged), then Blur will not visibly appear on the design.
• Recessive Blur can modify the edge of one marking, while Dominant Blur can modify the edge of multiple - as many as the designer desires.

Examples:

Blur used on Skunk, which also has Lunar effecting it.

• Color distortions, glows, inversions, hue shifts, visual effects, and so on.
• Vortices/wormholes/black holes/landscapes implying portals (should not heavily obscure Ixi)
• Tendrils, Eyes, Teeth/Beaks/etc, other monstrous and eldritch themes - does not require related mutations so long as they stay within/near rifts.
• Other Chasm themes - space, snares, vibrant colors, illusions. If you turn the import into a surrealist painting inside the rifts, that's legal.

• Can optionally affect skin, frills, etc. Can optionally alter the color of markings/mutations that involve blood/flesh color, such as Daggerstabbed, Wide Vents, and so on, making them chasm-like colors, such as warped gradients of fleshtone, neon pink, or Colorpitch color blends.
• Effects can cover up to 50% of the Rixixi, as long as they are not heavily obscuring markings.

• Must be the color of a type of gold or gold alloy. If using a gold alloy, it's recommended to list what metal you referenced if it might not be immediately clear! (For instance, the Rock Collector's Chrysopoeia referenced Electrum.)
• Chrysopoeia must be immediately visible on the design, but must not cover more than approximately 30%.

Examples:

Range:

• Can be the color of any metal, such as gold, silver, copper, bronze, etc. Uncommon metal colors are allowed, it's recommended to list what metal you referenced if it might not be immediately clear!
• If markings/mutations that involve blood/flesh color are present (such as Daggerstabbed, Wide Vents, and so on), Forgeblood should affect at least one of them. Can optionally affect skin, frills, etc.
• Can present with a metallic sheen.

• Can be any bright color. It is okay to use multiple colors blended together!
• If markings/mutations that involve blood/flesh color are present (such as Daggerstabbed, Wide Vents, and so on), Anodized Forgeblood should affect at least one of them. Can optionally affect skin, frills, etc.
• Can present with a metallic sheen.

Gemcrafted genes do not pass to offspring without the Body Glitter skill. They cannot be dominant, and cannot be added with geno-editing items other than their own shards. When passable, Gemcrafted genes pass at an Uncommon rate.

• These rules can be overridden by some modifiers, see below.
• The base coat should use only the bottom slider, while markings should use the top three (C/Y/M) sliders.
• All slider colors should be present if possible (for example, if fewer than three markings are present, or if a modifier overrides this color rule, ignore this).
• Small drips can be added to the lineart to imply a mildly inky body texture. These can have a shine, but should not completely overtake the entire body or result in shading over a large portion of the body.

• Dominant Gradient and Horizon both allow a gradient of the grey slider to be used on a marking, and Splash allows the grey slider to gradient into a marking.
• Glitter can change any marking to any one solid color off the greyscale swatch.
• Mirror allows one marking (multiple if dominant) to use the opposite side of the base coat slider instead of a CYM slider. If your base coat is medium grey, this does nothing.
• All other color modifiers work identically to their original use, but require use of the CYMK swatches (any of the swatches).

• May be any color, and should give off a glow.
• Should be inorganic patterns of runes or general geometric shapes.
• There is no minimum, but it should appear visibly on the design. There is no maximum and it may appear as a fullbody marking if desired.

Examples:

• Blaze can be any color, and may display up to two colors within the marking, which may optionally be blended together. Blaze may have patterns within itself, as long as it does not appear to be modified by another marking, such as Painted or Lunar.
• Blaze has no restriction on edge hardness. It can have cutouts in the marking.
• Blaze should cover at least 25% of the Rixixi. If originating at the face, it must cover the full face. If originating at the tail, it must cover the full tailtip.
• Blaze must stop at the middle of the Rixixi, giving it a maximum of 50%.
• Blaze can resemble Gradient without issue.

Examples:

Range:

• Quail may be any color, and may display up to two colors within the marking, which may be blended together.
• Quail does not have a restriction on edge hardness.
• Quail should, at minimum, create a visible ring around the neck.
• There can only be breaks in the marking if it's creating multiple rings around the neck. The shoulder and/or head region, if present, must consist of a single unbroken marking.

Examples:

Range:

 

• Xanadu is a marking similar to the stripe on an orca's back. It can continue down the tail, and can optionally have various swirls, curves, and/or sharp edges at the tips.
• Xanadu may be any color, and may display up to two colors within the marking, which may be blended together.
• The edge of Xanadu should be soft.

Examples:

• If appearing on its own, Sulfur should be soft-edged, and cover no more than 50% of the Ixi's body. If modifying a marking, Sulfur takes on the shape and texture rules of that marking, overriding the color and patterns.
• Sulfur should be the color of fire - any sort of fire, including chemical fires. It should be only one 'type' of fire in color - mixing pink with green generally doesn't work unless you can find a reference image for that. The inside of the marking should be cloudy with similar flame colors no matter if it's modifying a marking or creating its own marking.
• Recessive Sulfur (nSfr) can create its own marking OR modify one marking. Dominant Sulfur (SfrSfr) can create its own marking AND/OR modify any number of markings.

Examples:

Range:

• Must be lighter than the base coat.
• Should be soft-edged.
• Waterlight can present as either large blobs of light (The Lanternlighter shows this presentation) or lines representing ripples in water - sort of like an outline of the former version. Both should be soft-edged and lighter than base.

Examples:

• Erosion alters any single marking on the Rixixi, causing the texture of the marking to be mottled and speckled. Speckles should be tiny, like the snowflake marking. Eroded markings can go very slightly out of range due to being textured out of the range.
• If Erosion is the only marking on the Rixixi, then Erosion will not visibly appear on the design. Alternately, it can be used on free marks.
• Recessive Erosion can modify the edge of one marking, while Dominant Erosion can modify the edge of multiple - as many as the designer desires.

Examples:

Erosion used on Pangare