Traits

• Oil Paint should generally be an at least slightly irregular shape, but still be recognizeable as a large spot.
• Recessive Oil Paint may be any base color, and should be iridescent. Dominant Oil Paint may be up to three base colors, which can be separated into different spots or gradiented together. It should still be iridescent.
• The spots can appear anywhere on the body. As they are large, they should appear on a minimum of roughly 30% of the body and a maximum of roughly 70%.
• If markings appear above Oil Paint, they can be color-shifted where they touch the spots - it must still follow the marking's color rules, however! With modifier markings like Glitter and Lunar, this can result in an entirely different modifier color being present on the spots than the color present on the main body.

Examples:

• Lycaon is a double-layered marking. Other markings on the Rixixi should not appear 'between' the top and bottom layers of Lycaon. The bottom layer of Lycaon should be black or off-black (appearing black on the Rixixi's base). The top layer of Lycaon may be any color. The top layer of Lycaon must stay within the bottom layer and cannot touch or go outside the edge of the bottom layer.
• Lycaon is made up of hard-edged spots scattered around the Rixixi. They can be a mix of large and small spots, but there should be large spots present. The black portion of Lycaon should cover between 30% and 60% of the Rixixi (there is no minimum on the coverage of the any-color spots, but it must be below 60% as it has to stay within the black spots.)
• Recessive Lycaon can have one color in the any-color spots. Dominant Lycaon may have two colors, which can be in separate color blocks or gradiented together.
• Markings like Glitter, Lunar, Horizon, and so on can alter the color of the black spots. Splash can add a base coat gradient to either the black spots or the internal any-color spots.

Examples:

• Skink must flow in the direction of eye to tail. It does not have to touch the eye or the tail, this is simply the direction it must flow. Skink can start and stop anywhere on the side, but each stripe should consist of a single unbroken line, not multiple bars in a row.
• You can have as many Skink stripes as you want from back to underbelly, and as many as you want going down the legs.
• Skink can be the color of any one or two base coats. The two colors can be gradiented together, or can be separate colors on separate stripes.
• Dominant Skink may be three colors - similar to recessive Skink, this may be gradiented together or three separate colors on separate stripes.
• Edge may be hard, textured, or somewhat soft. It should not be fully blended out.

Examples:

• Caldera displays over every marking, and optionally can display over color mutations and minimal white.
• Caldera should be a circle or oval, though the edges can optionally be warped and dripping. The edges can have a dripping effect without the use of Droplets. The color should match magma or lava, and can contain things like stone encircling the marking.
• Dominant Caldera can alter markings that touch it by changing their color to that of the crystals within it, either in a gradient or the entire marking. Dominant Caldera optionally can alter color mutations.
• There should only be one Caldera marking on a Rixixi. There can optionally be two if located on limbs - if this option is taken, the markings should appear on the same pair of limbs (arms, back legs, sleipnir arms, wings, etc.).
• Caldera can have hard or textured edges. The main marking itself should not be blended out or soft (though, as previously mentioned, Dom Caldera can have a blended gradient effect that affects other markings)
• Caldera may glow. This may not affect skin, but it may affect the markings altered by Caldera's color.

Examples:

• Cenote displays over every marking, and optionally can display over color mutations and minimal white.
• Cenote should be a circle or oval, though the edges can be made of watery ripples or sand (textured-edged or soft-edged). The color can be any color found in water in nature, as long as it's reflecting the sky (or cave walls/forest trees/other natural things) and not an object - please feel free to supply a reference for strange colors - and can contain small instances of marine life.
• Dominant Cenote can alter markings that touch it by changing their color to that of similar watery tones, either in a gradient or the entire marking. Dominant Cenote optionally can alter color mutations.
• There should only be one Cenote marking on a Rixixi. There can optionally be two if located on limbs - if this option is taken, the markings should appear on the same pair of limbs (arms, back legs, sleipnir arms, wings, etc.).
• Cenote can have hard or textured edges. The main marking itself should not be blended out or soft unless the edges have sand on them (though, as previously mentioned, Dom Cenote can have a blended gradient effect that affects other markings)

Examples:

• Xenolith displays over every marking, and optionally can display over color mutations and minimal white.
• Xenolith should be a circle or oval, though the edges can be rough or jagged. The color can be that of any sort of crystal (natural or otherwise), and can contain things like encroaching dirt and multiple types of stone.
• Xenolith can also be the color and texture of regular stone instead of a crystal.
• Dominant Xenolith can alter markings that touch it by changing their color to that of the crystals within it, either in a gradient or the entire marking. If there are multiple crystal types in the Xenolith marking, all of their colors can alter markings. Dominant Xenolith optionally can alter color mutations.
• There should only be one Xenolith marking on a Rixixi. There can optionally be two if located on limbs - if this option is taken, the markings should appear on the same pair of limbs (arms, back legs, sleipnir arms, wings, etc.).
• Xenolith can have hard or textured edges. The main marking itself should not be blended out or soft (though, as previously mentioned, Dom Xenolith can have a blended gradient effect that affects other markings)

Examples:

• The main shape should be a broad zigzagging pattern between the belly and spine of the rixixi, and can be any base color. The second color should display on top of this and loosely follow the same shape in a much thinner band, and can be any base color as well, but must be visually distinct from the first band.
• You can choose to only display one zigzag - this can be either a thick or thin pattern.
• The pattern for Noveau can vary heavily in shape as long as it can be considered a broad zigzag and a thin zigzag. It may be hard- or textured-edged.
• Dominant Noveau (NvuNvu) may be any color, as long as the two bands are visually distinct from each other.
• Each individual band may be a two-toned gradient if desired, but must follow dominant/recessive rules as relevant - recessive can only be two-toned within the same base coat, while dominant may be any colors at all.

Examples:

• There should be one single Sylvan marking of any size, and it can be in the shape of a leaf or butterfly's wings.
• The base of Sylvan can be any two colors, and may optionally be blended together.
• There should be veins like that of a leaf or butterfly's wing - this can be any color, and can have a halo of color around them.
• Sylvan can be soft-, hard-, or textured-edged, but should not be fully blended out.
• Sylvan may optionally have spots of any color. Dominant Sylvan can have eye spots without the Eyespot gene (located on the Sylvan shape only)
• Sylvan may optionally have a border of any color without requiring the Bloom gene.
• If the Rixixi also has Insect Wings, the Insect Wings may take on the Sylvan pattern.

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:

• Topiary presents as thin spirals wrapping around part of the Rixixi, and should be inspired in part from filigree designs and/or tree branches, vines, and similar foliage.
• Topiary's shape can vary heavily, but should always contain some form of swirl or spiral, and the general shape of the marking should flow.
• Topiary should not cover more than 50% of a Rixixi.
• Recessive Topiary (nTopi) can be any color, and may be three-toned.
• Dominant Topiary (TopiTopi) may have a metallic or iridescent sheen, and has no limit on how many colors are used in it.

An example of minimal Topiary:

Examples:

Some marking shape examples:

Rixixi examples:

Range:

• Stained Glass follows the range and edge texturing rules of the marking it modifies. It only modifies the color and the internal pattern of the marking.
• The 'border' of Stained Glass should always be black or off-black unless modified by another modifier marking or mutation, but the 'glass' can be any colors.
• Recessive Stained Glass (nSgl) can create Glass Points OR modify one marking. Dominant Stained Glass (SglSgl) can create Glass Points AND/OR modify any number of markings.
• A glassy sheen can be present on top of the marking - this is optional.

Examples:

Modifying Skunk - Aurri does have dominant Stained Glass but a design choice was made to have it only affect one marking.

• Skypunch displays over every marking, and optionally can display over color mutations and minimal white.
• Skypunch should be a circle - or roughly circle-like. The color can be that of any sky at all, and can contain things like clouds and weather.
• Dominant Skypunch can alter markings that touch it by changing their color to that of any cloud, either in a gradient or the entire marking. Dominant Skypunch optionally can alter color mutations.
• There should only be one skypunch marking on a Rixixi. There can optionally be two if located on limbs - if this option is taken, the markings should appear on the same pair of limbs (arms, back legs, sleipnir arms, wings, etc.).
• Skypunch can have hard, textured, or soft edges, so long as the shape is clear. The main marking itself should not be blended out (though, as previously mentioned, Dom Skypunch can have a blended gradient effect that affects other markings)

Examples:

• Regal should be hard-edged, but should also have a soft-edged glow around the marking that should not stray too far outside the linework of the Ixi. Skin, fins, and the like may also glow.
• Regal can be any color except for black or near-black - deeper, bright colors and desaturated colors are okay, and bright colors are the most common.
• Recessive Regal creates a single ring around the upper body, usually looking like a crown shape or a halo, with a trail of some sort coming off of it - a cape shape, bioluminescent dots, lines outlining the general shape of the Ixi, constellations, etc.
• Dominant Regal can create a bioluminescent border around other markings as well, with trails coming off of them and going down the body.
• Regal trails should go down the body towards the tail for the most part, but deviations from this for part of the marking are fine.

Examples:

• The shape of Painted typically wraps around the body part it presents on, whether on a marking or the base coat, and often appears as wavy, curved, or otherwise slightly imperfect at least to show that it warps around the shape of the body. Sometimes it warps further, creating waves, bumps, even cloudlike patterns in the bands of colors. There is no restriction on edge hardness, but it should not be so blurred as to obscure the signature shape of each band.
• Painted may be lighter or darker than the base coat, lighter or darker than the original marking it modifies, lighter or darker than another marking on the Rixixi, or any combination of the above! It can also be combined with bands of any color of the designer's choosing!
• Recessive Painted (nPtd) can modify the base coat OR modify one marking. Dominant Painted (PtdPtd) can create modify the base coat AND/OR modify any number of markings.

Examples:

• Lunar follows the range and shape rules of the markings it modifies: Lunar Unders still covers the range of unders and shouldn't have unnatural cut-outs to it, Lunar Procyonid still has a striped tail.
• Lunar overrides the color and, optionally, the texture of the modified marking. It should be fairly colorful, and can be bright and saturated. Lunar can consist of multiple colors. Shapes and patterns of nebular, celestial bodies, and stars can and should be found within the modified marking. Lunar can modify edge textures: The nebula and galactic shapes can texture the edge of the marking, this can be combined with a blur of color blending outwards underneath the textured segment, this can be seen in Lunar 0007.
• Lunar can optionally create Galactic Markings instead - this follows the same color rules as Lunar applied to another marking, but is applied to its own marking instead. Galactic Markings are typically mostly-shapeless blobs or simple gradients, and can appear anywhere on the body, but should cover a maximum of 75% of the total body space including mutations. Galactic Markings should generally be soft-edged or textured-edged, and the texture may optionally have space themes. Galactic Markings 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.
• Recessive Lunar (nLu) can create Galactic Markings OR modify one marking. Dominant Lunar (LuLu) can create Galactic Markings AND/OR modify any number of markings.

Examples: