Traits

• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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

• 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.

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• 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.

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• Glaze alters only the sheen of a marking. The modified marking should still have the same edge hardness and shape.
• The color of lighter/darker than base markings can be altered by Glaze to be an analagous hue.
• If Glaze is the only marking on the Rixixi, then Glaze can create either a Sable or Cloak-style back marking, with an iridescent sheen.
• Recessive Glaze can modify the sheen of one marking, while Dominant Glaze can modify multiple - as many as the designer desires.

Examples:

Affecting  Cloak - Droplets also affecting Cloak.

• 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)

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• Brindle appears similar to the marking of the same name in dogs and horses. It can appear as realistically as you like, with blotches of heavier striping and texturing, or it can simply be thin striping, thinner and more even than Tabby.
• Brindle can be both darker than AND lighter than the base coat. This is optional. It can also be only darker than OR lighter than the base coat if desired. If appearing as both colors and affected by a marking like Glitter or Lunar, two tones are allowed.
• It is typically hard- or textured-edged. It should not be blended out, but can be somewhat soft-edged.
• It has no maximum and can cover the full body if desired. It has no minimum, but should be noticeable on the design.

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• Boar 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. Boar 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 Boar stripes as you want from back to underbelly, and as many as you want going down the legs.
• Boar stripes consist of an inner and outer stripe. The outer stripe is darker than the base coat, and the inner stripe is lighter than the base coat (and should be fully within the darker stripe).
• Edge may be hard, textured, or somewhat soft. It should not be fully blended out.

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• Vest may be any color, and may display up to two colors within the marking, which may be blended together.
• Vest does not have a restriction on edge hardness.

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• Raptor should appear similar to the barring on the chest of any sort of hawk. Reference image is appreciated but only required for unusual and lesser-known hawks.
• The edge should generally be hard, unless the reference hawk is different (please provide reference hawk in design approvals if not hard-edged)
• Raptor barring should be darker than the base coat.
• A patch - either lighter-than-base or a light tan - is optionally allowed under the barring. It has no restriction on hardness, and additionally may have feather-like texturing at the edges. This has the same range as the barring.

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