Traits

• Stamped causes simple shapes to appear. There are some restrictions on these shapes - both due to previously-existing genes, and to keep the gene properly shaped and simple. These will be listed a bit later in the guide.
• Stamped should be lighter or darker than the base coat.
• It can be hard-edged or lightly textured. It should not be soft-edged or heavily textured.
• It has no minimum, but should be noticeable on the design.
• The shape can repeat, but it should be the same shape throughout the design. It can be solid or hollowed out, and you can use both of these presentations in the same design.

Shape restrictions:

The following shapes are not allowed:

• Quadrilaterals - Squares, rectangles, diamonds, and the like. These can be made with the Squared gene.
• Pentagons, Octagons, Hexagons, or similar shapes. These can be made with the Hexagon gene.
• Shapes that are solely made up of lines. (This does not mean shapes that are hollowed out - those are fine, and in fact, are an important part of this ruling!) A shape used for Stamped should be thick enough to hollow out.

Additionally, shapes should not be overly complex:

This fleur-de-lis is considered too complex. Each piece parses as a separate, unique shape of its own due to the spacing of the sides and the shape/distance of the bud from the rest of the shape.

This fleur-de-lis can be considered the maximum complexity for stamped. The shape is nice and compact and parses as a unified shape. The bud flows into everything else.

Examples:

• 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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Range:

• 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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• 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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• 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.

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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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• 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)

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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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• Accents can be any color, and may display up to two colors within the marking, which may be blended together.
• It has no restriction on edge hardness.
• Accents has no minimum, but should be clearly visible on the Rixixi.
• Accents should not heavily resemble most markings (though being distinctly its own marking with its own rules is typically enough to get it to pass - e.g. a striped, procyonid-like tail can pass if paired with other Accents), however, Accents can resemble Unders, Tan, or Pangare with no issue.

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• Cloak may be a lighter or darker shade of the base coat, including black and white. It may have a gradient, but it must be within a similar hue, not heavily two-toned.
• Edge must be hard or textured, and may have unnatural shapes.
• Cloak does not have a minimum, but must appear noticeably on the design.
• There can be breaks and cutouts in the marking.

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• Edges should be hard or soft. They should not be fully blurred out.
• Must be a darker shade of the base color.
• Dorsal stripe is mandatory, but additional striping on the shoulders/tail/wrists/ankles/forehead is an optional design choice! Feel free to add that or leave it out as you please!
• There is no minimum range (other than the dorsal stripe being mandatory), but it should appear visibly on the design.

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• Fissure shares a range with Skunk nSku/SkuSku, with some changes to how the rules work - Fissure must display in the middle of the back, with stripes on the side being optional. Side stripes can travel down 50% of the body maximum, and can start and end at any point.
• If Fissure only displays along the back, it should not be a thick enough stripe to cover the entire range. Side and back stripes should have a noticeable gap between them, but can meet at the ends if desired.
• Fissure may be any color, and may display up to two colors within the marking, which may be blended together.
• Edge may be hard, textured, or somewhat soft. It should not be fully blended out.

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• Flourish can be any color, and may display up to two colors within the marking, which may be blended together.
• It has no restriction on edge hardness.
• Flourish has no minimum, but should be clearly visible on the Rixixi. It has no maximum, and can appear on any and all skin and 'extras' layers.
• Flourish does allow for markings on teeth without cosmetics!
• Flourish can present on all non-color mutations. Combination mutations that hybridize with color mutations and non-color mutations (such as Translucent) can be affected by Flourish. Fur Length mutations can show Flourish on the skin - for example, the entirety of Sphynx and the bald patches of Lykoi; however, Flourish cannot present on Long Fur.
• Flourish can resemble any common or uncommon marking, and still follows its own color rules. This includes gradient - Flourish can be just a simple, subtle gradient as long as it is visible. It can also make unique combinations of existing markings - for instance, Laouto's hooves are a combination of Ripple and Ticked intended to look like grass and vines.

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