Traits

• Must be lighter than base coat, tan, or gold.
• Edges should be hard or textured-edged.
• It should be a mostly abstract or fully abstract shape - if it's a recognizeable shape (heart, actual sun, star, etc), it should appear as if it's a marking rather than a tattoo.

Range:

• Edges should be fully blended out.
• Must be a lighter shade of the base color.
• Pangare has no minimum range, but should be visible unless covered by a color mutation.

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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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• Points must be darker or lighter than the base coat.
• It has no restriction on edge hardness.
• Points should cover two specific points at minimum - the points include the head, the tail, the front legs, and the back legs.
• The points should touch the very end of whatever zone they're in. They should at least reach up to the ankles if covering the legs.

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• Skunk must be a lighter shade of the base coat, including white. It may have a gradient, but it must be within a similar hue, not heavily two-toned.
• Edge may be hard, textured, or somewhat soft. It should not be fully blended out.
• It should form stripes on the side (in which case it should "cut out" in the middle of the back) or on the back (in which case it should not be a thick enough stripe to cover the entire side). It can display on the back and side (with a gap in between them) as well.

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• Squared must be lighter or darker than the base coat, and can be black or white.
• It should include squares and/or rectangles, which can be solid or hollow. It can curve naturally with the body, but the geometric shape should still be easy to make out.
• 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.

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• Must be darker than the base coat.
• Edges should be fully blended out.
• At minimum, Sable should be visible on the back.

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• Other than the color, Tan follows the same rules as Unders:
• Edge must be hard or textured.
• Unders should at least appear visibly somewhere on the torso.
• There can be some breaks in the marking, but they should appear as natural separate pieces. Cutouts are allowed as long as they are natural shapes.
• It may have a gradient, but it must be within a similar hue, not heavily two-toned.
• While markings typically should not resemble each other too heavily, Tan can, in some cases, look identical to Unders on a Sunbeam, Woods, or Latte base.

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Range:

• Unders 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.
• Unders should at least appear visibly somewhere on the torso.
• There can be some breaks in the marking, but they should appear as natural separate pieces. Cutouts are allowed so long as they are natural shapes.
• While markings typically should not resemble each other too heavily, if Unders is on a base such as Latte, Woods, or Sunbeam, it may resemble Tan (though should still simply be lighter/darker than the base coat).

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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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• 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.

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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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• 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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• 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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