Picta

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Genetics

Genotype options:

Appearance

Picta causes stripes, spots, or patterns in the mane and/or tail. Patterns can be simple shapes such as flowers, hearts, stars, butterflies, or similar.

Picta should always be darker than the mane/tail (anywhere from slightly darker to complete black), and can optionally have lighter accents.

Always goes below white patterns.

Minimum requirement:

At least one stripe/streak, spot or shape in mane or tail.

Minimum requirements can be reduced or completely removed by the occlusion trait.

Allowed:

Can optionally also show patterns on manes caused by the Wulf mutation and the fins caused by Aquaris.

Not allowed:

Can not cause streaks, spots or patterns on other parts of the body, only mane or tail.

Eye colour:

Doesn't affect eye colour.

Skin colour:

Doesn't affect skin colour.

Horn/hoof colour:

Doesn't affect horn or hoof colour.

Examples

Flower pattern with light accents

chestnut + Picta

Simple streak

chestnut + Picta

Heart pattern

chestnut + Picta

Peafowl eye-spots, and forelock streaks

ginger + Picta

Star-pattern in tail

perlino + Picta

Raccoon stripes

chestnut + Picta

Always goes below white patterns

chestnut + Picta + Tobiano

Barely visible on a black mane

bay + Picta

Quill/scale pattern

cremello + Picta

Modifiers

Picta can optionally cause modifiers to only affect the pattern and not the rest of the mane/tail. (Can also display normally, e.g. normal light flaxen mane with Picta patterns)

Bronze turns patterns into a light and/or rich brown.
Flaxen turns patterns creamy white or lighter than the base coat. (only affects chestnut-based (ee) coats)
Silver turns patterns white or lighter than the base coat. (only affects black-based (EE or Ee) coats)
Chromatic can change the pattern's brightness and/or saturation.
Grey can leave the patterns unaffected (doesn't grey out), or leave the entire body unaffected and only the patterns grey out.

Mutations

Astral can cause the patterns to become starry/sparkly, in any colour.
Aurora can cause the patterns to glow in any colour.
Eclipse can cause the patterns to have an eclipsed outline/border.
Opulent can make the patterns appear metallic/shiny and a golden/silver/copper colour.
Primal can cause the patterns to be the same colour as their elemental alignment.

Shimmer

Shimmer can turn the pattern into any colour available on each shimmer's palette, depending on which shimmer is present.

Bronze picta

bay + Picta + Bronze

Flaxen picta

chestnut + Picta + Flaxen

Silver picta

bay + Picta + Silver

Chromatic picta

chestnut + Picta + Chromatic

Grey picta

chestnut + Picta + Grey

Grey picta

chestnut + Picta + Grey

Partial interactions

If your Veilhorn has Modifiers, Mutations, or Shimmer that can alter the colour of patterns, the effects can be applied either fully or partially. See the list above for which traits can alter the colour of patterns.

The examples below show Flaxen (a modifier) interacting with Pard (a pattern) and Papilio (a pattern), but the principle applies to all patterns. These examples are not exhaustive, you can choose how much the pattern is affected.