World of Gaia - Traits

Ribbon Charm (Sub)

Rarity: Rare

Category: Charms

A ghost ribbon that hovers near.

Custom Trait Information: Ribbon must be semi transparent, but can be more opaque or more invisible. Can have any pattern or color(s) to it. cannot have tassels or cutouts, but can have an angled end. Can be thicker or thinner, longer or shorter.

Blue Wisps (Kiji)

Rarity: Rare

Category: Charms

Species: Kijikaiaku

Glowing blue orbs that hover around the character.

Custom Trait Information: Must at minimum be an orb, trail optional. Glow can be minor. Must be a shade of blue or teal. Can have lighter interior.

Blue Wisps (Sub)

Rarity: Rare

Category: Charms

Species: Subtalleon

Glowing blue orbs that hover around the character.

Custom Trait Information: Must at minimum be an orb, trail optional. Glow can be minor. Must be a shade of blue or teal. Can have lighter interior.

Red Fire

Rarity: Rare

Category: Charms

Species: Kijikaiaku

Red flames that hover around the character.

Custom Trait Information: Must be small fires, glow effect and transparency optional. Must be a red or red-orange. Can have yellow, orange, or white interior.

Clear Bubbles

Rarity: Rare

Category: Charms

Species: Subtalleon

Regular bubbles that hover around the character.

Custom Trait Information: Must be single bubbles and not groups. Can be a variety of sizes or all the same. Cannot be too small or too big. Cannot have more than a few floating around at once. Can have a tiny bit of liquid in the bubble. Cannot have any color to them/must be white or be a filter layer overtop what's underneith.

Sparkle Trail (Kiji)

Rarity: Rare

Category: Trail

Species: Kijikaiaku

Sparkles that fall behind the Kiji.

Custom Trait Information: Sparkles can be various shapes, sizes, and colors. Can come off of back end, tail, or appear after when it moves.

Sparkle Trail (Sub)

Rarity: Rare

Category: Trail

Species: Subtalleon

Sparkles that fall behind the Tally.

Custom Trait Information: Sparkles can be various shapes, sizes, and colors. Can come off of back end, tail, or appear after when it moves.

Energy Soul Mut (Kiji)

Rarity: Rare

Category: Energy Mutations

Species: Kijikaiaku

This mutation goes alongside the energy markings on the Kiji, having it spill from inside, making the eyes glow the color of the energy instead of red, and the inside of the mouth and any cuts glow with the energy. A halo effect the same color of the energy can also be made. This trait can be combined with others.

Split Energy (Kiji)

Rarity: Rare

Category: Energy Mutations

Species: Kijikaiaku

The energy colors on the design are restricted to specific ranges in the design (such as up and down one leg, but down and up on a different leg). Cannot mimic Static unless it's only 1-2 colors. Colors still move, just not through the entire energy design.

Split Energy (Sub)

Rarity: Rare

Category: Energy Mutations

Species: Subtalleon

The colors or pattern on the wings and tail are different or contain different colors in total (However the wings and tail still must be symmetrical).

Energy Soul Mut (Sub)

Rarity: Rare

Category: Energy Mutations

Species: Subtalleon

This mutation goes alongside the energy markings on the Tally, having it spill from inside, making the eyes glow the color of the energy instead of blue, and the inside of the mouth and any cuts glow with the energy. A halo effect the same color of the energy can also be made. This trait can be combined with others.

Cut Energy

Rarity: Rare

Category: Energy Mutations

Species: Subtalleon

Allows the energy on the wings and tail to have holes or make shapes, removing the full range required restriction.

Bloated Energy (Kiji)

Rarity: Rare

Category: Energy Mutations

Species: Kijikaiaku

Five or six distinct colors.

Smokey

Rarity: Rare

Category: Markings

Info: Adds soft swirling patterns on the spirit's body.

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Marking Rules/Overview

Tier: Tier 5
Color: Lighter or Darker than the base
Tones: Multiple similar tones of single color
Shape: Loose or tight swirls

Holes: Holes-Yes Tapering: Tapering-No Breaks: Breaks-Yes

Symmetry: Symmetry-Yes Asymmetry-Yes Nuances: Nuances-No

Edges: Hard-Edge-Yes Soft-Edges-Yes Blended-Edges-Yes Gradient-Edges-Yes Textured-Edges-No Mixed-Edges-Must

Please note: Smokey has a unique optional interaction with Mummified. Please see the Marking Interaction Guide for more info.

Ranges and Coverage

Wing Ranges

Horns: Smokey can touch the horns.

Beard: Smokey can touch the beard.

Back: Smokey can touch the back.

Belly: Smokey can touch the belly.

Leg Fur: Smokey can touch leg fur.

Body Protrusions: Smokey can touch certain protrusions.

Fins: Smokey can touch the fins.

Examples and Common Mistakes

Good Examples

Smokey can solidly go all the way to the edges of the spirit without blending it out.

The smoke side is soft or hard edges, the other side is blended or gradient edges.

Smokey can appear either as swirls or natural smoke.

Common Mistakes

The smoke side must be hard or soft edged and cannot be blended.

The non smoke side cannot have smoke shapes and must blend out.

Smokey cannot have instances overlapping.

It cannot be uniform.

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Cloudy

Rarity: Rare

Category: Markings

Info: This marking adds soft lighter horizontal cloud-like marks along the coat.

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Marking Rules/Overview

Tier: Tier 4
Color: Lighter than but similar hue to the base
Tones: Multi-tones/gradients allowed
Shape: Natural

Holes: Holes-No Tapering: Tapering-Yes Breaks: Breaks-Yes

Symmetry: Symmetry-Yes Asymmetry-Yes Nuances: Nuances-Yes

Edges: Hard-Edge-No Soft-Edges-Yes Blended-Edges-Yes Gradient-Edges-No Textured-Edges-Yes Mixed-Edges-Yes

Please note: Cloudy has a unique optional interaction with Starry. Please see the Marking Interaction Guide for more info.

Ranges and Coverage

Wing Ranges

Horns: Cloudy can touch the horns.

Beard: Cloudy can touch the beard.

Back: Cloudy can touch the back.

Belly: Cloudy can touch the belly.

Leg Fur: Cloudy can touch leg fur.

Body Protrusions: Cloudy can touch certain protrusions.

Fins: Cloudy can touch the fins.

Examples and Common Mistakes

Good Examples

Can be a single streak, but must cover a large area if so.

Cloudy must be horizontal in shape.

Cloudy cannot be fully blended, and if blended edged must have bits of soft edges too.

Common Mistakes

Nuances and gradients must be of similar hue.

Cloudy cannot mimic merle or smokey.

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Filter

Rarity: Rare

Category: Markings

Info: Filter is a rare marking that puts a filter or transparency on one or more markings.

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Marking Rules/Overview

Tier: Tier 1 Modifier
Color: Anything close to the marking it is affecting
Tones: Single tone
Shape: Natural

Holes: Holes-No Tapering: Tapering-No Breaks: Breaks-No

Symmetry: Symmetry-Yes Asymmetry-Yes Nuances: Nuances-No

Edges: Hard-Edge-Yes Soft-Edges-Yes Blended-Edges-Yes Gradient-Edges-Yes Textured-Edges-Yes Mixed-Edges-Yes

Ranges and Coverage

Wing Ranges

Horns: Filter can touch the horns.

Beard: Filter can touch the beard.

Back: Filter can touch the back.

Belly: Filter can touch the belly.

Leg Fur: Filter can touch leg fur.

Body Protrusions: Filter can touch certain protrusions.

Fins: Filter can touch the fins.

Examples and Common Mistakes

Good Examples

Filter can affect markings that overlap.
(Example using Pinto and Skew, Skew being effected)

Filter can affect all markings.

Common Mistakes

Filter must effect the entire marking it is effecting and cannot effect it partially.

If the filter effect chosen hides the marking or causes it to show in a way that's illegal it will be sent to corrections.

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Crackle

Rarity: Rare

Category: Markings

Info: Crackle is an uncommon marking that covers at least 50% of the design.

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Marking Rules/Overview

Tier: Tier 3
Color: Natural to the base.
Tones: Up to three tones.
Shape: Thin and branching.

Holes: Holes-No Tapering: Tapering-Yes Breaks: Breaks-Yes

Symmetry: Symmetry-Yes Asymmetry-Yes Nuances: Nuances-No

Edges: Hard-Edge-Yes Soft-Edges-No Blended-Edges-No Gradient-Edges-No Textured-Edges-No Mixed-Edges-No

Please note: Crackle has a unique optional interaction with Veins and Roots. Please see the Marking Interaction Guide for more info.

Ranges and Coverage

Wing Ranges

Horns: Crackle can touch the horns.

Beard: Crackle can touch the beard.

Back: Crackle can touch the back.

Belly: Crackle can touch the belly.

Leg Fur: Crackle can touch leg fur.

Body Protrusions: Crackle can touch certain protrusions.

Fins: Crackle can touch the fins.

Examples and Common Mistakes

Good Examples

Crackle must appear to cover 50% range.

Crackle can appear as lightning.

Crackle can appear as shattered glass.

Crackle must be fairly straight.

Common Mistakes

Crackle cannot appear as Striped or Ziggy.

Crackle cannot mimic veins.

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Ziggy

Rarity: Rare

Category: Markings

Info: Ziggy is a rare marking that puts zig-zagging stripes along the spirit's body.

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Marking Rules/Overview

Tier: Tier 3
Color: Lighter or Darker than the base
Tones: Single color
Shape: Must be sharp and zig-zagged, and must taper out from the thickest point.

Holes: Holes-No Tapering: Tapering-No Breaks: Breaks-No

Symmetry: Symmetry-Yes Asymmetry-Yes Nuances: Nuances-No

Edges: Hard-Edge-Yes Soft-Edges-No Blended-Edges-No Gradient-Edges-No Textured-Edges-No Mixed-Edges-No

Ranges and Coverage

Wing Ranges

Horns: Ziggy can touch the horns.

Beard: Ziggy can touch the beard.

Back: Ziggy can touch the back.

Belly: Ziggy can touch the belly.

Leg Fur: Ziggy can touch leg fur.

Body Protrusions: Ziggy can touch certain protrusions.

Fins: Ziggy can touch the fins.

Examples and Common Mistakes

Good Examples

Zags can have a slight curve to them, but must be mostly straight for the most part.

Only one side of each ziggy mark needs to be thick. The following zags need to gradually taper away from this point.

Common Mistakes

A zig-zag should not be even length throughout.

You cannot branch one zig-zaggy stripe off another.

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Fizz

Rarity: Rare

Category: Markings

Info: Fizz is a rare spotty marking that makes rings on the design.

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Marking Rules/Overview

Tier: Tier 3
Color: Fizz can be lighter or darker than the base
Tones: Single toned
Shape: Must be circular rings, can have a few stray spots

Holes: Holes-Must Tapering: Tapering-Yes Breaks: Breaks-Yes

Symmetry: Symmetry-Yes Asymmetry-Yes Nuances: Nuances-No

Edges: Hard-Edge-Yes Soft-Edge-Yes Blended-Edges-No Gradient-Edge-No Textured-Edges-No Mixed-Edges-No

Please note: Fizz has a unique optional interaction with Leopard and Giraffe. Please see the Marking Interaction Guide for more info.

Ranges and Coverage

Wing Ranges

Horns: Fizz cannot touch the horns.

Beard: Fizz can touch the beard.

Back: Fizz can touch the back.

Belly: Fizz can touch the belly.

Leg Fur: Fizz can touch leg fur.

Body Protrusions: Fizz can touch certain protrusions.

Fins: Fizz can touch the fins.

Examples and Common Mistakes

Good Examples

If spread out, Fizz must be in small clumps.

Fizz does not have to be clumped up if not too spread out.

Common Mistakes

Fizz is just the rings and doesn't have an inner color.

Fizz cannot have too many small spots.

Fizz cannot have any breaks in the rings.

It cannot have texturing outside of subtlely on furry bits.

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Banded Marking

Rarity: Rare

Category: Markings

Info: Banded is a rare marking that adds multi-toned stripes to a Kiji or Tally's coat.

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Marking Rules/Overview

Tier: Tier 3
Color: Outer Stripes Darker, Inner Stripes Lighter than the Base
Tones: Must be Two-Toned
Shape: Natural

Holes: Holes-No Tapering: Tapering-No Breaks: Breaks-Yes

Symmetry: Symmetry-Yes Asymmetry-No Nuances: Nuances-No

Edges: Hard-Edge-Yes Soft-Edges-No Blended-Edges-No Gradient-Edges-No Textured-Edges-No Mixed-Edges-No

Please note: Banded has a unique optional interaction with Striped. Please see the Marking Interaction Guide for more info.

Ranges and Coverage

Wing Ranges

Horns: Banded can touch the horns.

Beard: Banded can touch the beard.

Back: Banded can touch the back.

Belly: Banded can touch the belly.

Leg Fur: Banded can touch leg fur.

Body Protrusions: Banded can touch certain protrusions.

Fins: Banded can touch the fins.

Examples and Common Mistakes

Good Examples

Banded must stay vertical. It can't run horizontal; they're not racing stripes.

It can be horizontal on the legs and ears though.

Bands and outlines can be any width.

A single band is allowed.

Common Mistakes

Cands cannot change width too much.

Banded cannot have breaks in the bands.

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