Dekkhian Canidae - Design Guide - (updated)

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Dekkhian Canidae

This guide may change over time and traits may be added, changed or removed.

If there are ever any questions about this, weather you're making a myo, artist search entry, a hired artist, or just curious, feel free to ask.

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This is a guide for traits that are considered as a 'realistic' design within the Dekkhian Canidae species.

- Removable accessories are allowed so long as there is a ref without the accessories.
- Most will not have line edits. Only milestone adopts may have edits (these edits aren't passable in breeding).

(Some myos or customs can have edits with special permission. Please don't ask me for permission, its something that will be given out in events or special cases. What edits will be allowed will be case by case basis.)

- Any eye color is permitted.
- The paw & nose color must be natural to canine and/or feline species (with one exception, see below).
- Any shade of blue is also permitted as a nose/paw color.
- Claws can be any realistic looking color (any color claws could naturally be).

Dekkhians can be any color you'd consider realistic for a mammal (within reason). They can also be dark reds, vibrant reds & oranges and dark/muddy blues . Markings don't have to be completely realistic, but should be somewhat believable.

Small hints of other unnatural colors and markings are allowed, but only in moderation. The bulk of the design should appear realistic. This is honestly a case by case basis, but if the design is 95% relaistic (by this guides standard) then it should be fine.

A dekkhians design can be inspired by real life animals but they don't need to be inspired by real life animals so long as the design fits the criteria above.

Dark/Muddy blue example
- Vibrant reds & oranges example

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-accesories do not count as traits, and all Dekkhians can have any accessory. The accessory must be on a seperate & removable layer and the Dekkhian has to have a reference without the accessories.

Accessories don't have to be added to the official reference, but if they are there needs to be a version of the reference without the accessories.

Glowing traits:
Dekkhians themselves cannot glow but glowing is something that can be applied to any Dekkhian as an accessory.

-The eye marking must never glow.
-ALL glowing traits must have a reference without the glow and must stay on a removeable layer.

Canonically i explain the phenomenon of glowing Dekkhians to be down to a strange algae like subtance that sometimes collects on Dekkhians fur. It only glows when it comes into contact with a Dekkhian and strangely stops glowing if washed off the Dekkhian or put onto a different animal. This explanation doesn't have to be used, you can use any explanation you want to fit your own worldbuilding or lore, its just what i personally like to use as my canon for Dekkhians.

However, something growing on it can glow, such as an algae with a symbiotic relationship (for example). What causes the glow can be anything, from a fungi, to magic fairy dust. They can glow as a result of magic or some sort of magic energy as well if you want.

-Traits such as magic with a particle effect or halows are always ok to glow. Magic can also be used as the reason as to why the Dekkhian glows.

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I wish to make an entry, could I make a Dekkhian based off a tree frog even tho they aren't mammals? I think it would look pretty cool-

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I wish to make an entry, could I make a Dekkhian based off a tree frog even tho they aren't mammals? I think it would look pretty cool-

It depends on the type of tree frog, as green Dekkhian would be a no, however a Dekkhian based off a southern brown tree frog (or a different species with colors that would be permitted on a Dekkhian) would be fine.