Arcane and Radioactive energy is present ambiently throughout the world, occasionally becoming noticeable enough to impact its creatures! When completing Activities and Quests, a dergon can occasionally find something intriguing to investigate. Completing a short prompt will give a chance for extra rewards, as well as a chance for Arcane/Radioactive counters to be added to the dergon's import. This tracks their exposure to a given energy, and can impact a dergon's progeny as well.
Arcane and Radioactive energy tracked on a dergon's import can have a value between 0 and 5. Each point will give a 5% chance for the associated effects, for a maximum of 25% for each type. When the counters provide a chance in a breeding, they are wiped from the import and can be collected once again.
The most common effect of Arcane or Radioactive energy in a breeding is the appearance of markings unique to these effects; Arcane and Radioactive markings will be able to use bright colors specific to their type (Blue, Green, and Yellow for Radioactive, and Purple, Red, and Orange for Arcane). Mutations can also occur when these energies are present!
Dergons with these markings can be hatched with an inborn counter, which is more permanent than those gained by activities. Similarly to the inbreeding coefficient, this number will halve in future generations!
When a dergon with an Arcane or Radioactive Coefficient and one of these markings is bred, the marking will have a chance to pass, as long as the hatchlings will also receive a CoA or CoR- the number which tracks how much of a chance there is for a mutation. Once the hatchling has no chance to pass mutations, these markings stop being passable.
When breeding two Arcane or Radioactively affected dergons together, there's a chance for undesirable mutations to occur, though not to the same extent as Inbreeding risks.
These markings may also affect the Eyes, Teeth, Claws, Horns, and Mouth. Teeth and the eye's Sclera may be Off-Black. Mouth, Eyes, Claws, and Horns may have a glow of the marking's associated slider.