These are traits that are not passable between dracs but rather oddities that can occur in at random. Some may have negative affects on the animal while others just make them a little...different.
Dracs with anomalies can only be acquired through breeding or a group special events.
Most of the below anomalies occur at the same rate within the populations of Grassland and Highland Dracs. However, the percentage listed here for the Wingless anomaly is different within these two sub-species and should be disregarded. The percentage below applies only to Traditional and Woodland Dracs.
Anomalies are rolled each time a breeding is submitted to the group! Expectant mothers who are fed sour supplements sometimes run a higher risk of having foals with Anomalies!
5% chance
Both hatch from one very LARGE egg. Foals are smaller than normal and require specialist care.
Twins are commonly more prone to illness and if not properly cared for one, or both, can die.
10% chance
Occurs when one embryo in utero absorbs another. Can be fairly often in Dracs as embryos are very competitive. This results in a foal sporting a spotty coat that seems to be two totally different colors.
5% chance
Eyes of the drac are two totally different colors OR a fusion of two colors. Meaning a drac may have a red eye and a purple eye OR their eyes are red in he center and fade out to blue. Anomaly is one or the other, not both.
Exceptions being when WHITE touches the eyes!! This turns them blue but only if white is touching the eye.
5% chance
Foal is born with it's primary horns fused at some part of their structure. Often occurs on the very end giving them a 'unicorn' like appearance.
5% chance
Foals primary canines exceed normal growth and appear much like a saber tooth cats.
Can be maintained by being filed be a professional.
5% Chance
Somatic mutations are the result of a gene that is accidentally switched "off," often resulting in odd patches of color on an otherwise ordinary coat. This can sometimes look very similar to Chimera foals, the difference occurring on the genetic level.
Patterns will not cover more than 55% of the body.
3% chance
Foals are born with split hooves. This is an abnormality that can be and often is detrimental to the Drac. Dracs with Cloven Hooves easily turn up lame and suffer from arthritis. In severe cases, they sometimes experience shortened lift spans.
If a Drac with this is bred there is a 30% chance it will be passed on. This is a highly contagious mutation.
5% chance
Foal is born without wings! In the wild these foals are normally killed by the mother but are totally healthy in any other regard. They just... can't fly.
2% chance
Drac is born with miniature proportions, can not fly and rarely spits fire. Most foals are never born and dissolve in their eggs before developing fully. Those who do survive are infertile and can not breed.
2% chance
Sleeper genes are a very peculiar anomaly that can not be explained. It occurs most often in Dracs that have long lineages and has been cropping up more recently. In essence, it is the random chance for a color mutation to appear in a foal that was not genetically expressed by it's parents. In short, say a foal born to your mare turns out to have a Platinum mutation but neither the sire nor dam had that mutation! More than likely it was because some great, great grand sire or dam may have had it and the mutation went into a 'sleeper' state somewhere down the line. Pretty much this anomaly produces foals that may not be colored like the either sire or dam. (Also called the 'milkman's effect ' as a joke.)
8% chance
Foal is born with an inner firelight glow that emits from the stomach and throat. Mane, tail and wing membranes become lightened and also shimmer and 'glow' .
Can be semi controlled by the Drac, often their mood determines how much they glow.
Wild Drac's with this anomaly often never reach adulthood since they look like giant glow sticks screaming to be picked off by other predators.
The glow can ONLY appear in either a yellow, orange or red shade. Additionally the light may be very faint, acting almost like a 'white light' that gives off a glow lighter than that of the base coat. This effect can often be misinterpreted as a glow other than red, orange or yellow.