Eye and Flesh Color

Eye Color

Eye Color Guidelines

You may choose any color you wish, though there are a few restrictions for certain modifiers that create specific eye colors.

Melanistic Rukaan often display dark grey or brown eyes, but are not required to.
Albino Rukaan often display pink, red or pale purple eyes, but are not required to.
Rukaan with Champagne modifier typically will have green, hazel or amber eyes, but this is not required.
White markings covering the eye typically will cause blue eyes, but this is not required.

Heterochromia

Rukaan primarily show solid-colored eyes. However, they may have full heterochromia which creates two different-colored eyes, or sectoral heterochromia, which shows as two colors that create blocks of color that expand around the pupil. This is optional for all Rukaan.

Flesh Color

Flesh color refers to the color of the Rukaan's nose, lip, pre-orbital gland ("tear duct" next to the eye), flesh under the tail and skin where it is visible through thin areas of the coat (areas such as around the mouth, under the tail and behind the elbows).

The flesh color may be visible within the following range on the standard and sleek types.

Longer-coated types follow the standard range but should not show skin color on heavily furred areas.

Maximum visible flesh on Standard coat

Longer-coated types follow the standard range but should not show skin color on heavily furred areas.

Maximum visible flesh on Sleek coat

More flesh is visible than on standard coat due to the shorter fur.

Flesh Color

All Rukaan will have a skin color from the natural ranges below unless they have a color modifier that alters it.

Flesh color does not have to be picked directly from the swatches, but must be within this range of hue, value/brightness and saturation.

Modifiers

The Champagne modifier optionally changes the skin of the entire Rukaan to a pink/pumpkin color such as that found on horses with the Champagne gene.

The Blue modifier can optionally make the skin of the entire Rukaan a muted blue and optionally lighten dark flesh color beyond the normal dark flesh range. Cannot make the flesh more saturated than the coat.

The Wine modifier can optionally make the skin of the entire Rukaan a muted purple and optionally lighten dark flesh color beyond the normal dark flesh range. Cannot make the flesh more saturated than the coat.

The Olive modifier can optionally make the skin of the entire Rukaan a muted green and optionally lighten dark flesh color beyond the normal dark flesh range. Cannot make the flesh more saturated than the coat.

The Albino mutation changes the skin of the entire Rukaan to a pink tone.

The Melanism mutation changes the skin of the entire Rukaan to dark black.