Breeding Info

Breeding is done with the goal of producing offspring that can be enjoyed by you or other users. The goal of breeding ultimately is to see what blending features from 2 separate khimeras will result in.

How markings and variations pass on
If both mother and father have the exact same markings and variations and are the same species, then everything will carry down to the offspring exactly as it shows on the parents, with a possible (though typical) difference in color from parents to child.

However, when the markings, variations, or breed on the parent khimeras don't match, there is a few changes that may or may not be observed:
 * Offspring may or may not be a hybrid breed of the parents. An example of a hybrid would be a likos-asadia, which has the front half of a likos, and the back half of an asadia.
 * Offspring may or may not have variations the parents have. Sometimes offspring also carry the "gene" for a variation, but doesn't actually show the variation. Breeding a khimera with a variation to a khimera without the variation results in about a 30% showing passdown rate, however.
 * Offspring's markings follow the order of the mom's markings first, then dad's. The markings that they don't have in common will be stacked on top of the markings they do.

My khimera looks different!
That is probably due to a few factors. The khimera could be:
 * An Alternate. Alternates are khimeras that have unique images but also show all of the markings and variations, versus masking them. An example of an alternate khimera is a shidar. Actually ha ha nevermind, nobody knows what an alt is anymore.
 * An Overlay. An overlay khimera is typically a gold, platinum, well dip, or potioned khimera. The image is static, and the markings and variations that the khimera has are hidden behind the image. An example of an overlay khimera would be an original khirin, which is a gold custom order khimera.
 * An April Fool's khimera. Every year until April 2014 the staff do something that, when khimeras are bred, will result in the birth of something completely different. These change every year up until 2014, and are usually only able to be bred for a few days around April 1st. In some cases, only khimeras born on April 1st are eligible for the change.
 * What's after April 2014? Nothing until April 2017, except they had to be BRED on April 1 2017. Surprise! Pranked ya good there.
 * Decorated in a way that hides the khimera behind the scene, leaving the scenery to take front stage over the khimera