Affect a Marking

Iridescent can saturate a marking and/or make it shimmer and sparkle. These markings don't have to sparkle or shine, they can simply be very saturated colors similar to what you can do with Candied except with no color restrictions!

Iridescent can override any marking's color rules, such as lighter or darker restrictions. The only exception is markings where they are strictly white or black, such as Piebald, Ink or Snowflake!

Markings with borders or multiple layers such as Marbled or Spotted, can be entirely affected by Iridescent (with both colors being saturated and sparkly) or only one color can be affected. It is your choice! When affecting both colors, Iridescent still can not be multiple colors, rather both colors should be different shades. For example, if you pick blue to affect Rosette, you can have a deep blue for the brim, and a lighter blue for the inner part.
The only exception to this is Mosaic. When interacting with Iridescent, Mosaic can become sparkly and shimmery.

Iridescent is NOT affected by Haze.

Free Area

Iridescent can create a free area of bright and saturated color. This saturated area should be soft, textured, or blended edges. This area can be given a shine and sparkling effect.

This free color area should be one solid piece of color, it can't be broken up nor contain holes. It should only be one color! If shine/shimmering is present, there may be multiple shades of the same color. The exception to this is when Gradient is present, which can add a second color!

Non-dominant Iridescent can cover up to 25% of the kukuri's body with this shine, and may use any color except for black, gray or white!
Dominant can cover up to 50% of the kukuri and may be any color, including black, white and gray!

Iridescent can saturate and make the basecoat shine! The whole kukuri can shimmer and sparkle, and you can give them a light shaded effect to show off the Iridescent effect. Or the coat may simply be saturated, it does not need to be shiny! When saturating the basecoat, the color of the coat can not be changed; it must follow the usual base color rules - meaning that a Crimson kukuri can only use crimson colors and should not resemble Amber as example.

Markings will show as normal, they are not affected by the base shine and will be a flat color with no added saturation.

Small hue shifts due to layer effects and shading are permissible, but the kukuri's base coat should still remain mostly the same hue, or very close to it. The darkest parts of Iridescent also shouldn't be darker than what the base coat itself allows.

There are some special things to note about base coat shines!

There is a shine limit. Kukuri are furry animals and as such even when they are iridescent, they are not so much that they look metallic. Harsh or high contrast, large sparkles, or hard edges on the shine are not permitted!

You can use a value shift the maximum of what is seen in the first two examples on the right (these can be color picked for reference on various programs). You may use small sparkles or even add fur texturing!



Raven and Pearl coats also have a special set of rules.
Due to the easy nature of either coat to turn illegal colors when saturated, Raven and Pearl can not be saturated. Raven is the most restricted in this way. To the right is the maxiumum a Raven kukuri can be saturated!

Iridescent can't effect white or black markings such as Snowflake, Inked, or Soot. In the event that Iridescent appears with only one of these markings, it can not effect them and should use one of the other options it has available.







Iridescent also can't show large or dashed sparkles, it should be small dot like sparkles that can't be mistaken as another marking!





Iridescent is not a glowing mark, it can not glow. It also should not be broken into multiple parts or contain holes without the presence of Break.







When affecting the mouth, Iridecent may make the tongue/gums sparkle, but it should never make the mouth look metallic or overly shiny.

When using Iridescent to create its own free are of color on Prairies, it can either appear on the body OR affect all the primary and secondary feathers. The coloring of the Iridescent across the feathers should still stay uniform.

When used this way, Iridescent can not affect covert feathers.

THIS DOES NOT APPLY TO AERIALS OR AQUATICS!