Traits

This is only used for MYO stats. This means that your elnin can select one of the following:

• No Tail
• Marsh
• Meadow
• Steppe
• Warren

This is only used for MYO stats. This means that your elnin can select one of the following:

• Anything from 1 MP Tail Style (Or Lower)
• Canopy
• Lagoon
• Glade
• Grove

This is only used for MYO stats. This means that your elnin can select one of the following:

• Anything from 1 MP Tail Style (Or Lower) or 3 MP Tail Style (Or Lower)
• Shoal
• Welkin
• Zephyr

Tail MP: 1

This is a legacy tail style that is no longer obtainable. It cannot pass through breedings.

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Standard Bosk

Standard Bosk

Standard Bosk

Details:

• This tail style resembles a straighter German shepherd dog tail. The fur along the top side of Bosk tails lays mostly flat with only a few shorter strands sticking up and the bulk of the fur drapes down, layering over one another. Fur should be thicker at the tail base and middle of the tail and taper towards the tail tip! Tails can be held upright and perky or lower.

Legacy:

• Merged into Meadow.

Notes:

If you wish to follow current tail guidelines, elnin with this tail style can be swapped to the Meadow tail style at no cost. This change would be permanent and cannot be undone.

Tail MP: 1

This is a legacy tail style that is no longer obtainable. It cannot pass through breedings.

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Miniature Bramble

Standard Bramble

Standard Bramble

Standard Bramble

Details:

• This tail style resembles a smoother fox tail with fur either fluffing outward or back down along the tail length! Fur should be thicker at the tail base and middle of the tail and taper towards the tail tip!

Legacy:

• Merged into Meadow.

Notes:

If you wish to follow current tail guidelines, elnin with this tail style can be swapped to the Meadow tail style at no cost. This change would be permanent and cannot be undone.

Tail MP: 4

Bulb tails are thick tails with a stout shape and optional winglets corresponding to the related subtype at the tail base.

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Bulb (Fae) w/ Colored Tip

Bulb (Fae) Firefly Bulb

Bulb (Fae) w/ Beetle Shell

Bulb (Fae) w/ Starlit Suffusion

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Bulb Tail Examples - Bulb (Fiendish) on top and Bulb (Fae) on the bottom.

Details:

• This tail's features vary depending on the associated subtype.
• These tails cannot be larger than standard (1 MP) sized.
• Optional tail-base winglets present on this tail style must match the associated subtype.
• Formerly for Faenin this was called the "Puca" tail style.

For Faenin / Bulb (Fae) tails:

• Bulb (Fae) tails are furred tails with a bulb shape. These tails can show markings partially while eventually fading into an anima-colored tip or they can simply be an anima-colored bulb, often resembling a firefly bulb that is also capable of glowing thanks to luminous anima. They will be labeled "Fae".
• You can’t see the center of Bulb (fae) tails, since they aren't gummy with bubbles like anima. These tails are fleshy on the inside. The anima color more or less shows through a furred layer, which means only the color adjacent anima mutations will affect them. For example:
• Prismatic Anima, Dual-toned Anima, and mutations with two (2) colors evenly (like heterochromia, odd-eyed, chimeric anima) would function with either a 50/50 gradient of both colors or either one of the colors solidly through.
• The bulb on Bulb (Fae) tails should follow the base anima color essentially.
• What else affects Bulb (Fae) tails? Luminous Anima, Emberglow Suffusion, and Starlit Suffusion all affect bulb tails for faenin.
• What doesn’t affect Bulb (Fae) tails? Fae Accent Color, Decora Anima, Starlit Anima, and Emberglow Anima do not affect bulb tails for faenin.

For Djinnin / Bulb (Fiendish) tails:

• The Bulb (Fiendish) tail style encompasses very short thick reptile-like tails (think gecko tails). This tail style is not limited to just a gecko-looking tail in texture, they can have tails that are bumpy or smooth.
• The winglets near the tail base would be batwing-like, and labeled "Fiendish".

For ??? / Bulb (Feathered) tails:

• The winglets near the tail base would be birdwing-like, and labeled "Feathered".

Notes:

• If you switch out from a subtype tail style, then you will not be able to opt back in later. You can swap to another subtype tail style (within the same subtype) if you prefer, though.
• For example: If you have a "Bulb (Fae)" tail style, you could switch it out for a "Flare (fae)" style tail. You cannot switch across subtypes though, so a "Bulb (Fiendish)" could not be swapped out for a "Bulb (Fae)" or "Flare (Fae)" style tail, and so on.
• If your elnin's Bulb tail subtype is not specified please submit a support ticket to clarify which tail subtype your elnin has. If a tail subtype is not specified, this does not mean you can choose any tail subtype. Staff will have to determine which type your elnin was granted and make sure that detail is specified on the masterlist before a design approval goes through for that elnin.

Lore for Bulb (Fiendish):

Elnin can intentionally drop their tail but it would in some ways be a short-cut to the more standard mindful sizing down of an elnin's tail.

• Tail "dropping" in this scenario is not painful to the elnin in any way and there is no blood!
• The dropped tail will steadily shimmer away in the few minutes following it being dropped as the mana it held is shed. (And we are talking only a few like maybe 1-2 minutes.)
• Any visible fleshy tail bits would heal relatively quickly back to show an elnin with just a smaller sized version of the tail in place of the one that was dropped. (Mana would like gore to be avoided in the group.)
• Similar to scenarios when an elnin's hair is cut rather than shortened by their own will, this process is a bit tiring even if it is not painful. An elnin's mana isn't really being conserved here it's being tossed out in the short term. So while this might be a very fast way of decreasing tail size it's generally not the preferred method for elnin wanting to decrease their tail size.
• Masterlist art cannot show a dropped tail.
• At best this could make for a good prank, but shouldn't be blown out of proportion. ^^;; Please try to be reasonable. We want to allow for some fun here but if it ends up causing problems where people are submitting gore heavy prompts or obscuring backgrounds with tactfully placed dropped tails we may have to ask this be kept to side stories not pictured in the group.

Tail MP: 3

A good ol' curlicue tail.

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Miniature Cinnamon Roll

Standard Canopy

Fluffy Curl

Tighter Fluffy Curl

Details:

• The tail can be tightly curled with densely packed fluff like a cinnamon roll, be a loose and floppy curl similar to a shiba dog, or anywhere in between.
• You can uncurl the tail just a little bit from the base, but the majority of the tail must remain curled up.

Legacy:

Merged from elements of Timber/Fern (Legacy) tail styles.

Tail MP: 1

This is a legacy tail style that is no longer obtainable. It cannot pass through breedings.

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Standard Fen

Standard Fen

Details:

• This tail style resembles a thin short-haired cat tail with a rounded tail tip!

Legacy:

• Merged into Marsh.

Notes:

If you wish to follow current tail guidelines, elnin with this tail style can be swapped to the Marsh tail style at no cost. This change would be permanent and cannot be undone.

Tail MP: 3

This is a legacy tail style that is no longer obtainable. It cannot pass through breedings.

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Miniature Fern

Miniature Fern

Standard Fern

Details:

• A curled tail that curls more loosely on itself and may curl slightly to the side.

Legacy:

• Merged into Canopy.

Notes:

If you wish to follow current tail guidelines, elnin with this tail style can be swapped to the Canopy tail style at no cost. This change would be permanent and cannot be undone.

Tail MP: 4

Flare tails are flexible tails that taper and have additional winglet plumage at the end.

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Flare (Fae)

Flare (Fae)

Infused size Flare (Fae)

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Flare Tail Examples - Flare (Fiendish) on top and Flare (Fae) on the bottom.

Details:

• Flare tails are flexible but they lack the extra muscle and dexterity that Whip tails have.
• This tail style's thickness can vary but the tail base should never be thicker than the elnin’s body and must taper all the way down to the tail tip where the winglet plumage sits.
• Flare tail sizing is measured from the base of the tail to the end of the winglet plumage, minus streamers.
• Streamers are considered to be any small thin line drawn near a wing tip, and they must be kept very thin and minimal if they’re extending past the main part of the plumage.
• The tail tip winglet plumage can appear to be two overlapping wing sets, but only at the very tip of the tail on flare style tails.
• Tail tip winglet plumage and optional tail-base winglets present on this tail style must match the associated subtype.
• Formerly for Faenin this was called the "Sylph" tail style.

For Faenin / Flare (Fae) tails:

• The associated plumage would be butterfly or moth-like, and labeled "Fae".

For Djinnin / Flare (Fiendish) tails:

• The associated plumage would be batwing-like, and labeled "Fiendish".
• This tail can optionally have a spade at the tail's tip near the tail tip plumage. See the above mini guide's Flare (Fiendish) example.

For ??? / Flare (Feathered) tails:

• The associated plumage would be birdwing-like, and labeled "Feathered".

Notes:

• If you switch out from a subtype tail style, then you will not be able to opt back in later. You can swap to another subtype tail style (within the same subtype) if you prefer, though.
• For example: If you have a "Flare (Fae)" tail style you could switch it out for a "Bulb (Fae)" style tail. You cannot switch across subtypes though, so a "Bulb (Fiendish)" could not be swapped out for a "Flare (Fae)" or "Whip (Fae)" style tail, and so on.
• If your elnin's Flare tail subtype is not specified please submit a support ticket to clarify which tail subtype your elnin has. If a tail subtype is not specified, this does not mean you can choose any tail subtype. Staff will have to determine which type your elnin was granted and make sure that detail is specified on the masterlist before a design approval goes through for that elnin.

Tail MP: 3

Glade tails are your basic pony tails, silky and ready for brushing.

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Miniature Glade

Miniature Glade

Styled Glade

Beaded Glade w/ Featherlight Hair

Details:

• Nothing too tricky about glades. You are welcome to adjust the volume of the tail higher if you'd like an especially teased look or lower if you want a more sleek style.
• Glade tail strands should be fairly uniform in strand length.
• This tail type can be styled like long strands of hair with beads or braid inclusions. Just keep in mind braided glade tails should be shorter than the sizing guideline by a bit to account for the hair being longer when loose/not braided. Be sure to check and ask stylization questions in the sketch phase of any design approval!

Tail MP: 3

Somewhat like a unicorn tail. Groves are slender and flexible, with a tuft of fur at the end.

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Standard Grove

Standard Grove w/ Accessories

Standard w/ Spade Tip

Infused w/ Braids

Standard w/ Styled Tip

Details:

• Generally, the main tail fluff should not extend up past the halfway point of the tail.
• Grove tails sometimes have extra bits of fur that drape loosely underneath the base of the tail.
• Extra fluff on the top of the base of the tail should be minimal if any.
• Grove tail tips can be styled a bit, like a fluffy cotton ball or fluffy point, but there should still be a clear tail tuft at the end. Be sure to check and ask stylization questions in the sketch phase of any design approval!

Tail MP: 5

This is a legacy tail style that is no longer obtainable. It cannot pass through breedings.

Details:

• Bramble (Legacy) tails that can display as any number from one to nine tails!

Legacy:

• Retired in favor of the Hydra Tail mutation.

Tail MP: 3

The tail all kittoms love to hide under. Lagoon tails are made of sections of fur that drape loosely from a gracefully upheld tail. It creates a lovely cascade effect that also handily doubles as a nice tent.

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Standard Lagoon

Infused Lagoon

Giga Lagoon w/ Braids

Miniature Lagoon w/ Braid

Details:

• The actual length of the draping parts of the fur should be at least the height of an elnin from toe to chin (so no super short cropped lagoons).
• Draping strands in lagoon tails should be uniform in drape length down the entire tail, there shouldn’t be any apparent tapering. You would not see shorter strands near the tail base or tail tip, both should be roughly the same strand length as those seen in the center.
• Braids can be added but they will be limited to the length of the drapage going down, following the structure of the tail.

Tail MP: 1

Marsh tails can be described as squishy cat tails. They can be as fluffy or as thin as you like.

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0 MP Marsh

Thin Marsh

4 MP Marsh

Thick Marsh

Details:

• Generally, marsh tails have a rounded tip. They can have some fur separation/fluff bits, but shouldn't be overly pointy.
• The fur length/tail width should be more or less uniform down the entire length of the tail. There should not be any noticeable tapering at any point.

Legacy:

Merged from elements of Fen/Tundra (Legacy) tail styles.

Tail MP: 1

Meadow tails are quite fluffy, with the fur being flipped and poofed in different directions.

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0 MP Meadow

Thick Meadow

Smooth Meadow

Thin Meadow

Details:

• Think of meadow tails as messy fox tails. They don't have to have the messy floppy styling if you would prefer to draw the fur more smoothed out, but I like to think meadow tails tend to struggle with bedhead fluff. >u<
• Meadow tails should be kinda chunky in the middle and taper a bit at the end.

Legacy:

Merged from elements of Bramble/Bosk/Weald (Legacy) tail styles.

Tail MP: 4

This is a legacy tail style that is no longer obtainable. It cannot pass through breedings.

Details:

• Cases of multiple Bramble (Legacy) tails.

Legacy:

• This tail style was separated into the Twin (Legacy), Trine (Legacy), Tetra (Legacy), and Hydra (Legacy) tail styles.

Tail MP: 0

It’s a cute, round butt.

Tail MP: 5

A tail style with a wild nature to it. This tail style will always specify a variant to indicate what types of tails it features.

This tail is a 5MP tail style. The 5MP does not include MP spent on tail sizing/length.

You may not edit one variant of this tail to another. This means if you have an Overwild (Furred) tail it cannot be edited into being an Overwild (Aquatic) tail and vice versa.

Aquatic Variant

This tail style allows your nin to have a tail with an aquatic flare to it. (This tail style variant was previously called "Undine"!)

Details:

• Aquatic life only, nothing partially aquatic/land like crocodiles, water snakes, etc.
• Expanding on the above, we're trying to avoid reptile/dragon-y tails (we're aiming for fishy/aquatic tails here. If you're aiming dragon that's more aligned with the djinn subtype and we want these two subtypes to be distinct in that regard). Unfortunately this means stingray tails are not allowed. (There is not enough fin present on these!)
• Leafy sea dragon tails are allowed. Keep in mind these are referring to the earth animals, and not the mythical creature. Shellfish tails like lobster/crayfish tail styles are allowed. (We will be reviewing these tails on a case-by-case basis to ensure they remain looking appropriately aquatic and may ask for revisions if anything appears to be straying too far from this trait's guidelines.)
• Overwild (Aquatic) styles cannot split near the base without a multi tail mutation present (Twin, Trine, Tetra, Hydra) and must read as one cohesive tail and not several. This means:
  • A tail with a single tentacle with no splits or webbing would count as just an overwild (aquatic) tail.
  • If you want to "branch" your tentacles any separations will need to be further down the tail/not at the base to count as an overwild aquatic tail without the hydra mutation. This approach can also have webbing but the important part is that there is only a single "trunk" for a good portion of the elnin's tail before the tentacles start to split.
  • If you want to do multiple singular tentacles starting at the base of the butt, they would be considered independent "tails", even with webbing between them and therefore require the Hydra mutation.

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Standalone Overwild (aquatic) tails

Overwild (aquatic) tail + Hydra mutation

We're still checking on a few things, specifically:

• Some clarifiers on sea slug tails, since we know of one that exists but it follows the hybrid multi-tail guidelines better than some others.
• Sea horse tails specifically (not counting leafy sea dragon tails), given without the rest of the sea horse they could fall into an odd place (ie. No fins, looks more like an Imp faenin tail or reptile tail, etc.).

Due to the tail type's broadness much like some crown types this tail type will likely be very case by case if it's not a very well defined finned fish tail. With that in mind, please reach out to us via site ticket or in #design_feedback on our discord (phrased as a general question) with visual examples when possible, if you're at all concerned a tail style that may come up later in an approval. We'll be going based off of what we know and if guidelines are pushed just keep in mind responses will be slow.

Furred Variant

This tail style allows your nin to have a tail with it's own furred flare to it that goes beyond standard furred styles. (This tail style variant was previously called "5MP Hybrid Tail"!)

You can combine qualities of other existing furred styles like a grove tail with welkin fluff or come up with a furred tail style that's very different and doesn't borrow much if anything from existing tail styles.

Details:

• Furred life only, there shouldn't be anything not fluffy about this style like webbed or overly scaley features.
• Overwild (Furred) styles cannot split near the base without a multi tail mutation present (Twin, Trine, Tetra, Hydra) and must read as one cohesive tail and not several. This means:
  
  • There should be no splits in the tail structure near the base in terms of bone and muscle.
    
    • We generally recommend any splits to the tail’s structure to be halfway down the tail, but if you do not wish to follow this recommendation you’re welcome to run a sketched hybrid tail idea through design approvals. We’ll give feedback if a split is too obscured or close to the tail base before you move on to lining!
• Streamers on Overwild (Furred) tail styles can appear near the base of the tail. These streamers should not mimic feathers. Streamers present on this tail style do not have any bone or muscle present, which means they will drape and follow gravity if no Featherlight Hair mutation is present. All strands of fur must originate from the single tail’s base structure in some way.
  • This is similar to how you might see longer fluffier areas near the base of Zephyr and Shoal tail styles.

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Grove/Welkin w/ Streamers

Lower Twin Tail Split

Furred w/ Streamers

Canopy/Welkin w/ Streamers

Thick Grove-like Hybrid

Lower Twin Tail Split

Due to the tail type's broadness much like some crown types this tail type will likely be very case by case if it's not a very well defined furred tail. With that in mind, please reach out to us via site ticket or in #design_feedback on our discord (phrased as a general question) with visual examples when possible, if you're at all concerned a tail style that may come up later in an approval. We'll be going based off of what we know and if guidelines are pushed just keep in mind responses will be slow.

(If you see an Overwild tail that does not list a variant please let the site staff know via site ticket! so that one can be specified. An Overwild tail style without a variant listed does not mean the owner can choose what the variant is upon design update, the staff will need to determine it's origins and variant first before any changes to the tail style can be made.)

Tail MP: 4

A furry tail with a fishy flare.

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Miniature Shoal

Standard Shoal

Infused Shoal

Infused Shoal

Details:

• Standard shoals have a large tuft of fur at the base of the tail as well as a fin-shaped fan at the end of the tail.
• There is always at least a partial section in the middle that is mostly sleek short fur and lacking excessive fluff.
• The "fin" shaped fur placements are always vertical. Horizontal alignments are only present on hybrid versions.