New Colorations

Over time, the riardi began to display both legacy colors and other colorations. The following information tracks the colorations' paths through the riardi's gene pool by evolutionary grouping.

Southern Colors:

Southern riardi bear legacy colors, as well as cool greens- green, fern, jade, and mist. These greens grant them excellent camouflage among root and stone, canopy and bush. Their more contrasting colors are oranges- orange, carrot, peach, and apricot. They may also have warm greys on their fur.

Northern Colors:

Northern riardi settled in mountainous terrain and adapted. They may sporadically still display southern green genetics, but more often display legacy colorations and the cool red hues of merlot, ruby, scarlet, and pink. They may also have cool greys on their fur.

Central Colors

Central riardi hail from both southern and northern heritage, yet despite this, their fur dropped the southern riardi's grey and orange color ranges. They retained a yellow fator, however, and this enables central riardi to blend in with their more eclectic temperate environments- from sunlit woods to open fields. Thus, they have black, umber, tan, beige, and white legacy colors, plus olive, gold, canary, and cream yellows. This yellow factor warms up their southern heritage, and thus, they also have kelp, avocado, lime, and leaf colors- warm greens not prior seen in the riardi species.

Opal Colors:

Opal riardi exclusively bear fur in crystal-hued color ranges- cobalt, turquoise, fuchsia, and midnight colors. This mimics the colors found in the enormous crystals which grow from the ground skyward and dwarf Intirrian humanoids in the Crystal Deserts. Opal riardi have other genetics which influence the broader riardi gene pool, and makes possible such effects as "lunar" and "solar" opals through their Polar mutation. They may eventually bear offspring with other riardi colors.

Ore Colors:

Ore riardi have a specific range of metallic colors- bronze, copper, silver, and gold. Their southern heritage remains through their grey colors, but expresses into the cool grey color range- meteorite, tarnish, pewter, and cloud. Since ore riardi have a metallic sheen to their fur, these greys appear as if they are tarnished metal. The silver color is bluer than the warmer dove grey- it is unique to the ore riardi. Ore riardi also display a frosted-black effect on the tips of their fur- see Mutation: Metallic for more information.

Nexus Colors

Nexus riardi have the legacy color ranges of black, browns, greys, and share cool reds in common with northern riardi. They also share cool blues like the riumae. It is said that these color ranges connect them to Intirri's oceans and mountains- the highest and lowest points. They also uniquely display warm purples which other riardi will eventually receive from them. They might display white fur from varying genetic factors.

Nuria

Nuria, from their nutra heritage, have brought specific, isolated eye-burner neon fur colors with their emergence. They have the legacy colors of black and white fur, plus banana, citron, lime, glow, berry, orchid, chrysocolla, and the Mutation: Vibrant, which enables their hyper-vivid fur its signature brightness (chrysocolla + berry = azure, lime + banana =citron, crimson/berry + banana =glow, scarlet + chrysocolla =orchid, chrysocolla+lime = cyan), as well as further effects. Note also that orchid is found among the opal riardi, chrysocolla among the ore riardi, and scarlet among the rithi. Given that opal and rithi riardi are both in the same general geographic region, the scarlet and orchid colors emerged among their families over a few generations. Later, scarlet and orchid stabilized into the rithi and nuria genetic pool- scarlet for the rithi in the warm reds, and orchid and scarlet independently for the nuria. The nuria’s vibrant genetic disposition latched right on to these specific colors and stabilized them. Nuria can never have other colors present on their bodies.

Any descendants with blended nuria heritage might inherit one or a few nuria-specific italicized hues (ex: lime & grey). If these riardi are not also nuria in body type, they can never display these colors- the genetic information “drops”. Thus, if this should happen, the nuria colors “change” to the following colors instead- citron becomes banana (the green tone drops), berry becomes scarlet (the magenta tone drops), and the chrysocolla color becomes sodalite (if non-opal heritage; if opal-heritage, it becomes cerulean).

Opal

These riardi introduced the cobalt/turquoise/fuchsia/midnight color ranges and blue-tinted mid-grey Opal-Steel color, and their Mutation: Polar allows for certain additional effects to be possible.

Ore

Ore riardi have bronze, silver, copper, gold metallic color ranges, the cool greys of meteorite, tarnish, pewter, and cloud, and through the Mutation: Metallic, have frosted-black effects on their fur when certain genetic markers activate.

*Riasax, Ribold,

No color contributions have yet been documented among these riardi, however, this is not to say it might not eventually happen.

Rithi

Due to their northern riardi heritage, and as a throwback from southern riardi heritage, rithi can display black, browns, greys, cool and warm reds, orange, carrot, peach, and apricot fur colors. They are the first bearers of warm reds- garnet, rose, scarlet, and rouge- and have an excessive amount of red genetic traits with a sleeping yellow factor which only manifests as oranges. Their orange hues, though disliked by rhogathi whose culture dislikes yellow, orange, and red, have proven valuable in poor weather, so this has led to the rhogathi wearing small tufts of rithi fur for visibility's sake. Rhogathi parents have largely also found that these higher-visibility offspring are easy to find and bring indoors during inclement weather against the northern landscapes.

Riumae

Through their orumae heritage, riumae have introduced an iridescence mutation into the collective riardi gene pool. They also have brought in and display a range of cool blue colors which are both oceanic and atmospheric in hue. These are abyss (a navy blue), storm, sodalite, and sky. Depending on their riardi heritage, be it southern, northern, or central, riumae may also display black, browns, cool or warm greens, cool reds, and yellows which are both cool and warm. These warm yellows are: flax, honey, nectar, and ivory. Riumae are a colorful folk with thirty-two different color possibilities.