Make a cat

Base Colors

When brought down to it, there are only four base colors. Black (soemtimes known as Ebony), Brown (sometimes known as Chocolate or Chestnut), Cinnamon, and Red (sometimes known as Orange or Ginger). There dilutions of each color. Black's dilution is Grey, Brown's dilution is Lilac (sometimes known as Lavender or Frost), Cinnamon's dilution is Fawn (sometimes known as Light Lilac), and Red's dilution is Cream. The dilution can be minor or major or somewhere inbetween. So you can have an Orange/Red cat that is really a dark Cream or you could have a pale Grey (or Silver) cat. All the markings branch off from these simple base colors.

Tabby

Tabby- the most common marking. Often, those who are new to this call it 'Tiger-Striped'. There are several types of Tabby. The best known is the Mackeral Tabby. this is just stripes on the cat, much like a tiger. The Classic Tabby is arguably the most common form of Tabby. This Tabby type has a swirly, blotched look. It often has a 'bullseye' on the sides and/or a 'butterfly' on the back. The Spotted Tabby has stripes on the tail, legs, and face (sometimes on the neck) but the rest of the body is spotted. Sometimes the spots seem to form stripes. Ticked Tabby is a Tabby type that is found on all Tabbies, and alone. The individual hairs are striped horizontaly with a darker color. The 'ticking' only happens on the lighter fur in the other forms of Tabby. In randombreds (which Warriors are) it is very rare for only the ticking to be present. Also, please note that all Red/Orange/Ginger/Cream cats are a Tabby of some sort, and that Black Tabbies do exist, the base color is a dark black-brown and the stripes are brown. Black (or Brown Tabbies as they are known) are the only Tabbies to have black stripes other than silver and black Tabbies.

Colorpoint

First things first: Never, ever make a colorpoint warrior unless s/he has kittypet lineage. That over with, there are three types of colorpoint. Point, Mink, and Sepia. One good thing to know is that colorpoints have darker ears, faces, tails, and paws. The Point type has the most contrast. The Sepia type has the least contrast, and is sometimes hard to tell from a solid colored cat. The Mink type is inbetween. Black colorpoints are brown in color, and brown is just a lighter shade of brown. There are also Lynx Points (which only comes in the point variety). These cats have Tabby markings on their darker parts.

Tortoiseshell

I'm pretty sure that you've all seen Tortoiseshells in the books. It's a ginger and black combination. However, Torties (as they are soemtimes called) also go through dilutions and sometimes have Cinnamon or Brown replace the black. Torbies are Torties with Tabby markings all around, not just on the Red/Cream which all Torties have Tabby markings on. Calicos are technicaly the same thing as Torties, but they most often are at least 2/3 white and are more patched than Torties. A Caliby is a Calico with Tabby markings.

Shading

Shading is when only the tip of the hair is colored and the rest is either white (Silver Shading) or yellow (Gold Shading). Please note that Shading is quite rare and that Gold Shading is even more rare than Silver Shading. There are three amounts of Shading. Chinchilla (sometimes known as Shell), Shaded, and Smoke. Chinchillas have the least amount of coloration, only about 1/8 of their hair is colored. Shaded cats have about 1/4 of their hair colored. Smokes have 1/2 of their hair colored, only showing the white or yellow around the ruff and when moving. Shading can strike any cat, from a Caliby to a Tabby to a Tortie.

White-Spotting

We've all seen cats with white. It's basicly just the white paws and tail tip. White cats with patches of color is just the same thing as a colored cats with bits of white. White-Spotting seems to strike the paws, muzzle, and underside the most often. White tail tips are fairly rare. Actually, most patched cats have the most color on their tail. One interesting form of White-Spotting is the Van coloration. The cat is pure white except for coloration on the head and tail. This type is most common on the Turkish Can breed, for which it is named.

White Cats

Did you know that there are three types of pure white cats? I bet you didn't. There are Albinos, Whites, and White-Spotted. The way to tell them apart is eye color. Albinos have either pale blue eyes or the more rare pink eyes. White cats have either bright blue eyes or orange eyes. A White cat with blue eyes has a high chance of being deaf. Odd-eyed cats are most often White cats. Sometimes, the ear on the side with the blue eye is deaf. White-Spotted white cats are instead just a colored cat where the White-Spotting 'got out of control' and colored the whole cat white. These cats can have any eye color.

Eye Color

The eye colors are Green, Hazel, Gold, Yellow, Amber, Orange, and Copper. What? No Blue? Blue eyes can only appear in Siamese cats, White cats, and cats with White-Spotting. Randombreds (which Warrior cats are) have duller eyes than their purebred cousins. Please note that kittens are born with blue eyes. They start changing eye color around their sixth week, but their adult eye color is often not set until they are three or four months old.

Genders in Pelt Colors

There isn't much here. Basicly, Red (and all dilutions and markings) are mainly males. Torties, Torbies, Calicos, and Calibys are almost always female. Males are a one in one-thousandth chance and can not produce young.

Putting it all Together

A cat is made from one entry in each of these 'sections'. Base Color, Tortie, Tabby, Colorpoint, White-Spotting, Shading, Gender, and Eye Color. Have fun making your realistic felines!

Clan

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