Magical gene / spots and rings

Angler

A single string of faintly glowing lights threaded along a smooth curve down each side of the body and neck, matched left to right, each light a pale core inside a deeper rim.

What it can come out as

Outcome	Carrying
Angler	`Ang/Ang`
Angler carrier	`Ang/n`
Wild type	`n/n`

How each one is actually drawn - region by region, and the layers it is built from - is on the coding tab.

Crossing two of them

Finding one

About 1 in 5,000 wild horses is born showing this. That is the whole of the supply: catch one, or make one with the carrot below. Breeds set their own pools and a breed built around this gene will carry it far more often than the wild population does.

Wild pair	Shows as	How often
`Ang/Ang`	Angler	0.02% — 1 in 5,000
`n/n`	Wild type	99.98%

Its gene carrot

The file

common/src/main/resources/horsegenetics/genes/angler.json — a data-driven gene, not a Java class. It is listed in the index.json beside it and registered by Genes' class initialiser at startup.

Key	`horsegenetics.angler`
Phase	magical — it adds signed colour in phase 3, after the pigment has resolved
Priority	302 — where it sits in the one `(priority, key)` paint order
Alleles	`Ang` · `n`
Varies per horse	5 values drawn once off the expressing allele copy, so a foal that inherits the copy inherits the look
Built from	SPOTS, TOWARD, WAVES, emissive

What it paints

Each outcome, described the way the gene file describes it, and then the layers that draw it in the order they are painted. The prose is the part a reader checks a bake against; the list underneath is what the engine actually did.

Angler

One string of lights down each side of the horse, and only one: a single line that runs the length of the barrel and carries on up the side of the neck, rising and falling in a smooth even curve you can follow with a finger. The two sides match each other light for light. Each light is a round or oval pale core inside a deeper rim of the same hue, and one horse carries one design throughout. Mane, tail, face, legs and hooves are untouched however close the string passes.

the rim of each light along the body line — SPOTS × WAVES, painted with TOWARD, and it glows
the pale core inside each light along the body line — SPOTS × WAVES, painted with TOWARD, and it glows
the rim of each light along the neck line — SPOTS × WAVES, painted with TOWARD, and it glows
the pale core inside each light along the neck line — SPOTS × WAVES, painted with TOWARD, and it glows

Angler carrier

One copy shows nothing. Two carriers bred together are the only way the lights appear.

Paints nothing.

Wild type

No lights.

Paints nothing.