Magical gene / spots and rings

Wormholes

Small closed pale rings whose centres keep the coat underneath, gathered into two or three clusters over the shoulder, barrel and hip.

What it can come out as

Outcome	Carrying
Wormholes	`Wmh/Wmh` · `Wmh/Wmc` · `Wmh/n`
Coloured Wormholes	`Wmc/Wmc`
Wild type	`Wmc/n` · `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 595 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
`Wmh/Wmh`	Wormholes	0.006% — 1 in 16,667
`Wmh/Wmc`	Wormholes	0.024% — 1 in 4,167
`Wmh/n`	Wormholes	0.114% — 1 in 877
`Wmc/Wmc`	Coloured Wormholes	0.024% — 1 in 4,167
`n/n`	Wild type	99.832%

Its gene carrot

The file

common/src/main/resources/horsegenetics/genes/wormholes.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.wormholes`
Phase	magical — it adds signed colour in phase 3, after the pigment has resolved
Priority	305 — where it sits in the one `(priority, key)` paint order
Alleles	`Wmh` · `Wmc` · `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	NOISE, RINGS, TOWARD

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.

Wormholes

Pale annuli with the base coat showing through the middle, and every one of them closed - there are no arcs and no broken rings on this marking anywhere. A few carry a second ring outside the first, concentric with it. They gather rather than spread: two to four clusters over the scapula, barrel, croup and lateral neck, with a scattering of loners between them.

the rings, clustered — RINGS × NOISE, painted with TOWARD
the second ring some of them carry — RINGS, painted with TOWARD

Coloured Wormholes

The same marking in a colour the line carries rather than in white. Fully recessive: it takes two copies, and a single copy beside the white allele shows white. It never gives blue eyes, whatever the white form does.

the rings, clustered, in colour — RINGS × NOISE, painted with TOWARD
the second ring some of them carry, in colour — RINGS, painted with TOWARD

Wild type

No wormholes.

Paints nothing.