Editing Ianthina (section)

== Coloration ==
An ianthina’s skin tone is the primary color of their body. It can be any color of the rainbow, but these colors always are muted, either pastel, dark and muddy, or somewhere in between. There are no ianthina with brightly colored skin.  Skin color is genetic and acts much like paint mixing: if a red-skinned and blue-skinned ianthina have a child, that baby will most likely be purple-skinned, although it can be anywhere on the red-blue gradient. For this reason, most city-dwelling ianthina are somewhere in the human range of skintones (aka brown). Primary colors are most commonly seen in the [[Southern Enclaves]] and small towns, where a more limited population allows those colors to reemerge.  

While ianthina are typically solidly colored, a number of conditions can cause this to not be true, including but not limited to: vitiligo/piebaldism (white spots), port wine stains (non-glowing spots in a darker shade of their lumen color), blaschko lines (dark stripes), pityriasis alba (pale spots), freckles, scars, and other causes of skin markings. Ianthina also occasionally display mottling, where their skin tone is uneven and darker in places. These are the general trends, but every so often, you see markings in every shape and size. The one thing that is always consistent is that the skin is de-saturated, allowing their lumens to shine brightly. 

Most commonly but not always, the base color of an ianthina's fins is very similar to its skintone. However, colors can appear vastly different due to the present of accent colors and lumens. Lumens always appear on the fins, permitting them to glow, and their coverage can range from a thin line on the very edge to covering the whole surface area. Lumen coloration on the fins can also show up in a wide variety of patterns, from gradients, to spots, to stripes, and more. If it appears on natural fish, it could potentially appear on an ianthina. Occasionally but not commonly, some ianthina also display unique accent colors on their fins, brighter colors not seen elsewhere on the body. Lumen color can also affect the central part of the tail. 

Ianthina can have any hair or eye color.