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@Zwi

I've always considered rainbows as having three distinct colors. At the very least x/y/z and the best I've always seen have colors in three distinct ranges, though that's not always necessary. I have some bright neon dragons who have two colors in the same range and I don't consider them rainbows but I do consider them eyeburners.

Also I've seen some very pretty pastel or dilute rainbows that aren't eyeburners.

@Revision - Thanks! It looks like there might be some back and forth here then between folks on where lines are drawn for what's included and what's not. Pastel "rainbows", no pastel "rainbows". Two-color bright dragons vs. three-color bright dragons. Would two bright colors and one mono be included or disqualified. Etc. For illustrative purposes, here's some examples of types of dragons we might want to decide if are included or excluded: This is a "rainbow" pastel. (Edit: Dark pastel, I admit.) Yes or no? [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=1764754] [img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/350/17648/1764754_350.png[/img] [/url] This is a bright dragon with a mono tert. In or out? [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=885847] [img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/350/8859/885847_350.png[/img] [/url] Here's a bright dragon that's not a rainbow as it's double leaf: [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=2740531] [img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/350/27406/2740531_350.png[/img] [/url] Is chocolate bright enough? [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=2249718] [img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/350/22498/2249718_350.png[/img] [/url] This dragon has three colors, but yellow and orange are close and could be considered the same. Would it be considered 2 color or 3 color? [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=2731813] [img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/350/27319/2731813_350.png[/img] [/url] Mind you, I'm just using some of my dragons as examples to ask questions. I don't actually care what people decide. :) --------- My personal opinion is no to pastels, even if they are "rainbow", because that's a whole line of breeding entirely separate from the brights and I'll often see lairs entirely full of pastels, just like I'll see lairs totally full of brights. The rest could be argued either way.

@Zwi

As I said, my personal belief is x/y/z in different ranges is a rainbow. However it may not be what we choose to focus on. Like I said in my post where I introduced myself, we ARE going to have to set our standards and what we focus on but that will take a lot of discussion.

I don't think a leaf/leaf/magenta is a rainbow but someone else might. The problem with the term is it is used so many different ways (especially in the dragons wanted forum) that it gets confusing. I've seen people selling triple obsidians as a rainbow dragon, too, so.

Honestly, we're all going to have our personal definitions but that doesn't matter as much as setting breed standards if we are going that route. Now, that said. We could have separate breeds.

Bright Rainbows might just be a different breed than Pastel Rainbows. Which might be a different breed from, say, supernumerary rainbows that have two colors in one range and another in a second range.

And within "breeds" you might have even more definition, like CMYKs and Tropicals under brights. Though anything more than two lairs would get confusing as all get out, so it just depends.

Sorry for not addressing individual dragons, but hopefully with what I wrote you can see why I'm hesitant to define anything as just one person.

@Revision - Yep, pretty much agree with you. I'm flexible too but eventually folks in this league/hub/club will have to decide what to call what so there's less confusion, as you point out.

@Zwi

An alternative, of course, would be to closely ally with any pastel or general x/y/z guild that pops up and focus purely on intense or semi-intense colors, but even then we need to differentiate between rainbows and eyeburners somehow. Squares and rectangles and all that.

The thought crosses my mind that we could set a breed standard for each type of rainbow found in nature (excluding twin rainbows because I have no idea how to pull that off except in rare tundra weirdness).

Normal Rainbow

Bright colors in x/y/z or in shifting irishim that mimics the appearance of many colors.

Moonbow

Dilute version of the above.

Supernumerary

Supernumerary rainbows have repeating bands of color, so this could be an XXY or XYX or an XYZ with two colors in the same range.

Monochrome

Three colors in the same range but far enough to give the illusion of a rainbow.

That, however, is not even so much a suggestion as a starting point for talking. (Can you tell I used to live somewhere with a ton of rainbows? We even had two in our courtyard last summer.)

At one point I had a huge definition list written up that I was going to post but I think it is too broad for something like this.

@rayn

I'd be perfectly fine with those. Do we know what the official boundaries of each color range are or should we set some just so we know where to start? From there we can define which bits in each range are acceptable.