A Compilation of Roasts/Compliments of EACH Marking Style

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All in all, thanks for checking out this thread regardless!

First off, any opinions on marking styles are of course, my personal opinions. I don't speak for a majority, or minority, it's just me.

Any roasts on marking styles are all in extreme satire, so don't take it to heart when I call your favorite marking style(s) something negative. And if you do take offense... Well, I can't really stop you.

Each marking style will be alphabetical, with each marking style overall being labeled red, yellow, or green.

Red classifies marking styles that aren't much desired and aren't all too much of a favorite. Yellow classifies marking styles that I find decent: not insanely favorable, but still usable. Green classifies marking styles that I find both favorable and usable, something that I'd see myself using commonly across designs.

Each marking style will have the colors it comes in, with each of them being classified like the overall if I had to use said marking style.

Anyway, I'll let the show begin within the next reply onwards. Below this little introduction will be a Table of Contents once each opinion is briefed. Can't find your favorite mark being dissed/complimented? Feel free to use Control + F (Command + F for Mac users) and voila!

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Reply #1: Agouti - Carnage
Reply #2: Cheek Fluff - Grizzle
Reply #3: Half Cape - Light Husky
Reply #4: Limbs - Panda
Reply #5: Patchy Unders - Smudge
Reply #6: Smudge Heavy - Undersides
Reply #7: Urajiro - Wraith

Agouti

Colors: Airglow, Auburn, Black, Brown, Cedar, Dark Brown, Dinar, Gray, Gold, Honey, Moonlight, Red, Rufous, Shedua, Tempest.

This set of markings is a bit funky. With its rugged edge sweeping down in a flakey style, it does cover some good portions of a wolf. But man, pair it with its inverted twin and it just looks messy. I'd use this marking to maybe help cover the middle portion of a wolf, but only in the first five marking slots.

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Aurora

Colors: Biform, Caelum, Cynthia, Losna, Moonlight, Penumbra, Sidhe, Storm, Tempest.

Aurora is actually pretty nice! It covers a majority of the base and can be high or low opacity and still make the design look good! Losna does happen to look a tad bit better than Moonlight though, just for the sake of how the colors of the markings are laid out. Overall a decent, usable mark.

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Back

Colors: Auburn, Aspen, Black, Cedar, Cocoa, Brown, Cream, Dark Brown, Dinar, Doubloon, Gray, Honey, Red, Rufous, Sepia, Shedua, Yellow, Zircon.

Back markings are... iffy, to say the least. Some have nice colors that can blend on the back to make some amazing fades, and the next is so full of contrasting colors already that the blend becomes messy and jagged. I'd almost rather use Cover marks than Back marks just for the higher "cover"age.

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Back Edge Patch

Colors: Auburn, Black, Brown, Dark Brown, Dinar, Honey, Red, Rufous, Shedua.

Ahhh... "Ye Ol' Racing Stripe" has finally made its way to the opinion circle. The colors on this marking style are quite nice, but this marking itself just doesn't make all that big of an impact to really be well known. Well, besides me calling it "Ye Ol' Racing Stripe".

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Back Half Patch

Colors: Aspen, Beige, Black, Brown, Cedar, Cream, Cocoa, Dark Brown, Deira, Dinar, Doubloon, Ducat, Gray, Honey, Saffron, Sepia, Shedua, Silver, Tuff, White, Yellow.

Oh wowww, the first marking of the lot that actually holds no looks value on a wolf! It's a miracle! We finally hit the threshold... But in all seriousness, this marking style set just genuinely makes no impact on a wolf's looks. You could have all 10 slots full of this mark and I'd still think it's a plain-based.

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Back Heavy Patch

Colors: Aspen, Beige, Black, Brown, Cedar, Cream, Cocoa, Dark Brown, Deira, Dinar, Doubloon, Ducat, Gray, Honey, Saffron, Sepia, Shedua, Silver, Tuff, White, Yellow.

Unlike its mutated sibling from before, this one is actually kinda useful. Has a bit more color opaqueness to it and can even help blend the back half of a wolf without overdoing it. Pretty solid overall, at least... More solid than Back Half Patch.

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Back Patch

Colors: Aspen, Beige, Black, Brown, Cedar Cream, Cocoa Dark Brown, Deira, Dinar, Doubloon, Ducat, Gray, Honey, Saffron Sepia, Shedua, Silver, Tuff, White, Yellow.

The defaultio of the "Back Patch" family, where it isn't as hidable and boring as Back Half Patch but isn't stretching all the way to our diarrhea-ridden wolf's asscrack like Back Heavy Patch does. This mark isn't all that spectacular either, really. Looks like an off-brand Wings marking if Wings hadn't come later.

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Back Stripe

Colors: Black, Brown, Dark Brown.

This marking screams "off-brand tiger stripe" and oddly enough... Well, fooled ya there, still not fond of it. Looks like someone was having fun in MS Paint with the calligraphy pen, smeared over their project, and said, "Hey, this could be a good mark!"

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Belly Stripe

Colors: Black, Brown, Dark Brown.

So we go from MS Paint calligraphy pen to MS Paint regular pen, 100% opacity, and tried to make the background look like mountains without making precise strokes... Gotcha, gotcha... Maybe this is how Wolvden got inspiration for making the Mountains biome.

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Blanket

Colors: Black, Brown, Dark Brown, Gray.

One of only a few markings that caters to actually being like drapery. Does genuine fit will with blending certain styles, but is quite limited in color choices. If there was say... a Zircon Blanket, you'd see me using this marking style left and right. But for now, this fairly usable marking style will stay as an iffy.

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Blanket Ticking

Colors: Black, Brown, Dark Brown, Gray.

The holed version of the latter. Would actually say it's a decent mark to blend with as well, although it probably has more holes than my lore plotpoints. Works well in most cases.

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Blaze

Colors: Aspen, Beige, Cedar, Cream, White.

Seems the art team knew what's up when it came to keeping the Blaze marking style rather... Blazey, what with keeping all color choices bright and well-seen. It's not overwhelming on the face, and provides a nice connection point for any back mark that slowly creeps its way over a wolf's head. Weirdly works amazing with a plain Badger based wolf as well, makes the facial line more prominent and fancy.

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Blight

Colors: Umbra.

Blight is probably something you'd expect Taz the Tasmanian Devil to use on his wolves, and not gonna lie, he chose something PERFECT. The deepening by the legs as it spans upwards and towards the head actually resembles a tornado, or a swirl of magic... If you know, you know, you Lumity shippers.

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Bottoms

Colors: Aspen, Beige, Cedar, Cream, Deira, Doubloon, Ducat, Gold, Honey, Saffron, White, Yellow.

One of many that's an under marking but without directly calling itself an under marking. Anyone can really say under-esque marked wolves tend to mend the look together and... This is one of 'em that hits as an "eh" to me. Like: "Wow, it hits the back of the limbs... and, and... the neck and... what else? Oh yeah, the e y e s." It almost makes me want to go bottoms up on legal, non-alcoholic drinks just to regret having to know this marking exists sometimes just for the sake of how bland it is.

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Butcher

Colors: Auburn, Beige, Black, Brown, Cream, Cocoa, Dark Brown, Deira, Dinar, Gold, Honey, Red, Rufous, Shedua, Silver, Tuff, White, Zircon.

When making this, I almost typed "Bitcher" which honestly... wouldn't really describe my opinion on this mark. This one's an actually suitable off-brand under marking style. Doesn't really per say hit underneath the wolf, but it does line the difference between an actual under marking style and the rest of the wolf. A blending mark, so to speak. Plus, I can already admit I have this style of marking on a lot of my wolves as a blending mark, so this one gets a personal push.

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Cape

Colors:  Aspen, Beige, Black, Brown, Cedar, Cream, Dark Brown, Deira, Dinar, Doubloon, Ducat, Gray, Honey, Saffron, Sepia, Shedua, Silver, Sterling, Tuff, White, Yellow.

The marking that extends off an existing family of marks... Huh, seems legit enough let's see- Oh... Oh no... It's... It's just Back Patch... but w i d e r. Funnily enough, this mark actually fares well with the blending scene as well. Although, it does lose some compliment points for the sake that on darker bases with lighter capes, it makes them so vibrant and full, but lighter bases with darker capes just instantly lose their color. Overall, just... don't overdo the opacity, or it'll look like Clark Kent got turned into a rugged pioneer of a pixel dog. Also, why in the hell does this mark have twenty-one different color choices?? Is the dev team truly indecisive about how these wolves should look that a mere back marking gets twenty-one different color variations?

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Cape Ticking

Colors: Aspen, Beige, Black, Brown, Cedar, Cream, Cocoa, Dark Brown, Gray, Silver, Tuff, White.

The holed version of the former. About the same feelings, but this time I don't have to scrutinize on the number of colors. Finally, a breather. But wait... Since we're here: Remember how Back Patch family has three total variants that were still different from one another? This hell of a family's got four. We're only halfway through the trauma.

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Carnage

Colors: Aspen, Auburn, Beige, Black, Brown, Cedar, Cream, Cocoa, Deira, Diana, Dinar, Ghost, Gold, Honey, Red, Shedua, Sidhe, Silver, Storm, Tuff, White, Zircon.

Now this one's a fancy under marking without being exactly called an under marking. This bad boy of a marking style hits what the depressing Bottoms style has and cranks it up a few gears. We get a neck patch, the whole back knee, a tuxedo look to the face, and even the eyebrows get noticed in these parts! Finally, a mark with culture. This marking style also does insanely well as a blend mark as well, like its meat-dealing name predecessor, Butcher.

Cheek Fluff

Colors: Aspen, Beige, Black, Brown, Cedar, Cream, Cocoa, Silver, Tuff, White.

Not gonna lie, almost forgot this marking style existed. Pretty forgettable, but also does its job weirdly well for how miniscule it is. Need a touch-up on a wolf with Gentle Unders? Cheek Fluff above it might actually be useful here! Although, still pretty limited in colors, so it's hard to say if this marking style deserves praise or punishment for being underratingly forgotten.

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Chest

Colors: Black, Brown, Cedar, Dark Brown, Gray, Gold, Silver, White.

This marking style is a phony, a fraud, and an outright trickster. This bastard of a marking style doesn't even sit on the chest, but more so sits on the shoulders and has the faintest line to actually prove the point that "yes, it actually does touch the chest". I want to know who did this because I'm down to become someone's friend out of pulling this UNO Reverse of a marking style card.

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Chest Stripe

Colors: Black, Brown, Dark Brown.

It's weird how the Chest Stripe covers more chest than the actual Chest marking style. Either the person who pulled the UNO Reverse forgot this striped boy exists, or just blatantly wanted to forget its existence. Doesn't do much regardless besides looking like the Saints Row logo but scooted far enough to the left to avoid copyright.

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Cougar

Colors: Auburn, Black, Brown, Dinar, Henna, Hydrangea, Gold, Honey, Kin, Red, Shedua.

Kitty marking go mreowww. I actually like this marking style, but it does seem like a ripoff of Dorsal with extra steps. A nice mark to have midway in a wolf's marking slots though for more blending purposes.

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Cover

Colors: Auburn, Black, Brown, Cedar, Dark Brown, Gray, Gold, Red, Rufous.

From my context in the Blanket marking style's spot, you can definitely tell I like this marking style more than the former. Cover does quite literally cover and evenly proportion itself across a wolf's back that if you blended, it'd be a smoother transition than taking a quick knife's worth of "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter!" and applying it to your morning toast. Color choices for this style set are also well chosen, considering most are dark in tone that you can apply any mark below or even on top and it'd still blend if using the correct opacities.

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Cracks

Colors: Amor, Nightchill, Sidhe, Umbra.

Oh don't worry, this marking cracks me up in some aspects, but this marking is supposedly the inverted version of Veneer and... oh boy, Sprite. Overall a very unique approach to covering a wolf, but the only color is runs in is Great Value (TM) Selene, so slightly difficult to blend and make work. But when it does work, it works hard.

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Cross

Colors: Beast, Black, Brown, Cynthia, Dark Brown, Dinar, Gray, Gold, Honey, Losna, Moss, Penumbra, Shedua, Silver, Sterling, White.

You have no idea how giddy I got when seeing this was next on the list. I sincerely use Cross so much that I'd be classified as dead if I didn't. Cross works so well as it hits namely the limbs and along the spine, with the inclusion of the muzzle plus eyebrows, and when using its inverted sibling, it covers the wolf completely to make some stellar designs without having to worry about the base making the colors weird. 10/10 would cross again. And considering the dev team pulled a Moss Cross... Man, y'all struck my heart in the feels.

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Dilution

Colors: Aspen, Auburn, Beige, Black, Brown, Cedar, Cream, Cocoa, Deira, Dinar, Doubloon, Ducat, Gold, Honey, Red, Saffron, Selene, Sepia, Shedua, Silver, Sterling, Tuff, White, Yellow, Zircon.

Probably the only marking style to rightfully have a large variety of colors. Each one has its own suitable way of blending and I'm all here for it. Use it incorrectly though, and it looks like Expo marker smears on a whiteboard. Solid mark, just can't overdo it.

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Dorsal

Colors: Auburn, Black, Brown, Cedar, Dark Brown, Dinar, Doubloon, Honey, Red, Rufous, Shedua, Sepia, Yellow.

Ahhh, the Cover that isn't classified as a Cover. Quite literally almost the same exact format, but this one is shorter in terms of draping over the wolf. Probably why it's only named Dorsal, since it's stuck at its peak and can never improve from what the devs gave it. Halfway decent blending style, but lacks the fun of Cover's larger fade-in.

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Ear Tips

Colors: Aspen, Beige, Cedar, Cream, Deira, Doubloon, Ducat, Honey, Saffron, White, Yellow.

This style is yet another useless one, unless you crave your wolf's ears to be QuIrKy and DiFfErEnT. Holds no value and if you stacked ten of these on the same wolf, I'd assume you're showing me a plain NBW and it'd be chased in a heartbeat. And not in good reasoning either.

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Elbow Patch

Colors: Aspen, Auburn, Beige, Black, Cedar, Cream, Cocoa, Red, Silver, Tuff, White, Zircon.

Yet another marking that domineers over the spot covered than the actual default one. Can at least give it good sport points for coming in a variety of colors, so that way my wolves can look like they're just coming off the field with their dorky padded elbows and wanting a sip of their apple juice before being creamed by the opposing team.

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Elbows

Colors: Aspen, Beige, Cedar, Cream, Gold, White.

The default of the Elbow set, and it's more boring than the Patch. How the hell does it even happen? Is this an example of the "Michael, Cooler Michael" meme? Are we being deceived by a marking that looks like someone elbowed paint and said "Yep, good mark. Ten outta ten."?

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Eyebrows

Colors: Aspen, Beige, Black, Brown, Cedar, Cream, Cocoa, Deira, Dinar, Honey, Shedua, Silver, Tuff, White.

Okay, okay... Hear me out: . They need an expression module, don't they? Eyebrows does the trick. Any under marking style only hits these bad boys briefly, but the Eyebrows marking style itself? Mannn, tell me where their stylist is at cause those eyebrows on fleek. Full, lush eyebrows for a pampered dog. Although miniscule, it actually does a better job at keeping our wolves from looking like they shaved them off for a Klondike bar.

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Forehead

Colors: Auburn, Black, Brown, Dark Brown, Dinar, Gray, Honey, Red, Rufous, Shedua.

SIIMMMBBAAAA... Okay, okay, I couldn't help it. Lion King is always on my mind when this marking style is talked about. Not my fault the devs wanted to rip off a rip-off. Marking style is pretty useless though, besides making the blend on the head decent enough to make it look like our wolves got a concussion after the Elbow Patch tirade of a game.

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Full Mask

Colors: Black, Brown, Gray, Gold.

Points, but it's just the face. Not much else to add here sadly, which ultimately describes how useful this marking style really is.

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Full Rump

Colors: Black, Brown, Dark Brown.

Hurry! With this limited-time offer, you can now make your wolves look like they actually shit themselves! Buy now! ... This marking style does weirdly help blend the back half though, so not really disappointed at how shitty this style portrays things.

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Gentle Unders

Colors: Aspen, Beige, Cedar, Cream, Deira, Doubloon, Ducat, Gold, Honey, Saffron, White, Yellow.

The first of many that actually labels themselves as an under marking style. And to be fair, it actually does good work. The name quite literally suits what it's aiming for. It's gentle around the face by aiming on the very edges and does a soft work around the belly and limbs. Probably the only one though that'll live up to its name, unlike other styles mentioned prior.

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Ghast

Colors: Auburn, Black, Brown, Dark Brown, Henna, Hydrangea, Liver, Nocturne, Red, Rufous, Silver, Sterling, White.

One of two that was released in Halloween 2022's new mini-event. Surprisingly this one is actually a pretty nice blend marking style. Covers areas I wouldn't have thought of originally and actually does it well. So well, in fact, that it even scored two new marking colors.

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Gleam

Colors: Fuath, Penumbra.

This mark isn't bad, but it isn't the best. Right now it looks like a Picasso work of art made by a 4 year old at in their preschool classroom. You can appreciate the layout, but in a broader perspective, it just looks... weird.

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Grizzle

Colors: Aspen, Beige, Cedar, Cream, Deira, Doubloon, Ducat, Gold, Honey, Saffron, White, Yellow.

I want to not do this one, but here we are. The infamous G mark that quite literally looks like dogshit, especially if used as a literal under marking style, which it's classified to be as. The Husky family can do a better job at filling out the face and not giving my wolf a Widow's Peak like it rolled out straight out of some 1950s/1960s horror film with a little child holding scissors.

Half Cape

Colors: Aspen, Beige, Black, Brown, Cedar, Cream, Cocoa, Dark Brown, Dinar, Doubloon, Ducat, Gray, Honey, Saffron, Sepia, Shedua, Silver, Tuff, White, Yellow.

Guess who's back? (Back, back) Back again? ('gain, 'gain) Cape is back. (Back, back) ... Please don't tell your friends, it's already a disappoint this style's back to haunt us. This Cape style of the family quite literally is its name, surprisingly enough. Cuts itself about half the size of the OG. Still kinda sucks with blending purposes though, since it now just looks like an inverted sun got stuck on your wolf's back without a plea deal.

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Half Cape Ticking

Colors: Aspen, Beige, Black, Brown, Cedar, Cream, Cocoa, Dark Brown, Gray, Silver, Tuff, White.

The holed version of the latter. Still isn't up to par like it's whole-versioned sibling, but at least flecks are in? Even so, the lesser color choices can settle a few frayed nerves.

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Half Cover

Colors: Black, Brown, Dark Brown.

The halfed version of Cover, but by half, it really means three quarters. This marking style just said, "Let's take a little off the top." and proceeded to miss and shave off the color on the shoulders. How it missed? No one still knows to this day... But I can admit it still nicely does its job.

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Half Dorsal

Colors: Auburn, Black, Brown, Dark Brown, Dinar, Doubloon, Honey, Red, Rufous, Sepia, Shedua, Yellow.

One of the "Half" marking styles that actually commits to halving itself. Although more a spinal marking style, it is hard to kinda split it. But where credit is due, Half Dorsal actually does what it's intended. Which is surprising since a majority of the list so far has either been overwhelmingly disappointing, or a fan favorite.

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Half Mask

Colors: Auburn, Black, Brown, Dark Brown, Gold, Gray, Red, Rufous, Silver, White.

As the Batman theme plays, your wolf seems to spontaneously grow a new identity! And I... wouldn't be surprised if half the wolves with this mark that exist on-site would have some sort of lore surrounding this identity-hiding mark. Oh, but don't worry, protagonist armor will make sure they're pampered in every way.

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Half Saddle

Colors: Black, Brown, Dark Brown, Gray.

The yeehaw saddle got split in half NOOOOOO ... Overall though, this saddle isn't all too much a resemblance of the actual thing. Colors are natural, but the use I'd have for it is nothing but artificial.

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Half Socks

Colors: Aspen, Beige, Cedar, Cream, Deira, Doubloon, Ducat, Honey, Saffron, White, Yellow.

Why did the wolves get into my sock drawer? Much less rip 'em in half for funsies? What does a Wolvden player do to earn this kind of punishment? This marking style is like Limbs, but cut in half, anddd cut in half again. Who knows maybe if we constantly halve it, it might just disappear...

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Half Stripe

Colors: Black, Brown, Dark Brown.

Another of the stripe set that looks like an MS Paint disaster. Not much else to this one since it's about as bland as its brethren. Wouldn't even think of using it due to how well it can hide in the mass of ten total marks.

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Head Stripe

Colors: Black, Brown, Dark Brown.

Unlike the rest of the stripes, this one actually can work well! Not at 100% opacity of course, but maybe half opacity and under some fancy unders marking styles, and it blends fairly nice.

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Heavy Husky

Colors: Aspen, Beige, Cedar, Cream, Deira, Doubloon, Ducat, Gold, Honey, Saffron, Storm, White, Yellow.

The first of many dog-inspired marks. And surprisingly, this one is... not that ideal. It works, yes, but it's almost too heavy of an unders-esque marking style to be worthy. I guess you could almost classify it as "as busy as a husky on a mission".

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Highlights

Colors: Aspen, Cedar, Cream, Doubloon, Ducat, Gold, Gray, Honey, Red, White, Yellow, Zircon.

A marking style that's another blender yesss Highlights does a fantastic job of fixing your mistakes by subtly blending itself into it to create a collage of colors. Psychedelic trances could be made from this if this site wasn't solely 16+.

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Inner Ear

Colors: Aspen, Beige, Cedar, Cream, White.

So we go from the very miniscule Ear Tips, to now occupying the inner ear. The only justice this lame mark does is make for some funky blending in said inner ear. Otherwise, catch me not using this. Truth be spoketh, and thus, one shall hear it.

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Inuit Unders

Colors: Aspen, Beige, Black, Brown, Cedar, Cream, Cocoa, Deira, Dinar, Doubloon, Ducat, Gold, Gray, Honey, Saffron, Sepia, Shedua, Silver, Tuff, White, Yellow.

One of two special Random Marking Applicator marking styles. And reasonably so, this unders-esque marking is actually another good example of how to properly do blending. And with such color variety, it's hard not to use to help make a proper blend.

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Inverted Agouti

Colors: Aspen, Beige, Cedar, Cream, Deira, Gold, Honey, Kin, Losna, Selene, White.

Like its inverted sibling, Inverted Agouti really just looks jagged and overall kinda crappy. Like if you let a toddler take free reign on a coloring book and they miss all the lines provided. Just a marking style that can be deemed as messy.

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Inverted Cross

Colors: Amor, Aspen, Auburn, Black, Brown, Caelum, Cedar, Cream, Cocoa, Dark Brown, Dinar, Doubloon, Gold, Gray, Honey, Kin, Luna, Red, Rufous, Sepia, Shedua, Yellow, Zircon.

Same applies with Cross/Inverted Cross. This marking style can cover up and help blend a wolf so nicely that you can practically base disguise and no one would know. The miracle marking style to saving shitty marking styles that are underneath. Not to mention the color variety just makes me go positively batshit.

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Inverted Manicou

Colors: Aspen, Beige, Cream, Deira, Gray, Honey, White.

Inverted Manicou is... one of the weird fellas that really didn't need to become inverted. Wanted to be quirky enough by being one of the newest additions to the NBW exclusive club, but manages to be that one weird person who stands in the corner, drinks their drink, and never cooperates with the rest of the club members.

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Inverted Opossum

Colors: Aspen, Beige, Cream, Deira, Gray, Honey, White, Wisp.

A new mark that's actually unique in terms of inversion layout. I enjoy the layout, but ever since Wisp Inverted Opossum came into my life... Jesus fucking Christ that's nightmare fuel. Happy to hear the marsupial lovers got a mark representing them though. Definitely good representation going on.

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Inverted Panda

Colors: Aspen, Beige, Cream, Deira, Doubloon, Ducat, Honey, Red, Saffron, White, Yellow, Zircon.

So we go from marsupial marking style to "useless black-and-white Asian koala bear" marking style. Can say it does justice to blending marks, but the inverted version is super hard to work around, especially if it's in slots seven through ten.

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Inverted Smudge

Colors: Artemis, Nightchill.

Why... Just, why? We never asked for this kind of mark. I would've just manually requested (at the risk of being topic-locked) more Smudge colors. And even then, this marking doesn't even align with Smudge! It aligns more with Smudge Heavy than any, which ticks me even more cause Smudge Heavy is so well respected in my book.

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Irish

Colors: Aspen, Beige, Cedar, Cream, Gold, White.

Aye, one that hits at least fairly decent. An unders-esque marking style once again, but this time we get a fancy stripe going down the face plus a neck band for the extra dapper look. Not all that favorable for me though, since it kinda breaks apart blended styles with "HEY GUYS, WATCH THIS- :proceeds to drag a paintbrush down center of skull:"

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Light Husky

Colors: Aspen, Beige, Cedar, Cream, Deira, Doubloon, Ducat, Gold, Honey, Saffron, Turquoise, White, Yellow.

Another husky marking style, but this one actually doesn't go hardcore Full Metal Alchemist on taking up the whole underside. Nice blending mark overall, and with the variety of colors (excluding Turquoise, that mashup was a decision done by the Devil) it fares up to its title of being remotely counterintuitive name-wise: "Not as chaotic as a husky".

Limbs

Colors: Aspen, Beige, Black, Brown, Cedar, Cream, Cocoa, Dark Brown, Deira, Dinar, Gold, Honey, Shedua, Silver, Tuff, White.

I always remark this marking style as "thigh-high stockings" and goddamn it still lives up to that title. Great base for leg action, albeit Socks, Paws, Toes, etc. are used. And if faded properly, some badass effects come from it. Ten outta ten, would turn a wolf fashionable again.

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Low Bottoms

Colors: Aspen, Beige, Cedar, Cream, Deira, Doubloon, Ducat, Gold, Honey, Saffron, White, Yellow.

The Bottoms marking style, but it turns into Agent 007 and becomes a sneaky spy ready to blend with anything that comes at it. Solid mark, but kinda disappointing that it covers so little.

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Lupos

Colors: Aspen, Auburn, Black, Brown, Cedar, Clover, Cream, Cocoa, Dark Brown, Ducat, Hydrangea, Red, Rufous, Selene, Sepia, Silver, Sterling, Storm, Tuff, White, Yellow, Zircon.

Players: "We want a nice raffle-only marking, but what kind of colors do you guys prefer?" | Devs: "Yes." :proceeds to dump 22 different colors onto playerbase: ... Overall yet another decent mark, but the color variety seems almost too large to make an impact on if it's worth breeding for, especially considering the newest additions to the Lupos family are coming from event marking applicators.

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Manicou

Colors: Abomination, Annwn, Black, Brown, Dark Brown, Henna.

Manicou, one of the more decent NBW exclusives. Drapery, but not really. It works, but it doesn't. This one's such a walking contradiction that I don't even know how to properly explain it. But it still pulls stuff off in terms of blending, which honestly makes me even more confused than any.

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Mantle

Colors: Auburn, Black, Brown, Cedar, Dark Brown, Dinar, Gray, Honey, Red, Rufous, Shedua.

Another drapery marking style. This one however doesn't fare as well as Cover and Dorsal respectively, but it still manages to capture the same concept. Decent overall, but very mimicked.

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Marbled Unders

Colors: Aspen, Beige, Cedar, Cream, Ducat, Saffron, White, Yellow.

A top tier blending unders marking style. With its literal marbled appearance, it can practically blend any style you choose! Just be wary that placing this marking style underneath more marks just makes the layout look jagged and weird.

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Mask

Colors: Auburn, Black, Brown, Dark Brown, Dinar, Gold, Gray, Honey, Red, Rufous, Silver, White.

The Batman theme plays once again, but the Joker can't see your wolf now, as they're completely camouflaged! ... Overall, not a very dignified marking style, as it's so easy to use Half Mask or even the dreaded Full Mask more than the generic middle man.

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Medium Husky

Colors: Aspen, Beige, Cedar, Cream, Deira, Doubloon, Ducat, Ghost, Gold, Honey, Saffron, White, Yellow.

The middle man of the husky family. The "just right" in other terms. Not overly done like the Heavy version, but not as lenient as the Light version. Overall, it's just the right amount of husky.

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Merle

Colors: Cream, Doubloon, Ducat, Honey, White, Yellow.

The bigger of the random splotch twins. And not gonna lie, the color variety given on this one is severely pleasing considering it can break apart bases to give such an eye pleasing look. Deserves more reputation than its patches sibling.

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Merle Patches

Colors: Black, Brown, Dark Brown.

The sibling of the latter, and this one only comes in a sad three colors. Although, it does make up for it by being a more subtle break line for blends and makes everything ease into each other more properly.

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Muzzle

Colors: Aspen, White.

Muzzle. The only marking style with two colors. Why Aspen and White? No one knows, but given it only has this two colors makes it super hard to not skip, much less use. Style itself is neat, but it feels forgotten.

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Muzzle Patch

Colors: Aspen, Beige, Black, Cedar, Cream, Cocoa, Gold, Silver, Tuff, White.

And then we have Muzzle Patch, a marking style literally greater than Muzzle in terms of size. So much for being a patch when the patch overlaps... Although, it is good that this one gets the color variety, but overall layout looks like a milk mustache but for wolves.

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Neck

Colors: Aspen, Beige, Black, Brown, Cedar, Cream, Cocoa, Dark Brown, Gray, Silver, Tuff, White.

Ahhh, the offbrand mane. Neck highlights just the wolf's upper neck, but it does lead to some amazing blending if done correctly. Definitely a marking style I'd use more if it wasn't so hidden by more saturated marking styles.

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Neck Band

Colors: Aspen, Beige, Black, Brown, Cedar, Cream, Cocoa, Dark Brown, Deira, Dinar, Doubloon, Ducat, Gold, Gray, Honey, Saffron, Sepia, Shedua, Silver, Tuff, White, Yellow.

A more extensive coverage of the prior marking style. Neck Band actually treats blending with respect, considering it has to hit both the literal neck and the throat of a wolf. And since I personally use this, it gets a thumbs up from me for sure. Just gotta make sure to not let the band rock on as too saturated or else it looks like the wolf gained an offbrand collar.

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Neck Stripe

Colors: Black, Brown, Dark Brown.

Neck Stripe, a yet another disappointing marking style. Almost looks like a decor creator went "Huh, this isn't really working out... Hey, Xylax, you want another neck marking style?" and proceeded to make a half-ass collar-esque look that genuinely holds no use other than being a marking slot filler. Genuinely could never see someone finding this marking style as top-tier, as it can't even hit in the top 30 overall.

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Nose Bridge

Colors: Black, Silver, White.

Okay, who put duct tape on the dog's mouth, again? Seriously though, this mark looks like you purposely put it in a hostage situation and that it can't speak until they plead the 5th, or say they want their lawyer. May also explain your thoughts on bondage situations if you sincerely desire this marking style on your wolves.

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Nose Line

Colors: Cedar, White.

Not ultimately the best, but also not the worst, considering it only comes in one color. The best use for it is to extend that nose bridge line badger wolves have, and grants it a thicker, denser line to give the face some definition. Ultimately something I'd use, but only if I'm desperate for my wolves to play two-time and need a bit of a divider.

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Ornate Blotches

Colors: Airglow, Kin, Luna, Moonlight, Moss, Umbra, Wisp.

Ahh yes, finally hitting the home territory of the event markings. About time these similarly named and styled rascals pop up on this roster. Blotches however, doesn't get the okay from me. Name's funky, especially paired with Ornate, and it's only used as a pedestal for its kin Ornate Spots to take the spotlight. Hard to be ornate with something that's already splotchy and plays off of Merle more than any. Blotches are moreso represented in chaotic, large dots and puddles of color that make a semblance unique, and it seems these are just some similarly-sized ovals made in MS Paint that got layered over top the event base's color.

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Ornate Spots

Colors: Clover, Selene, Turquoise, Wisp.

A more delicate form of the latter. Ornate Spots actually pulls it off, and being the solid original of event marks overall (March 2021 was when this was released), it deserves the pedestal it sits on. It's clean, it's concise, and it provides a small pop of color without having to overwhelm the whole design.

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Ornate Stripes

Colors: Annwn, Artemis, Clover, Moonlight.

The tiger-striped cousin of the Ornate family. Not overly related to them, but with the name, they still connect. These stripes actually do their job, covering the full wolf and not looking like a toddler on MS Paint went flying around with the calligraphy pen.

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Ornate Waves

Colors: Airglow, Annwn, Artemis, Merged.

The wavier, fruitier cousin of the Ornate family. Again, not fully related, but this time, this one's got the juice. It's a softer bend than Ornate Stripes, but does a fancy ass snap back by doing it smaller, and more often. Would recommend if it wasn't so chaotic though. Mayhaps a garlic bread would soothe their soul and mellow them down a bit.

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Panda

Colors: Auburn, Black, Brown, Dark Brown, Henna, Red, Rufous.

A marking style based off of one of the laziest, undeserving-of-life creatures on the Planet Earth. Homies only eat bamboo and look cute just to survive in the sole place where we can't get rid of it. The marking itself though pulls through in some aspects. Not an all-time favorite, but if you need that solid pop of color from the waist down, this is it.

Patchy Unders

Colors: Aspen, Auburn, Biform, Beige, Black, Cedar, Cream, Cocoa, Deira, Doubloon, Ducat, Gold, Gray, Honey, Red, Saffron, Shedua, Silver, Tuff, White, Yellow, Zircon.

Finally, back to the unders-esque marking styles. Oh how I missed you... Overall, this one's a bit too much honestly. For being so-called "patchy" it really likes to lay down on the color and not be patchy at all. Almost as if it wanted to be a quirky, walking contradiction.

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Paws

Colors: Aspen, Beige, Cedar, Cream, Deira, Gold, Honey, White.

When the legs were too much, but the toes are too little. Paws are... okay, I guess? Hard to explain these guys as they cut off right at the wolf's ankle and make it severely hard to blend without leaving a dividing line. Perhaps if it was a color on the same color situation, it'd be okay, but two different is asking for a design hellride.

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Points

Colors: Aspen, Auburn, Black, Brown, Cedar, Cream, Cocoa, Dark Brown, Dinar, Gold, Gray, Honey, Luna, Red, Rufous, Shedua, Tempest, Zircon.

Smudge, but more crisp around the lines. Points is exclusive to NBWs and thank God for that. Hard to work around a sudden, deep color saturation like what Points does, cause it'd be hard to recover without having to remove it, or setting it to such a low opacity that the rest of the design looks flawed.

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Predator

Colors: Aspen, Auburn, Beige, Black, Cedar, Cream, Cocoa, Deira, Diana, Gold, Honey, Red, Shedua, Silver, Tuff, White, Zircon.

A more extensive coverage of the prior marking style. Neck Band actually treats blending with respect, considering it has to hit both the literal neck and the throat of a wolf. And since I personally use this, it gets a thumbs up from me for sure. Just gotta make sure to not let the band rock on as too saturated or else it looks like the wolf gained an offbrand collar.

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Pulse

Colors: Abomination, Cynthia, Fuath, Penumbra, Umbra,.

Seems the developers wanted to have a rave, but couldn't do it without causing suspicion, so they made it into a marking style instead. Not a half bad mark, but could use a generic color rehaul like some others on the list to really make it a worthwhile choice. Let's just hope the poor thing doesn't start going "unts unts unts" while the music pops off...

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Rump

Colors: Black, Brown, Dark Brown.

The ass marking style, in laymen's terms. Covers the butt, and nothing else. Not much else to say about it. If anything, it's the butt of all marking style jokes.

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Rump Edge

Colors: Black, Brown, Dark Brown, Gold.

Butt marking style, but halved. Not much else on this one either, as it's about as jokey as the latter. Also doesn't really do much in terms of blending and/or making a design pop, so you almost feel sorry for yourself if RMAs or the like give you this at random.

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Rump Patch

Colors: Black, Brown, Dark Brown.

A more jagged version of the latter. I swear, all the Rumps look so similar that no matter which one you get, it's just utter disappointment. Just... put me out of my misery about knowing these exist.

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Rump Stripe

Colors: Black, Brown, Dark Brown.

No... No.... NOOOOOOOO... Make it stopppp, why are there so many useless fucking rumps But this time, it's MS Paint all over again whyyyy

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Saddle

Colors: Black, Brown, Dark Brown, Gray.

Finally, beyond the Rump disaster lies Saddle. Saddle isn't all that bad in my honest opinion. Does its job accordingly, and without butchering the full design. Blends fairly nice, and still keeps to its namesake.

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Saddle Ticking

Colors: Black, Brown, Dark Brown, Gray.

The holed version of the latter. Same thing pretty well applies, weirdly enough. Does its job, keeps the namesake, and doesn't butcher the full design.

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Sallander

Colors: Aspen, Artemis, Auburn, Beast, Beige, Black, Cedar, Cream, Cocoa, Dark Brown, Diana, Ducat, Gold, Gray, Red, Rufous, Saffron, Silver, Sterling, Tuff, White, Yellow, Zircon.

Yet another NBW exclusive, but this one's a salamander. No joke, every time I think of this mark: salamander. Blending is meh.

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Shaded

Colors: Airglow, Auburn, Biform, Black, Brown, Dinar, Doubloon, Ducat, Gold, Honey, Moss, Red, Sepia, Shedua, Silver, Sterling, White, Yellow.

Another NBW exclusive! That is, excluding some of the event colors. And not gonna lie, this marking style is actually nice. May be jagged at a higher opacity, but after a bit of blending, it actually is quite refreshing! Want a metallic wolf? Grab a wolf with Silver Shaded on say... a Chromium/Flint/Striped Flint base, and you got yourself an alloy wolf.

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Shadow

Colors: Auburn, Black, Brown, Dark Brown, Dinar, Henna, Honey, Liver, Nocturne, Red, Rufous, Shedua, Silver, Sterling, White.

Halloween 2023's one of two new marks! Although the name is literal, it portrays it very well, especially taking into account most of the colors in this set are dark! At least it isn't... overshadowed by its other counterpart who's further down this list.

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Shepherd

Colors: Black, Brown, Dark Brown.

A marking style deviated from another existing set of dog breeds, although, husky pulls it off better than this one. Underneath marks it makes blends look sloppy, and over the top of them makes it look uncorrelated. Low opacity is probably the only way you can get this dog mark to work, or you'd probably end up in my designer's doghouse for poor treatment of looks.

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Shepherd Heavy

Colors: Black, Brown, Dark Brown, Losna, Merged.

The heavier deviation of the latter, and to be fair, this one actually does it better. Enough that it covers the wolf entirely, can blend easier than the latter, AND it comes in Losna which can give your natural wolves the tiniest pop of color without overdoing it. Tis a small step for dog marking styles, and one giant leap for designer kind.

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Shimmer

Colors: Aspen, Beige, Cream, Deira, Doubloon, Ducat, Dust, Honey, Lavender, Opal, Saffron, White, Yellow.

The second of Halloween 2023's new marks! Although the name is literal, it portrays it very well, especially taking into account most of the colors in this set are light this time around and alongside adding some brand new colors to the fray! It does indeed shimmer and sparkle, and is a fantastic blending mark.

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Shoulder Patch

Colors: Aspen, Black, Brown, Cedar, Cream, Cocoa, Dark Brown, Gold, Silver, Sterling, Tuff, White.

Not gonna lie, another useless marking. But instead of it being MS Paint's calligraphy or normal pen, it looks like someone was fucking around with the watercolor brush at 100% opacity and began scribbling. Then they soon realized that "Wow, this could be a marking!" It's weird realizing how many of these marking styles fit this format of MS Paint disasters and still got away with it.

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Shoulders

Colors: Black, Brown, Dark Brown, Dinar, Gold, Gray, Honey, Shedua.

Instead of the patch like the latter, this one actually follows suit in its name and goes for the shoulders. But weirdly, it looks like drapery. Almost like it was intended to be stretched a little more, but the art team was on their deadline/budget limit and just said "Fuck it, it's done" and published it midway through completion. Honestly would never use this marking style, and if I had to, that lil shit's going in slots 1-3 at maximum.

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Smoke

Colors: Auburn, Black, Brown, Dark Brown, Gray, Red, Rufous, Turquoise.

Ahhh Smoke... You're confusing yet so, so useful when it comes to blending. And probably the only NBW exclusive that can be both bold and mellow and still pull off a good blend. Deserves to be on the top of the pedestal of NBW-exclusives, but only if it were available in standard marking applicators...

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Smudge

Colors: Auburn, Black, Brown, Dark Brown, Gray, Red, Rufous.

Smudge, my betrothed. Although, the devs did you dirty by giving you an inverted version. You were perfect: subtle and yet bold at the same time, and then the inversions attacked... I'll still use you regardless, but man it was a shin swipe to do something dirty as make an inverted of a favorited marking style that no one asked for.

Smudge Heavy

Colors: Auburn, Black, Brown, Caelum, Dark Brown, Gray, Hydrangea, Luna, Moss, Red, Rufous.

Smudge <<<< Smudge Heavy. Smudge Heavy is the top dog between the twins, and it rightfully deserves praise. It's like Points, but it's more rugged and natural-feeling. Gives you the sense that this wolf went and rolled around in the biggest pile of whatever it could find just to please itself. 10/10 marking style that blends super well, weirdly enough with Merle Patches more than any.

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Snout

Colors: Black, Brown, Cedar, Dark Brown, Gold, Silver, Sterling, White.

Although slightly forgettable, this marking style puts a lot of definition on a wolf's face. Sadly, it doesn't come in many colors, but the colors it does come in can easily give your wolf some age without having to make it look like they've gotten have a 2,000-word summary that they're fuckin old.

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Socks

Colors: Aspen, Beige, Cedar, Cream, Deira, Doubloon, Ducat, Gold, Honey, Saffron, White, Yellow.

When winter can't keep your wolf warm, just give them this marking style. It's as if Paws and Limbs had a kid, completely forgot they existed, and just... ran away. If you wanted to make faded limbs, from the hips/shoulders to the toes, it's sadly not the best mark to work with. With limited color choices and from the way it cuts at a diagonal of all directions, it's miserably difficult to give a good blend to a design with this style. And believe me, I've tried.

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Spectacles

Colors: Aspen, Auburn, Beige, Black, Cedar, Cream, Cocoa, Deira, Honey, Red, Shedua, Silver, Tuff, White, Zircon.

When you want a wolf to have eyeshadow, but can't afford a Custom Decor that does it. Spectacles add a pop of color around the eyes just enough to remind people that yes, the eyes on a wolf exist. Plus, it's such a good filler mark where if you don't want to ruin a design with what there, you can easily add Spectacles for a tiny bit of face definition and be on your merry way. Alongside all that, it gives off brand glasses vibes, so here-here to all the poor sighted wolf OCs of the lot.

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Sprite

Colors: Ghost, Diana, Wisp.

I don't wanna talk about this rat bastard of an event mark. I just... GOD I hate it. It looks like the art team was drunkenly drawing tigers, ended up with this outcome, and said, "Yup, new *burp*... new marking style yayyyy". If it was maybe in standard black, white, or maybe even some combos like Auburn, Silver, or even Tuff it would look phenomenal, but no. We get it in neon Barbie pink and off brand Turquoise turned yellow. This is probably a marking style that could have a brawl with Grizzle and be tied for the most hated mark on this roster.

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Stained Limbs

Colors: Black, Brown, Dark Brown, Gold.

Limbs, but splotchy. Actually kinda like the way this one goes, but it's so miniscule that it's such an oversight. The marking style mostly gives me vibes of crawling around on mud and getting your knees dirty. And that's pretty well all this marking style can sadly accomplish.

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Tail Tip

Colors: Black, Brown, Cedar, Dark Brown, Silver, White.

Tail Tip, another marking that's a filler mostly, but dang it does its job so well. I use this marking style all the time as filler or if I need a mark underneath some others to blend them together. Although any unders-esque marking styles can pull it off as well and cover more ground, this one just covers the full tail tip instead of partway, making it easier to blend.

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Tamaskan Unders

Colors: Amor, Aspen, Beige, Cedar, Cream, Deira, Doubloon, Ducat, Gold, Gray, Honey, Red, Saffron, White, Yellow, Zircon.

The second of the RMA exclusives. And actually, I prefer this one over Inuit. Tamaskan's more subtle, and covers corners Inuit doesn't, which grants more opportunities to blend and make some interesting designs with. Not considered rare anymore due to how many people gamble away for raffle markings and the like, but this marking style does deserve some more rep than just "oh, another one ".

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Throat

Colors: Aspen, Beige, Black, Cedar, Cream, Cocoa, Silver, Tuff, White.

Throat hides as much as it can, preferably on the jugular veins. That way, if we want to off said wolf, we just aim for the throat. Personally never see myself using this marking style, alongside how others could.

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Throat Patch

Colors: Aspen, Beige, Black, Cedar, Cream, Cocoa, Deira, Gold, Honey, Shedua, Silver, Tuff, White.

Another Patch marking style that covers more than its base version. How... How does this get fucked up so badly? Instead of just the jugular veins, now Throat Patch wants to hide on the muzzle, but only on the underside. Maybe someone won't stab them there, they think. But no, they just get abandoned under the rock it deserves to stay under.

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Toes

Colors: Aspen, Beige, Cedar, Cream, Gold, White.

Toe beans. 'Nuff said. They're cute, they're a nice filler mark, and they can/will confuse the shit outta someone if they find a 10-marked toes chased in explore. We stan the confusion.

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Trim

Colors: Aspen, Beige, Black, Cedar, Cream, Cocoa, Deira, Doubloon, Ducat, Gold, Honey, Saffron, Shedua, Silver, Tuff, White, Yellow.

Throat Patch gained some hiding ground, but also decided "Hey, what about the legs?" and proceeded to try and go for the heels. Just another unders-esque marking style that I could easily abandon if I so choose as it really doesn't provide much blending opportunity. Socks though would probably be its only saving grace.

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Tuxedo

Colors: Aspen, Beige, Cedar, Cream, Deira, Doubloon, Ducat, Gold, Honey, Saffron, White, Yellow.

Fancy doggo inbound, as they got the t u x. Personally though, wouldn't really use this one all that much either, but it does provide better blending opportunities than the latter... Which is probably its only outstanding feature.

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Underbelly

Colors: Aspen, Beige, Cedar, Cream, Deira, Doubloon, Ducat, Gold, Honey, Saffron, White, Yellow.

The first of many that have "Under" as their prefix. And hoo boy they all look similar. Underbelly just lives true to its name, covering the underbelly of the wolf and half of the muzzle. Honestly not much else to say since this one and like the next god knows how many are just copypastas of one another with so minor of detail changes that you'd think a wolf spit out twins.

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Undercoat

Colors: Aspen, Auburn, Beast, Beige, Black, Brown, Cedar, Cream, Cocoa, Dark Brown, Deira, Dinar, Doubloon, Ducat, Gold, Gray, Honey, Nightchill, Red, Rufous, Saffron, Sepia, Shedua, Silver, Sterling, Tuff, White, Yellow, Zircon.

Oh boy, another unders-esque mark that instead of being unique in style, it decides to hoard almost all known possible colors like some sort of strange dragon. It works well with blending, I can admit, but by god the amount of colors throws me for a loop, especially when I'm trying to avoid using the combos more than the marking applicator ones.

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Underfur

Colors: Aspen, Beige, Cedar, Cream, Deira, Doubloon, Ducat, Gold, Gray, Honey, Red, Saffron, White, Yellow, Zircon.

Another, another... *sigh* When will this agony end? No one knows! All we know is that these unders-esque marks really do come from the Land Down Under. Another one that blends nice, but this one hides a little more than the others.

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Unders

Colors: Aspen, Auburn, Beige, Black, Brown, Cedar, Cream, Cocoa, Dark Brown, Deira, Dinar, Doubloon, Ducat, Gold, Gray, Honey, Red, Rufous, Saffron, Sepia, Shedua, Silver, Sterling, Tuff, White, Yellow, Zircon.

The defaultio of the unders-esque marking styles. And good lord there's still more after this one. Put me out of my miseryyy Another one that blends well, yada yada... I think we get the point.

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Undersides

Colors: Amor Aspen, Beige, Cedar Clover, Cream, Deira, Doubloon, Ducat, Gold Gray, Honey, Red, Saffron,  White, Yellow, Zircon.

I fear if I keep saying the same stuff about the same kind of marking styles that I may turn into a parrot. So uhh... please refer to the ones listed above. I've had enough

Urajiro

Colors: Aspen Beige, Cedar Cream, Deira, Doubloon, Ducat, Gold Honey, Turquoise, White, Yellow.

Personally enjoy using Urajiro, but as like the priors... Yeah, unders-esque once more. The pain never ends with this, huh?

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Veneer

Colors: Annwn, Caelum, Fuath, Merged.

Veneer. If Sprite was actually trying to be a tiger. I do like Veneer, but another one of those marks that's aesthetically pleasing, but super hard to blend. If this came in maybe, standard marking applicator colors, I'd use it more often, but with it being solely an event-locked marking style, feels like it's forcefully being stuck behind that wall.

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Wild Stripes

Colors: Abomination, Beast, Biform, Fuath, Sidhe, Tempest.

Seems Wild Stripes wanted to be Veneer and Sprite, but actually pulls it off better than both in terms of tiger-esque marking styles. It's subtle, allows other marks to shine through, and doesn't overly clutter areas where most marks overlap. It's courteous, albeit being named almost the polar opposite.

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Wings

Colors: Auburn, Black, Brown, Dark Brown, Dinar, Gold Honey, Red, Rufous, Shedua, Silver, Sterling, White.

Flappy boyyy the original! Wings are a fun lil topper mark in my honest opinion. Don't need to blend em, and don't really need to make em low opacity. They're there to be freeee

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Wings Heavy

Colors: Auburn, Black, Brown, Dark Brown, Dinar, Honey, Red, Rufous, Shedua, Silver, Sterling, White.

The heavier version of the latter. And not gonna lie, this one actually has more decorational flare than regular Wings and even Wings Scarce. Deserves to be the top dog of the triplets, albeit all the angel/devil designs people make with this marking style.

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Wings Scarce

Colors: Auburn, Black, Brown, Dark Brown, Dinar, Honey, Red, Rufous, Shedua, Silver, Sterling, White.

The smallest of the triplet Wings. This one honestly I don't favor as much, it floats in the same boat as those like Throat, the Stripe family, and anything with "Half". It's just weirdly small and doesn't work.

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Wraith

Colors: Auburn, Black, Brown, Cynthia, Dark Brown, Ghost, Henna, Liver, Nightchill, Nocturne, Red, Rufous, Silver, Sterling, White.

:Spooky Scary Skeletons plays intensely in the background: ... It seems the second Halloween mark ever introduced became an offbrand skeleton. First it's Ghast and its ghoulish nature, and now we have Wraith trying to be my personality, alongside my jokes sometimes: bone dry.