Editing WS:Felines Races (section)

===Color Variations===
====Gold====
A gold tiger displays a slightly lighter colour, the fur appearing much closer to gold.  One family to the North is known for this colouring and it is noted little more than a red-headed human would be.  A little unusual, a little different, the occasional bit of teasing, but nothing to note the individual as alien.

====White====
A white tiger is not an albino.  It is merely a combination of the correct parents.  It still has the normal stripe pattern although there are usually substantially less stripes in the pattern.  A birth of such cubs is rare but hardly unheard of, and is as much an accepted variation as golden or blue tigers.  A white tiger is mythologically considered more likely to be capable of channelling magic, but this is not borne out by the evidence.
====Albino====
True albinos rarely survive childhood.  The mutation tends to be accompanied by a poor immune system, slower growth and a generally less impressive physique.

====Melanistic Tigers====
Melanistic, or all black, Torareichou, with the stripes usually a strange ghosting above the black base colour, are considered demonic and evil.  Any cub born exhibiting this colouration will be killed after a week if the colouring does not change.  Mythology speaks of the evil that such creatures will wreak.

A cub born with melanistic colouring that does change will be a great mage.  Or insane.

A cub born with melanistic colouring that does not change and somehow survives will be both.

There are perhaps five a century born black.  In theory none have survived.  In practice, the exceptionally long-lived black tigers, with easily five times the lifespan of even normal tigers, tend to feel the coming birth of a new cub and attend, rescuing the cub.  The stories of cubs whose colouring changes are entirely the result of this changeling activity.