====== Genes ======

Everyone born has genes. They come from your two parents and you cannot change them.

===== How you get them =====

You carry two copies of everything, one from each parent. Each parent passes on one of their two, at random.

  * A dominant trait shows if you have one copy.
  * A recessive trait shows only if you have two.

So you carry recessives you cannot see, and so does everyone else. Two carriers can have a child who shows it.

===== Seeing yours =====

Use an Analysis scroll. It writes you a book listing what you show and what you carry.

Nothing else tells you. You cannot tell by looking at someone.

===== Inbreeding =====

Two related parents are more likely to match up the same recessive, so bad traits surface.

It also costs the child hearts. Unrelated parents give 23. Full siblings give 17.

===== Mutations =====

Births can throw a new trait that neither parent had. It is uncommon.

Inbreeding makes it much more likely. That is the one thing inbreeding is good for.

===== Traits that show =====

''calm_aura'', ''dragongaze'', ''elderlung'', ''green_thumb'', ''moonblessed'', ''skullboundsinew'',
''sleeplessgait'', ''wardenmarrow''

===== Traits that hide =====

''barren_blood'', ''brittle'', ''food_allergy'', ''picky_palate'', ''sterile_strain'', ''the_shakes'', ''unease''

===== Traits that blend =====

Size, speed and hunger do not switch on or off. You land somewhere between your parents.

Size runs from about 1.5 blocks to about 2.5 blocks. A tall enough player will not fit through a
2-block gap.

===== Founder perks =====

Three traits only founders start with: ''calm_aura'', ''green_thumb'', ''moonblessed''. They are inherited
normally after that, and they are never rolled as mutations.

===== Mob genes =====

Capturing a mob's soul can put its blood into your line. See [[souls|Souls]].