This is not the official colour of TeaTigers, this is just a generic coat colour I skipped adding stripes on the front/back profile to concentrate on more important details.
This is a Open Species owned by me.
Tea Tigers are a mix of Tiger and Asian dragons.
----------------------- History
' Legend tells that Long ago when the celestial beings watched over the world, there lived clans of of feral Tigers. These social clans held celebrations throughout the year and hunted in order to offer gifts to there sky gods. On a starry night during one of the celebrations, a Dragon fell from the sky. He was the wind god, and had lost a battle with a demon who was trying to take over the god domain. The Tigers rushed to his aid and without second thought took him in. There kind acts and generosity touched the god, and when he regained the strenght to join the heavens once more he bestowed his powers on the tiger clans that helped him, thus creating the Tea Tigers '
There name stems from there love of Tea leaves. Long before they were granted the powers of the wind god, they were cultivating Tea. They sell it to other species and use it in special ceramonies. It is there most abundent grown crop and is highly prized by the species who drink it in black or green form.
When the wind god granted the T-Tigers power, he also bestowed apon them the ability to use magic. Over the years they have become highly skilled at useing this magic. T-Tigers of the same element couple together and produce offspring bearing the same elements of the parents. A cub born from a couple from different breed will either turn out exactly as the father or exactly as the mother with there respective element.
They are civil beings, often solving disputes with cups of Tea. However they are not to be considered an easy target, afterall they were blessed with there Dragon mix by the Wind god himself. And so armed with brute strenght, magic, sharp claws/fanfs, and aerial capabilities they can quickly over come there foes.
Also being pridefull creatures they put alot of effort into keeping there wings and fur in top condition. Tea tigers can paint themselves different colours, this is also how they decorate there white wings and horns. More elaberote designs are usually saved for festivals.
-------------------- Appearence
A tea tigers body is stocky, well built and carries traits from both the tiger and asian dragons. The most notable feature being there set of two wings. There Primary back wings and there secondary leg wings, both are often painted to match themselves because all Tea Tiger Are born with white feathered wings. They are usually painted exoticlly for special occasions like festivals. There secondary wings help them keep in control during flight and during stormy weather aswell as assist in vertical take of and landing. There arm feathers also aid in steadying and slowing it down during flight.
Tea Tigers are 'tiger striped'. This is a characteristic in all Tea Tigers, there are no spotted or clouded varieties. There heads are primarily Tiger shaped along with the ears, nose and eyes.
Every Tea Tiger can be born with horns, some often grow to resemble antlers. If a horn is broken, then both horns are shed and regrown. Both males and females can grow horns like this. There digigrade legs are quite short and dragon like, with three toes ending in large retractable claws. There handpaws on the other hand are completly feline, five fingers and retractable claws.
Many Tea Tigers have a full lenght of long fur running down there back, its sometimes refered to as a Mane but is not like a lions mane. This fur runs down the entire lenght of the body and tail. in addition, they also have a 'Y' formation of fur on there stomachs leading into the groin region. There tails are large and often drag along the floor, only the tip raised to present the puff of fur on the end of it.
The species quite often have the symbol of the Wind god tattood somewhere on the body, or simply the wind symbol (the spiral). They have a strong faith and believe the wind god gave its power and symbol to the tigers, so during festive occassions there wings are painted with symbols and colours
----------------------------- Tea Tiger Breeds
There are only Tea 'Tigers'. There are no 'Tea Cheetah/ jaguar/ lion/ ocolot/ lynx/ leopards' There is no way to cross breed Tea tigers with other animals.
There are Four varieties of Tea Tiger, each slightly different to eachother. Whe creating a Tea Tiger, choose a variation to work from first. The Magical element of one variation cant be used by another. Example, Lowland Tea Tigers cant use fire Or wayer magic.
Lowland/Plains:
These Tea tigers are generally smaller in build to others and have fewer stripes and smallest horns of the four variations. They are very popular tea merchants. They do the majority of the tea picking and growing. They master the element of Earth.
Bamboo forests:
These tigers have the densest amount of stripes, which aids there camoflage in the dark bamboo forests. They tend to have shorter tails but the largest horns of the four variations. There coats are darker then other tea tigers due to living in mostly shade
They are expert herbalists and mushroom growers. They harvest these and bamboo shoots as there crop. Small openings in bamboo are temperarily used to grow tea. They master the element of Air.
Coastal:
Skilled in swimming, They have an oily fur similar to otters which helps keep them dry. They are usually smaller in build which aids there streamline. There horns are generally small and single spiked.
They are the fisherman and pride themselves in there ability to catch fish. They also harvest seaweed which is used in sushi. They do not grow tea. They master the element of Water.
Moutain /Snow:
Like the lowland variety, moutain variety the have less stripes as they live amoungst snow. There coat colour is light / dull aswell. They Have the longest tails have dense doible layer coat to keep warm in the snow.
They harvest tougher crops such as Ice berries and Snow Drops (a type of cold loving radish). They cannot grow Tea here. They master both the element of Fire.
The royal family are Mountain Tea Tigers who weild both fire and ice magic.
------------------------- Acceptable and not Acceptable designs.
If you choose to make a Tea Tiger Fursona/Chatacter, i have to confirm that its design is acceptable. If it fails then i will ask you you change the design. DO NOT steal other artists fursona designs, such as Telephone/Radio the Angel Dragons.
