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Nino

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I don't know if this is intentional or a remnant of species/race tags being reworked over the years, but my character is a fox-morph, completely and unilaterally (took the full dosage of Frostfire). But the game's descriptors only ever just say vulperine(-morph), vulpine, and nothing else. It's cumbersome and breaks both the flow of the text and the immersion of the scene. It feels like the game is doing everything in its power to not say fox in any way shape or form, and that Penny is the only character allowed to be a fennec (which I would prefer to also morph into and be referred to if possible), let alone just be referred to as a fox (maybe Mitch too?)
 

Wafflesnake

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vulpine-morph is the species name as per the racial scores page, and has been since its addition (as per a 2017 revision of the page).

"sub species" differentiators have been asked for for quite a while and are unlikely to happen, there's simply too many. additionally, they would need something to test against to determine what species is being used. (what currently existing thing is there to differentiate between regular fox and fennec?)

mitch is a sionach, an actual in game species.
 

Nino

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I'm aware of what Mitch is, and I've mentioned the phrase vulpine-morph
I'm saying that only ever repeating vulpine-morph when being described in-game is awkward and repetitive
I don't remember for certain if Mitch has ever had an attribute about him described with any form of fox for an adjective, like Penny definitely has been
I'm hoping that having only one word to describe a full species morph from 2 different but closely related items Foxfire and Frostfire feels like unintended development and, whether through a nudge to check again or a request to add a smidgen of variety, this may be changed in future builds. It's not egregiously intensive to add some comparable thesaurus words for a specie's body descriptor