So I'm looking for opinions on what would be considered a 'Purebred' pet.

My questions are;

1: If you breed a regenerated pet that has been altered to look exactly like a tagged pet by copying the colors of the tagged pet, with said tagged pet, would the offspring be considered pure?

2: If you breed a tagged pet with a pet you have generated using an essence to look identical to said tagged pet, is the offspring considered pure?

3: If you breed a tagged pet with a tagged pet of a different type, Example; Breeding a Nether Frost Ny'Vene with an Aurora Ny'Vene, would that offspring be considered a purebred pet?

With certain tagged pets not being very common, like wheel pets and other exclusives, there are certain traits that haven't popped up in their line. And the only way to get them is to sometimes generate, or, re-generate a duplicate with the desired traits.
So my last question is, does that effect the value or desire for that offspring?

Please ping me your answers and opinions on this topic

Please note this thread is for opinions and advise only! This thread is not a debate! Please respect everyone's individual opinions!

In general, the idea of purebred themed in the Sylestia community has had the connotation of being bred purely from one theme going back to the (usually tagged), original pets that were available during a certain festival or other holiday.

1. This would not be a purebred themed. The regenerated pet (unless it was already a purebred of that theme) would just be a pet that happened to have the same colours as a themed pet. Calling this pet's offspring 'purebred themed' would be misleading and may lead to people becoming angry over what they might see as deception.

2. Similarly to the above, this would not be a purebred themed. It would be more along the lines of a personal project pet. For example, I created a personal project design entitled 'warlock's familiar vulnyx' quite a long time ago. I then submitted the colours of that personal project as a theme idea and it was chosen. My original 6v pair of Warlock's Familiar vulnyxes would not be purebred themed, even though they have the same colour scheme as the tagged, themed pets of the same name. If I bred my original Warlock's Familiars with tagged or purebred WFs, it might not be immediately obvious that they were not PB (since all ancestors would look right until you got to the non-starred originators), but I would never market them as PB (and make a distinction in their entry in my project thread accordingly).

3. This would also not be a purebred offspring either, as it is taking two different themes (or 'breeds' if you want to use a real-world example) and putting them together. This would be considered a cross-breed, not a purebreed. While some crossbred themes are quite pretty, I have yet to see any kind of market for them that is comparable to the purebred market.

The whole worth of a purebred themed sylesti is the difficulty of breeding only from the gene pool that was caught (or otherwise obtained) during the festival. If a purebred could be obtained from merely generating, or regenerating, a pet to look like a theme, the perceived worth of such sylesties would degrade, I'm sure. This is also why there can be such high prices on disruptors and such. For some themes, disruptors are the only way to get new traits into the themed, and purebred, gene pools. Otherwise, a lookalike could be generated and bred in, making the access to new traits much easier. Also, it would make getting the right traits for a project infinitely easier.

1. "Pure" by definition means: not mixed or adulterated with any other substance or material. Therefore a pet whose lineage does not lead to tagged ancestors can not create a purebred offspring. Short answer: absolutely not.

2. Same as 1.

3. Again, look at the definition of "pure". Mixing themes doesn't result in a purebred.

4. You use what you have available to create the most desirable outcome. If a trait isn't in the theme then so be it and accept it. Value is always subjective. If a trait you want is not available in the theme then of course to you that theme is undesirable.

Those are my opinions, supported by the concrete dictionary definition of "pure".