Ive been seeing themed pets being mentioned a lot. What exactly are themed pets? And how do you get/make them? Thanks!

They're pets that have a specific color palette. For the most part, they can have any trait. They have a tag in their info box thing that tells you what theme they are. If it has a gold star, it's what's called a Tagged theme, it's a first-generation pet of it's theme. Pets with a blue star are Purebred Themes, and are the decendants of the tagged pets.

If you breed two pets of the same theme together, you get another pet of that theme! (they are purebred instead of Tagged though) Breeding a themed & nonthemed pet, or two pets of different themes, will result in an offspring that is not themed. The only exception are the Dawnbreaker and Frostkeeper Aeridinies, who can breed together to produce a third theme, the Mistwarden Aeridini

Taggeds are in general worth a bit more, and some people only collect the tagged ones. I have no preference and often times prefer purebred themes, they often are easier to get and have been bred to have more traits.

Themes can be found during festivals & events, can be found rarely in the Lost Grove region, and can be purchased from the Advanced Search!

Some themes have a specific restricted trait set, for example the Cute Witch Zolnixi. These are the Majestic catalysts during festivals.

This pretty boi is a tagged Dawning Equinox Zolnixi:

https://www.sylestia.com/view/pets/?petid=5717240

He's a purebred Heart's Desire Ferrikki:

https://www.sylestia.com/view/pets/?petid=5878142

And this is a Cute Witch Zolnixi, a theme with a restricted trait set:

https://www.sylestia.com/view/pets/?petid=5485617

Mutators and disruptors can be used to give normal themes some Restricted Traits (as shown with the rikki, who has Victorian Tail), but Restricted Trait themes can only have the restricted traits of their set.

While themes all have a certain color palette, you can redye them and they still remain themed. This is typically only done to finished restricted trait theme projects and max stats, and besides that will typically devalue the pet. The fun part about redye themes is that you can reset the colors of their offspring and therefore be able to produce normal and recolor offspring from the same pair!

I hope I wasn't too confusing XD

Oh, thank you! That helped me a lot