Guild Wars 2

Gealstrix.7629:

Zeefa.3915:

You seem to be confusing albino with just being white. Albinos lack picment in the body, meaning lack of color. This causes animals (and people) to be white skinned/furred, but not just that. An albino also have red eyes, as for some reason said lack of picment causes eyes to be red (think white bunny with red eyes = albino). Since I doubt that everyone also went down the red eyes road on their white charr, albino seems like an incorrect term. Being white alone does not equal albino.

Nah Zeefa you are wrong on that, “albino”, latin for white person/thing, means that the person’s genes that produce brown melanin pigment are shut off completely; in native Africans the genes are turned on completely and they are turned on part of the way, to varying degrees, in other ethnicities (depending on latitude), or activated after exposure to UV light.
However, depending on the species, they don’t have red eyes, the only one’s I’ve seen with red eyes are rodents, I have blue eyes.
A pure white char without brown marks would probably be an albino.

Maybe, maybe not. Albinism is fairly complex, especially when talking about cats. As someone who breeds colourpoint varieties of cats (a form of albinism) and an owner of a ‘true’ albino cat, all I can say is the genetics of cat coloration is fascinating. http://www.messybeast.com/whitecat.htm For any and all who may be interested.