The following is a wall of commonly used abbreviations and acronyms in Tokotas and what they stand for. Please note that this isn't a complete list. If there are any abbreviations or acronyms you would like to see added, please put them in the Suggestions Box!

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General

• ARPG - Art Role Play Game / Group
• RNG - Random Number Generator
• Used to randomly roll things like base scoring in some areas of the group.
• Dad / Mom - The group’s owners
• BarkingBirds, and Demonicrose. These individuals monitor the needs of the group, and aid on many projects or issues that may arise.
• Manager - Area lead
• An Administrator in charge of training other administrators for the area of the group they look over.
• Admin - Administrator
• Individuals who are trained how to perform one or more tasks in the group.
• Babmin - Baby Admin
• Individuals going through the process of being trained before they are hired to the group as an Admin.
• Import - Import Image
• The base/mannequin lineart and background, designed. These may only be uploaded to your DeviantArt stash for approval and to the official masterlist on Totemspirit and Tokotna.com. These may not be thumbnailed, uploaded/embedded, etc off-site in any manner.

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• Bid - Bidding
• An auction term for the current offer.
• MI - Minimum Increase
• The smallest amount a bid is allowed to increase by.
• AB - Auto Buy
• A high set price to encourage bidding. If this payment option is selected, the sale and bid is over.
• ISO - In Search Of
• W - Wanted
• WTB - Want To Buy
• WTS - Want To Sell
• LF - Looking For
• O - Offering
• S - Selling
• FS / FT - For Sale / For Trade
• T/S - Trading or Selling
• Willing to either trade for the item or Tokota, or sell it for a flat price.
• UFS - Up For Sale
• UFT - Up For Trade
• Looking to trade the item or Tokota for something else, not sell it.
• OBO - Or Best Offer
• Used when someone is putting an item or Tokota up for sale and is willing to take the best offer made, be it higher or lower than asking, so long as it is the most appealing offer present.
• OTA - Offer To Adopt
• Make an offer for a Tokota, often used when there's no set price or currency.
• YTH / YCH - Your Tokota Here / Your Character Here
• AR / Roll - Activity Roll
• An art or literature entry of your Tokota submitted to TokoCenter to earn randomly rolled rewards.
• TT - Toko Tokens
• Tokotas’ in-game currency.
• H / F / E / C / D - Hunting, Fishing, Exploring, Caving, Diving
• PH / Primal - Primal Hunt

Descriptions

General

• RM - Rare Mane
• GB - Genobomb
• A Tokota with 5+ markings not including Marked, Collared, or Accents.
• Greg
• A Tokota with few to no markings, often times only a basecoat.
• Traitbomb
• A Tokota with a high number of Traits.
• Toko - Tokota
• Geno - Genotype
• Example: ee/aa/TT/SlSl/nM
• Gene - Genome
• A single marking in a Genotype.
• Pheno - Phenotype
• The words describing the Genotype.
• Example: Marked seal tundra
• Rareki - Rare Maned Toki
• Phys Trait - Physical Trait
• Tacked
• Refers to a tokota equipped with tack items, usually specialized.

Special Base Coats

• KoS - Keeper of Souls Tawny
• Lemm - Lemmitty (cream) Brown
• Mel - Melisandre / Melanthios Brown
• Volt / Volt Gold - Voltaire Tawny
• Jasper / Sundance - Sundance Brown (originally named Jasper
• JB / John - John Brown
• Oogie / OB - Oogie Boogie Brown

Builds and Manes

• Build
• Referring to the types of Tokotas: Toki, Normal, Dire, Akota
• 10% / 25% / 50% / 75% - Dire Tokotas
• Dire blood percentages. This percentage only matters in breeding.
• Nat - Natural Mane
• Halfie - Half Mane
• Shortie - Short Mane
• Barb - Barbary Mane
• Longki - Long Maned Toki
• Barbki - Barbary Maned Toki
• Yetki - Yeti Maned Toki
• Razorki - Razor Maned Toki
• Curlki - Curly Maned Toki
• Sphinxki - Sphinx Maned Toki
• Roughki - Rough Maned Toki
• Halfki - Half Maned Toki
• Shortki - Short Maned Toki

Markings

• MCA - Marked Collared Accents
• MCAG - Marked Collared Accents Greying
• MCAP - Marked Collared Accents Pangare
• MCAPG - Marked Collared Accents Pangare Greying
• Res - Restricted (marking)
• Restricted Greying, Restricted Seal, Restricted Lilac, Restricted Cream, Restricted Rose
• Ext - Extended (marking)
• Extended Marked, Extended Dun
• Pie / Pied - Piebald
• Wolv - Wolverine
• Thy / Thyla - Thylacine
• Vit - Vitiligo

Mutations

• Mut / Muts - Mutation
• Mel - Melanistic
• Leuc - Leucism
• Chim - Chimera
• Rev - Reversal
• Harl / Harly - Harlequin

Breeding

• PoO - Proof of Ownership / Proof
• The link to the comment that proves you own a Tokota geno or breeding slot.
• POTL - Pick Of The Litter
• Referring to a person getting the first choice pup in the litter.
• SPOTL - Second Pick Of The Litter
• Referring to a person getting the second choice pup in the litter.
• Slot
• A breeding limitation. The number of slots equals the number of times you may breed a Tokota (total lifetime slots depend on build).
• Slot Perm / Perm - Slot Permission
• A comment written by the Tokota’s owner for you to breed the Tokota.

Systems

• AC - Adoption Center
• CE / Cont. E / Cont. Event - Continuous Events
• Events run for three months of the year that are judged as they fill up.
• DC - Design Central
• DD - Design Den
• A sub-category of Design Central.
• IU - Import Updates
• A sub-category of Design Central.
• FP - Faction Points
• OAL - Official Activities Listables
• RE - Random Events
• TCA - Tokotas Cultural Association
• TCATA - TCA Taming Academy
• TP - Tribe Points
• WQ - Weekly Quest
• Basic / Standard Activity - Activities that can be participated in regardless of Hierarchy
• Exploring, Hunting, Fishing.
• Dom Activity - Dominant-only Activities
• Caving and Diving, as well as Dangerous Game Hunting.
• Totems
• Collectible prizes which provide powerful bonuses throughout the game. A player may only have 10 at a time.
• Tokotna
• The world of Tokotas, but also the name our lovely website!

Hierarchy & Fertility

• HU - Hierarchy Updates / Hierarchy Update
• A Hierarchy Update is updating the import image to reflect the different lines and background to the new or current Hierarchy.
• HP - Hierarchy Points
• The “art points” system for Tokotas.
• RoD - Rites of Dominance
• The series of three deviations needed to advance a Tokota from average hierarchy status to dominant hierarchy status.
• PoTA - Passage of The Alpha
• The series of three deviations needed to advance a Tokota from dominant hierarchy status to alpha hierarchy status.
• Sub - Submissive Hierarchy Tokota
• Avg - Average Hierarchy Tokota
• Dom - Dominant Hierarchy Tokota
• AoA - Arms of Akna
• The award given to a Tokota upon completing their Rites of Fertility. Often used interchangeably with RoF.
• RoF - Rites of Fertility / Rite of Fortitude
• Rites of Fertility are the series of three deviations needed to allow a Tokota to breed.
• Rite of Fortitude is one of the Rites of Fertility.
• RoM - Rite of Merit
• Rite of Merit is one of the Rites of Fertility.
• RoA - Rite of Alliance
• One of the Rites of Fertility
• RoS - Rite of Strength
• One of the Rites of Alliance. Affiliated with Pack Leaders, open to all players.
• RoG - Rite of Grace
• One of the Rites of Alliance. Affiliated with Prestige Breeders, open to all players.
• RoL - Rite of Legend
• One of the Rites of Alliance. Affiliated with Lore Keepers, open to all players.
• RoR - Rite of Research
• One of the Rites of Alliance. Affiliated with Knowledge Seekers, open to all players.
• RoW - Rite of Wanderlust
• One of the Rites of Alliance. Affiliated with Wilderness Trackers, open to all players.
• RoP - Rite of Prosperity
• One of the Rites of Alliance. Affiliated with Token Brokers, open to all players.

Factions

• FB / Brawl - Faction Brawl
• A reoccurring event that pits both Tokotas factions against each other for prizes.
• PB - Prestige Breeder
• The faction focused more on breeding and events.
• PL - Pack Leader
• The faction focused more on the “wild” side of Tokotas.
• LK - Lore Keeper
• The faction focused on respect for the past and the spirits.
• KS - Knowledge Seeker
• The faction focused on answers and understanding.
• WT - Wilderness Tracker
• The faction focused on journeys and adventure.
• TB - Token Broker
• The faction focused on banking and industry.

Items

• A / SoA - Stone of Aippaq
• Can be used in place of Passage of the Alpha requirements and in Crafting.
• Boxolates - Box of Chocolates
• Used in Breeding to reduce penalties of inbreeding.
• CC - Close Care
• Used in Dire x Dire only breedings.
• Craft Mats / Mats - Crafting Materials
• Materials used for Crafting, denoted by a Hammer symbol on Tokotna.
• DE - Dark Elixir
• EH - Elemental Heart
• Fert Supps / Supps - Fertility Supplements
• FGM - Forged Gold Medal
• Can be used in place of Passage of the Alpha requirements.
• Iwa / Iwa Stone - Iwalani Stone
• Lav - Lavender
• LE - Light Elixir
• SPW - Soul Pool Water
• Meta Mix - Metamorphosis Mixture
• Allows the gender of an unused genotype to be changed once.
• Potatoes - PoTA Token
• A special token earned by completing Passage of The Alpha.
• Sik Stone - Sikrinerk Stone
• Siv Charm - Sivoganik Charm
• TT - Toko Tokens
• The in-game currency of Tokotas (Not to be confused with Trait Tokens).
• TTT - Tiny Terror Tincture

Traits

• UT - Unique Trait
• AiFo - Aippaq's Fortune
• AmBless - Amber's Blessing
• AncB - Ancient Blood
• BB - Brother Bear
• BigB - Big Boned
• Bonds - Aippaq's Bonds
• BRight - Birthright
• CG - Crafting Genie
• CW - Creature Whisperer
• Eqpd - Equipped
• EDB - Exemplary Dire Blood
• Ex Conf - Excellent Conformation
• Finders - Finders Keepers
• GAB - Gentle Akota Bloodlines
• GD - Gold Digger
• Inherit - Aippaq's Inheritance
• Lead - Leadership
• MD - Mauja's Draw
• Med - Medaitor
• NaS - Nanook's Shadow
• OoBless - Oona's Blessing
• OttG - Offering to the Gods
• Pass - Passionate
• PH / Primal - Primal Hunter
• Pop - Popular
• PS - Peaceful Soul
• QL - Quick Learner
• Rep - Representative
• SeL - Sedna's Light
• SmSt - Small Stature
• Soc - Social
• SS - Superstar
• SW - Snow White
• Temp - Temperament
• TL - Talented Lineage
• Totemic - Totemic Blessing
• WH / WHrt - Wild Heart
• I / II - One / Two
• The level of some traits that may increase with Hierarchy or with an Elemental Heart.

Retired Terms

• Taco - Tokota
• An early Tokotas days joke on a misspelling of the name Tokotas.
• RoH - Rite of the Hunt
• One of the original Rites of Fertility for Pack Leaders.
• RoK - Rite of Knowledge
• One of the original Rites of Fertility for Prestige Breeders.