Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-178.122.97.218-20191107230104/@comment-33705615-20191108123343

You're right, only artists (or, more precisely, the creators of holiday dragons) can have spriter's alts. That's exactly why many users collect their offspring: the descendants of spriter's alts are considered very rare and precious especially if the lineage is short or contains multiple spriter's alt ancestors.

It's common that more than one artist work on the sprites of a holiday dragon, in which case they usually have differently coloured spriter's alts. Someone may be looking for offspring from a specific alt dragon and so a note of the artist is needed.

I agree that the terminology needs updating! Actually I was going to add something there a while ago but since the page says that all information is taken from the forum thread I wasn't sure if I should just go and edit it myself.