User blog comment:Deamonicdrone/Mutation Question/@comment-2253300-20130308040421/@comment-3258762-20130308214654

Actually, Truly, because of Ward, the Salamanders black skin is no longer a reaction to the climate of nocturne as a defence, but it is a deficiancy caused by it. The only real difference is basically that Ward says the Salamanders are genetically unpure because they are black.