Bison's Muddy Blissfest
Ardyn
Master Fighter (250)
Master Hunter (240)
Knight
Bloodletter
6 Years
Male
1046
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| Ardyn Cadeyrn Aodhán Phoenix Adravendi |
The bison wallowed in the mud-pit, rolling and flinging the stuff about, clearly in a world of bliss as Ardyn watched from a safe distance, perched on a tall rock. He wasn’t hunting, per-say, merely watching and finding amusement at the huge beast’s simple pleasure.
The animal was of the simpler minded kind of animal, rather than the higher-minded animals such as Taliesyn and the wolves that called the two continents and beyond home. It was an interesting separation. There were deer who were simple deer, and deer who were… more.
What was it that decided who would become more intelligent? Was it breeding and genetics?
The bull rolled a last time and heaved himself to his hooves, shaggy hump plastered with black mud, and Ardyn watched the beast amble away with a low grunt to rejoin the small bachelor herd. A small squabble broke out among the animals, mostly play tussles.
Ardyn’s mind, meanwhile, shifted to other matters, such as the festival his mother intended to host in his own honor. He’d go along with the festival simply because he enjoyed the bustle of many wolves, and the atmosphere charged with good humor and friendly challenge. Games like those held by the coydogs, maybe. A tournament if enough came to make a show of it…
His long toes stretched and relaxed with a lazy flex of his dark claws as his eyes shifted westward, considering locales. But perhaps a more central location would be better, making less of a journey for the southern and eastern packs…
Walk ---- "Speak" ---- "Labhair an Sean-Teanga." ---- "Hear" ---- Think |
Ardyn at first glance is as black as can be imagined with a raven sheen.
Closer inspection proves that he shimmers in fire tones in every hair on his hide right down to his lashes.
More obviously, he glows like a bed of coals and flames with every movement and brush of fur. His tail is usually wagging, so blazes like a torch.
His adult teeth are in and his saber canines have grown to their full length (see profile). His mane and tail hair have grown to full length, as well as being lightweight and easily buffeted by breezes.
A look at his front paws will give the impression of hands, with his dew claw dropped low and lengthened into a functioning thumb, and his toes elongated into fingers. He has retractable, solid black cat-like claws on every paw.
Ardyn has developed a glowing mast of intricate markings in fire and ice colors over his face, symmetrical over the last seasons of Year 17 (see profile for details). During hunts or raids/sieges, he will smudge them out with black soot to cover the glow, otherwise, they are bright enough to note at first direct glance at his face. Not all his artwork currently portrays the mask markings.
He is also often bedecked in beads, small bells, feathers in blues, ribbons and braids thanks to the Ooze Event of Halloween 2021, and the Coathanger item that he got. The accessories generally are seen most in his mane and tail hair. He removes the brighter items and bells for hunts or battle.