Bring in the Wood
Ardyn
Master Fighter (250)
Master Hunter (240)
Knight
Bloodletter
6 Years
Male
1051
BrienaSkysong
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Wood rattled in the four large baskets draped over Ardyn’s back to hang at his sides as he padded through the passage in the wall, tail flowing as he made his way toward the hillock. Winter would be there before they knew and he wanted to be sure Valhalla’s common fire was well stocked. He’d been getting reports from Lyr’s ravens that there were strange happenings on the rise, and he wanted to be ready for whatever the world had in mind.
He dropped his rump to the ground and pulled the two sets of wood baskets from his back to rest against the cave wall as he entered the fire chamber. He’d sort the wood into burning and kindling later.
For now, he stretched the kinks from his back and neck, then strolled from the fire chamber and back out into the main chamber, peering into the alcoves to see who was in today, or had returned while he was out gathering wood alone.
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.