Sketchy-Sketching [Friendly Carnie AW]
Ardyn
Master Fighter (250)
Master Hunter (240)
Knight
Bloodletter
6 Years
Male
1056
BrienaSkysong
| Ardyn Cadeyrn Aodhán Phoenix Adravendi |
Ardyn had struck out on the dart toss, but the darts had given the young King food for thought and he’d found a place out of the way, pulling a small roll of parchment and a charcoal stick from one of his pouches and settling, stick twiddling between his long digits as he considered the blank page before sketching a rough idea for a hunting dart.
Lyr perched above him, watching both the crowd and his friend with interest as the young king refined the sketch, letting the idea form. There was no guarantee it would work, but he figured it was going to be fun to try out.
Evening was falling, but the combination of light from the carnival and his own fiery glow were enough to see by easily, and he hummed thoughtfully as he leaned back, shaking a lock of his own mane over the page to kindle a brighter glow and examine the sketch.
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.
Birna folded the hide and after gingerly picking it up in her jaws she moved to the edge of the festival to work on tanning the hide. It was a mule deer hide and she didn't know yet what she wished to do with it. She had a number of hides to line her den now so this one she planned to use to craft something, maybe as a gift for her tournament partner. She wasn't quite sure yet.
Birna found a good place to set up shop and she laid out the hide with the fur side down and the flesh side up. Moving a few rocks onto each corner she used a scapula and her dexterous paws to scrap at the hide, occasionally pausing to use her sandpaper tongue to clean off the excess fat and flesh.
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