Unholy Noises
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Ardyn
Master Fighter (250)
Master Hunter (240)
Knight
Bloodletter
6 Years
Male
1051
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| Ardyn Adravendi |
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He leapt from the raft, rope clamped in his teeth. It took some hauling, but once Lunira and Sädir joined in, the raft was ashore and out of range of the tide.
Ardyn stretched lengthily, shaking out his coat with a rattle of fur and armor and tinkle of bells.
It was time to see if the pig traps he’d set a few days ago had snagged any catches.
He ambled along the trail worn into the jungle, eyes scanning from side to side, both keeping watch for danger and enjoying the sights.
Then his ears clamped down against a furious screech. Bingo, pig acquired and boy it was mad.
He came upon the animal, ears flat to dampen the unholy noise the animal was emitting. The boar was caught in a sturdy snare by one back hock, racing forward and twanging back when it hit the end and the sturdy sapling, bent under the pull, snapped back to drag its catch back into the scrabbled wallow of dirt, sand, leaf litter, leftover bait grains, and pig feces.
Lunira and Sädir circled around and between the three of them, the board was wrestled down and dispatched.
Blessed silence.
Ardyn let his ringing ears relax back to their natural upright position and bent, slashing the animals throat and hoisting it up to hang where it could bleed out while he prepped for processing the animal.
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.