Pale Spring Sun (TRADE FAIR)
open to all packs/loners
Ardyn
Master Fighter (250)
Master Hunter (240)
Knight
Bloodletter
6 Years
Male
1056
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| Ardyn Cadeyrn Aodhán Phoenix Adravendi |
He’d been dozing when his mother nudged him awake. After a delicious romp for their first time out of the cave, the pups had taken a few more trips into the ravine with their father or grandfather, or Cairo or Paladin. But when his mother said they were going to a fair? Ardyn felt a vibrant thrill in his veins as he popped to his paws, unable to resist his mother’s tail, though he was still learning to coordinate his feet and pouncing.
It was a long trip, and he took in the whole range of new sights and smells with a giddy abandon, occasionally nudged back into line by Cairo or his father. And then they were approaching wolves. A lot of wolves. And probably the biggest wolf he’d ever seen. He had sabers like Da’s, too.
Ardyn, however, needed a breather before he could really indulge in giving everyone a better look. Cairo was soon to flop along with Ardyn and his siblings.
One thing about being young was that one’s batteries recharged quickly. He’d had a good nap in the den, and while the trip to the fair had worn him out, it was only a surface level tiredness, and soon enough, he was sitting up, eyes brought again and looking around at all the strangers.
Once he'd studied each face he spotted his grandfather and Paladin as they arrived, and pounced his grandsire's crimson paws as the older man came to take a seat.
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.