Past, Present, Future [Puppy History Lessons]
Red, Redielle Pups, Open
Ardyn
Master Fighter (250)
Master Hunter (240)
Knight
Bloodletter
6 Years
Male
1056
BrienaSkysong
He’d been poking around through the crafting supplies when he heard his mother’s call. He was quick to drop the strips of leather he was fiddling with, scampering through the cave and toward the mouth in a flurry of sparking light, tail wagging in a blur as he slowed and took the steps carefully.
He was first! He’d beaten his brother and sisters to the lesson, although he could hear them coming. He took the moment of time he had to press into his mother and grandfather, placing quick kisses on their muzzles and briefly became distracted by the pooled glowing hair of his mother’s tail before he spotted the sack and smelled the meat strips.
While they were still mostly reliant on their mother’s milk, they pups had graduated to eating a little meat, though it was usually softened in water to make them easier to chew. He’d heard Paladin mentioning that back in the old days, and still sometimes in loner groups, mothers chewed the meat and swallowed it, then horked it back up for the pups. With their advanced capabilities of cooking and preparing food, he’d said, they didn’t need to rely on such instincts quite as much.
He finally took a seat in front of the two adults, glancing between them and back at his siblings as they arrived before he asked, “What’re we learning, Mum, granda?”
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.