Springtime's Feast [Valhallan Festival Feast]
Open To All! Come and eat
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 getting a freshening up from Cairo, and finally, Ardyn arrived in a fiery blur of night-black fur, grinning in passing to the strange woman and piping a “hello” before he nestled up beside his mother, staring at all the food with wide mismatched fore and ice eyes before he investigated and sniffed his way through.
One large wooden bowl that had been turned from a burl of oak – not that he in his young age had any idea the level of craftsmanship that had gone into hewing out the burl and sandrubbing it into a shiny smoothness before oiling it – steamed with a meaty stew that particularly enticed his nose and sent his tongue to drowning in anticipation, and with some help from Ayodele, he soon had a serving and was tucked beside his brilliant white mother, eating dedicatedly, though his eyes watched those who came.
Eventually his belly was comfortably full and he felt thirst tugging at him. However, the first liquid he went for his mother quickly intervened with one of those laughs that said he’d tried to go for something only grownups were supposed to eat, like the herb stock.
He was nudged to a bowl of water that he lapped gratefully, before tucking himself against her hip, watching the feasting wolves with the dreamy gaze of the well-fed.
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.