BEST big sister EVER [festival]
Ardyn
Master Fighter (250)
Master Hunter (240)
Knight
Bloodletter
6 Years
Male
1056
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| Ardyn Cadeyrn Aodhán Phoenix Adravendi |
Ardyn bounced in a happy trot through the crowds, utterly comfortable around the strangers and having already made friends among the Nomads. Even some of the pups, though they would be leaving with their Chapters when the festival was over in a week or more.
His tail was an easy blur of fire behind him, leaving a light imprint in the air from the friction-induced blaze in his fur. We was a walking, living, breathing coal bed, though it was obvious that his fur was an inky black so dark he’d have been a shadow with eyes without the gently rippling, flaring light in his fur or the fiery shimmer through every hair like light on a field of grass in a gentle breeze at high noon.
He spotted a familiar set of legs ahead and picked up his pace to a sprint to catch up. Theory had caught his attention at the fighting signup, because her tail was even shorter than Laoise’s.
He bounced to a stop when he caught up, chiming a cheerful, “Hello!”
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.