skill level zero
set during trade fair
Ardyn
Master Fighter (250)
Master Hunter (240)
Knight
Bloodletter
6 Years
Male
1051
BrienaSkysong
| Ardyn Cadeyrn Aodhán Phoenix Adravendi |
His head cocked, fur flaring around his neck and ears as she pushed away the stick. “No, you did make something. See, you can poke holes in the hide with the pointy end you made, see?”
He reached out, picked up the stick in his nimble hand-paw, and demonstrated, poking a hole in one of his rabbit pelts, twisting the stick a bit, beaming at the slightly older girl-pup as he showed her the fresh hole then sticking his tongue out to the side as he wracked his memory for the term. “Mum calls them… awls?”
At her question, though, he wiggled with a full-body flare of fire down his sides as he spread out the pelts in a row. “I’ve been watching my da and Cai-rho craft armor. They make… panels out of pieces of hide, and attach them with strips of leather and hide laces.”
He demonstrated again, firebrand tail thumping the ground as his nimble paws moved the pelts into a semblance similar to what his elders produced. It was like a primitive, hairy version of the adult’s graceful, hardened leather armor, and he glanced at the girl, eyes bright as he watched to see if she liked the demonstration.
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.