Haring Straight Into a Muck-Up [P]
Ardyn
Master Fighter (250)
Master Hunter (240)
Knight
Bloodletter
6 Years
Male
1056
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| Ardyn Cadeyrn Aodhán Phoenix Adravendi |
He bounced after Cairo’s scent, firebrand tail flailing in the air as he tracked the man. Little did he know he was going to interrupt a hunt for hares. Sure enough, the growing boy pounced out of the tall grassed with a yap, clamping his forelegs around the Adravendi’s left hind leg, jaws catching his bi-chocolate tail.
He felt his quarry jolt, and then there were brown, long eared creatures bolting in all directions, down the holes into their warrens, and Cairo turned and gave him such a look of exasperated, affectionate disappointment. Ardyn’s tail slowed, gradually falling into a careful tok-tok as he realized he must have just messed up big time.
But Cai wasn’t shouting at him, and at the man’s gesture, Ardyn let go and slipped up next to him. “I’m sorry, Cairo… I didn’t know.” His ears drooped back, eyes dropping away as he looked at the now hareless grassland clearing.
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.