Haring Straight Into a Muck-Up [P]
Ardyn
Master Fighter (250)
Master Hunter (240)
Knight
Bloodletter
6 Years
Male
1046
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| Ardyn Cadeyrn Aodhán Phoenix Adravendi |
Cairo’s answer was bolstering, though Ardyn wasn’t quite sure he understood the answer the man offered him. A rabbit was a rabbit, right? Shouldn’t it smell just like all the other rabbits? But Cairo had visible faith in his ability, and Ardyn wanted to prove that faith right.
Humming to himself, a quick hmm, he lowered his nose and went back to sniffing, and realized that the rabbit he’d been tracking for the past thirty minutes did seem to stand out against the crowd. It was a little like catching his parents’ scents on one of the wolf trails in the Hillock woods. Familiar because he’d been smelling them all his life.
Once he caught onto that familiarity, he glued himself to the scent, and the trail finally ended – disappointingly – at a burrow hole, the rabbit out of reach. He stepped back and stared at the hole with a brief pout, then grinned up at Cairo. “I found his home!”
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.