Whack-A-What?
Ardyn
Master Fighter (250)
Master Hunter (240)
Knight
Bloodletter
6 Years
Male
1056
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| Ardyn Cadeyrn Aodhán Phoenix Adravendi |
Ardyn was glad he and his mom did long patrols and runs. She worked him hard, though with breaks. She did the same with his siblings, but he was the one who would lead someday, and so he needed to be in peak condition, able to travel long distances. His journey to the festival grounds had been tiring, but since then, he’d been training with his mother, and this day, he was only slightly panting. It was more from the heat of the day on his black coat.
He sort of envied Coran for his pale coloring, which must have been much cooler in the heat of the day than solid blackest of black. But he didn’t hold that flicker against his brother. Coran was his best friend as well as his brother.
He glanced back to Aoife and Lee, wagging his tail in encouragement before prancing ahead to playfully pounce at their mother’s tail. He was already level with her thigh at the shoulder, and was in a growth spurt as Autumn drew closer.
Voices ahead halted him mid-leap, and he crashed into his mother’s shimmering hind leg, knocking a few glowing hairs from her coat. With the season wearing toward autumn, their coats would be shedding soon. But thoughts about that were way over his head, and he was far more interested in the figures he saw.
He glanced at his mother and nodded at her quiet command, following and glancing back at his brother and sisters to be sure they were following, too.
His mother called out to the figures, or one of them. Which was Harbringr? The man or the two boys?
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.