Beary Unfortunate
Ardyn
Ardyn
Master Fighter (250)
Master Hunter (240)
Knight
Bloodletter
6 Years
Male
1056
BrienaSkysong
| Ardyn Cadeyrn Aodhán Phoenix Adravendi |
The two boys fell into the dance of tag-teaming a predator much larger than they were. The pale male scored a hit, and the bear bucked as it swiped for the wolf on the ground, and Ardyn released its scruff with one hand to rake extended clawed fingers over the opposite side of its face from its newly inflicted wound.
The bear thundered, rearing and twisting, trying to rub the ink-black, fiery wolf off his back on a rock. Ardyn scrambled catlike up its back, clinging to its neck and slashing his sharp edged and pointed canines for the bear’s neck before it twisted just right and, once again, he found himself sailing through the air like a black meteor, thrown by a bear for the second time in his short life.
He tried to twist in the air like he’d seen his mother’s mountain lion guard do, and managed to come down paws first, staggering several steps to the side as his limbs bent to take the shock.
Lyr plummeted with a crawk and jabbed the bear between the ears with his thick beak, swooping out of the way as he yanked at the bear's fur, trying to pull its attention from the boys so the pups could regroup.
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.