Silver Threads of Moonlight and Fire [AW]
Ardyn
Master Fighter (250)
Master Hunter (240)
Knight
Bloodletter
6 Years
Male
1056
BrienaSkysong
| Ardyn Cadeyrn Aodhán Phoenix Adravendi |
When his mother had noticed his restless shuffling in the alcove, she’d made a decision to take him on a late-night adventure, though he’d heard her murmur to his father that she and himself were going to see Lirim’s lands. Did that mean he’d meet his cousins? They hadn’t been at the festival, if he remembered right.
He’d been thrilled at the thought of a late-night trip to somewhere new, even if they’d passed the area on the way to the festival lands, and he’d been unable to keep from bouncing in the cool autumn night air at her side, tail a bright torch as it whipped side to side, and from time to time smacking into his mother’s gleaming white haunch or flank.
When he got a first look at the valley, his bouncing stilled and he stared with wide eyes at the lands. Their cousins owned this? Of course, he knew they didn’t anymore. She’d been voicing her concerns to his father, Cairo, and Justice, and he’d been gnawing on a bone nearby. Some of what had been said had been missed over the chewing crunching of the bone in his teeth, but she’d said Lirim wasn’t there anymore, for sure.
His mother nudged him, inviting him to a race, and he bolted forward with a yip. His ink black coat blazed to life under the buffet of his own passage through the air, and behind him he could hear his mother coming after him. He partially watched his footing, lit somewhat by the glow of his coat and the cast light of his mother behind him, but he also hung back, not wanting to win too well.
In the end it was a tie, and he and his mother hot the river at just about the same time. His splash was bigger though, and he sought to add another, aimed at her face. He scored and was treated to retaliation. It felt nice to relax with his mother and be able to drop some of the weight of inheritance to the shore. Not that his parents didn’t spend time with him as their son and not just the heir, but tonight was a special adventure, and he embraced it fully. And yet, he couldn’t help but hope she still turned it into a lesson.
"Sílim go bhfuil a fhios agam cé atá uaim mar mo mheantóirí breise."
He started, then a noise made him pause, turning his head as he saw his mother’s ears flick forward.
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.