Fire in the Morning
Ardyn
Master Fighter (250)
Master Hunter (240)
Knight
Bloodletter
6 Years
Male
1056
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| Ardyn Cadeyrn Aodhán Phoenix Adravendi |
His mother worked through drill with him a last time before stepping back with a nod. It was an early morning, crisp and crunchy with frost, and she’d taken him to the Field to find a sparring partner. He’d picked the spot, and now Aurielle moved to an area out of the way as Ardyn tipped his muzzle to the sky and howled for a partner, tail torching the air with a thread of excitement as he looked around, waiting to see what would come.
Lyr clucked, landing on Ardyn’s back while they waited to see who would come to spar. The boy and Raven had been working on working together as a team, and they were getting pretty well coordinated, though they had a long way to go before they were seamless.
He’d hoped to be using his first armor today but he’d found an issue with the fit, so it sat at home, leaving him with his natural tools and weapons.
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.