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 |
They weren’t left waiting too long before a thin pup came into sight. Ardyn’s head cocked. While her light was no competition to his mother’s, the glow in her coat was evident. But when he looked beyond the girl, he saw no adult quietly hanging back as his mother was doing, giving the two pups space to duke it out.
Nevertheless, his tail waved easily, flaring with extra heat as he halfway play-bowed, grinning in his usual ‘I know no strangers’ manner. She had claws like his and Aoife’s too!
“Sure! I’m Ardyn Adravendi, and that’s my mom. You want the first move?” Not only did he prefer intercepting an attack more, it was also polite. Granted had circumstances been ‘you are a trespasser on the pack lands’ he’d be the first to dive in.
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.