Big Bad Kitty
Ardyn
Master Fighter (250)
Master Hunter (240)
Knight
Bloodletter
6 Years
Male
1046
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| Ardyn Cadeyrn Aodhán Phoenix Adravendi |
He was slowly graduating to patrolling alone again after his fiasco with the bear. He still had watchers, both Chrystal and Loshir were tagging along, though Loshir, he noticed, was glancing at him speculatively as the cat stalked along. Why, Ardyn couldn’t fathom. Maybe the cat was wondering if he’d take off after a bear again.
Ardyn paused to examine the wall, not for anything to do with scents, but to study the mortar. It was getting loose here, and he filed that away to tell his mother about. No doubt she already knew, but it was worth noting anyway.
As he moved on, a growl sent his hackles bristling in alarm, claws flexing out of their sheathes on all four paws as a tawny body leapt into sight on the wall. A lion. Not a lion lion, but one like Loshir, but naturally colored and not attached to a wolf. It reeked of wildness and bad intentions. It was autumn, and wolf pups were as much an option if they could be snatched as an elk calf.
This time, the boy remembered to howl an alarm before he dove to the side in time to avoid the cougar’s flying pounce from the wall. He doubled back on his hocks, twisting to slam his canines into the cat’s haunch and jerking back, letting the sharp back edge shear through flesh and hide before he backpedaled to avoid the lithe cat’s agile retaliation. Loshir was quick to dive in, too, and Chrystal pelted toward the hillock.
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.