Back to the Drawing Board [Armor Crafting]
Ardyn
Master Fighter (250)
Master Hunter (240)
Knight
Bloodletter
6 Years
Male
1046
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| Ardyn Cadeyrn Aodhán Phoenix Adravendi |
Ardyn looked up from his sketching, this time of the plates that would line his sides, grinning as he saw Coran with his snake and a sharp bone. At his brother’s question he nodded at the pattern he’d read from, saying, Armor. These will be the outer layers, but I’m thinking of looking through the metal scraps for reinforcement to put between them. I made another set, but I’m not liking how it turned out.”
He eyed the snake as Coran dropped it, adding, “What are you making?”
As the last segment was sketched, he set aside his grease chalk and plucked a blade made from the same metal scraps he was considering using. It was sharpened and he’d take the time to work a piece of wood onto the back edge, giving himself a surface to hold so he wouldn’t cut himself as he made the cuts.
The blade sank into the hide and he put pressure on it, slicing into the hide and following the lines he’d scribed. As one piece was cut out, he glanced at Coran, and grinned again as he watched his brother work at skinning the snake. “I bet Cairo would help you make a pair of bracers like his so you could skin with them a lot easier.”
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.