The Ring of Fire!
Ardyn!
Ardyn
Master Fighter (250)
Master Hunter (240)
Knight
Bloodletter
6 Years
Male
1056
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| Ardyn Cadeyrn Aodhán Phoenix Adravendi |
His victory was short-lived, as Dagrun drew the bear’s ire with a flaming stick to the butt. Cairo dove in as the bear swept Halla off her paws, latching onto the side of the bear’s thickly furred face and raking his paw over its muzzle, the bear claws on his bracer leaving ragged furrows in its skin, baring bloodied bone.
Ardyn launched in from behind, taking what was quickly becoming his favorite method of attack on bears – and his mother would most certainly groan at the idea that he’d fought enough bears by now to even have a favorite method – landing squarely on the distracted bear’s back and clawing his way like a tenacious kittenup its back to its shoulders, raking its neck with his sabered canines as he gripped with his fingers around its ruff.
The ursine bellowed and shook, rearing as it aimed a swipe at Cairo’s side. The chocolate splotched man dropped from the bear’s face and ducked under the paw, diving in and clamping his teeth shut on its bared gut, shaking his head from side to side. Ardyn, meanwhile, clung to the bear’s back like a bronc-rider, taking a firmer bite to avoid being thrown.
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.