Flame Dancer
Ardyn
Master Fighter (250)
Master Hunter (240)
Knight
Bloodletter
6 Years
Male
1046
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| Ardyn Cadeyrn Aodhán Phoenix Adravendi |
Ardyn squinted against the driving snow and wind as he padded to the meeting boulder. The weather was rough, but he wanted to be a master of fighting, no matter the weather or conditions beneath his feet.
As he reached the boulder, he shook himself, armor rattling. He wore only the armor and his bracers, cloak hanging on one of the pegs on the wall in the cave system. The lemurs and mandrill monkeys had carved little holes into the stone, and inserted sections of saplings, cut at places where branches came out to form hooks.
He stretched slowly, working his muscles, warming up, until he felt limbered and ready, and then he lifted his muzzle and howled into the snow-laden wind, tail wagging briefly. Who in the pack would come spar him? Coran, for round two? Maybe Rhaegara, or Cairo, or maybe Caelia? Names ran through his mind as he wiggled with anticipation.
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.