Bearskins
Ardyn
Ardyn
Master Fighter (250)
Master Hunter (240)
Knight
Bloodletter
6 Years
Male
1056
BrienaSkysong
| Ardyn Cadeyrn Aodhán Phoenix Adravendi |
It wasn’t his mother that arrived first, but a tan and dark colored man with blue eyes, though the hawk above was the first indicator. Ardyn briefly glimpsed the stranger as he landed on the bear’s back.
He took a tighter grip with his nimble forepaws, finger-like toes twisting around the bear’s thick fur, claws scything deeper as the boy wrenched his head from side to side on the bear’s flesh, canines slicing through the meat, blood bursting in his mouth as he released the bite and pushed himself farther up as the bear twisted again.
Loshir fell away from the bear, circling to once again barrel into the bear’s side, claws slashing the beast’s ribs and hip. The bear had given up bellowing, and guttural snarls rolled like thunder from between its teeth as it sought to slap Drachen again with a big paw.
Ardyn wrenched one paw free as he squirmed onto its shoulders, unsheathed claws raking across its face and eye, distracting it, hopefully in time for the older wolf to evade the paw.
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.