Digging Yourself Deeper [Pit Crafting and Hunting]
Ardyn
Master Fighter (250)
Master Hunter (240)
Knight
Bloodletter
6 Years
Male
1056
BrienaSkysong
| Ardyn Cadeyrn Aodhán Phoenix Adravendi |
He dug with a sharp, solid stick into the hard, cold ground, tongue lolling in a steady pant. Occasionally, when he’d garnered enough dirt, the boy used a bison shoulder blade, flinging the soil onto a hide laid out next to the growing hole he hoped to make into a pit.
He hoped that, once completed, he could drive a deer or moose, or maybe even a bison through the misty moorland, and that it would miss the pit until it was too late. But first, he had to get the hole deep enough. So he dug and dug. His long toes weren’t the best for digging, it seemed, so he was glad he could grip tools and make the process easier on himself.
He was humming to himself, dusted in soil and mud, and enjoying the warmth the exertion brought. To one side of the growing pit lay a pile of brush and thin branches, and other things that might make a good cover if he could weave them the right way. Long saplings lay beside that pile, ready to be sharpened into a set of spears.
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.