Light a Fire in Your Souls [Pack Meeting/Raid Meeting!]
Deadline is the 15th
Ardyn
Master Fighter (250)
Master Hunter (240)
Knight
Bloodletter
6 Years
Male
1056
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| Ardyn Cadeyrn Aodhán Phoenix Adravendi |
Ardyn had sat attentively through everyone’s gathering, giving Aoife and Coran a grin and nudging Aoife, leaning to whisper, “Did you know you have a leaf stuck to your quills?”
She didn’t actually have one stuck, but he smirked almost wickedly at the words. Amory and Lee didn’t make it until their mother had started speaking, and he listened through the announcements, though he felt the pangs of the deaths. He’d not had a chance to really get to know Nolan beyond living in the same cave system and in passing, but he felt the loss just as badly as those who’d known him.
And of course, he’d never met his grandmother, or his uncle. Quietly, he leaned into each of the nearest siblings, glad for their presence.
He sat up straighter, smiling at the wolves singled out, and the horse, Taliesyn, welcoming them with his eyes. And then it was Cairo’s turn, and he twisted around to watch the man be officially recognized, tail torching in approval.
There were many more announcements, news, notes of promotions, and more, and then, it came to the big announcement. His pelt rippled, black fur glowing with embers of excitement as his mother’s challenging words rippled out over his ears to the pack. He was fairly vibrating, and as some spoke, and Paladin finished speaking, Ardyn added, “I’d like to go with the raiding party.” He was old enough, and his mother felt him to be experienced enough – just – to fight in this practice raid, but he glanced up at her to be sure.
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.