White Spring
Ardyn
Master Fighter (250)
Master Hunter (240)
Knight
Bloodletter
6 Years
Male
1056
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| Ardyn Cadeyrn Aodhán Phoenix Adravendi |
It seemed that with his and his brother and sisters’ first birthday, and the turn of what should have been Winter into Spring, the world had other intentions. He’d gone to bed, tucked warmly into his siblings and parents, though the alcove was really starting to feel a little cramped with all of them in there. The weather had been clear, a little snowy, as the snow from the blizzard that had engulfed the raid hadn’t melted off.
When he came out, stretching and yawning and blinking away the sleep from his eyes, his ears perked in surprise. Wind howled, more fiercely than he’d ever heard, even in the raid. He trotted quickly from the cave and peered up, but found himself unable to see through the narrow top of the ravine. Odd, it should have been morning.
During the winter, the monkeys and lemurs had added small, long logs – older saplings, really – across the opening of the ravine top, and woven the trailing, dormant vines through the willow fronds they’d woven between the saplings. In the late spring and summer, they’d bloom and shade the ravine quite comfortably. But they were currently squashed by snow. Lots of it.
He padded cautiously down the darkened ravine, shaking out his coat to better light his way until he reached the mouth. The snow was so thick he couldn’t see further than a few feet. His ears flicked back in confusion. Was that normal for the turning of Spring?
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.