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Ardyn
Master Fighter (250)
Master Hunter (240)
Knight
Bloodletter
6 Years
Male
1056
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| Ardyn Cadeyrn Aodhán Phoenix Adravendi |
His and Caelia’s patrols were on similar windows, with Ardyn taking one side of the moor, and Caelia’s on the other, and he’d gotten an early start, but the morning was quickly changed into a lot more excitement than he’d expected. Not a raid, but a large, hulking brown shape lumbering out of a pall of mist. Bear!
Ardyn’s sharp howl mingled with Caelia’s, lapsing into a near-roar as he barreled into the fray. He knew she was on this morning, and so, he wasn’t too shocked to hear her as he took flight, landing with claws extended and fingers splayed to cling to the bear’s back and thick fur.
His howl had startled the bear, who, admittedly had been minding his own business digging for roots, and a grunt turned into a bellow of surprise and not a little pain when Ardyn’s claws, followed by a slash of his canines, gouged into his hide.
Quickly surprise and pain turned to short-tempered fury as the bear twisted around in an attempt to reach the young wolf on his back, slobbering jaws and lips snapping, and unaware that the yearling wasn't alone.
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.