Bonfire [Open Spar!]
Ardyn
Master Fighter (250)
Master Hunter (240)
Knight
Bloodletter
6 Years
Male
1046
BrienaSkysong
| Ardyn Cadeyrn Aodhán Phoenix Adravendi |
It felt a little odd to be here alone without his mother, but he embraced the novelty and padded across the rolling battlefield, fire and ice eyes scanning the field with interest. Despite the weather slowly starting to gain a feeling of warmth, the bite was still in the air and he wondered if summer would even be a thing. He remembered summer being warmer when he was young. A lot warmer.
He circled and picked out a spot that was on a hill, relatively flat, but jumbled with stones, although wolves of the past seemed to have moved most of them to piles in a ring around the crown of the hill.
He was armored, and he paused to unbuckle the pouches from their spots and set them well aside, where Lyr perched to keep an eye on them as Ardyn moved to the middle of the ring and tipped his muzzle to the sky, singing an invitation for a spar, tail briefly torching with excitement. His first spar alone on the Field.
Lyr would tell his mother about the outcome, certainly—though the raven was Ardyn’s best friend and companion, neither boy nor bird would lie to his mother.
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.