Bison BBQ Night [Pack Hunt!]
Ardyn
Master Fighter (250)
Master Hunter (240)
Knight
Bloodletter
6 Years
Male
1056
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| Ardyn Cadeyrn Aodhán Phoenix Adravendi |
The bison bull was outmatched, and as the other three wolves dealt their blows, and the bull toppled at last, Ardyn scrambled to jump free of the beast before it could land on him. There were a few moments while the bison expired, but at the end, Ardyn grinned at Cairo’s praise, glancing at the other two, tail torching behind him before he perked up at Cairo’s next words.
Ardyn nodded, a paw lifting into the air in a voluntary motion before he padded to the bison, using his claws to start the cut down the middle of the bison’s belly from jaw to anus. Skinning was pleasant, if bloody, methodical work, and something he enjoyed. Done just right, they’d have a hide with very little to scrape off, and with few holes beyond those made during the hunt.
“So who wants to claim the hide? I’m sure once it’s cleaned of the blood and tanned with the hair on it’d make a great den liner or heavy cloak, or a rug…” So many possibilities. Or they could donate it to the armor-crafting materials for a thick, hardened cured hide that could turn teeth of opponents. He glanced up from the cuts he was making up the insides of each leg to see what the others thought, tail wagging slowly.
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.