Sparks and Firelight [AW]
Ardyn
Master Fighter (250)
Master Hunter (240)
Knight
Bloodletter
6 Years
Male
1056
BrienaSkysong
| Ardyn Cadeyrn Aodhán Phoenix Adravendi |
He hadn’t explored this place, but he knew Nolan was buried at the bottom of the cliff. He’d made a trinket for the late Adravendi man, and as he spotted the cairn, dusted with snow, he puffed out a sigh, glad to have found it. Gently he laid the necklace of braided hair from his own mane and tail, strung with a pendant of amber over the cairn stones, resting another stone overtop to keep the bauble in place. The glow had died long since he’d cut the hairs for the project, no longer reacting to the friction of his touch.
He hadn’t gotten very long to know Nolan, or Baine, but he’d loved them regardless. So, for a long time, he sat by the cairn, meditating on what might have been, before he sighed and rose, flexing his fingers to work the chill from the elongated digits.
In a season, he would be grown. He might even possibly become the next King. Whether he chose to keep the title of Spirit or make a change in rank naming conventions as his mother had done when she’d been made Archangel, he wasn’t certain yet.
He mulled as he climbed higher, following a narrow trail to the top of the falls and settling on his haunches, Lyr drifting to rest on his armor-clad withers, nibbling at the base of his mane before the raven settled and gazed out over the land far below.
Would he live up to the Valhallas of before? Cairo’s and Chrysanthe’s and Erani’s Valhalla? He would try his hardest, there was no doubt about that, but would he succeed?
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.