Bison BBQ Night [Pack Hunt!]
Ardyn
Master Fighter (250)
Master Hunter (240)
Knight
Bloodletter
6 Years
Male
1046
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| Ardyn Cadeyrn Aodhán Phoenix Adravendi |
Ardyn grinned at the prospect of a melee, and as the skin fell away with each stroke, he mulled over what types of challenge it would bring. He’d been in the melee that tested Taliesyn, Kati, and Rhaegara and that had been fun, though each had focused on one opponent in the three versus three rather than mixing it up and ganging up or fending off multiple opponents.
He pulled the hide out behind the bison carcass as he caped the beast’s great hump and neck, working along its back as he let it roll onto its side, glancing to Drachen to be sure he was ready at his end before letting the beast’s weight rock down.
Cairo posed the question that he’d been wondering at the back of his mind. He’d fought Eligos and won, although the outcome had surprised him. There’d been a lot more blood than one would expect and Eligos had seemed almost drunken as he retreated. Was the man alright? No, he was alright, of course; Ardyn had investigated the border to be sure and the wolf’s scent was present and healthy, thankfully. Ardyn didn’t want to decapitate a pack in a friendly practice raid by accidentally killing the alpha somehow.
“Hopefully soon. We had a surprising amount of losses, even though we won. I like the two you and Mom fought. They’re good for the neighbors, and the guy Aoife fought did well, too. Good practice going up against them, I think.”
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.