Blue Flames and Full Moon Nights
Ardyn
Master Fighter (250)
Master Hunter (240)
Knight
Bloodletter
6 Years
Male
1056
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| Ardyn Cadeyrn Aodhán Phoenix Adravendi |
The girl was on the exuberant side of friendly, tail thrashing, and Ardyn’s mirrored in a blaze of fiery light until he settled onto his haunches, though his tail kept sweeping the ground. At her introduction, Ardyn added, “Valhalla and Abaven have been allies for… oh, three generations, by now? Your founder, Bass Destruction was actually in our pack for a short time, back in its original days during my great, great grandmother’s reign. Her daughter later forged a friendship with him. It’s good to meet you, Suspense.”
With the strangeness of the winter brought to light, however, both yearlings’ cheer dimmed. It didn’t help the edginess when Suspense admitted she’d only started seeing blue fireflies in the last few days. His eyes rose to the moon again, and he added on, “The moon should be waning by now.”
The stars streaked. Had they been like that and he’d just noticed, or had they just done that? “While I’m glad it’s not bitter cold like last year, I’m beginning to wonder if every year of my life is going to have interesting, strange events. Maybe it was started when Volkan erupted…”
He frowned softly, settling onto his belly, neck craned back to gaze at the sky. “I’m not the most religious wolf, but it makes me wonder if Luneil is trying to warn the wolves of Ardent.”
His eyes flicked down to Suspense, not expecting her to know who the deity was; Luneil, Somneil, and the others of the pantheon were an insular belief that he’d not heard mention of beyond his family and the Nomads, and even the Nomads had their own version of the same deities.
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.