Let The Sun Touch My Face [AW]
Ardyn
Master Fighter (250)
Master Hunter (240)
Knight
Bloodletter
6 Years
Male
1056
BrienaSkysong
| Ardyn Cadeyrn Aodhán Phoenix Adravendi |
He padded through the Valley, glad for the warmth of the sun on his back through his armor. Now that the days were actually becoming days, Spring was belatedly showing its colors. The warmth was only a slight balm to the losses. He and his family, and Valhalla, would heal in time. Grief left scars, but time healed such scars… or at least made them sting a little less.
He’d grown into his last few inches of height and though his weight was a bit spare thanks to the plague, that would come back with good food and hard training to strengthen the muscles that had grown wan during quarantine.
Lyr wheeled above in the sky, occasionally dipping and tumbling in the air in playful swoops. He was enjoying the sun as well, and as Ardyn leapt to the top of a large boulder nestled against the banks of the river, lounging and watching the river beneath his linked forepaws, the raven drifted to land beside him, bi-colored beak preening through the young man’s long mane.
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.