Let The Sun Touch My Face [AW]
Ardyn
Master Fighter (250)
Master Hunter (240)
Knight
Bloodletter
6 Years
Male
1051
BrienaSkysong
| Ardyn Cadeyrn Aodhán Phoenix Adravendi |
She came a little closer, and Ardyn’s head tipped in slight affirmation of her assumption, an amiable smile settling on his features. “If you think I’m spectacular you haven’t met my mother. Or a stallion named Taliesyn. He’s huge.” His front paws lifted, spreading wide and high, long digits stretching apart to emphasize both breadth and height as he grinned.
Taliesyn had dropped weight with illness, too, but there was no diminishing the powerful height of the horse, or dimming his glowing coat, though Ardyn had been in no state to check in on the horse, and might have been shocked at the sight of the horse in the depths of illness.
The young woman introduced herself, and Ardyn nodded, paws tucking back to the stone. “Pleasure to meet you, Lady Inoki.”
The honorific came without mockery or assumption. It was simply part of his upbringing—until given reason otherwise, women were to be respected.
The next question came as less of a surprise than one might think, and the Heir didn’t take the question at all badly, simply shifting to flick his tail so the long ink-black hair fell over the boulder in a flurrying flash of fiery light and shimmering reds and golds.
Most of his frame and haunches were hidden away under armor and cloak fabric, but he flipped the drape of the close aside. It had taken hours to get all the mats out of his rump fluff from all the aggressive oozing, and he was glad to have the hair clean again, if a little less fluffy.
“I don’t mind. You’re not the first one to ask that.” The last remark came with a faint chuckle.
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.