Let The Sun Touch My Face [AW]
Ardyn
Master Fighter (250)
Master Hunter (240)
Knight
Bloodletter
6 Years
Male
1046
BrienaSkysong
| Ardyn Cadeyrn Aodhán Phoenix Adravendi |
His muzzle dipped at her words, acknowledging them, lips twitching with a faint grin. He listened with interest as she spoke, confirming she was a traveler recently arrived, and from the sound of it, an aspiring healer. As he glanced over her, he found no satchel, so perhaps she hadn’t yet come across one or crafted it.
“Healer’s work is definitely interesting. I have decent training in field medicine—I actually thought I might become a healer when I was a pup, but I went with hunting in the end for my secondary calling. Either way, everyone in Valhalla is expected to learn basic first aid at the very least, even if they aren’t interested in healing, themselves. You never know what might happen when you’re out alone, and knowing how to stop bleeding or treat a bad cut, or save someone else is a valuable skill to have when you don’t have a trained healer to howl for within earshot.”
He stretched around, long digits nimbly unlatching a pouch and flipping up the flap to dip in and come out with a small pouch, sealed with beeswax against leakage and wet. He unsheathed one curved, sharp black claw and broke the seal, plucking out a strip of dried venison and offering it to Inoki with a nod.
“Hunting has been a good one to learn, too. Processing the carcasses, from skinning to drying the meat and cracking the bones for the marrow is an interesting process. Seeing what edible herbs make the meat taste better, too. These were treated with basil and thyme, and soaked in honey before they were dried in smoke.”
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.