Finding Home
Ardyn
Master Fighter (250)
Master Hunter (240)
Knight
Bloodletter
6 Years
Male
1056
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| Ardyn Cadeyrn Aodhán Phoenix Adravendi |
He was tucked into the sentry hide at the top of the wall, keeping watch while ruminating on all that had transpired. Some of it he was still wrapping his head around, learning to accept it. He’d been able to accept his grandfather’s passing—it had been the crimson Archangel’s time.
He drew in a sigh, before movement out on the plains caught his attention and he shifted his gaze to watch. A pale, small wolf, female, judging by the scent on the breeze wafting toward him. Curiously, she walked with her head tilted, as if listening for the ground ahead of her. Blind?
Silently, he watched as she found the wall. Partially blind? She seemed to see the wall before she ran into it, and after a few beats of investigation, she called out. She was thin, and if one could smell of hunger, she’d reek of it.
Ardyn slid from the Hide and padded the ten or fifteen feet along the wall that sat between them, settling on his belly, front paws hanging over the edge as he studied the woman, greeting, “Good day, Lady. What brings you to Valhalla’s border?”
His tone was easy, curious, a gentle rumble before he let her take the next step in the formalities.
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.