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 |
A dark form sailed free of the bear with the beast's lunge, and he kept half an eye on the woman before she popped to her paws and dove back in, opting to go for the bear's face; risky, and so Ardyn knew to work quickly. He could take a hit and come out of it with some bruised or broken ribs, especially if the hit was over the armor.
Inoki had no protection beyond her small size and agility.
The bear made to ignore the smaller wolf until she bit down on its face, and then the attention was grabbed, and Ardyn used the moment to duck forward, lunging and clamping his jaws onto the bear's throat, sabers sinking to the hilts and then rending the jugular open as the Heir ripped himself free, letting the serations along the backs of his canines do the killing as he bounded out of reach as the bear tried to go for him before staggering.
The beast was bleeding freely in heavy pulses, and Ardyn moved to sit on the boulder, letting the bear expire on its own. The beast collapsed heavily, and Ardyn checked for Inoki to be sure she'd gotten cleanly out of reach before examining the bearclaw gashes on his foreleg with a huff.
"You alright?"
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.