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 studied her again as she came to the boulder, shrewdly noting the winces, but she seemed mostly fine, confirming it aloud, though her eyes were locked on his injury. His lips twitched faintly in amusement.
"I usually don't mention or think about it until I'm actually bleeding. Once it dries you'd never know it ever even twinkled."
He twisted and opened one of his pouches, pulling out the wrapped satchel and setting it on the boulder, unrolling it to reveal sachets and clay jars sealed with beeswax, painted different colors in Valhallan symbols, as well as several implements meant for suturing and basic wound cleaning.
Luckily, there was fresh water nearby, and he tugged out a bundle of rich wood packed with flammable pitch, setting up a small fire and rolling a live coal from a bison horn into the nest of tinder he'd arranged inside a small teepee of the fatwood.
It smoldered, and he blew softly, coaxing it until it kindled. He left Lyr to feeding the infant blaze while he pulled a small carved wooden bowl from another pouch and dropped to the riverside, scooping fresh water and placing it on the boulder before returning and cocking his head at Inoki.
"Should probably get this cleaned up and poulticed, and maybe a tea for any pains you might have from hitting the ground a couple times."
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.