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 |
He gave a faint huff of amusement at her words, one shoulder lifting in a shrug as he said, "One way to have a ready fire source wherever you go is to have a bison or cow horn like this with moss and a live coal from your last fire, or whomever you might have camped with. If you keep a small supply of tinder and sap-rich cedar or pine tree wood, from the places where the branches grew out from the tree, you have a fire ready to go in a short amount of time, barring really bad weather."
He grinned at her offer, and pointed at the layout of packets with one long digit. "That one has an Agrimony and Yarrow blend in it to make a tea wash for cleaning wounds and stopping bleeding. And this one," he plucked up another packet and set it in front of her, "is powdered Poppy and Willowbark for pain. I'd imagine once the adrenaline wears off we're both going to be feeling that fight."
He pulled a sealed clay pot out from the lineup and used one black claw to deftly break the seal of wax to reveal a yellow-white substance that smelled familiar, if she'd worked with Calendula before. "This can go on over the wounds once they're cleaned. I'm happy to let you work on me. My sisters love getting all the practice they can, even if they're also scolding me to oblivion and Luneil's light above all the while."
A fond grin touched his features as he spoke of his two healer sisters. They'd tried their hardest all through the Long Dark and the plague, and he was so very glad he had all of his siblings still alive at the end of it all.
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.