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 |
His features twitched in an abashed smile. "Bears took offense to me at a young age. Been pretty sure I wasn't going to come out a couple of those scraps alive. They don't seem to like my mother all that much, either."
To her question he tilted his head, thinking over the knowledge he'd gained from growing up around Paladin. Then he instructed, "We'll pour the packet into this water once it's boiled. I have a second bowl and a few more of the blend we're using. This bowl can be used as a wound wash."
He reached around and pulled out another carved wooden bowl, and then a rolled up woven basket with handles large enough for a wolf to take in the jaws. He fitted the bowl into the basket, and it was clear the items were meant to go together. "In case my front paws aren't available to carry something or pick it up. If you'd like to dip this bowl in the river you'll have enough for the pain reliever tea to treat yourself and my own pain. I usually use a little over half a packet depending on the pain."
He tucked more wood into the fire and nudged the first bowl closer to the heat. His leg stung with the movement, but from his rudimentary field healing knowledge, he wasn't in any great danger of bleeding out beyond the beads of bright golden blood welling around the darkening clots. But cleaning it out would be a good course to take, to ensure the wound wasn't infected later on. He plucked another packet from the lineup and pointed one toe to the symbols on the front. "This twisted symbol means a higher concentration of the poppy seeds. This one's ground to a powder, so easier to dissolve and steep."
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.