Trails and Trials [AW Hunt]
Ardyn
Master Fighter (250)
Master Hunter (240)
Knight
Bloodletter
6 Years
Male
1056
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| Ardyn Cadeyrn Aodhán Phoenix Adravendi |
Unexpectedly, paws came from behind, and he twisted to glance around his hip as the woman stopped short with a mutter… Possibly a curse, judging by the tone. The language wasn’t one he knew, and it wasn’t any more familiar when she added onto her initial word. The tone, however, he found apologetic, and he nodded, though a front paw lifted, long toes gesturing for stillness, though he offered a smile that said he didn’t mean offense, nodding toward the trail and the slow, painful passage of the deer on the parallel trail.
Each movement sent fire through his ink-black coat, even on his face as his brow points lifted in question.
Softly, he asked, “I’d like to bring down that deer. She’s hurt and it would be merciful to end the pain and turn her into food and resources. Care to hunt?”
Would she even understand the common tongue? Hopefully, yes.
He kept half an eye on the movements, watching for any indication the doe had heard him, but perhaps she was too numb from the pain and infection to really hear anything louder than her own breathing.
Lyr drifted above in a circle, glowing black and white plumage fluttering in the thermals, mismatched eyes keeping tabs on both situations, deer and best friend with an unexpected, and possibly helpful, encounter.
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.