Let The Sun Touch My Face [AW]
Ardyn
Master Fighter (250)
Master Hunter (240)
Knight
Bloodletter
6 Years
Male
1046
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| Ardyn Cadeyrn Aodhán Phoenix Adravendi |
She was keen to learn, if her quick response to instructions were any indicator. As she returned with the freshly filled bowl he took it from the basket and set it against the coals of the fire as Lyr used a stick in his beak to pull some out for better use.
At her question, he nodded. “We can use this one for the tea to use as a pain killer, and the other as a wound wash.”
He sat back, letting the fire do its work and studied the gash on his foreleg once more before proffering the limb for the woman to look at. “Good thing he only got a glancing blow. His hide will make an excellent den-liner. Not to mention all the meat for storage, bones for various uses.”
His mismatched fire and ice gaze roved over the bear’s carcass, sizing it up. He’d wait to skin the beast once the wound was looked after and both Inoki and he had been tended to.
The bubble of water sent his ears flicking back toward the bowls and he smiled, cracking open the sachets and dumping one into the first bowl, the other, stronger mixture into the second, both sending up wafts of steam and herbal smells.
He stirred a stick into the water, then pulled the bowls away from the coals to let the tea and wash steep as he asked, “Was that your first bear fight?”
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.