Trails and Trials [AW Hunt]
Ardyn
Master Fighter (250)
Master Hunter (240)
Knight
Bloodletter
6 Years
Male
1056
BrienaSkysong
| Ardyn Cadeyrn Aodhán Phoenix Adravendi |
At least his appearance wouldn’t be an issue, as her eyes didn’t even linger on his coat the way many wolves did at first glance, and it meant he could avoid a conversation about the hows and whys of his glowing fur. He was comfortable in his own skin, but a hunt was not the place to iron those details out.
Her accent reminded him a bit of the inflections he heard in his grandfather’s voice, but far more northern than anything Ardyn had heard, and he filed the thought away as he nodded at her offer for him to take the lead.
“The trails rejoin about a hundred or so feet ahead of us in that direction. If you’d like to go wait down there at the meeting point, I’ll drive her to you. Or we can swap and you drive and I ambush her.”
He nodded upward and Lyr dropped to his withers with a click of his thick beak, glowing plumage ruffling as he settled his wings, listening. “Lyr here can tell us when we’re in place.”
He kept one eye on the deer's movements and the woman to see what her choice would be.
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.