Fleur de Lys
Bri
Ardyn
Master Fighter (250)
Master Hunter (240)
Knight
Bloodletter
6 Years
Male
1056
BrienaSkysong
| Ardyn Cadeyrn Aodhán Phoenix Adravendi |
With his official coronation and debut to the pack looming, Ardyn had stepped away from the pack lands for a bit to consider the last remaining details of his - still such a strange thing to think - pack. He’d not missed the drop in activity lately. Oh there were patrols, always those, but not much interaction.
The sun was hot, and he shook out his black coat, armor rattling, pouches bouncing. The beads strung in his mane and tail clinked and pinged softly against each other, the feathers tucked around each braid fluttering as he padded forward, ducking into the oasis’s shelter.
Though the heat was oppressive, it was still welcome. He thought it might be a long time before the sun crossing the sky on its natural pathway would ever grow mundane and not a wonderful, comforting experience.
Water glittered ahead amid the palms and desert oasis plant-life, but it was the tiny figure sprawled by the water that gave him a brief moment of pause before he circled around to avoid coming up on the wolf from behind.
Lyr circled above, then stooped and dropped to Ardyn’s back as the tall male lowered his head to drink from the pool, roughly across from the other wolf, keeping a respectful distance as he regarded her with a quiet greeting of, “Good day, miss; hope I'm not inruding.”
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.