Festivities and Fancies [AW]
Ardyn
Master Fighter (250)
Master Hunter (240)
Knight
Bloodletter
6 Years
Male
1056
BrienaSkysong
| Ardyn Cadeyrn Aodhán Phoenix Adravendi |
The opportunity to attend this festival was one he couldn’t pass up, and Ardyn had dressed for the occasion, draped in a sash of iridescent black cloth that flashed touches of purple and blue in its folds, tucked regally at either end into his armor, which he’d polished and buffed to an oiled gleam.
His ink-black coat was groomed, fire crackling through it with each movement, mane and tail dripping in various gemstone beads flashing their inner light, gold and silver beads glittering in his personal fiery glow. Feathers fluttered from where they’d been braided into the long hairs of his mane and tail as well, flashes of iridescent blue, black, bright jay feathers, and Lyr’s own glowing black and white feathers.
May as well be presentable.
The event wasn’t held by any of the packs, but a group of coydogs, and he thought he might have heard stories about such a group holding a tournament in the past at some point.
His only disgruntlement came from his own face. He’d been itching for a while, now, and shedding madly, and when he’d had his mother and sisters take a look at him, they’d shown him his reflection to show a roaning of glowing fur in fire and ice tones flecking his face in a vague, as yet indistinct pattern. It was hard not to constantly lift a long-toed fore-paw and scratch heavily.
His mother had soothed his worries, telling him of how she’d gone through a full-body experience of this very itch and shedding, and her new, glowing coat had replaced her shimmering, light-free white fur, and a marking had grown in over her left eye. It seemed he was experiencing such an anomaly now. At least it wasn’t his whole body…
He strolled through the festivities, eyes widening at the sight of a huge beast that looked like a hairless mammoth. An elephant, if he remembered his father’s lessons right.
He knew several of Valhalla’s wolves had come, too, and he occasionally caught glimpses of a familiar face among the throngs.
Lyr floated on the thermals above him, occasionally dipping and looping for the sheer fun of it as he followed the young king through the festivities.
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.