Trails and Trials [AW Hunt]
Ardyn
Master Fighter (250)
Master Hunter (240)
Knight
Bloodletter
6 Years
Male
1046
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| Ardyn Cadeyrn Aodhán Phoenix Adravendi |
The Heir nodded in acknowledgement, then settled, waiting patiently as Lyr led the woman off to the jointure of the trails.
The raven waited until she’d settled in to wait, clicking his beak and winging back to Ardyn, tip-tipping his wings in the air as a signal to the young man. Ardyn nodded and leapt into action.
He surged from the bushes behind the doe, snapping at her hocks and spurring her to bolt down the trail, while Lyr harried her from above, ensuring the deer stayed on course while Ardyn ran behind, nipping to encourage the animal to keep running.
The meeting of the trails came into sight and he barked a heads-up to the woman, ducking forward and slashing deftly with his sabers for the doe’s achilles tendon. The hind leg he targeted buckled, and the doe’s attention was fly on the rear of her situation, and the fore was a far-distant thought amid the panic.
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.