Trails and Trials [AW Hunt]
Ardyn
Master Fighter (250)
Master Hunter (240)
Knight
Bloodletter
6 Years
Male
1056
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| Ardyn Cadeyrn Aodhán Phoenix Adravendi |
The woman burst into the fray and as she got a hold on the doe’s neck, the heir bounded the last few strides and leapt to pin the deer beneath his weight, holding her still as his own canines sank into the doe’s throat, sabers sinking to the hilt before he wrenched his head to sever the jugular and speed the doe’s death along to keep her from suffering.
As the doe slowly stopped kicking, Ardyn straightened and eyed the woman’s foreleg, noting the streak of broken skin and blood.
“Do you want that looked at? I have some field healing skill.”
He lifted a front paw, flexing his elongated, finger-jointed digits and thumb, with a wiggle, adding with a grin, “Pretty good at getting wounds tended, too. These make for excellent bandage wrapping.”
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.