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 seemed to be of the type that got their blood singing with the thrill of the hunt, and as she refused his offer to tend the injury, he nodded, stepping back and twisting to pull a carefully made obsidian knife from his pouch and grasping it with his dominant paw, pausing at her question.
“Not yet. I’d like to skin her out but I can cut off a leg once I get her hide off a haunch.”
He rolled the deer to her back with a light heave, pulling a nearby rock over to wedge the animal into place with before making the first cuts into the hide around the legs, throat, and anus before running each cut down each limb and down the deer’’s throat and finishing the first cut with a straight slice down the middle of the belly, anus to neck, careful not to cut beyond the stomach cavity.
“Is there any part of the hide you’d like to keep?” His eyes flicked up from his work, studying her for n answer.
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.