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 |
He Nodded at her refusal of his offer, pulling the skin back and working the knife along the sides of the deer’s belly with the knife held with the dull edge against his wrist and the cutting edge doing the work until he set it aside and used his curled forepaw to part hide from flesh in sticky ripping noises, working the fisted paw around each side to the deer’s back.
To her question, he tilted his head with a nod, introducing, “I am Ardyn, Destiny of Valhalla. In other words, its Heir.”
He tipped to indicate over his shoulder toward the south. “My pack is south of here, in the west.”
He took no offense at her brusque words, since they didn’t match the friendliness she offered, even if muted. As he stripped the hide from one hind leg of the deer, he unsheathed his index claw and set to work snicking the sharp-edged appendage through the flesh, neatly finding the joint and deftly parting it from the pelvis, and following the lines of the muscle to cleanly part the whole leg from the deer’s body and setting it in front toe the woman with a nod. It was plenty to eat and fill one’s belly, and it would make it so she wasn’t just sitting there hungry while he worked.
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.