Thoughts Every Which Way
Ardyn
Master Fighter (250)
Master Hunter (240)
Knight
Bloodletter
6 Years
Male
1056
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| Ardyn Cadeyrn Aodhán Phoenix Adravendi |
It was her manner of walking that pegged her as the woman he’d spoken with at this very wall – almost the same spot, even – a season or so back. He’d still been the Heir, then, so had given her time to consider her choices with what information she had of Valhalla. But that was Valhalla under his mother’s rule. The Valhalla of his reign was much the same in terms of values and what it stood for, but the ranks had changed.
She hadn’t spotted him where he stood, and he considered that fact of her blindness. They hadn’t touched on it, but he could still see that although she was handicapped, her particular sort of blindness could make for a decently deceptive sentry. Most would expect someone who’d spotted them to look directly at their location, instead of turning their head away. However, a fighter she highly doubted she was.
She sang for the pack, and he shifted, turning in his tracks and retracing his steps to drop to the ground nearby, in her line of sight and taking a seat a respectful, comfortable distance away with a greeting smile and nod.
“Noelle Destruction, wasn’t it? Welcome back. What was your decision in the end?”
He’d come into himself, and the soft thunder of his voice was genuinely friendly and inquisitive as his intricately masked features studied her. She was thin, and he figured she could do with a few solid meals.
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.