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ardyn
Ardyn
Master Fighter (250)
Master Hunter (240)
Knight
Bloodletter
6 Years
Male
1056
BrienaSkysong
| Ardyn Cadeyrn Aodhán Phoenix Adravendi |
He’d left several fish traps in the pond and now, after some time spent at home, he made his way back to the location. Since fish in traps weren’t able to get away whether bells and clinking beads reached their senses or not, he’d kept them on, especially since he had no plans on hunting larger prey today, if he was to be able to carry his catches home.
His cloak rustled around his hind legs as he passed through the willow-fronds, now bared by winter’s grasp, and he grinned to himself as he spotted the colored cloth he’d left to mark the first trap. Pond trapping wasn’t as easy as leaving the fish traps in the current of a stream at narrow spots that gave the fish no avenue to escape, but he might come away with some fish to dry.
A voice called out as he hauled on the cordage rope and towed the trap to shore, and he paused to scan in the call’s direction before he turned back t the basket and pulled it open, grinning to himself. Two fat fish squirmed in the trap, and he dealt them both a quick stab of his claws before pulling them from the trap and resetting it.
That done, he slid a sinew cord through the gills of his two catches and fastened them to the pouches on his armor, moving along the shoreline until the owner of the voice came into sight. He paused to study the woman, then nodded with an easy smile of greeting before he went to the next trap and pulled it to shore.
“Good day, miss.”
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.