Mists [Tel]
Ardyn
Master Fighter (250)
Master Hunter (240)
Knight
Bloodletter
6 Years
Male
1046
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| Ardyn Cadeyrn Aodhán Phoenix Adravendi |
Tel arrived and he gave her a light grin, shifting to one side of the wall – just barely wide enough to admit them abreast – as he scanned the outer lands once more, responding softly, “Nothing so far. How’s your night going?”
He padded along, ears swiveling at distant night life and the near-silent passage of Crystalloria overhead, doing her rounds as Cairo’s extended eyes in the sky. She was invaluable among the pack, even if her primary concern was Cairo.
Occasionally, his eyes flicked to observe his patrol-mate. He wasn’t oblivious to her distraction, and he often wondered what was behind it. He’d tried touching upon it before, but the conversation was interrupted by a fat fish and the process of cleaning it last time.
She was grown, ready to move up in the pack and dedicate herself to a path; Diplomatic Warrior. Wielder of both quill and fang.
She’d be working with Drachen and Caelia, the gatherers of intelligence.
Movement. He stilled, ears flicking to listen while he kept his face turned toward the wall, letting his peripheral pick out the source.
“Down!” The bark of warning came just as a very large, black-striped white cat launched from the mists and moorland foliage. Claws raked through his coat, and he felt a sting in his right ear as a claw ripped through the outer edge, drawing golden light as he twisted to follow the tiger in a leap, wanting to catch the cat before it had a chance to turn back for another pass.
He hit squarely between the tiger’s shoulders and staggered it, clinging to its back with his own claws. It twisted in an attempt to slap for his paws with its own, leaving it open to Tel.
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.