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 had been caught off guard but she rallied after a beat, diving into the fray. The tiger bucked under him as her sabers sank into its flesh, and while Tel was too involved to pay attention to all surroundings – a simple consequence of less experience and his mother’s maternal tattoo of ‘remain aware of your surroundings’ mantra that would disappear with time, training and experience – He saw a flash of silver light sprinkling from her face as the tiger landed a swipe to her muzzle.
Ardyn ducked his head and slashed the tips of his sabers over the side of the cat’s neck—too high up to hit the jugular, but enough to regain the cat’s ire and attention as the King leapt from the tiger’s back and drew it toward himself with a swipe of his own claws over its ribs before dancing back to evade the volley of angry swipes amid a booming tiger roar.
He let the cat follow him to give Tel a chance to gather her senses and rejoin, ears and eyes aware for any other incoming danger—Cairo’s story about his and Domari’s fight with two male lions was fresh on his mind and he didn’t care to be caught off guard by a second big cat barreling in for a fight.
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.