Well begun is half done
Ardyn
Master Fighter (250)
Master Hunter (240)
Knight
Bloodletter
6 Years
Male
1056
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| Ardyn Cadeyrn Aodhán Phoenix Adravendi |
He’d come to the island again, taking advantage of the tropical nature of the place to gather fruits and plants that weren’t dormant further north. Granted they weren’t for him; instead, he had a trap to build for some of the local pigs that had settled on this island who knew how long ago.
With fruit gathered, he piled it on a hide pulled from one of his pouches, unfolding and stretching it before turning to take a sharp-edged ax to the base of the first sapling that had caught his eye, chopping high enough to leave room for the tree to grow back from the base.
Lyr wheeled above, arrowing through a gap in the canopy and landed nearby, clicking his beak as he folded his black and white, glowing plumage. Ardyn glanced to him and nodded. No need for words to understand the alert that another had arrived on the island.
He was well armed and armored, and from the soft clicks of Lyr’s beak, he knew the other was tiny and fresh from a hard swim. Still, he kept an eye and ear out for any approach as he stripped branches and leaves from the sapling, sharpening the end in preparation to be driven into the ground.
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.