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 |
(OOC: So sorry for the slow response; been one of those weeks where all the energy’s been sapped x,x)
“I’ll handle cutting these saplings into posts. If you can find lots of sturdy vines like these,” He padded to a tree and brushed his long toes over a vine that choked around the tree’s trunk, climbing skyward, then bent and used one saber to slice through the vine, freeing it, “Lyr can help get them out of the tree from the top. Then we can weave the vines through the stakes once I have them up to form a pen.”
He pointed to the fruit pile. “Then we either bait the trap with these, or drive a herd of pigs into the trap and shut them in. Another way to trap large prey is to dig a large hole they can’t jump out of once they fall in, but pigs can’t jump very high, and I may try taking one or two home alive; see if we can’t raise a few in my pack. I don’t have high hopes though, they have nasty tempers.”
The last he said in a chuckle, head shaking ruefully.
He regarded the coyote with a cocked head and added, “I’m Ardyn, by the way.”
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.