Show Your Mettle [Torben]
Ardyn
Master Fighter (250)
Master Hunter (240)
Knight
Bloodletter
6 Years
Male
1056
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| Ardyn Cadeyrn Aodhán Phoenix Adravendi |
Their numbers were growing, if not by many. With Torben’s joining, there was the hope of an experienced adult who would be able to help improve the younger wolves of the pack and any future children. He just had to assess the man’s level of skill to know if there was anything Torben could teach. He doubted the man would be a lackluster fighter.
He padded to a stop by the meeting boulder and tipped his muzzle to the sky, calling the man for their test spar. Time to see what the albino dire was made of. Even if his path didn’t lay in the direction of a career warrior, it would be good to be certain he could protect himself in the field.
Ardyn settled into a light stance, balanced and ready. He’d donned his armor, minus the pouches and cloak, and Lyr sat in the oak above him. Lunira and Sädir sat to either side, waiting—in Lunira’s case with cold alertness, and Sädir, younger and eager to please, tried his best to sit as still as the long-coated, metallic looking snow leaopardess, but his tail tip twitched frenetically.
They wouldn’t involve themselves if Torben chose to take up against only Ardyn, but if he was up for a challenge, it would be a good test to learn to work with each other as a team.
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.