Learning One's Heartland [Isara/Valhalla]
Open to any who want to come say hello
Ardyn
Master Fighter (250)
Master Hunter (240)
Knight
Bloodletter
6 Years
Male
1056
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| Ardyn Cadeyrn Aodhán Phoenix Adravendi |
It had been a long walk home with the small girl at his hocks. He’d taken his time intentionally, showing her the world and slowly teaching some very basic words. “Food, Eat, Hide, Come, stay, sleep, me, you, name…” enough for some extremely broken speech. Now, a week or so later, he paused within the passage in the eastern wall of the Moor, smiling at the mist-wrapped lands within. Home, finally.
His muzzle tipped to the sky, sending a sonorous announcement of his return into the night air before padding forward with a friendly flick of his tail toward Isara, inviting her forward into the miasma, idly wondering who might come greet them first.
He kept his pace to a lazy amble, letting the girl take her time if she wanted to consider following him any farther. Every line of his tall frame spoke of comfort and familiarity of his surroundings, showing there was nothing to fear in these lands.
He’d been watchful as always during their travels back to Valhalla, and he didn’t doubt that she’d catch the change in body language. She was intelligent, just very sheltered from the very little he could gather from observation over the past days.
Now, with travel over, he hoped she’d settle and truly open up, find her footing and her path in the world.
Ardyn tipped his head to smile back at the girl, stating cheerfully, “Home.”
For as long as she wished to stay.
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.