Show Your Mettle [Torben]
Ardyn
Master Fighter (250)
Master Hunter (240)
Knight
Bloodletter
6 Years
Male
1056
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The older male staggered, and Ardyn caught the shift of muscles in the albino male’s haunches as Torben reared and swung toward him.
The young king dropped beneath the man, swerving to his own right and seeking to cross under Torben to the man’s right side. As he went, he sought to snatch the man’s left foreleg in his jaws, well behind the sabers and their serrated back edges, aiming for the man’s wrist. He hoped to use Torben’s own move against him and jerk the leg with him underneath and across Torben to twist the male into toppling to his side as Ardyn’s own hind end swung to his right, leaving the ground as the only thing to flatten.
It was one of his mother’s favorite moves, and for a smaller wolf, she had put Ardyn and Cairo face first in the dirt many times during training with this or similar maneuvers.
Lunira struck at that moment, bounding in and seeking to slam her right shoulder into Torben’s left side behind his shoulder, to assist in the young king’s movement and further send the albino male off his paws.
Sädir jerked in place but held back at a dagger glance from the snow leopard, and sulked into a loafed crouch, tail twitching in disappointment.
Lyr folded his wings, relaxing on his perch but keeping a keen watch to see how things panned out.
Ardyn vs Torben for Test Spar
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.