Great Tales Start With a Small Step. [Cassiela/Valhalla]
(Valhallans wait until Indie's posted Cassiela first, please lol)
Ardyn
Master Fighter (250)
Master Hunter (240)
Knight
Bloodletter
6 Years
Male
1056
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| Ardyn Cadeyrn Aodhán Phoenix Adravendi |
[ooc: if any Valhallans wish to say hi, please wait until after Indie's had a chance to post first lol]
He and the big cats had hauled the raft well up above the highest waterline and moored it in the Estuary before Ardyn had led the way to Valhalla’s wall. As dusk was falling, it came into sight and he smiled, tail swaying in a flame-touched banner of cheerful homecoming.
Building techniques had improved over the past year our so, and he’d been able to build the wall even taller, and wider, though it took a lot of work and help from Taliesyn to lift the stones to the top.
He kept an easy pace for the smaller wolf to keep up with until he stepped into one of the wide passages left in the wall to allow the prey herds to migrate in and out through. There were the beginnings of additional walls built to act as a funnel, and a place for defenders to hide behind and attack by surprise in the event of a raid or siege.
Ardyn paused, letting Cassiela catch her breath and get a look at the plains ahead. The land was vast, with a wooded hill at its heart breaking up the grassland’s expanse. When one was up on the wall, it was possible to spot one or two huts in the distance, most unclaimed as yet. If he squinted in the evening dusk, he could spot the blue-white light at the top of the hill, suggesting his mother was busy working on the tower.
“So, think you can live comfortably while you get your feet under you?”
His query was cheerful as he glanced at the small woman, brows lifting.
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.