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
1046
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| Ardyn Cadeyrn Aodhán Phoenix Adravendi |
She’d been noting the wall, he saw, as she asked about it. He nodded lightly, though for the moment he set the subject to one side. It seemed she approved of the lands Valhalla claimed, and he grinned slightly, eyes drifting to the hilltop. The blue-white glow was drifting down, now, flickering as it wended down through the trees at a leisurely pace, lower and lower.
His mother had clearly spotted his fire-toned light in the darkening dusk. Cassiela’s observations brought his gaze down and he smiled, nodding. “Yes. The wall was founded during my grandfather’s time. Initially, it started as a line of stones around the borders as a visual aid for pups and outside wolves. Then it was built over time until it stands as you see it. Valhalla, though, is much older. It’s a long history, and a good story, though I’m biased.”
It was one he enjoyed telling, to be honest. His several greats grandmother had been firm about the histories of Valhalla and the families that founded it being told truthfully without embellishments.
“Do you prefer natural denning, cave systems, or huts?”
He started forward into the lands, tail flicking in a torch of invitation to walk as he led the way, head tilted.
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.