Forging A New Path
Ardyn
Master Fighter (250)
Master Hunter (240)
Knight
Bloodletter
6 Years
Male
1051
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| Ardyn Cadeyrn Aodhán Phoenix Adravendi |
He was on evening patrol when Lyr dropped to his shoulders, croaking a warning of a wolf at the wall. “She seems to be mulling over her thoughts…”
Ardyn nodded and picked up his pace, sliding through the thick miasma toward the place where the woman waited. After a short while, he slowed on silent paws, peering through the mist at the woman. Tall as he and Tel, she had the physique of a northern wolf akin to Torben, but lighter and more feminine. By her scent, she was maybe a year his senior.
Slowly, the king stepped from the fog, light-masked features curious as he came to stand across from her, head tilting as he asked, “Contemplating your next step?”
His tone was friendly, mildly conversational as fire and ice gaze flicked over her before turning to her amethyst gaze, brow points 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.