Fireside Stories and Legends Retold [Valhallan Storytime]
Ardyn
Master Fighter (250)
Master Hunter (240)
Knight
Bloodletter
6 Years
Male
1056
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| Ardyn Cadeyrn Aodhán Phoenix Adravendi |
Taliesyn had gladly opened his large cave to a story-telling evening once more, and Ardyn had sent Lyr and Sädir out to spread the word to Valhalla that anyone was welcome to come and lounge by the fire in Taliesyn’s grotto, feast on food and tell tales, both fictional and true.
With Kairi’s children old enough to explore, he trusted his sisters, Legacy and Eramaya to guide them to the spot if they wanted to come. He’d taken on some of the parenting duties while specifics were ironed out with their father.
He’d ferried several packages of meat and mild alcohols to the grotto and arrayed them, with the drink well above pup reach, just in case, and soon a fire crackled softly in the pit at the center of the grotto, where the smoke could escape, and everyone could fit around the fire without being too close.
Finally, he lounged on the piles of furs, front paws crossed as he waited to see if anyone felt like joining him. Taliesyn was farther back in the grotto, though he knew the stallion would be settling in a few paces behind him soon enough.
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.