Mermaid
Ardyn
Master Fighter (250)
Master Hunter (240)
Knight
Bloodletter
6 Years
Male
1056
BrienaSkysong
| Ardyn Adravendi |
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He’d had enough of the hoodlum goats that had decided to invade Valhalla’s lands of late. Just about the time he thought he’d managed to kick them out, they bounced back in.
He’d finally set Lunira and Sädir to chase the idiots off while he took a break and made patrol rounds. The light caught his attention on one such round, nearing the wall. Too small to be Tel, too dim to be his mother, and way too small to be Taliesyn.
The owner was on the wrong side of the wall, so he slid into a silent pursuit, slipping up behind the pup and cocking his head. She wasn’t causing much trouble, but she wore a pack scent below the sodden smells of ocean life.
She didn’t seem to be causing any trouble – if anything, she seemed very keen to get over the wall. Still too small to scale it without one of the ramps still a ways down the wall’s interior.
“Need help, pup?”
His deep rumble was faintly amused as he stepped up to stand alongside her, coat sparking.
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.