Smoke n' Honey
Ardyn
Master Fighter (250)
Master Hunter (240)
Knight
Bloodletter
6 Years
Male
1056
BrienaSkysong
| Ardyn Adravendi |
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She charged in, and Ardyn settled ready in his tracked, waiting until the last second before side-stepping abruptly to his own right, eyes squinting against her flash of light. Crafty. If he hadn’t been raised sparring his own glowing mother, who liked to pull tricks like being slathered in mud and knocking some of the dried stuff off to flash light, he’d have been more affected.
He snatched up his left forepaw as she swiped for it, pulling it away from her as his other three legs took his weight and tail flicked out for balance, before lunging to his own left, left foreleg flashing out toward her and aiming to land a shove with the palm of his left paw to the point behind her right elbow.
He pivoted on his haunches to his own left, regardless of success with the shove, and sought to bring himself into a 90-degree angle with her in a T, aiming to slam his chest into her left side along her ribs and send her flying if possible.
Ardyn vs Tel for Spar
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.