Smoke n' Honey
Knight
Bloodletter
| Ardyn Adravendi |
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She’d improved in her tenacity and quick-thinking skills, but even so, it was hard to avoid a hug you threw yourself into. Ardyn had her and wasn’t intending on letting go.
Still, Tel was impressively able to keep herself from going over right away, so he added a little more pressure as he felt her wobble.
He felt her muscles shift and as she lunged, he shifted tactics abruptly. Ardyn sidestepped to his own right on his hind leg, tail swirling in a banner f black flame for balance, and sought to release Tel from his hug and, hoping to use that lunge of hers against her, sought to sway out of reach of her jaws as he aimed to lock his left forepaw over her back and shove her further into her lunge, and perhaps flat on her face.
He felt a tug as her sabers dragged through his trailing mane, and simultaneously, he aimed to snatch her left foreleg in his right front paw and pull back, aiming to rob her of a pillar of support she could use should she be unable to stop herself sailing forward.
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.