to rest my head
Ardyn
Master Fighter (250)
Master Hunter (240)
Knight
Bloodletter
6 Years
Male
1051
BrienaSkysong
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Ardyn smiled gently and led the way through the moorland mists. As he walked, he explained more in depth about how Valhalla and its ranks worked. He made it clear that she should work hard to pull her weight once she was settled.
“We have three options of housing—natural dens, either dug previously, or dug yourself, or something you find in the hillock in the Plains to the east west of here. Huts built by myself and some of the pack members, in the moors here and in the Plains, or in the Alcoves in the Plains. Ostensibly the Alcoves are the Seat of my family, but they’re open to the pack for use, especially by healers and their patients. It’s a communal living space, essentially.”
In time, the standing stones loomed from the mists, dark pillars against a starry sky. “This is one of a few places the pack might meet for gatherings and training. The primary location for pack meetings is in the Plains. A large boulder, beneath two old oak trees, one dead, one living.”
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.