Sodden Hunting Trip
Ardyn
Master Fighter (250)
Master Hunter (240)
Knight
Bloodletter
6 Years
Male
1046
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A scuff of paws in sand and a yip of greeting sent Ardyn’s head lifting, craning to see who was there. A man of warm tans and browns with yellow eyes. It only took a second of contemplation before he pulled the name to the surface and matched it to the face. Seumas had volunteered his help in hunting that elephant. It'd been a wild day, indeed.
“Afternoon, Seumas. How’ve you been since that hunt?”
He rolled to his paws and shook the sand from his damp coat, sending sparks flaring through his ink-black fur and long mane and tail as he smiled at the man. The bells and beads woven into the long strands of his mane and tail tinkled and clicked softly, while the feathers twisted on the wind as he padded forward to meet the male halfway.
Lyr dropped to the top of the shoddy mast on the raft, head tipping this way and that as he observed the two men, glowing black and white plumage fluttering against the breeze.
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.