Finish Line
Ardyn
Master Fighter (250)
Master Hunter (240)
Knight
Bloodletter
6 Years
Male
1056
BrienaSkysong
| Ardyn Adravendi |
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He didn’t come here often anymore, but today, he felt like trying his strength against an unfamiliar opponent. It would do him well to improve, given his performance at the raid, and a new opponent would be a refreshing look into whether he’d improved at all since then.
So, with his companions in tow, and armor donned, minus the cloak, he’d set off. Sounds of a fight faded into hearing distance, but by the time he came upon it, the brawl itself was over, and he hadn’t even the chance to see who had come out victorious.
His eyes fell on Medusa, and he paused, head tilting. She looked like she’d been fighting hard for hours, given she was flopped out on the ground panting for breath. Then again, she was an odd one. Perhaps battlefields helped her sleep.
“Medusa.” The word was half greeting, half concerned query as he moved a few steps closer.
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.