Your Beacon Home [Tel]
Ardyn
Master Fighter (250)
Master Hunter (240)
Knight
Bloodletter
6 Years
Male
1056
BrienaSkysong
| Ardyn Adravendi |
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With Coran slowly recovering, Ardyn could relax a bit. This evening, he left their mother to watch over the alcoves and made the climb to the top of the hillock, settling to lounge at the top of the tower. He’d been steadily building it up when he could.
His forepaws crossing at the wrists to dangle off the edge, Ardyn gazed out over the Plains below, mismatched gaze contemplative. He already had a course of action decided for the coming seasons. Spring had edged its way around the corner, and Summer would bring his and Tel’s wedding, and the celebrations surrounding the happy event.
He hadn’t thought it would take him quite this long to settle and start his own family, but Tel was worth the wait. From childhood friend, and confidant as he took on the mantle of kingship, to the blossoming love when they’d been wandering the distant lands in search of her kin, and the solid relationship that had formed while they lived among her birth-people, the answer seemed obvious, looking back.
It was always going to be Tel.
He missed the fae-like woman sorely, but he had needed to go on ahead to assess the changes that had transpired in the seasons of their absence, and someone had needed to remain behind with her father and brother to guide them to Boreas.
How long that would take, he wasn't sure; more could have decided to join in on expanding the horizons of their culture. He and Tel had fit right in among her people; in fact, it had seemed as though a wolf who was naturally colored and had no extra endowments like his mutations was a novelty to them. What would they think of these lands?
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.