Your Beacon Home [Tel]
Ardyn
Master Fighter (250)
Master Hunter (240)
Knight
Bloodletter
6 Years
Male
1056
BrienaSkysong
| Ardyn Adravendi |
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As if his thoughts had conjured her, his eyes captured a glimmer of light beyond the wall in the distance. Ardyn sat up and squinted, peering out over the plains, before his tail flared into a blurred white-hot blaze, thanks to the sudden eruption of wagging.
The wagging only paused briefly when he saw she was alone, but as he dropped from the tower after a scramble down the stairs his mother, Taliesyn and others who had remained in the Plains had erected while they waited for his return, Ardyn dashed the thought from his mind, trotting to meet Tel with a solid hug.
She’d naturally fill him in on where her father and brother were. For now, Ardyn was simply content to squeeze his wife-to-be into his chest, long digits massaging between her shoulder blades in habitual greetings.
"Tá áthas orm go bhfuil tú anseo, a Chroí..."
His words came in a low croon.
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.