This Place Smells Like Dooooom
Ardyn, Tel
Ardyn
Master Fighter (250)
Master Hunter (240)
Knight
Bloodletter
6 Years
Male
1056
BrienaSkysong
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Ardyn nodded in response to Coran’s assurance that they were alright, and at his brother’s added remark, he frowned, thinking back on the Long Night and the changes the world had seen; changes that had faded away for the most part.
He stepped back as Coran scrubbed the spire, ears flicking back in unease as the carved features came into focus. “I’d be amazed to see any happiness in this place. Even the air sounds upset.”
He glanced at Tel; like Coran, she hadn’t seen this place before either. How on earth did such an ancient-looking place hide here? Or was it that the earthquakes had unearthed them?
His eyes shifted from his fiancé to the spires around them, scanning for anything that stood out or maybe held a clue before padding to another nearby one and studying it. After a few minutes of examination, he tested the soil at its base with his claws unsheathed.
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.