Life's Ever Twisting Fates
[Tel]
Ardyn
Master Fighter (250)
Master Hunter (240)
Knight
Bloodletter
6 Years
Male
1118
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Pawsteps entered his hearing range, familiar and welcome. Soon enough, Tel’s frame settled beside him, her gentle voice soothing his ears.
She’d been out scouting, and he was relieved she was back safely.
Ardyn shifted, head lifting and draping over-top her neck as he wrapped her in a hug, though he was careful not to jab her with his sabers as he did. Her presence eased a small portion of the ache in his heart.
"Táim an-sásta go bhfuil tú ar ais slán, a Chroí."
His voice felt rough when he spoke, choked with emotion. He’d lost his father, and could very well have lost his brother and youngest sister. They were homeless, forced to stare at their homeland from afar instead of walking freely across the Plains to bury Red’s body in peace beside his grandfather and grandmother, and those that had been there, one with the land for generations now. And his mother was ill.
If he’d lost Tel on top of it all… He wasn’t sure he’d be able to keep going.
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.