A Light in the Dark Hours
[Coran]
Ardyn
Master Fighter (250)
Master Hunter (240)
Knight
Bloodletter
6 Years
Male
1118
BrienaSkysong
| Ardyn Adravendi |
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Coran did speak, and Ardyn listened. The mental image sent a shudder through his frame, and he leaned into his cream-colored sibling, ears folding back as he pondered on his words. It was one hell of a valid question. And it was one he had no good answer to.
From what he’d heard, those monsters were capable of wiping out a large group of wolves and, as Coran had said, dismembering them with very little difficulty. How did you fight something like that effectively, without sacrificing your fellow comrades in the process?
His lips felt gummy as he opened his mouth, paused for a long moment, then said softly, “I wish I had an answer for that, but… I don’t. They're unlike anything I've ever heard of, aside from scary bedtime stories told to particularly fractious pups...”
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.