A Light in the Dark Hours
[Coran]
Ardyn
Master Fighter (250)
Master Hunter (240)
Knight
Bloodletter
6 Years
Male
1110
BrienaSkysong
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Coran’s fidgeting and paw movements didn’t go unnoticed, though Ardyn was tactful in his observations. If he’d been through the same horrors, he figured he’d have a few nervous tics. However his brother’s scent carried a distinct sting of fear to it, something that rang a bell in Ardyn’s memories.
As far as he could recall, Coran hadn’t been home during the Long Night. Hopefully, he’d been fully unaffected out there on his journeys, but Ardyn had a strong recollection of the fever dreams, and irrational fears that plagued him, and the voices. Could Coran be experiencing something similar?
Coran, as if hearing Ardyn’s musings, spoke up, and Ardyn’s ears perked forward, eyes sharpening as he listened to what his brother described about a wolf riddled with worms, and the word bursting had an emphasis that suggested that the term might have been quite literal… a vivid mental image of a wolf, swelling and exploding with worms trailed through his mind and he shuddered reflexively.
“Agreed… Would you like me to get Legacy?”
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.