Loop De Loopy Cords [Crafting/Hunting]
Ardyn
Master Fighter (250)
Master Hunter (240)
Knight
Bloodletter
6 Years
Male
1051
BrienaSkysong
| Ardyn Cadeyrn Aodhán Phoenix Adravendi |
The boy sat with a flop of his rump in the dirt by the pack meeting boulder, letting the autumn sun warm his back as he spread out strips of dried sinew. He hummed to himself and he dipped the sinew into a tortoise shell of water, soaking it and puling it into thinner strips, thinner and thinner until he had enough sinew strings to achieve his goal for the day.
Lyr perched in the oak above Ardyn’s head, telling him about some of the stories the raven had picked up on his attest flight. Ardyn listened with interest as he tamped a sharp stake into the dirt and attached several of the strings of sinew, now slightly air dried, in long loops to the stake and moved to sit at the far end of the loops.
His goal was snare cords, and he was attempting to achieve it with a braid Ayodele had called a loop braid. His fingers were shorter and thicker than his mother’s lemur’s but they were nimble enough to achieve it with some effort.
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.