Afternoon Stroll
Ardyn
Master Fighter (250)
Master Hunter (240)
Knight
Bloodletter
6 Years
Male
1046
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| Ardyn Cadeyrn Aodhán Phoenix Adravendi |
Ardyn sat quietly at the top of the hillock, studying the slowly forming tower. He knew he’d likely be his mother’s age… or perhaps his first litter would be his grandfather’s age, before this tower would see completion. He didn’t know how humans did it beyond what his mother had observed on her and his father’s visit to a castle in Auster.
He hummed out a sigh and rose to his paws, stretching each limb as he made his way down the path as it wound down the side of the hillock in a scenic, meandering way. The spring at the Alcoves wasn’t the only spring on the hillock, and somewhere one had enough flow to create a steady little stream, with many small, tinkling waterfalls that flowed over the path in one spot. Eventually they’d have to devise a way for it to flow without washing out the pathway in the process.
He paused to examine a squirrel’s stash of nuts, forgotten from the previous autumn’s caching frenzy, then moved on, making note. Nuts could be made into decent dyes for leather and cloth, according to some of the primates.
He wasn’t on shift for patrol, so he took his time strolling through the woods and out onto the plains, simply enjoying the sights and letting his mind wander over plans, and possibly heading out for a hunting trip.
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.