Wattle Wattle Dauber
Ardyn
Master Fighter (250)
Master Hunter (240)
Knight
Bloodletter
6 Years
Male
1056
BrienaSkysong
| Ardyn Cadeyrn Aodhán Phoenix Adravendi |
He padded along the plains, supplies bumping his sides and weighing down the travois he hauled behind himself as he made his way to the next site of a new hut he’d been sketching out on a piece of boar skin that had been worked until it was so thin it made for perfect writing and sketching surface.
Ardyn planned for this hut to be one make of clay bricks, as Ayodele had suggested. He’d managed to find a clay source on one of his hunting forays beyond the wall, and eventually, he’d found one within home territory, so the fun of figuring out how to make bricks that wouldn’t crumble had begun, with much mud and more than a few little mudball fights between himself and anyone he could wrangle into it.
He'd gathered enough saplings and willow boughs and fronds to work with for a while, and hazelnut branches for the wattle and daub technique he planned to try out.
Dumping the supplies at the site, he stretched and studied the ground at his feet, already scraped clear of grass and vegetation in readiness to become a floor. Once he’d assessed the mental outline, he got to work.
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.