No Safe Words In Battle [Warrior Training]
Deadline is the 20th
Ardyn
Master Fighter (250)
Master Hunter (240)
Knight
Bloodletter
6 Years
Male
1046
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| Ardyn Cadeyrn Aodhán Phoenix Adravendi |
He stood again on the boulder, strips of cloth laid out on the stone at his paws. Today was a training day for the fighters, and he tipped his muzzle to the sky, howling for them to come. It was a hot day, and where it touched his coat he felt the pleasant sting of the heat seeping through to his hide.
It was a day best suited for lounging in the woods in a soft pool of sunlight, but he’d be working his fighters’ paws into a sweat today, with an added challenge to the routine.
Blindness was a possibility in any warrior’s life. Battle could be dirty, fangs sinking into eyes and rending sight from the owner. His mother had taught him young to fight blind, should anything happen that left him without his eyesight. He wanted the wolves that fought for Valhalla to have the same skill.
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.