Storing Warmth
Ardyn
Master Fighter (250)
Master Hunter (240)
Knight
Bloodletter
6 Years
Male
1056
BrienaSkysong
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His coat was caked in daub mud, especially around his front paws and forelegs, but Ardyn was pleased with the results of the wattle and daub walls taking shape around him. It would be a simple storage hut for firewood to fuel the warmth of those huts that were occupied within the moor.
There weren’t a great many of Valhalla that chose to den in the Moor compared with the Plains, but there were enough. Cairo, Caelia, and Vivian still made the den Gwen had dug their home, and he wasn’t sure if Vaella had chosen to house herself here yet. Cassiella was missing, but should she make it home, there would be huts she could collapse into if she was exhausted.
A frown ghosted across his light-motifed features before he banished it and began work on the trusses for the hut, shaving down the ends of several thick saplings into points for better purchase in the soil.
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.