Rising Stones
Ardyn
Master Fighter (250)
Master Hunter (240)
Knight
Bloodletter
6 Years
Male
1046
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| Ardyn Adravendi |
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He leaned into the harness attached to the small sledge piled with rocks, hauling them up the path climbing to the top of the hill. His muscles burned in protest, but he pushed onward, teeth gritting.
He’d tied his tail-hair up to keep the sledge from snagging it as he climbed. Finally, Ardyn crested the rise and stopped beside the pile of stones. Taliesyn did most of the heavy hauling, able to pull much larger stones than the wolves, but Ardyn still liked to haul what he could to keep himself in shape, strength-wise.
He stepped out of the traces and pulled himself from the harness with a little fiddling with the straps. Gazing at the tower, he pondered at the slowly growing construction. Would he be alive to see it done? The upper floors were a puzzle, fun to figure out and plan, but tricky to figure out how they were to be laid.
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.