Bear Claws
Ardyn
Master Fighter (250)
Master Hunter (240)
Knight
Bloodletter
6 Years
Male
1056
BrienaSkysong
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He’d been following his usual patrol route when a scent touched his nostrils and his hackles bristled. Bear. He bent to inspect the Summer-dry dirt, scanning until he found a large paw print, confirming that it was at the very least a grizzly. A big one.
Unfortunately, the track told him it was heading inward instead of leaving the territory. Ardyn set off as a stealthy trot, following the scent and the paw prints as he sent Lyr winging off to find backup to fight the bear and bring it down. Around here, bears were as much a source of hides as a prey animal; just one that was about as dangerous as a bison bull in rut.
Bison bulls in rut didn’t eat wolves, though. Soon enough, he heard the bear snuffling its way through the plains. A glance toward the sky told him Lyr was on his way back, hopefully with one or more of the pack following, so Ardyn wasted no time in launching his first attack on the beast.
He barreled forward on stealthy paws, launching into the air and landing on the bear’s back, claws flexing to gain a grip through the bear’s thick fur as he raked his sabers over the hump on the grizzly’s back.
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.