Time Carries On
Ardyn
Master Fighter (250)
Master Hunter (240)
Knight
Bloodletter
6 Years
Male
1056
BrienaSkysong
| Ardyn Adravendi |
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Ardyn lounged on the boulder beneath the great oaks, gazing out at the plains but not really seeing them.
Time had a way of rolling on at a high rate of speed. It was hard to fathom sometimes, that he’d been just a pup 4 years ago. It felt like he’d simply blinked and next thing he knew, he was grown, and a year away from being halfway through his life.
He’d… thought he might have had a mate and kids by now, but so far, it seemed such things were taking their time to settle into place. Perhaps he could have expedited the process if he’d actually been looking, but he’d been a bit busy. Or perhaps he shared his mother and grandfather’s ability to miss what was right there in front of him.
Hadn’t it taken his father laying it out for his mother for her to figure it out?
Ardyn smirked, head shaking with a sigh as he tried to imagine that scene and his mother’s expression when it had clicked. Judging by Red’s smile at the retelling of how they got together, it must have been funny.
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.