Rut of the Future [Friendly Aw]
Ardyn
Master Fighter (250)
Master Hunter (240)
Knight
Bloodletter
6 Years
Male
1046
BrienaSkysong
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He tucked himself into an outcropping of rocks along the upper edge of the valley, watching the bucks as they postured and growled at each other by the river. Rut season hadn’t yet started in earnest, but the rut-prone animals were starting to get edgy, and their antlers were draped in strips of bloody velvet as they prepared for the coming mating season.
Since Ardyn wasn’t in his own lands and hadn’t brought a travois to drag anything home with – nor did he particularly feel like building one – he contented himself to watch the posturing, and the young bucks that stood off to one side, watching wide-eyed. They still hung around their mothers and their younger siblings, but soon, they’d venture out on their own to take on the world.
Paw steps brushed through the early-autumnal grass, and Ardyn spared a glance toward the noise. The tread was unstealthy, with no sense of sneakiness or threat, but he watched all the same.
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.