Bounteous Catch [Fish and sea-life processing]
Ardyn
Master Fighter (250)
Master Hunter (240)
Knight
Bloodletter
6 Years
Male
1056
BrienaSkysong
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Ardyn heaved against the net, pleased at the heft. It meant the net had done its job in catching fish. Maybe even some crabs or other sea life.
He sloshed to shore, hauling the laden net behind him, groaning as the buoyancy afforded by the water dropped away as the net reached the shore, leaving him dragging the full weight of his catch across the sand and well away from the water – and escape for the fish.
Turning, Ardyn spread the net and grinned to himself at the flopping, leaping fish and multiple other sea creatures. They might not all be edible, but he’d caught enough that were.
He stepped forward, and began to pick through the catch, tossing fish into a large water-tight basket he’d filled with sea-water. Once he had a drying rack up their short-lived reprieve would be at an end.
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.