Darkling Elder

Darklings can perceive their surroundings within a 30ft radius without relying on sight.

Darkling Elders can speak, read, and write Common, Sylvan, and one language of the Feydark - Abyssal, Deep Speech, or Undercommon.

Elders tend to be wise due to the effects of Titania's Curse, while their elven forms make them dexterous or charismatic.

Darkling Elders have proficiency in the Perception skill.

The Summer Queen's curse causes a darkling's body to absorb light, and doing so wizens the creature, much like the effect of rapid aging. Every 6 seconds exposed to Sunlight harms a Darkling for 1d6.

When the Darkling Elder dies, magical light flashes out from it in a 10-foot radius as its body and possessions, other than metal or magic objects, burn to ash. Any creature in that area takes the Darkling Elder's character level x10 as radiant damage and, if the creature can see the light, is blinded until the end of its next turn.

Darklings throughout the generations have innovated a ritual to use Titania's Curse to their advantage and cope with it. The tattoos enable the ability to expel light from their bodies to empower attacks. when you hit a creature with an attack, you can expend any number of hit dice to deal radiant damage to the target, in addition to the weapon or spell attack damage. The extra damage is equal to the hit dice rolled by your character. This ability can only be used on attacks that require an attack roll. Hit Dice expended in this way cannot be used for healing on a short rest, and are only regained on a long rest. In addition to this, there are two kinds of Elders:

Elders who remained in the Feydark, retaining the sleep and charm resilience of fey.

Some Elders took fey portals to the Underdark to find safer, better places to live and have thus sacrificed some fey characteristics for more ways to expel light from their bodies in the form of additional spells.