Darkling

Darklings are creatures composed entirely of dark energy. When a being is born with spirit energy, both a Lightling and a Darkling are born at the same time.

Darkling Minor
Darklings are born small, their form often composed of a short body, a head with fully formed eyes and teeth, arms and claws, and a wispy tail like protrusion allowing them propulsion.

Mature Darkling
When Darklings mature they generally gain legs, and their bodies become larger and limbs become elongated, and the torso larger. Spikey areas grow around the shoulders, down the spine, and about the waist. This is the most common form taken by a mature darkling, however they can take a vast variety of different shapes, depending on enviromental factors, and from what creatures they absorbed their food. These are the most frequently encountered type of darkling, and are the only ones able to break through the rift and enhabit the human realm for any great length of time.

Giga Darkling
If a Darkling consumes huge volumes of spirit energy, its mass becomes so collossal that it finds it next to impossible to travel the gap between worlds, leaving it stranded in the dark. These darklings turn on their brethren for sustinance, consuming raw dark energy, leading to escalated growth and mutation. Giga darklings are extremely powerful, and the most feral and vicious of their kind. Occassionally one is able to enter the human realm, and in these instances spirit warriors are needed to dispatch them, to prevent too much harm being done.

Darkling Lorde
Darkling Lorde

Sentient Darkling
Sentient Darkling

Existance, Habits, and Feeding
Darklings are born into the realm named The Dark, which is composed entirely of Dark energy. In their child state, they feed on the dark energy around themselves, slowly growing in size. As energy-based lifeforms, their mass is directly proportional to the volume of energy that makes up their form. When mature, Darklings use their claws to physically tear holes in the fabric of time and space, pulling themselves through into the human world. Here, they feed on the spirit energy of humans and other living creatures for sustinance. This is usually perfectly fine and does no harm, but if a large number of darklings feed in the same area, people can have too much of their energy consumed, leaving them weak, feeling tired, faint, and naucious. In extreme cases it can be fatal.