"Oh, you don't have any darklings where you're from?" He clearly has humans and dragons, so it seems odd to Avan that one leg of the trifecta would be missing, but alright, he can explain.

"Their basic shape is much the same as a human's, but they have a wider variety of skin tones and tall, pointed ears." Avan is definitely a hand-talker, and while one is stuck holding his plate, the other holds a finger up next to his own ear to indicate how a darkling ear points: up rather than out like an elezen ear. "They tend to be physically stronger than humans, but it's magical power that they truly excel at. They usually live for hundreds if not thousands of years, but their independent and competitive nature makes it difficult for them to form societies the way that humans do."