Talk:Darkling

Huh. Given the reuse of the image (compare File:Darklings-5e.jpg and File:Dark ones.jpeg), should there be a merger with Dark ones (and with that dark creeper and dark stalker)?

They share some similarities: the artwork, the two different-sized subraces, the dark nature. However, their abilities seem different. Dark ones have no known background or culture, darklings do. It seems like merging them wouldn't produce any contradictions, but on the other hand, there's no solid basis for it (never trust the art). Perhaps a See Also / Otheruses tag would be sufficient? — BadCatMan (talk) 12:25, December 20, 2016 (UTC)


 * Hmm, good point. I had no idea that the same art had been used elsewhere. But I agree: there are similarities, but they don't make as good a case as with the Gazer/Eyeball situation, in which the art was new but almost identical, the stats were the same and there was a lot of overlapping lore. I'd go with the See Also / Otheruses tag idea for now, at least until some more lore is unearthed about either of them.


 * About the art, the one I uploaded was just taken straight from the book; should I delete this illustration and just link to the old one? -- Sirwhiteout (talk) 15:12, December 20, 2016 (UTC)
 * I think it's actually a stronger case than the gazer/eyeball situation, since it's not new art of the same subject but a direct reuse of the old art. -- Dark T Zeratul (talk) 19:20, December 21, 2016 (UTC)


 * But reused art has been common in D&D in both the TSR and WotC days. Artwork often does double-duty, even if it represents very different topics. Everything in The Grand History of the Realms is reused and even completely wrong. As I said above, never trust the art. I'm inclined to keep separate images for the separate races, as they did clean off the background for the darklings.


 * As the darklings versus dark ones, I feel it may be like the planetouched races between the editions: very different in 4th compared to what they were in 3rd, different enough to require separate pages. — BadCatMan (talk) 08:09, December 22, 2016 (UTC)


 * Given the lore involved, I think the darklings and dark ones are separate creatures, despite the re-used art. I'll try to separate and expand both.--SilverTiger12 (talk) 18:06, 27 September 2022 (UTC)