I am. It seems as if there is only ever one like me known to the world, but we are all related. Being a Darkling is- a title. It carries the weight of every deed done by those who came before.

[As if an unbroken line of Shadow Summoners had risen to power in Ravka, hailing from all corners of the land and only letting themselves be known, when the last one died.]

We are feared, because of what happened all those centuries ago.