Your Intelligence or Wisdom score increases by 2, and your Constitution score increases by 1.

When a daelago hatches, they are fully matured with an established intellect and personality.

The physiology of a daelago is unfamiliar to most who study creatures, and due to the recency with which they've entered the mortal plane, it's uncertain just how old they can live. In addition, most daelago will put their lives before that of their hatcher, and find an unnatural end. Those who live on past the life of their hatcher, or those who disconnect, tend to live lives of solitude, making study difficult. However, it is clear that while they age very slowly, a daelago does age, and it is estimated they live to be around 250 years old.

While daelago cover the alignment spectrum, very few are evil.

Daelago bodies are between 1.5' and 2', though their tentacles, when fully extended, add another 2'-2.5'. Your size is small.

Your base walking speed is 0 ft.

You have a flying speed of 25 feet, and can hover. To use this speed, you can’t be wearing medium or heavy armor. You cannot fly higher than 5 feet off of the ground. If the terrain beneath you lowers, you float downwards at a minimum speed of 1 foot per turn, higher if you are wearing medium or heavy armor. You may increase this speed to freefall. Upon 5th level, you can fly up to 25 feet off the ground, and can hover without falling when the terrain lowers. You are immune to the prone condition.

You don’t need to sleep. Instead, you meditate deeply, remaining semiconscious, for 4 hours a day. (The Common word for such meditation is “trance.”) While meditating, you can dream after a fashion; such dreams are actually mental exercises that have become reflexive through years of practice. After resting in this way, you gain the same benefit that a human does from 8 hours of sleep.

You can use your action to create an aura of destructive or healing energy. Choose one (this cannot be changed).

Damage: Choose an element from: fire, cold, lightning, acid, or poison (this element cannot be changed). The damaging aura is a sphere 20 feet in diameter, centered on a point within 15 feet of you. When you use your aura, each creature in the area must make a constitution saving throw. The DC for this saving throw equals 8 + your Constitution modifier + your proficiency bonus. A creature takes 2d6 damage on a failed save, and half as much damage on a successful one. The damage increases to 3d6 at 6th level, 4d6 at 11th level, and 5d6 at 16th level. After you use your aura, you can’t use it again until you complete a short or long rest.

Healing: The healing aura is a sphere 20 feet in diameter, centered on a point within 15 feet of you. When you use your aura, each creature in the area takes 2d4 healing. The healing increases to 3d4 at 6th level, 4d4 at 11th level, and 5d4 at 16th level. After you use your aura, you can’t use it again until you complete a short or long rest.

You can speak, read, and write Deep Speech and one language of your choice. Deep Speech is the language of aberrations, an alien form of communication originating in the Far Realm. It has no native script of its own, but when written by mortals it uses the Espruar script. The additional language is that of the hatcher.