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Chiropteran
Bat Folk
Chiropteran (or Bat Folk) are small, mostly nocturnal folk that live in family based communes throughout the dark places of the world. Most often living in deep forests and cavernous caves where they can hide themselves away from prying eyes and threats but allowing them free reign to fly at night.
Content Isolationists
Bat Folk are most active between sunset and sunrise meaning they don’t often encounter other cultures. Towns that have a nearby chiropteran commune will receive chiropteran traders every week or two who seek to trade for some few needed items they can’t make themselves. This is the most common form of interaction chiropterans have with the greater world, being a mostly reclusive and self-sufficient race that tend to avoid the bright, loud areas of the world such as cities.
Chiropteran adventurers are quite rare, as the most common thing that drives a chiropteran to leave their commune is tragedy and being that they put so much effort into being unnoticed, these tragedies themselves are rare. Even the most aggressive marauding mob may pass beneath a chiropteran commune, simply never realising their presence. Chiropterans are so effective at hiding their homes that many people think the entire race is a tale told to scare children.
For the chiropteran that does leave their commune, they are quick to form strong attachments with the next group of non-threatening people they encounter. This has led travelling chiropteran to find themselves falling into crime, working on farms, becoming assistants to researchers, joining armies, and cults. Anything that gives them a sense of belonging and purpose. Once they’ve settled, it’s very difficult to get a chiropteran to see the flaws of their new attachments as they will make all kinds of excuses to justify their group.
Chiropteran Traits
Your Chiropteran character has the following racial traits.
Ability Score Increase
Your Dexterity score increases by 2 and your Intelligence score increases by 1.
Age
Chiropterans have lifespans equivalent to humans.
Alignment
Chiropterans tend towards Neutral alignments.
Size
Chiropterans average about 3 feet tall and weigh about 40 pounds. Your size is Small.
Speed
Your base walking speed is 25 feet.
Flight
You have a flying speed of 50 feet. To use this speed, you can’t be wearing medium or heavy armour.
Sonar
You are very short sighted, your regular sight extends 5 feet. However, your sonar provides you Blindsight out to 60 feet allowing you to make out shapes and forms but not colours or patterns. Outside of this range you are completely blind.
Sneaky
You are proficient in the Stealth skill.
Languages
You can speak, read, and write Common.
Art Credit: Bat - RPG Character by Alexandra Jury on ArtStation
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