Chiropteran

Chiropterans are the undead remnant of an extinct bat-like humanoids. In life, they were native to the Blackwood region of Mithros, and most remain there, hidden from the dominant factions of the continent.

Biology

Chiropterans are 5 feet tall at average, and usually have a slender, wispy build. Their forelims form webbed wings, which they use for flight.

History

In life, Chiropterans, while still biologically indistinct from vulpines, formed the nation that would become known as the Chiropteran Realm, being the first territory that seceded from the Vul Empire, starting its eventual collapse in the Pre-Draconic Era, and which, at its peak, ruled all of Mithros east of the Ascuphre Mountains. The realm came to an end in 9244 DC during Miraak Drech II's campaign to unify all of Mithros under the predominantly dracon Kingdom of Mithros. Following the crumbling of the Realm, they were hunted to near-extinction.

It has been theorized that the lingering demonic miasma from demonic invasions emerging in Blackwood twisted their forms, which was used by the Kingdom of Mithros' propagandists to justify their eradication campaign.

Foreseeing their eventual doom, the aristocracy and scholar classes of the Realm devised a ritual that would revive their race from extinction after a mass ritual suicide of the survivors, with the end of the Kingdom of Mithros being the revival trigger event. Once this came to pass with the Coalition coup of Cania in 10088, the ritual completed, and from the ashes of the Realm rose the Chiropteran Archduchy, under the leadership of Archduke Draven Vos, the highest ranking Chiropteran who survived the transition to undeath.