1. Vrikuis
A tiny creature, which can be found wherever large cattle, specifically aurochs, are found, they are no larger than a shrew with wings. The fur-less, wrinkled Vrikuis has an unpleasant cream-white coloring that turns a splotchy red whenever feeding. These bats are rarely if ever encountered by adventurers and are merely mentioned here for their bizarre and incredibly particular diet. The Vrikuis prey on the tongues of aurochs. They will wait for an opportune time, and attempt to fly inside the mouths of the beats, whereupon they prick the fleshy tongue of the bovine, sucking the saliva-laced blood.
2. Drazuli...some folklore tall tales are true.
3. Narbats
These creatures appear as normal bats except for a long spiraling 'horn' extending from their heads. This in effect is an evolved tooth not unlike those found on narwhals. With these long horns Narbats probe and scratch...
4. Moonbats...not bats at all. Awful creatures that descended from the vast, dark firmament.
5. Malrupian Marauders
6. The drunken bats of Pinnaplatz Every year without fail, ten thousand, fattened, bibulous bats converge on Pinnaplatz. The town is in fact famous for this bizarre annual event. Unsurprisingly, the town's coat-of-arms features an appropriate design...a staggering bat, awkwardly crashing into a tower. But why are they drunk? Ah, because of their particular diet, and that particular diet's stingy but consistent blooming season.
7. Squeal-shrieks Mildly named but dreaded creatures. Squeal-shrieks are capable of emitting a sonic attack so high-pitched and decibel-laden, that they can rupture a human's ear-drums from ten feet away without the victim even hearing anything before the pain comes, and blood streams down from their ears.
8. Dungbats Guano guess why?
9. Chorts Devil-bats. Granted, their fur is a bright hellish-red color, twisted horn-like appendages sprout from their heads, and their ever-darting tongues are disproportionately long for their small bodies. They may indeed appear to be infernal creatures from the fiery pits of the Nine Hells, yet they are simply a mundane species of chiroptera. Nothing but ill-will exists among the folk who share their rural habitats with these bats.
10. Old Roo's Echo-locators, aka Dwarven Ship-bats.
11. Foedus Deformis All the icky bat stereotypes rolled up into one magnificently disgusting creature. Its saliva however has been known to cure everything from leprosy to petrification! Go figure.
12. Golden-bats Literally.
First encountered by adventurers, holed-up inside an ancient, jungle-drowned temple to some long-forgotten deity.
13. Punished Birds? Once they were fine-feathered...
14. Hedgebats
Like hedgehogs, but bats. Usually found clinging to bushes or small trees, hedgebats seem happiest idle. As a self-defense against unwarranted 'molestation', they have a bristling coat of needles, which erupts from their skins, whenever anything or anyone brushes against them.
15. Spawning Pipistrelles
Tiny bats, each about the size of a coin, they are always encountered in vast numbers.
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Valadaars
While the title of largest bat belongs to the Riding Bats of Kazair, the Kareenian flightless bat is much more dangerous. These earthbound bats weigh between 200 and 300 lbs and are the apex predator on the isolated Kazair Archipelago. They still have membranes between their fingers which they use to regulate their body heat, but are quite insufficient for flight or even gliding. They have powerful fangs, and clawed talons on their feet. They have no fear of Man, regarding them as simply another potential meal.
Similar to Squeal-Shrieks, these bats bats use ultrasonic screeches to stun their prey. Unfortunately, it has the side effect of being able to shatter glass windows. As such, they are actively hunted by humans anywhere near cities and towns of note. This is made difficult by the fact their screeches are not perceptible by human ears, but are the terror of dogs and cats.
As their name suggests, these bats have venomous bites. Their venom is both paralytic and anesthetic - the anesthetic so that they may painlessly bite their victims and prevent them from reacting before the paralysis takes hold. The venom effects both voluntary and involuntary systems, eventually killing the victim. Some cultures use them for medical purposes, but this requires very careful judgment on dosage.
These huge, slow bats have been mistaken for dragons and demons. They are, however, harmless to humans - they hunt other bats, flying slow and silent, snatching their prey on the wing. They have excellent vision and do not use active sonar, instead using other bat's sonar to locate their prey.
The Korpsekrivers are skeletal, nearly fleshless bats with oversize black orbs for eyes. They are reminiscent of a mummified fruit-bat. They are not from this world, and have strongly magical auras. They do not exhibit overtly magical abilities and some theories are that they are scouts used by some dark or alien power. They seem to survive by scavenging the dead and there are stories of swarms of these things harassing undead.
21.Colonial Bats - like bees, ant and some species of mole rats, communal. The queen is perpetually pregnant and have more then one womb. They feed and fruit and fungi grown from plant waste in giant twig hives high up in jungle canopies.
22. Stonehunters - These large grey bats have a very gargoylish visage and have been mistaken for such as their perch high on the stonework. They hunt rats, cats and small dogs in their large city habitats. They are very intelligent and make good familiars, if somewhat malicious.
23. Flayed Terror bats - Face adorned with tentacles used for catching insects. Fully blind with excellent sonar. Occasionally used as familiars by wizards enjoying the reactions they bring in others.
24. Giant Grey Spotted - Urban, omnivorous relatives of fruit bats, essentially winged rats. Have been plague carriers in the past, made worse by their high mobility.
25. Brown Talking Bats - Have maddeningly child-like voices that sound continually desperately terrified. They don't use it for more than mating calls and territorial displays, being rather stupid, but it sounds like something truly awful is happening. They have unintentionally led humans into hazardous areas, searching for the lost children.
26. Black Swarmers - Unlike most cavern-living bat species whose startled flocks cause but confusion and dropped lights, the black swarmers are more akin to flying piranhas. Equipped with teeth more like a bird-of-preys beak, they each tear off a gibbit of flesh, small but draining. They are small, and numbers can be slain with a single blow, their numbers can tell, and their bites are germ-ridden.
27. Goblin Hunting-Bats. Much as a falconer uses falcons to hunt, the goblins have trained bats to hunt for them. These bats have been bred large and strong, enough to take other bats and even smaller owls. Their exact features vary from goblin tribe to goblin tribe, and some have been altered by magic. Some have even been bred to capture fairies.
28. Cave Creepers - The bane of small creatures, also known to diminutive races as black Stranglers. These flightless cave-dwelling bats have long, slender, but oh so strong fingers. They have lost the webbing, but none of the strength. They are harmless to humans, though dark rumors of larger, deeper dwelling specimens exist.
29. Riding Bats - Inspired/stolen from Heavy Metal. Large, carnivourous but still somewhat fragile. Used primarily by high ranking orcs or for special missions.
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