Editing Contempt of Death (section)

==Bat People==

If you like space bats, be from Koilia. They're essentially Mycenaean Catholic bat people. Their culture is Bronze Age, but New Horizons has been running a Promethean project there with the blessing of the Bat Pope, so your character would be a graduate from the inaugural class of their college, and one of a few thousand Koilians who understand postech tools and vehicles.

To provide more information on the only known aliens: Koilians are basically bat people, but they aren't descended from Earth's bats. Their arms are relatively stubby from shoulder to elbow and from elbow to wrist, but their hand bones are very long and can be opened from one another, stretching a thin membrane between them. The fingers are also long, the pinky being longer than the hand and forearm put together! When extended to slow a fall, to float in water or as an emotive display, Koilian arms look like they have extremely long fingers with an additional joint and a big sheet of thin skin between the fingers and running down to the elbow between the arm and the pinky. When folded, the pinky sits flush to the arm and extending back past it, and they have very long 'palms' and three functioning fingers and an opposable thumb. They're generally four to five feet high, have strong, hollow bones and are fuzzy.

Koilians cannot tolerate gluten in their diet and eat mostly meat and fruits. They generally have a fondness for fish. Mechanically, being Koilian would give you resistance to falling damage (resistance scales inversely to the height fallen from), an easier time managing saves against falling, and the ability to float on your back for quite a while if the water isn't too choppy. You'd also have a form of night vision blinded by noise.

Example names: Ineep, Skei, Ver Neepik, Squekwik, Wir Neepik, Cheepwirk. Think something high-pitched and chirpy/squeaky.