Art by  LittleRover

The Vespertillo where the third race created by the gods in the golden age. After The First Born declared that human's had been to tainted by mortal desire at the whims of the other gods they demanded a new race be created to act as the stewards of the land. The first born oversaw their creation much closer ensuring that the Vespertillo meet his standards, so the Vespertillo are all mostly androgynous with very few hard to notice differences between male and female. They where given wings and the ability to fly at great cost of strength and resilience to better survey the lands they are to manage, and not seeing the need for any kind of physical capability. The fur on the Vespertillo is usually very short little more then fuzz but very dense and tough to protect them while flying, expect from a longer softer fluff of fur around their neck and chest. Colors range from brown to grey to black, they tend to be one solid color but large sploches of other colors is possible. The chest floof is very often a lighter color from the rest of the body. White is also a possible color though rare. Vespertillo with white patches are usually looked down on for "Being tainted by Frazone" The color white is often associated with the mortal god. Vespertillo that are all white are almost always killed at birth or sold off to the Mouciens who will take them to the grand temple to be a a white priest.

The big ears aren't just for show as Vespertillo have exaptational hearing to help them in the dark. They do not poses echolocation as some of their feral counterparts do but really good night vison keeps them from flying into things at night, their smell is good but nothing exceptional compared to other species of Tallamet. You may notice that vespertillo have six digits on their hands and feet. On the hands. The three outer digets on thier hands and extended to give structure to their wings. these digits have a special joint alowing them to fold back wards and tuck the wing mostly out of the way while they are not flying. Having just three digits douse somewhat hamper the Vespatillo in it's manipulation of objects. However the vespertillo have more dexterity in their feet then other other race with the digits to the far of either side acting almost like thumbs. Vespertillo can not use their hands to manipulate objects while flying and must rely on their feet.

Their are two maps of the world, the map of the land as decided by the ground pounders divided amongst themselves and the map dividing the world up amongst the Vespertillo. Their is no patch of land anywhere across Tallamet some Vespertillo clan doesn't claim ownership off. You can set up in a nice plot of land no one is using and spend twenty years developing the place into a prosperous community only to have a Vespertillo come by and demand backpay on that twenty years of missed rent. Refuse and they will send thugs to bully you even destroy the community, because it's better for them to wipe you out then let you get away with not paying up. The proper method is to track down whatever clan claims ownership of that land and arange to use it, they will possibly even give you a loan to help you get started. You'll have to pay intrest on the loan, on top of paying rent, but hay it's been then having thugs harass you.

To manage these vast area's Vespertillo predominantly use a clan system of related family members. Each Vespertillo is born into a clan and rarely do they get to leave. The Vespertillo clans are constantly locked into a sorta cold war of trying to gain some leverage over each other, this has made the Vespertillo well honed in the arts of deception and espionage. Sometimes they resort to theft, kidnapping and assignation another specialty of the sneaky bats. It is fortunate that the clans are unable and/or unwilling to truly engage in open warfare with each other. Most Vespertillo will find a place serving their clan but more are born then the clan will have a place fore. These vespertillo will often spend their youth studying art or science as is their privalige to do so with the wealth of the clan, and when coming of age forced to leave and travel the land seacking employment for their skills. No traveler as gone long without hearing a traveling vespertillo playing their music and entertaining in hopes for pocket change. These travaling Vespertillo are the ones the people see most often and will sometimes recive the hate a lot of the common folk have for the Vespertillo clans, despite really not having anything to do with the clans.