Editing Harem Knights: Races (section)

==Chironen/Batpeople==
Chironen (Chir-On-in), until the dawn of /tg/ have primarily been a nomadic race, living on subsistence. They came from across the Elven lands from some place far to the east. They speak of horrors that drove them away, and their appearance (at least in any form of mass) in the western lands occured shortly before, or after, the Elves began cutting ties with everyone around them and became incredibly hostile to Trespassers in their lands.

Chironen are incredibly dextrous and light humanoids with muscles far more powerful than their size would give them credit for. They have only 4 limbs, a pair of legs and their membranous wings. The struts between the membranes are actually their fingers, of which there are four, with an opposable thumb claw which is double jointed, giving them a surprising level of manipulatory power with it. Their toes, likewise, are slightly longer, and contain an extra knuckle than human toes ontop of being tipped with slightly rough claws. The muscles in their toes, feet, and legs are impossibly strong, capable of holding onto cavern ceilings or branches while they sleep. They usually have long hair, most of which grows down the back of their neck and onto the space where their shoulders and neck meet, forming a kind of mane/ruff around their throats from their long strands of hair. Chironen skin tone is in all the natural human shades, but they tend towards the darker skintones. Finally, they have large ears, which often peak out from their long tresses and bangs (which almost universally cover their eyes)

Contrary to popular belief, there is not much difference between the eye structure of a Chironen and that of a Human. Chironen eyes are, however, not suited for the dark. Their echolocation abilities, projected whenever they talk, are more than capable of making up for this, especially in large groups as Chironen ears are sensitive enough to pick up not only the echos of their own voices, but tell who projected the other echos they are listening too, turning a colony into an echolocation network of sorts. Chironen, by nature, are a nocturnal race, and much prefer the dark of night to the light of day (which is unusual given their skin pigmentation). This leads to their eyes being exceedingly night adapted, to the point where anything but dim lights is literally painful to a night-adapted Chironen. During the day, many Chironen wear elasticy, gauzy, black circles of cloth, called dark-bands, around their heads and over their eyes to help them see. The size and positioning of their ears prevent them from using human sunglasses. Over time, Chironen can become adapted to daylight conditions, though usually they always prefer to wear the dark-bands. Chironen young, born and raised to be awake during daylight hours, have no troubles seeing during the day time, and usually do not wear dark-bands.

Chironen have since lived a nomadic existence, migrating north and south given the season in small colonies, the largest of which has never exceeded 50 members, and only one of those in recorded history has done that. "Migratory" Chironen tend to wear minimalist clothing, if any at all, given their lack of materials available to /tg/ and while they have more manipulatory abilities than one might guess at first glance, the membranes between their arms and torso preclude most normal clothing. This is the cause for their migratory habits in most of the world. When a colony is unable to get south quickly enough, it usually hunts for a nearby cavern, and huddles together in hibernation. It should be noted that Chironen have a particularly bad reputation amongst humans, due to the fact that large Colonies, when in danger of dieing to exposure during winter, will raid human settlements for food to fatten up quickly for the winter before hibernating.

Chironen society is one of incredible closeness. Due to the lack of sight and color in their normal conditions, Chironen rely not only on sound, but touch, taste, and smell to transfer information. This leads your average Chironen to having no concept (or only a vague one) of "Personal Space" as something that is always there. Chironen understand that sometimes everyone needs a little space, or doesn't want to be touched, but they see this as the exception, not the rule. An early problem early on with /TG/ Chironen relations was a misunderstanding of this. Amongst Chironen, there is nothing sexual about touching, licking, or cuddling a person when it is not in an intimate, or sexual spot. Kissing, sex, and other sexual actions retain the same conotiations (A Chironen may lick your cheek, hands, or neck, but never your lips or other intimate areas such as breasts or genitals unless you are in a relationship). Given that things that Outerrealmers considered incredibly intimate, and usually only to be shared amongst members of the opposite sex (or same sex if you swung that way), this lead to many hilarious early on encounters with Chironen who didn't have a concept of gender, or even age, boundaries in this context.

Chironen currently fill a niche as cartographers, night scouts, sappers, and architects in /tg/ society. Their echolocative abilities allowing them to excel in all of these areas.