The Badgermen

The Badgermen are the primary inhabitants of the Gyuhács-Myouyama Islands, the two chains of rocks also being the only place where the diminutive humanoids are reliably found. They are usually a docile people, but most unlearned humans are, due to their lack of knowledge on the Myouin, as they call themselves, frightened of the indigenous people of the two island chains due to their outlandish looks, and in some legends with origins in fishing communities dubbed the Nightflyers.

Characteristics
The average Badgerman stands at just below 1 meter and 50 centimeters tall, and weighs around 40 to 50 kilograms. He or she has hair coloured a random motley of monochrome colours, from black to white and everything in between. Their eyes are nearly always of a colour ranging somewhere on the red end of the spectrum, with shades of crimson, scarlet or dark purple being most common.

The most striking feature of the Badgermen, however, are their backs, from which a set of bat wings extend for one and a half meter on each side. These wings do not have skin, veins or any living tissue attached to them, and are as such just two long, crooked strands of bone with the three vertical bones (which in a bat would be holding the membrane) hanging from them.

The Badgermen can still fly through the use of magic, but only at night, when their innate shadow magic is stronger. This also means that the Badgermen are more active at night, but they are in general out and about for most of the day, sleeping only for a few hours each morning or evening.

They are slightly more dark-skinned than the usual Southern European, yet because of the fact that their bones are the colour of charcoal, certain points of the Myouin (Notably the hips, knees, elbows and feet) look darker than the rest of the skin due to the bones showing through.

Biology
The Myouin are active and slight of build. They subsist of a diet of fruit, fish and flesh of local wildlife, while alcohols of any kind are poison to them, resulting in anything from food poisoning and sever diarrhea to death, depending on the potency and amount of alcohol consumed.

They are, despite their very close relationship with humans (In spite of the physical discepancies) immune to nearly all human diseases, but pay for that apparent edge against humans by having an extremely short lifespan compared to their cousins: The average Badgerman lives to be 28, with ages exceeding 32 seen only in a handful Badgermen at a time across the entire world.

They reproduce in the same way as humans, with maturity occuring on average at 12 years of age, the same age at which the Myouin marry and join the ranks of the adult population. They are unable to produce offspring with humans, and are intolerant to human bodily fluids, resulting in allergic reactions.

The Badgerman have hollow bones, like birds, and are therefore very susceptible to broken bones and injuries related to these.

Magical Abilities
The Myouin are born with an innate ability to do a very narrow, shadow based magic. It usually begins to show at around the age of 5, but can vary with a couple of years on either side, and, in rare cases, take even longer to show. This shadow magic is stronger at night than at day. During the daytime, the Myouin can gather shadows into a solid, purplish black mass, using them as artillery or ranged weapons as an auxiliary to traditional weaponry such as ballistae and archers, while at night, they can gather the shadows as a membrane between their wings, granting them flight.

At night they are also capable of gathering shadows around them, leading to them being almost invisible (provided that they stand still and were hidden in shadows before), as well as still being able to use blobs of solid shadows as projectiles.

Apart from that, their magic has no explicit uses, but it does give them an edge at ranged combat that they abuse to great extend in order to make up for their shortfalls in strength, durability and (as a result of these) melee combat.