BATS

Bats are creatures of the night, preferring to spend daylight hours within caves and tree hollows. Their large, lamplike eyes are nigh blind, and they navigate by listening for the echoes of their shrieks. (1)

Though most bats prefer the sweet savor of fruit, many feed upon vilekin, or even the blood of beast and man. It is that last hunger that makes them into pests, for a bat's bite can transmit a terrible disease of madness. Their flittering movements, as well, make them difficult targets to strike. (2) (3)

(1) Encyclopaedia Eorzea Vol. 1, p. 284
(2) FATE: On the Lamb
(3) FATE: Caving In

Known species/types of bats:

- Barbastelle
- Cave bat
- Blood bat
- Sun bat
- Black bat
- Dusk bat

- Attic bat
- Giant bat
- Sand bat
- Temple bat
- Shadow bat
- Vale bat

- Arena bat
- Void herald
- Wingrat
- Lesser kalong
- Territorial kalong

BARBASTELLE

Barbastelle, the Laird of the Blind Iron Mines, is a very large and solitary creature. Called a "vampire bat', its thirst for blood is prodigious--enough to convince experts that it is the culprit behind the "Big Gulp", the slaying of an entire herd of sheep at the Red Rooster Stead.​

As such, there is a generous reward for the slaying of Barbastelle--though any adventurer seeking it should be cautious. (4)

(4) Hunter-Scholar: Moraby Drydocks

Habitat: Lower La Noscea, Various
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Combat Rating: 50, B-rank

Special note:​

Barbastelle is a vampire bat, and will drain the blood of an attacker to heal itself.

CAVE BAT

The species that dwells in the Blind Iron Mines of Lower La Noscea is named, simply, "cave bat".

​Though not generally hostile, some believe that the bite of these bats can transmit a disease that causes men to froth at the mouth and seek the blood of others. Better safe than sorry; young arcanists and rogues are often set to cull the cloudkin population, and when the bats emerge in droves from the mines, adventurers are asked to put them down. (3) (5) Blue mages also seek to learn the Blood Drain spell from them.

(3) FATE: Caving In
(5) Hunting Logs: Arcanist, Rogue

Habitat: Lower La Noscea, Blind Iron Mine

Combat Rating: 4 to 7

Special notes:​

Cave bats are known to drain the blood of their foes, an ability blue mages can learn.