Mavole

The Mavoles are a long-lived race native to Alter-Mana, and one of the three so-called "Immortal Races" that ruled over that world in antiquity (along with the Elves and the Jumi). Mavoles are generally human-like in appearance, but their bodies have little to no pigment: Mavole skin is uniformly chalk-white, and their hair is often white as well (though the odd individual has hair of some other color, typically blonde or red hair).

Mavoles and the Undead

Mavoles associate freely with undead creatures, and seem to have an affinity for them. In fact, the Mavole appearance and preferred style of dress has tended to cause for some members of this race to be mistaken for vampires or other powerful breeds of thinking dead. Mavoles are very much alive; however, like undead, they tend to have a susceptibility to holy-type elemental attacks.

Mavole Magic

Mavoles are natural spellcasters, and tend to most easily pick up various disciplines of shadow magic, including (naturally) necromancy, and to a lesser extent charms and beguiling magics.

Nearly all members of this race have some talent for magic. From a very young age, most Mavoles are trained in the conjurations of the elemental Shade, and so all Mavoles are familiar with his dark magics.

Male Mavoles

Male members of this race are capable of shapechanging into the form of a bat. While lesser males of the race can take the forms of small, common bats, the most powerful Mavoles can assume the form of a larger-than-man-sized humanoid bat-like creature.

Female Mavoles

Females cannot change shape, but they do have another unique power: they are able to drain energy -- be it the life force of an opponent, a magitek beam, or the energy of a spell directed against them -- and absorb it to replenish their vitality or reserves of mana. As with male shapechanging, this ability comes in degrees: lesser females can drain only a very little, while the most powerful Mavole women could (in theory) absorb and neutralize a very powerful magitek explosion.