Vampires

Vampires are humanoids with the noses and tall ears of bats as well as white skin and black eyes. Wings for gliding connect their arms to their body. They also possess long claws and razor-sharp fangs.
Vampires are traditionally nocturnal, only coming out at night. However, there are many vampires who have moved out of Strapoda and assimilated to the day-night structure of humans.

Most vampires can be split into two separate groups. Firstly, there are the lower class vampires, most of which live in Strapoda. There are small populations living in Talamh, Balan, and Ferodrill, most of them not numbering more than a thousand. These vampires are less stringent about the many vampiric traditions and aspects of vampire culture. They may be less strict about being nocturnal, or they may not even be nocturnal at all, as mentioned previously.
Meanwhile, the upper class vampires live exclusively in Strapoda. They are fiercely nocturnal, considering going out during the day to be sinful.
Upper class vampires have complex systems of politeness and ideas of honour. For instance, you are not to turn your back to someone of higher social status than you, and you are not supposed to initiate a physical fight with someone shorter than you. However, when someone offers a physical altercation, you must answer. Upper class Vampires are also against rushing, believing that one should always move at a slow, yet steady, pace, unless in a dangerous situation (obviously). One last important aspect of vampiric culture is always asking permission for every task. In general, upper class Vampires are constantly in pursuit of a sort of perfection, chasing the ideal of a calm and peaceful person.
Meanwhile, lower class vampires generally adopt the culture of whoever they are near. 
There is often a bit of animosity between upper and lower class vampires, with lower class vampires thinking that upper class vampires set a bad precedent. Meanwhile, higher class vampires think lower class vampires are “out of touch” with “vampiric culture”.

There are many myths about the vampires, including them sucking the blood of humans. However, they consider the act of killing being blasphemous, except for self-defence or in war, and are strictly vegetarian. Something as small as the smushing of a spider goes against the beliefs of the vampires. This myth probably started due to a practice within vampires of them exchanging blood. This is done by couples after marrying by having the two of them bite each other, typically on the neck. This is done because vampires do not have different blood types and this process is rather painless, as vampire bodies have the ability to separate nerves from veins by the simple act of pinching the skin in a certain way.