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Favorite Kith? Boggans Votes: 8 7. Eshu Votes: 8 7. Nockers Votes: 9 8. Pooka Votes: 8 7. Redcaps Votes: 13 Satyrs Votes: 4 3. Sidhe Votes: 24 Sluagh Votes: 19 Trolls Votes: 17 Total voters So, let's talk about the basic character options for Changeling the Dreaming.
Which did you like best? Some liken it to the Akashic Record of the mages to some extent. The fae are the strange races born of these dreams. Most everything in the Dreaming is made up of what the fae call 'chimera'. Chimerical material is basically dreamstuff. Most chimera are nebulous and shifting, as befits the nature of dreams. Some takes on more solid forms, particularly when major events or ideas form to uphold them, such as the lost continent of Atlantis or common mythical beasts like unicorns and griffins.
The fae are races that have somehow gained sentience, wills and souls of their own, evolving beyond mere chimera into something more. Technically speaking there may be numerous fae races inhabiting the Dreaming beyond the few we speak of in Changeling.
It's hard to know at what point a chimera becomes a fairy, or why, and the reason may not always be the same. Even now, it is possible for this transition to happen, as seen with the Wolpteringer and others being reborn as full-fledged fae. Nobody quite knows where the fae came from. In the Settings section there is a timeline that goes a bit into the beliefs of fae from Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. The thing is, faerie reality is a bit like mage reality; a lot of it is based on belief and consensus.
In the Dark Ages Changeling book, there were four courts and Kiths were less set in stone; an explanation for why this changed and the fae don't really remember it now is that their very nature and even history changed as time went on. Faeries tend to be rooted in primordial ideas, though; darkness, fear, light, elements, life, emotions, professions, deeds. They spring from that essential core and become something larger, but always remain creatures of a certain passion and hue. So now that we know what the fae are, the next question is The fae are creatures of belief, and as such, their natural enemy is disbelief, better known to them as Banality.
Banality is inertia, the absence of passion, a certain unquestioning, unthinking hopelessness that spreads like a contagious disease. As magic dimmed in the world and Banality became more prevalent, those fae who still dealt with the human world found they needed a way to deal with it. Some fled into their sanctuaries or the Dreaming. Others used any of a number of techniques to meld their souls to human forms to act as armor and shield against the forces of Banality.
They are called Changelings because early on they often would kidnap children or adults and replace them, or possess them, or do other things to swap themselves in for humans. Later, after the Shattering, when the pathways to Arcadia closed and the remaining Kithain, the primary fae peoples of Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East, sought a way to survive in the world they were left in, they adapted these old techniques into the Changeling Way, their method of reincarnation into human frames.
Their dark enemies, the Thallain, stole the method for themselves as well, while other fae use other methods; Dark-Kin practice a form of possession, Nunnehi and Menehune have a variant on the Changeling Way based on bloodlines and mysterious pacts, and Inanimae practice an ancient method where they create husks, magical human-like bodies to inhabit, believed by some to be the oldest method.
All are hiding their true selves behind a mask of sorts, allowing them to venture into the mortal realm. This is why the Hsien, though they are not fae, are also considered Changelings.
Even Demons might be considered Changelings under some definitions, though Kuei-Jin are NOT; for Changelings are typically non-human souls masquerading as human, and Kuei-Jin are human souls returned to the world. Ultimately, it's However, they are often considered fairy-adjacent, and many have a connection of their own to the Dreaming and the collective consciousness of humanity. Returned vs New Besides other divisions, there is something else to consider when making your Changeling: your past.
Not your past in this life, but your past lives, and if you have any at all. Most Changelings have a past. Kithain on the Changeling Way are typically being reborn, having lived many lives before. Sidhe and others fresh from Arcadia have hazy memories of their time before fleeing there, and perhaps faint wisps of their time there. Most Inanimae are ancient and nearly eternal. But new fae souls can be born. This is rare among Kithain and Inanimae, a bit more common among some other groups such Denizens who have lived for generations in the depths of the Dreaming.
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