Traditionally, a changeling is a fairy child substituted for a human baby, but Changeling: The Dreaming uses a very different interpretation.
In the game, a changeling is a fae soul born into a human body. Early in the human's life, usually before puberty, they undergo the 'Chrysalis', a magical awakening of the fae soul which previously lay dormant. Once through the Chrysalis, the Changeling exists simultaneously in both the 'real' world and in the 'chimerical' reality of the fae, where creative ideas and imagination have substance.
The metaphysical aspects of this are the complex concepts present in the game. As well as the usual roleplaying traits representing their skills and abilities, Changeling characters are further defined by their ties to the Dreaming.
Each Changeling has Seelie and Unseelie aspects of their being, one of which dominates a given Changeling. The courts do not easily map onto human ideas of good and evil, but instead represent a host of philosophies - light and shadow, law and freedom, duty and passion.
In days past rule would be divided between the courts, the Seelie court ruling in the summer months from Beltaine to Samhain, and the Unseelie court in winter from Samhain to Beltaine, but now an uneasy truce exists and each court rules its own regions.
Each Changeling has two legacies , one for each court, which represent how the dual nature of her fae soul is expressed. Each Changeling is also a member of a 'kith'. Somewhat like different species of fairy, a Changeling's kith indicates the kind of dreams which birthed her soul in the Dreaming.
The kiths are based on fairy archetypes from various sources, and while the most common kiths are drawn largely from Irish mythology, many others also exist. The descriptions below touch on only a few of the types of stories or traditional fairies which correlate to each Kith. Each Changeling also falls into a certain seeming which is related to their age.
The seemings include Childlings, which are the youngest group between the ages of three and thirteen, Wilders, which are between the ages of thirteen and twenty five, and Grumps, which include any older changelings though they rarely make it very long before becoming undone.
As Changelings age and pass through the various seemings they lose some of their glamour which is the stuff changeling magic is made of. They also gain Banality, a force created by mortal disbelief. The Seelie have a reputation as the guardians of fae traditions. They are the peacekeepers, protectors of the weak, and the ideals of chivalry. Most seelie seek the reunion between the mortal world and the dreaming, and would like to be back to the time before the realms became divided.
Where the Seelie dedicate themselves to preserving the traditions of the fae, the Unseelie style themselves as mockers of those traditions. They stand for the principles of constant change and impulsive action. They have a reputation for fostering war and madness, despising those weaker than themselves, and valuing freedom and wildness over any chivalric code.
The unseelie see themselves as radical visionaries, bringing about vital change and transformation through whatever means necessary, including violence.
Most members of the unseelie court believe that the Dreaming has abandoned them, and therefore, that they owe no special loyalty to it or to their lost home of Arcadia. Moore these are the closest equivalent to kithain native to the realms of central and western Asia.
More so than any other of the gallain, the hsien are not like standard changelings. They use an entirely different system of magic much closer to that of Mage: The Ascension. Paths of Storytelling Systemless Gamebooks. The Shining Host Storyteller.
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