Somewhat like different species of fairy, a Changeling's kith indicates the kind of dreams which birthed her soul in the Dreaming. Each Changeling has two legacies, one for each court, which represent how the dual nature of her fae soul is expressed.Įach Changeling is also a member of a "kith". 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. 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. Each Changeling has Seelie and Unseelie aspects of their being, one of which dominates a given Changeling. (The metaphysical aspects of this are the complex concepts present in the game.) The human soul becomes joined with/cohabits alongside the fae soul.Īs well as the usual roleplaying traits representing their skills and abilities, Changeling characters are further defined by their ties to the Dreaming. 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. Early in the human's life, usually before puberty, they undergo the "Chrysalis", a magical awakening of the fae soul which previously lay dormant. In the game, a changeling is a fae soul born into a human body. Traditionally, a changeling is a fairy child substituted for a human baby, but Changeling: The Dreaming uses a very different interpretation. Commoners and nobles fought for control of the freeholds and glamour until a peace accord was reached by the new High King David. With the return of the sidhe and their desire to once again rule all changelings, the Accordance War broke out. Some sidhe were able to return by inhabiting existing human bodies. Then came the Resurgence, man landed on the moon and belief and dreams broke open the doors to Arcadia. For many years commoner changelings lived amongst mortals and made their way as best they could in a world where glamour was fading, this was the Interregnum. It was at this time that the Changeling Way ritual was created allowing fae spirits to inhabit human bodies alongside the human host's soul. This time period is known as the Shattering and it is associated with the time of the Black Plague. Eventually banality became so strong that the Dreaming was sundered from reality. In response, the fae nobility (the sidhe) withdrew to Arcadia, their home deep in the Dreaming, and the commoner fae developed "the Changeling Way Ritual" and metamorphosed into changelings. During the Iron Age and the subsequent rise of rational thought and science, glamour became less common in the real world, and the opposing force of banality could injure or kill the fae. Glamour created and maintains a separate realm of imagination known as the Dreaming, from which the fae originally came to the mortal world. The fae are creatures of dreams, drawing magical power and their very existence from "Glamour", the dreams of mankind. 4 Changeling in the Chronicles of Darkness.2.2 The Gallain - Kiths not from the corebook.
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