Being only slightly better than humans, Changelings must rely on others-their Motley, their Freehold, their Entitlement-to help them take on most threats and maintain their hold on what sanity remains to them.
On the other hand, there is a deep emphasis on relationships, interconnection, and wonder that isn't there in other Chronicles of Darkness games. If, by some miracle, they do become powerful enough to truly take on the True Fae, the results aren't pretty. The Changelings can either resume their old lives knowing that they could be helping but aren't, or they can take on their new lives, safe in the knowledge that their endeavors will be at best a moist towelette on the raging bonfire of the Fae. The True Fae are infinite, their sorcery unstoppable, and their appetites impossible to slake. There is no redemption, no way to go back to what you once were. or if I was allowed to leave?Įven if it isn't the bleakest thing White Wolf has included in the Chronicles of Darkness (that honor goes to Wraith: The Oblivion), it is almost certainly among the most melancholic and a stark contrast to its idealistic predecessor. Worst of all is the constant, nagging worry: what if I never escaped? What if this is all a trick. Their eyes have been opened so that they can see the truth of things, but they are also beset by hallucinations and tricks of perception. Their very bodies have been changed into inhuman shapes. The player characters, and many non-player character Changelings, are those who managed to fight, sneak, run, or trick their way back to freedom and the mortal world, but even when they return they bear the scars of their experience. Changelings are no longer entirely human, having been tormented in positively Lovecraftian ways until they were broken in either body, mind, soul, or all of the above, and then rebuilt according to the True Fae's whims.
Player characters are Changelings, humans who were stolen from their lives by the True Fae of Arcadia and kept as slaves or servants. The successor to Changeling: The Dreaming and fifth of the Chronicles of Darkness games, following Vampire, Werewolf, Mage and Promethean.
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