Introduction

One day, eluding her keepers, the Princess escaped. Once outside,
the brightness blinded her and erased every trace of the past from her
memory. She forgot who she was and where she came from. Her body
suffered cold, sickness, and pain. Eventually, she died. However, her
father, the King, always knew that the Princess' soul would return,
perhaps in another body, in another place, at another time. And he
would wait for her, until he drew his last breath, until the world
stopped turning...
Pans Labyrinth
Welcome to being lost.
Thats a strange concept, introducing you to
Changeling: The Lost is a game of beautiful lies, and bittersweet truths. Changelings
were taken from their past lives, and replaced with nothingness, with trash. They
served monstrous, alien fae creatures, creatures who rebuilt them for a sole, selfish
purpose. Changelings then escaped, warping that changed visage, taking ownership of
what they were forced into.
Now, changelings walk in the same world as the rest of us, but they have to balance
living lies, and dealing with truths. When they look around, they see two worlds.
They see the fantastical at the same time as the mundane. Embracing either side
means eschewing and being eschewed by the other. Most walk the line, and make
hard choices on what to accept, and what to reject.
What do you tell your loved ones? Can you ever truly love someone who can never
see you for who you are, and whats happened to you? Do you seek out others who
have been through what you have? Do you reject them because theyre a constant
reminder of a time youd rather forget?
Every time you feel youve found the answers, youre lost again.

Diving Back In
Arcadia is a realm of wonder and dreams, a land of fairy tales and magic. Its also the
most terrifying place you can imagine. Even the beautiful things hurt, because they
simply are not compatible with the way your world is supposed to work. Arcadia can
be nightmare beyond description, sure. But Arcadia can also be like a beautiful corset,
but one thats just a little too tight, so it cuts into your skin and makes it hard to
breathe. Once youve escaped, why would you ever wade back into that hell?
First off, in the world of flesh and blood, your perceptions betray you. You see things
for the magic, for the wonder, for the strange. You also see them for the honest
reality. That car is simultaneously made of steel and fur. Its headlights are both a face
and an electrical system. Which is real? Does it really matter, if the car can both crash
into you, and eat you? Changelings deal with this dichotomy constantly, and have to
balance these perceptions. Rejecting reality and rejecting the fae both carry immense
danger, but both also come with great temptation. Wouldnt it be nice to shut off all
the strangeness? But then again, wouldnt it also be nice to live in a land of pure
imagination and adventure?
The thing is, no rational person should delve into the fae. In a vacuum, any reasonable
person should avoid everything fae when possible. Changeling: The Lost happens
when that becomes impossible. In Changeling, were telling stories about people who
have technically escaped the pain, but never fully get away. They have to explore the
things that hurt, lest they hurt forever again.
Changelings are on the run, theyre hiding. Changelings band together against the
outside forces of the fae. They also run headlong back into the Hedge, the barrier
between Arcadia and the flesh. The Hedge offers great rewards, but great risk. The
Hedge offers opportunities to avoid future captivity, while risking death and
dismemberment.

Getting On
Yes, changelings will explore that darkness time and again. But mostly, Changeling:
The Lost is about what you do now that youre free. Arcadia is about tales from times
past, its about folklore and legends and the strange. But youre not in Arcadia
anymore. Changeling stories are about the present, and the future. Theyre about
learning from the past, sure, but theyre really stories about rebuilding. Changelings
build majestic courts on the grand scale, and new lives, loves, friendships, jobs,
hobbies, and finding yourself in a whole new experience on the small scale.
There are of course hurdles. When taken to the fae realms, the dark powers leave
dopplegangers in your place. When you return, you might find a weird clone who has
inhabited your life for the past twenty years. What do you do? Do you try to solve
that? Do you walk away again? Now that youre returned, you wield unimaginable
fairy magic. It makes you powerful, sure, but it also guarantees youll never truly be
human. Do you eschew that or embrace it?

Darkness and Light

Changeling isnt a game of darkness, nor is it a game of light. Its a game of reality,
and facing things right here and now, because judgment calls eat up what precious
time you have. The Chronicles of Darkness feature dark concepts, conceits, and
themes. Arcadia, the Hedge, and other supernatural forces can be deadly, frightening,
and utterly overwhelming. But life is a beautiful thing, and changelings have the
ultimate second chance to find grace, and to find joy in even the smallest indulgences.
Can you ever be normal again? Maybe not. But does normal really matter?
Sure, being able to forge a contract with the elemental essence of fire means youll
never be human again. That can be depressing. But being able to craft a fireworks
display in your bare hands? Thats beautiful. Thats pure fucking magic, and
nobodys ever going to take that away from you.
Character Creation
Step Zero: Court Creation
The first thing that needs done is determining what the Changeling Courts of your chronicle's
setting are. What are their themes, their guises, and their means of beating back the Fae and their
Huntsmen? Determine with your group and Storyteller which Courts are available for your
character to join. You don't need to know which one you want your character to join just yet, but
it's best to figure out your options early. The rules for creating Courts, as well as several example
Courts, can be found on pg. XX.
This is not technically part of character creation, but players and the Storyteller should agree on a
setting before putting anyone into it, so it's the first thing on the list for your Changelings story.

Step One: Character Concept

Sum your character up in a simple, short statement. Don't worry about traits just yet think
about what or who you want to play. Examples could include "Exasperated Therapist" for a
character who tries to help others work through their issues to his own detriment, or "Uninhibited
Machinist" for someone who forges Tokens like nobody's business, with a hedonistic streak a
mile wide. Think about what you want your character to play like at her most basic level.
If you don't have an idea yet, that's no problem. Look through the rest of the book and let your
mind wander. Look at Merits you might want, cool Kiths and Seemings, interesting Contracts, or
just think about events you want to happen in your character's story. Then break down those
flags figure out what kind of character would be forced into that Kith, what kind of escape
would grant the Seeming you want, and why shed learned that interesting contract. When you
have enough cool ideas, fit them together. That's your character. Reduce that character to a short
statement, and there's your concept. From there? Continue to build on that framework.

Step Two: Attributes

What are your character's innate talents? These are her Attributes: physical talent, intellectual
prowess, or social graces. Each of the three categories (Physical, Mental, and Social) contains
three Attributes. Every Attribute gets the first dot for free, indicating the most basic capability.
Prioritize which of these categories is most important to your character, then second most, and
then least important. These are your primary, secondary, and tertiary Attributes.
In addition to the single dot you begin with in each Attribute, you can distribute five dots among
your primary Attributes, four dots among your secondary Attributes, and three among your
tertiary Attributes. Think about what your character's life was like before she was taken, and how
her durance has affected her. Would she need to be smart to escape her Keeper? Strong? Tricky?
What mattered? What didn't? Build your Attributes based on the story you want to tell with your
character, not the other way around.
One dot represents basic competency, but below average. Two dots is the human baseline. Three
is above-average, four is world-class, and five is the absolute maximum for humans.

Step Three: Skills

Next, choose your characters Skills things the character has learned to do, rather than raw
potential. They have the same categories as Attributes: Mental, Physical, and Social. Each has
eight Skills. Similar to Attributes, you prioritize these three categories. Unlike Attributes, Skills
don't begin with any dots. You have eleven dots to spend on your primary Skills, seven dots for
secondary Skills, and four dots for tertiary Skills. You can find more detailed descriptions of
each Skill and what the dot ratings mean starting on p. XX.
Skills are learned throughout a Changeling's life. Maybe your character's dad was a gun nut and
made her learn to shoot, so she has dots in Firearms. Maybe your character is interested in
computers, even if they have nothing to do with what happened in Arcadia, or their role in their
Court. Skills are a great way to add little character traits like that, so take advantage of it.
Where an Attribute of 1 represents a minimum of capability, a Skill at 1 implies novice training
in that field. Two through five dots represent the same things as Attributes. Someone with two
dots in a Skill is average for someone in their field, while someone with four dots is an expert. 0
represents a lack of training, which may limit or prevent your character from using that Skill.

Step Four: Skill Specialties

Skill dots represent a general competency in a particular field or study. A Specialty, however,
suggests the kind of dedication it takes to master a certain aspect of the field in question. A
character with high Athletics who primarily lifts heavy things might have an Athletics (Strength)
Specialty, or the Therapist we talked about in Step One might have an Empathy (Hidden Issues)
Specialty, or a Persuasion (Moving On) Specialty, depending on what aspect of his practice you
want to play up.
Choose three Skills you have at least a single dot in, and add a Specialty to each of them to
signify an area of expertise you want your character to display. Write the Specialty next to the
Skill. You can find more on the way Specialties work on p. XX.

Step Five: Add Changeling Traits

You've made a person. Now it's time to bring her into the Hedge.

Kith
A Changeling's Kith is the purpose she was forced to serve by her Keeper. It changed her,
redefined her very existence to fit this role, and it stuck with her through her escape. There are,
quite frankly, a lot of Kiths to choose from. The full list can be found on pg. XX, with
descriptions and the supernatural abilities they grant.
A Changeling's Kith is defining, but it does not define her. An entire Motley of Changelings
could share the same Kith and be entirely different people, differentiated by their Seemings. A
Wizened Telluric is a living observatory and might constantly consult the stars with the
equipment attached to his body, while a Fairest Telluric simply leads a charmed life, taking the
actions that the constellations deem correct with an unwitting grace.

Seeming
While Kith represents what Arcadia did to you, Seeming represents what you did to Arcadia;
what you did to get out, to set yourself free, to get home. Were you tricky? Did you use brute
force? Throw away your humanity? Give in to raw emotion? All of these reflect on you and your
Kith, transforming you once more. Seeming determines, primarily, what facet of your Kith you
express, and which Contracts you find easiest to use.
The six available Seemings are Beast, Darkling, Elemental, Fairest, Ogre, and Wizened. More
information on Seemings can be found on p. XX.

Court
Courts are how Changelings unite, for support and protection, not just from the Huntsmen, but
from themselves. From the Courts your group created in Step Zero, select one for your
Changeling to pledge fealty and membership to or not. Not joining any Court can be quite
dangerous.

Wyrd
Wyrd represents the strange, narrative laws of Arcadia that your character can channel into the
World of Darkness. As it raises, your character becomes more Fae than human, but at the same
time gains more powerful Contracts and Wyrd-based abilities. The Wyrd trait starts at one, and
can be increased by spending Merit dots in Step Six, or with Experiences in-game.

Contracts
Contracts are the binding agreements made by the True Fae with reality. Fire burns in Arcadia,
for example, because the owner of that particular part of Faerie contracted to burn. Changelings,
as beings that are between Fae and human, can exploit clauses of these Contracts for their own
benefit. Select five dots worth of Contracts from p. XX. At least two dots have to be in Contracts
that feature your characters Seeming as a favored option. If you purchase a Contract with
affinity for your characters Seeming, you get that affinity effect for free. You cannot start play
with the affinity effects for other Seemings.

Clarity
Clarity represents a Changeling's connection to reality, and her ability to tell the difference from
it and Arcadia. As it lowers, she might dissociate and confuse the Fae and the flesh. Clarity starts
at seven.
Fetch
Every Changeling has a Fetch, a simulacrum of their old selves left behind so they would not be
missed. Most Changelings have to deal with their Fetch, one way or another. Like Step Zero, this
is not strictly speaking a part of character creation, but if your Storyteller intends to involve your
characters' Fetches in a game, it's best to come up with them early on, at least a concept for the
Storyteller to design around. Talk with your Storyteller about what sort of antagonism you'd like
to see from your doppelganger, and how it could tie into the chronicle. For more information on
Fetches, see p. XX.

Step Six: Merits

Choose ten dots' worth of Merits. Five dots can be spent to raise starting Wyrd to 2, and all ten
can be spent to raise it to 3. Merits can be found beginning on p. XX.

Step Seven: Advantages

Virtue and Vice
Changelings must make an effort to embrace the humanity they fought so hard to reclaim, and as
such adhere to human moral motivations. Choose a Virtue that represents the driving moral your
character tries to adhere to. For a Vice, choose something less than moral that she's all too happy
to indulge in. Once you have an idea, be sure to consider them from a Changeling perspective: If
they were to break every bar and chain in a zoo, is that virtuous liberation or a pranksters Vice?
For a darker twist? Consider basing the characters Virtue or Vice on their durance or Kith. Is it
noble to feed the hungry as a monsters former chef, or is the adoration of the hungry your drug?

Willpower
Willpower is your character's ability to push yourself forward, to go the extra mile when you
might otherwise fail, or when you absolutely cannot fail. A Changeling's Willpower rating is
equal to her Resolve + Composure.

Combat Traits
A Changeling's Defense rating is equal to the lower of her Wits or Dexterity, and her Athletics.
Unless a Kith or Merit changes it, her Size is 5. Her Health is equal to her Size + Stamina. Her
Speed is Size + Strength + Dexterity.

Aspirations
By now, you should have a good idea of what your character is like. Give her three Aspirations;
things she wants to do. One Aspiration should be a long-term goal, like Make peace with my
Fetch, or Kill my Keeper. The other two should be short-term goals, like Bring something
useful back from the Hedge or Make a friend.
For every Aspiration you complete, you get a Beat (see p. XX), so expect to accomplish your
Aspirations often. You'll have to come up with new ones to replace any you accomplish.

[QUICK REFERENCE]

Character Creation Quick Reference

Step Zero: Courts
Design the city's Courts with your Storyteller and other players.

Step One: Concept

Create a concept. Figure out who and what you want to play, and sum it up in a couple simple
words, or at least get an idea.

Step Two: Attributes

Prioritize Physical/Mental/Social categories: Distribute 5 dots in your primary Attributes, 4 dots
in your secondary Attributes, and 3 dots in your tertiary Attributes.

Step Three: Skills

Prioritize the Physical/Mental/Social categories, same as Attributes. Distribute 11 dots in your
primary Skills, 7 dots in your secondary Skills, and 4 dots in your tertiary Skills.

Step Four: Skill Specialties

Choose three Skill Specialties.

Step Five: Changeling Traits

Choose Kith, Seeming Court, Contracts (5 dots, two must in a Seeming Affinity Contracts.), and
figure out what your Storyteller wants to do with your Fetch.

Step Six: Merits

Spend ten dots worth of Merits. Five dots can be spent to increase starting Wyrd to 2. All ten can
be spent to increase starting Wyrd to 3.

Step Seven: Advantages

Willpower: Resolve + Composure
Clarity: 7
Size: 5
Health: Size + Stamina
Speed: Strength + Dexterity + 5
Defense: (lower of Dexterity or Wits) + Athletics
Initiative: Dexterity + Composure
Wyrd: 1, unless increased with Merits.
Glamour: Maximum Glamour is dependent on Wyrd (see p. XX). Characters enter play with
full Glamour unless otherwise decided.
Virtue and Vice: Choose a Virtue and Vice from your character. The weirder, the better.
Aspirations: Come up with three Aspirations for your character, one long-term and two short-
term.

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Changeling Template
Seeming and Kith
Choose the Kith your Changeling was forced into during her durance, and the Seeming she
earned when she escaped.
See p. XX for a complete list of Kiths. Pick one that fits your character's durance.
Pair it with the Seeming that best represents how your character escaped.
Beast: You escaped using animal instinct. There's a bit of humanity you're not getting back, but
that was the price you paid for freedom. You're not quite human, but neither is anyone else.
Darkling: You were able to sneak out of Arcadia by embracing dark roads and ruthless choices.
Darkness is your ally, but you've been hiding so long you might not like who you are in the light.
Elemental: You gave in to the raw forces of nature, becoming less and more at the same time.
As part of the elements, you found escape, but surrendered something human along the way.
Fairest: When you realized what youd lost and what you still had, you chose not just to grasp it,
but to make use of the potential of others. You didnt just escape you learned how to cut a path.
Ogre: You suffered pain and burdens. You suffered whips and chains. You suffered in your
flesh until your flesh couldnt bear it. And what was left? Wouldnt break. You tore your own
way out
Wizened: You were taken for a task and did it well. You did it often. You did what you do,
despite an unruly unreality that unmade you piece by piece. Luckily, you know how to rebuild.

Court
Decide with your group what Courts exist in your city, then select one from those.
Contracts
Choose five dots of Contracts. While at least two dots must come from Contracts that share an
affinity with your characters Seeming, they can be any combination: Five one-dot Contracts,
three one-dot Contract and one two-dot Contract, or one five-dot contract. It is advised you look
for Contracts that have effects which favor your character's Seeming, but if they don't appeal to
you, don't feel required to do so beyond your affinity requirements.

Experience Costs
Attribute: 4 Experiences per dot
Merit: 1 Experience per dot
Skill Specialty: 1 Experience
Skill: 2 Experiences per dot
Wyrd: 5 Experiences per dot
Morality: 3 Experience per dot
Contract: 1 Experience per dot
Alternate Contract Affinity: 1 Experience

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Example of Character Creation

Brad has been invited by Raven to join their Changeling chronicle. In the city of Toronto, Angels
are afoot and drawing the oddest of souls into the workings of their God-Machine. As matters
turn weirder and weirder, Huntsmen begin to pick up the trail. Toronto is on the cusp of
something terrible, wonderful, or both. It will be up to the Wyrd to write this storys ending.
And so? Brad gets a copy of the Changeling character sheet and reads through the character
generation chapter, eager to play his role.

Step Zero: Court Creation

Raven opted to set her story in the example city of Toronto, using the courts and complications
available on p. XX. She intends to work from that frame to tell her own stories, once she gets a
feel for her characters and their motivations. The futures up to you. So, who will you be?
Brad is drawn to the faith and symbolism of the Brass Court, which gives him an idea. What if
his character were the character who believed not from good, but because they hadnt been?

Step One: Character Concept

Brad builds on his concept on the redeemed, born-again believer. He envisions someone who
used to be small and leapt at the opportunities of the Fae. It was only once they had everything
they thought theyd wanted that they realized the cost to their soul. Finding faith in the lowest
place, Brads character would be violent, but hopeful. Optimistic, but afraid. Bloody, but kind.
He gets the image of a knight a soldier of faith and virtue, someone with a necessary code.
Finally, Brad feels ready to start filling in the circles on his character sheet.

Step Two: Select Attributes

Brad considers, then decides to prioritize Social Attributes over Mental and Physical ones. He
imagines someone who hadnt been impressive before, but learned to play the part. He gives his
character a Presence and Manipution of 3, but a Composure of 2 hes only recently learned
how to keep his cool. He selects a Resolve of 3 to show his determination to be better, leaving
Intelligence and Wits at 2. Last, he leaves each of his Physical Attributes at 2 his character just
isnt that remarkable in the raw physicality department. Without Fae gifts or faith, hes nobody.

Step Three: Select Skills

Brad has a firmer idea of who his character is, but realizes that their concept basically a big box
store employee with delusions of fantastic adventures, doesnt give him much to go on. He
decides to base most of his Skills on things hed acquired in his Durance. He prioritizes Physical
Skills, followed by Social and Mental Skills, to reflect the lessons hed learned among the Fae.
He cant decide on a combat focus, so puts three dots into both Brawl and Weaponry. He puts
another three into Athletics, then puts a dot each into Larceny and Stealth hints of an ill-spent
youth. For Social Skills, he puts three dots into Intimidation to show his old ways in the Fae,
then puts a dot each into Empathy, Persuasion, Socialize, and Subterfuge to cover his bases. He
doesnt see much of a scholar budding here, so gives his Changeling two dots in Computers, then
one in Occult and Investigation skills he acquired in Arcadia or before as a lonely fantasy nerd.

Step Four: Select Skill Specialties

Brad really wants to emphasize the villain that his character used to be, so chooses his Skill
Specialties accordingly. For Athletics, he picks Chasing Prey the thrill of someone fleeing him
gives his changeling extra motivation. For Intimidation, he chooses One-Liners, to show how out
of touch he was, playing out teen nerd fantasies in a realm with all-too-real consequences. He
reserves his last Skill Specialty for Empathy, and chooses Guilt. The wicked know their own.

Step Five: Add Changeling Traits

Envisioning a knight with living armor as flesh, Brad stumbles over the Draconic kith. He works
with Raven to set up his Changeling, Corwyns, appearance the scales overlap like plate mail,
wrapping his hands in claws. Hell have to be careful with anyone he doesnt want to hurt. Hes
decided that his turn towards the light coincided with is escape, so chooses the Fairest Seeming
to represent his first step towards redemption. He already knows he likes the Brass Court.
For Contracts, Brad chooses three dots in Vainglory for Corwyn he wants his character to
inspire and intimidate when revealing who he once was and now remains. He also chooses Might
of the Terrible Brute to give him a little extra power, with or without a weapon.
Last? He leaves the details of his Fetch up to his storyteller Raven. How much trouble could a
minimum wage employee really get into? Theyre both sure that hell regret this decision.

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PART IS FILLED OUT IN WHICH STEP. ]

Step Six: Select Merits

With a firm grasp of his character now, Brad spends five of his Merit points to increase
Corwyns Wyrd to two dots. He takes a single dot in Mantle for the Brass Court he wants to be
a novice, but a known quantity around the Court. Seeing a knight as being understood by many,
he chooses the Legendary Language merit for a single dot as well. Then? He sees the Hedge
Dueliest fighting style and spends his last three dots on the spot. After all, what knight cant win
a duel?

Step Seven: Determine Advantages

Brad calculates all of Corwyns derived Advantages, then works with Raven to establish his
Virtue and Vice. He selects Merciful as his Virtue, Corwyns saving grace against his own ego.
He chooses a Vice of Bloodthirsy to show that, beneath his play at honor? Corwyn can still be a
gamer with thirst for victory. As for Aspirations? He decides that Corwyn wants to save someone
elses soul, to prove to himself that hes a true hero, and after an awkward hour of indecision?
He decides that Corwyn dreams of signing a real mortgage on a real house a real, adult victory.

Step Eight: The Escape

Brad and Raven work together to work out the story of Corwyns return from Arcadia. After
three years and three days of hunting villains, monsters, and fiends for his Keeper, Corwyn
finally pierces the veils of deception to realize his true prey other Changelings. Rather than
turn these lost souls over to his dark lord, Corwyn took the first steps of defiance and led them
far beyond the reach of his hunting hounds, patrols, and other toys, piercing the Hedge itself.
And now? He finds himself home a little wiser, not much older, and terrified of who he was.

Advancement
Changeling characters use two resources to track their advancement in their chronicle: Beats and
Experiences. Beats and Experiences are used to track the character's advancement in the story
and their development as characters, as well as any training they may undergo, or the evolution
of their Wyrd. Upon accumulating five Beats, they're changed into a single Experience, which
can be used to buy additional dots in various traits.

Beats
Beats can be considered units of drama, representations struggles, obstacles, and lessons your
character has overcome. Characters acquire Beats when they do one of the following:
Fulfilling an Aspiration. At the end of the game session, take a Beat and choose a new
Aspiration.
Resolving a Condition (see p. XX) grants a Beat.
The player can turn any failed roll can be turned into a dramatic failure, which grants a Beat.
This can only be done once per scene.
If your character takes lethal damage in her rightmost Health box, take a Beat.
Take a Beat at the end of any game session.
Storytellers can award Beats for exceptional roleplaying, tactics, or character development. If
this involves more than one character, all of them should get a Beat.
You can only receive a single Beat from a given source per scene, but not a given type. For
example, you might get two instances of the Spooked Condition. Since theyre the same
Condition, you can only gain one Beat from resolving them. However, if you resolve Spooked
and Guilty, that gives two Beats.

Experience Costs
Attribute: 4 Experiences per dot
Merit: 1 Experience per dot
Skill Specialty: 1 Experience
Skill: 2 Experiences per dot
Wyrd: 5 Experiences per dot
Morality: 3 Experience per dot
Contract: 1 Experience per dot
Alternate Contract Affinity: 1 Experience
Freehold Creation
Freeholdsareasvariedasthemythsandlegendsaroundtheworldthatinspiretheirmembers.
AschangelingsescapefromArcadiaandbandtogetherallovertheworldtheyhaveno
preconceivednotionsofwhatafreeholdisorhowitoperates.Createyourownfreeholdwith
courtsystemsthatarethematictoyourchoiceofsettingandthestoryyouwanttotellwithyour
players.
Step1:FoundingaFreehold'sStory
AttheheartofeveryfreeholdistheStory,somethingfamiliartothemortalsinthesetting:a
storytheyheardaschildren,anurbanlegend,oranoldmythpasseddownbywordofmouth
amongtheoldestmembersofthecommunity.TheStorytoldbythefreeholdandcourtsprotects
itsmembers,butitalsoconnectstherealworldtoArcadiaanditsarcanerulesbyestablishing
thoserulesinthemortalworldandinthefreeholders'favor.
ThestoryissomethingfamiliarliketheCelticmythsoftheseelieandunseelie,orseasonal
courts.OritmightbesomethingmoreregionallyspecificlikeBologna,Italy'sLostNation
freehold,inspiredbythefamousuniversity'shistoricaloriginsprotectingitsstudentsfromunjust
laws.
ConsiderthevariousaspectsoftheStoryandwhetheryoucanpullitapartenoughtoinspire
multiplecourts.Eachfreeholdhasatleasttwocourtsandgenerallynomorethanfive.Methods
ofdeterminingwhoreignsinthefreeholdvariesdependingonthestory,buteachcourtmust
haveadefinedtimeormeansoftakingthethrone.
TheIronHoldissetinwesternUpperMichigan.Itisanisolatedregion,hemmedinbythegreat
lakesandfarfromtheconcernsofthepoliticiansinLowerMichiganwhostrugglewithmore
seriousissuesincitieslikeDetroitandFlint.Insteadofgatheringallinonecity,itsmembers
tendtobescatteredthroughtheterritorywithsmallmotleysgatheringtogetherandclaiming
partsoftheareaastheirown.Theresbeautyintheenormousswathsofforestandthefrigid
waterofLakeSuperiorjuxtaposedagainstthesmallcommunitiesstrugglingtosurvive.IronOre
andcopperminingoncedominatedtheregion,butforestry,huntingandfishing,andtourism
keepthedecliningpopulationhangingon.
Thestruggletosurviveisastorythattheareasresidentsarealltoofamiliarwith,anditisthe
foundationoftheIronHoldsstory.Wintersareharsh,moneyistight,andthejobsaregone,but
thosethatremainaretoostubbornorunabletoleave.Likewisethechangelingsthatliveinthe
areaarefewinnumberbutareunwillingtocedetheirterritorytotheHuntsmenandmovetoa
safercitywithalargerfreehold.Theindustriesthathavekepttheregionalivemining,forestry,
hunting,andtourismformthebasisforthecourtsoftheIronHold.Anannualcontest,aWild
Hunt,determineswhichcourtwillruletheFreeholdforthenextyear.
Step2:BuildingtheBulwark
Freeholdsprotectthechangelingssworntothemviaaboonknownasthefreehold'sBulwark.
ThisisaspecificritualthatthefreeholdregularlyperformsinordertomaintaintheStoryand
keeptheTrueFaeatbay.Asabaseguideline,thesimplertheritualisthemorefrequently
freeholdsperformit.Bulwarksthatrequiresomesortofsacrificeortemptthecourtiersofthe
freeholdtonotfulfillitsrequirementsmayonlybeperformedafewtimesayear.Veryrarelywill
aBulwarkritualbeperformedonlyonceayearorlessandthentherequirementsforperforming
itwillbeexceptionallystrenuous.
TheseasonalcourtsdependupontheBulwarkoffreelypassingpowerfromonecourttothe
nextastheseasonschangetokeeptheTrueFaeconfusedandatadistance.Meanwhile,the
CourtsofScheherazadeinTorontotellatalethey'venevertoldbeforeeveryevening,andthe
talekeepstheTrueFaesatisfiedforonemoreday.AslongastheBulwarkstands,all
freeholdersaddtheirmantletotheirdefenseagainsttheTrueFae.
TheIronHoldlivesontheedgeofasurvivalandabadyearcouldsenditintoacollapse.In
ordertorepresenttheprecariousnatureofsurvivingyeartoyeartheHoldcombinesthe
Bulwarkritualwiththeritualforchoosingthefreeholdsnextmonarch.Onceayearthe
freeholdersgathertogetherandstageawildhuntwiththeopeningoftheregulardeerhunting
seasoninmidNovember.WhomeveristhefirsttokillaHuntsmanwinsthefreeholdscrown
andtomaintaintheBulwark,theHuntsmansremainsarerituallyburnedbeforetheseasons
conclusionattheendofthemonth.Mortalswhomissshootingabuckhaveonlytheirwounded
pridetocontendwithbutifthewildhuntisafailurethentheBulwarkbreaks,thefreeholdhasno
legitimatemonarchandtheTrueFaetakeparticularinterestinthefreeholdschangelings.
RebuildingaBrokenBulwark
WhenaBulwarkbreaks,thefreeholdcanrebuilditatthenexttimetheritualwouldnormallybe
performed.Itshouldneverbetakenlightlyordonetooeasily,eveniftheBulwarkritualoccurs
frequently.Themorequicklyandeasilytheritualis,thehardertheirenemieswillstrikewhenthe
opportunitypresentsitself.
Step3:IdealsandEmotions
Thecourtsthatmakeupthefreeholdeachembracedifferentaspectsofthefreeholds'storyin
ordertocontroltheirownlivesanddictatetherulesbywhichtheTrueFaeandHuntsmen
interactwiththem.Whilearoughbasisforthecourtswasalreadydeterminedwhenchoosing
theFreeholdsstoryinStep1,thisstepfleshesoutthecourts.Writeaquickpitchforeachcourt
thatgrabsyourplayersattention.
Determinehowmanycourtsmakeupyourfreeholdanddefinethecourts'ideals,themesand
placeinthestory.Chooseanemotionthatrelatestothecourt'sthemes,andconsiderhowthe
membersofthecourtmightinterprettheirdefiningemotionandtheme.Eachcourtshouldbe
flexibleenoughtoappealtoavarietyofcharacters.Forexample,thesummercourt'semotionis
wrathbutcourtiersmightcultivateitthroughcompetitivesportsorblockingsomeonefrom
passingonthefreewayaswellasstartingbarbrawls.
TheIronHoldscourtsarebasedonthemajorlocalindustries.TheyincludetheCourtof
Copper,theCourtofPine,theCourtoftheHart,andtheCourtofSnow.
TheCopperCourtisthetraditionalcourtofmining.ThoughtheminesinUpperMichiganhave
allshutdown,thecoppercourtlingersastheytrytoholdontothegloryofthepastbeforethe
boomtownsturnedtoghosttownsandtheywerethemostpowerfulcourtinthefreeholdsthat
sprangupintheminingtowns.Itisalsothecourtofcraftsmen,historians,oneiromancersand
warriorswhoaretraditionallyskilledinurbanandundergroundwarfare.Thecourt'semotionis
regret,regretforwhatcourtierslostwhenthem,lostpower,andtheharshcoststhatcopper
courtierswon'thesitatetopaytokeepthemselvesandthosetheycareaboutfree.
ThePineCourtisfoundedontheforestryindustry.Theyarecurrentlyoneofthestrongestand
mostpracticalcourtsinthefreehold.Whereothersdependonluck,fate,orlingeron
mighthavebeen,pinecourtiersarefiercelyindependentandforgetheirownpaths.Itisthe
courtofwoodsmen,politicians,andprofessionalduelists.Theiremotionisconfidence.With
planning,foresight,andfinelyhonedskillspinecourtierswilltakeonanychallenge.
TheHartCourtisthetraditionalcourtofhunters.Huntingisaseriousaffairinthelocal
community,wheretheschoolboardcancelsschoolthefirstweekofdeerseasonandbragging
aboutpastyearskillsoveracanofbeeristraditional.Thecourtputsagreatdealofstockin
traditionandmysticismaswellassportsmanship.Courtiersincludeoccultists,hedgeexplorers,
andsharpshootingmarksmenwhocanhitatargetwithanyrangedweaponintheirarsenal.
Theiremotionispatience.Itisntpassivityorresignation,butaformofpower.Bywatching,
waiting,andactingonlywhenthetimeisright,courtiersarefreefromfrustrationandineffectual
worry.
ThetourismindustryinspirestheCourtofSnow.Skiing,snowmobiling,icefishingtheyallbring
insportsmenfromacrossthemidwestandturntheincredibleamountsoflakeeffectsnowthe
areareceivesfromamiserableliabilityintoavaluableasset.TheSnowcourtbringstheircourt
emotionofoptimismtobearonwhateverproblemsthattheyface.Theytendtofocustheir
attentiononthemortalworldaroundthem,andcourtiersrunthegamutfromcommunityleaders,
criminals,andevencultleaders.
Step4:CreatingtheCourts
Onceyou'vedeterminedthebasicofeachcourtthenit'stimetorefinethedetailsofeach,and
addthesparkofmagicthatcallstoachangelingtopledgethemselvestothecourt.
Approaches
Thecourtstellaspecificpartofthefreehold'sstoryandindoingsotheycreateApproaches,a
deliberateopeningintheirdefensestoforcethehuntsmentofacethemontheirownterms.An
Approachisthecourt'sgreateststrengthandtheprimarymeansthattheyusetofightback
againsttheFae.WhenabidingbyanApproachintheirinteractionswithcourtiers,theHuntsmen
gainapointofYearning(seepg.XX)Forexample,anAutumncourtierintheseasonalcourts
fightsbackbyembracingtheoccultandmasteringcontractsandtheoneiros.AbidingAutumn's
Approach,aHuntsmanisnotlikelytochallengehertoaduelwithpistolsorambushherinthe
darkanddragheroffbyforce.Instead,theHuntsmanmaytormentherinherdreamsbefore
challenginghertoamysticalduel.
Approachesarenotalwaysexplicitlydefined.Increatingyourcourtsyoushouldcomeupwith
threeormoreapproachesthattheHuntsmencommonlyuseagainstacourttoserveas
examplesforyourplayers.ThesearetacticsthatHuntsmenhaveattemptedinthepastor
thingsthecharactersshouldbewaryof.
PersonalApproaches
Approachesarenotexclusivetocourts.Asacharactergrowsandestablishesherownpersonal
Story,shegainspersonalApproachesthatfurthernarrownarrowingthepossibleApproachesa
Huntsmancantakeagainsther.HuntsmenmustabidebyherpersonalApproachestogaina
pointofYearningbeforetheycantakeadvantageofcourtApproaches.PersonalApproaches
formasacharacterincreasesinmantle,takesaformaltitlewithinthefreeholdorcourt,orjoins
anentitlement.
UnionBuster:
Onehundredyearsago,vibrantworkersunionsdominatedtheminingindustry.
Thoughtheminesandunionsaregone,theHuntsmenstillhaveanopenApproachintheform
ofattackingthecourtiersalliances.AHuntsmangainsapointofYearningwhenitmanipulates
thecharactersemployertomakethechangelingslifemiserable,orbefriendstheirmortal
friendsandusegossiptoturnthoserelationshipsagainstthechangeling.
TheCraftsmansHammer:
CraftsmenintheCopperCourtareproudoftheirworkandwell
respectedfortheirskill,butitalsocreatesanApproach.AHuntsmangainsapointofYearning
whenturningachangelingscreationagainstthem.Thiscanbedonebywieldingoneofthe
charactersaxesinbattle,framingherbystealinghercustomizedpistolandleavingitatascene
ofacrimeorevensabotagingacarpentersworksohisclientswillsuehim.
MightHaveBeen:
Regretmaybetheemotionthecourthasclaimed,butifachangelingisnt
carefulitcanswallowherwholeanddestroyher.AHuntsmangainsapointofYearningwhen
theydanglethepossibilityofregainingsomethingthatwaslostinfrontoftheirtarget.Acourtier
whoregretsnotbeingtheretoseetheirchildgrowingupmightbeofferedthechancetohave
theHuntsmanshelpoustingtheirfetchandsmoothingthewaybackintotheirlivesinexchange
forbetrayingsomeoneelse.
TrappingsofNobility
Symbolsholdagreatdealofweightforchangelings,andeachcourtbuildsupdozensof
associationsandrepresentations.Thesesymbolsappearindreamsorauguries,spraypainted
onwallstomarkacourt'sterritory,orwornortattooedtomarkachangeling'smembership.
Symbolsalsoserveasalternativenamesforthecourtandinspiretitles,rituals,andthemantle
representationswithinacourtiersmien.
Considerthefollowing:
Whatcolorsrepresentthecourt?
Whatobjectssymbolizethecourt?Animals,naturalphenomena,plants,gemstones?
Arethereanymythologicalfiguresattachedtothecourt?Dothose figureshaveany
legendaryweaponsortoolsthatwouldbepopularinthecourt?
Whatstyleofclothingwouldcourtiersweartofreeholdgatherings?
Howostentatiousarecourtiersindisplayingtheheraldicsymbolsoftheircourt?
TheCopperCourtisalsoknownbyafewothernamesandtitlesincludingtheIronAxe,theRed
CourtandtheCourtoftheForge.Courtiersareproudandfrequentlydisplaymultiplesymbolsof
thecourtatanygiventime.Tattoosareapopularoption.Thecourtscolorsareanearthyred,
thecoloroftheironoreintheearth,metallictones,andverdigris.Commonsymbolsintheir
heraldryincludehammersandpickaxes,lightningbolts,yellowcanaries,bats,andpiecesof
nativecopper.
Rituals
Everycourthasitsownsetofrituals.TheseritualsarekeytomaintainingtheCourt'splacein
theStorythattheFreehold.Inmakingadealwiththeconceptandemotionthatthecourtis
foundedon,thecourtiersreceiveprotectionandpower.Therituals,celebrations,andsacrifices
theyperformonaregularbasisarethecourts'endofthebargain.Whendeterminingthe
variousrituals,keepinmindthattheymaybebasedonmortalholidays,howthecourtwas
founded,orsignificantvictoriesinthecourt'spast.Thematiceventsthatcometomindwhenyou
thinkofyourcourt'sconceptarealsosuitable.Acourt'sritualsarenotnecessarilyexclusively
courtwideholidayseither.Ancourtier'spersonaloblationsandtraditionsarejustasvalidand
importanttomaintainingthecourt'spower.Specifyatleastafewcourtwideritualsand
traditionsthatcanbeperformedbyindividuals.
NorrieHeritageFestival
LateinthesummertheCopperCourtsponsorsafestivalattheNorriemineinIronwood.The
entirefreeholdgatherstotradegoods,andmakedealswhiletheCoppercourtierssharethe
historyofthefreeholdbyretellingstoriesofpastWildHuntsandfamouscourtiersexploits.
Onceenoughalcoholhasbeenconsumedcourtierstrytooutdoeachotherwithdrunkenliving
historyperformances.Agoblinmarketusuallycomestotownfortheheritagefestival,which
addstotheexcitementaswellasthegoodsavailableandmanychangelingstakethe
opportunitytostockuponthingstheyneedbeforethesnowcomes.
CoronationNight
OnthenightoftheautumnalequinoxtheCopperCourtgatherstogetheratnightfall.The
locationchangeseachyearsometimesitsinatown,othertimestheruinsofanabandoned
andforgottenvillageintheforest,oraroundthedangerousabandonedmines.Atsunsetthe
courtgathersfordinnerandtogivethanksforsurvivinganotheryear.Thegamebeginsat
midnightwhentheForemangivesablastofahornandthegamefortheCopperCourtscrown
begins.Thereareonlythreerules:Nocourtiermayleavethedesignatedareauntilsunrise,only
nonlethalweaponsmaybeused,andwhomeverissittinginthecourtsthroneatsunrisewins
theWyrdsblessingandleadershipofthecourt.
Unbinding
Courtiersusetheirregretsandthepasttofueltheirdeterminationmovingforwardratherthan
lettingitchainthemdown.However,whenacourtierfindsherselflingeringwheresheshouldnt,
sheperformsaritualofunbinding.Thecourtieroccasionallyinvitesmotleymemberstobe
present,butitsaverypersonalmoment.Thechangelingmeditatesupontheirregret,then
seeksoutthesymbolsofitwithintheirdreamandremovesthemfromherself.
Titles
Handinhandwithritualscomethenobletitlesthecourtawardsitsmembers.Themost
importanttitleofthecourtisofcoursethecrownedmonarchthoughgatheredaroundthemare
anumberofotherimportantpositionswitharangeofmantlerequirements.Howmanytitlesand
howesoterictheyarewilldependonhowlargeandformalyourcourtis.Asmallcourtwithonly
adozenmembersmayonlyhonorthemonarch,hisprimaryadviser,andthebestmarksman
whoservesastheroyalguardwhilealargecourtmayalsograntformaltitlestoacourt
physician,scholar,knights,andtheirsquires.Titlesmayalsotakeamoremodernbent
dependingontheattitudesofthecourt,suchCEO,CFO,boardmember,andprojectmanager.
Takeintoaccounttitlesformembersofthebureaucracy,thosewithprominentsocialinfluence,
militantcourtiers.Courtsmayoftenhaveaspecificthemethatencouragesmemberstoexcelin
aparticulararea,buttheyshouldalsobebroadenoughtorespectthosewhointerprettheir
courtinotherways.
TheCopperCourt,andtheIronHoldingeneral,aredowntoearthfolk.Ingeneral,theirtitles
existforpracticalreasonsratherthanpoliticalaggrandizement.Also,theCoppercourtisthe
smallestofthecourtswithoutonly810membersacrossthearea.Whiletheyhonoredmore
titlesinthepast,todaytheyonlyhavetwo.
King/Queen:
Thecourtmaintainsatraditionalmonarchythoughthecourtmaintainssome
degreeofcontroloverwhotakesthethroneintheCoronationNightritual.Ittakeseithergreat
skill,astrongalliance,ortheWyrdsownlucktowin,andtheWyrdhasneverfailedtograntthe
crowntothewinneroftheritual.
Foreman:
Theforemanisthemonarchssecondincommandandtheonewhoperformsmost
ofthedirtyworkofmakingsurethedaytodayaffairsofthecourtareinorder.Themonarch
appointstheforemanthoughoftenaskilledforemanwillremaininofficeforseveralyears
beforeretiringsolongastheyhaventoffendedtherestofthecourtinthecourseoftheirduties.
Contracts
Eachcourthasthreecourtcontractsthatareconsideredincourt.FirstistheContractof
Talespinning,whichisuniversallyincourtforallcourts.SecondistheContractofEmotion,
specificallytiedtothecourt'semotion.Lastlyisacontractofyourchoicethatshouldbebased
uponthecorethemeandstoryofthecourt.Thiscanbeanycontractinthelist,oronethatis
customcreated.
Likeallcourts,theCooperCourthasaccessTalespinningandtheContractsofEmotion
(Regret).TheyalsoreceivetheContractsofXXatincourtcost.
Mantle
Mantlerepresentsachangeling'smysticalconnectionwiththeemotionsandidealsofacourt.
Thehighertherating,themoresheembodiesthatideal.Thisisnotasocialconstruct
dependentonotherindividuals'goodwill,butacharacterwithahighermantledoesgainthe
sometimesreluctantrespectoftheirpeersfortheircommitmenttothecourt.Acharacter'smien
reflectstheirmantle,whichincreasesinstrengthasthemeritgrows.Thishasnomechanical
effectbutitdoesidentifywhichcourtsheisamemberofaswellashowconnectedsheis.Each
dotaddsa+1bonustorelevantrollswithmembersoftheircourt.Characterswhoarenotsworn
toacourtcannotpurchaseitsmantle.
Eachcourthasspecificbenefitsforallofitsmembers.Whencreatingacourt,thestoryteller
mustchoosewhichbenefitstogiveeachlevelofthemerit.
Themantlemaymanifestasaminorwashofcolor,scentorflavorinthechangeling's
mien.
Benefitsmaybeaonedotmeritpertainingtothecourt'sideals,+1toaskill,ora1penaltytoa
specifictypeofrollmadeagainstthecourtier.
CourtiersgainadotoftheGoblinVowmeritrelatedtotheircourt.
Themantlemaynowoccasionallymanifestavisibleelement,plant,orothersymbolof
thecourtaroundthem,particularlywhenusingcourtcontractsorfeelingtheircourtemotion.
Courtiersmaytake9againinaskill,atwodotmerit,+2onskillsvs.specificsituations,or+1to
defense,initiative,speed,orarmor
CourtiersgainaPersonalApproachrelatedtohowtheyfulfilltheidealsandstoryofthe
court.HuntsmencannotgainYearningfromaCourtApproachunlesstheyfulfillthePersonal
Approachfirst.
Apureembodimentofthecourt,thecharacter'smantlefrequentlyflowsoutaroundthe
changelingandaffectsothersaroundher.Thisisadescriptiveandnotamechanicaleffect,and
onlysensedbythosewhocanseethecharacter'smien.
Benefitsmaybeathreedotmerit,rerollfailuresofaparticularskill,+1toHealthorWillpower,or
amajoradvantagenotreflectedingametraits.
CrownTheleaderofafreeholdhasaccesstoanadditionaladvantage.Monarchsmayapplythe
persistentCharmedconditiononasmanypeoplepersessionastheyhavedotsinmantle.
CopperMantle
Themantlemaymanifestasaflickerofmetalliccopperortheearthyscentofironorethrough
thechangelingsmien
Acharacterbecomesmoreawareofhersurroundings,subtractonediefromanambushmade
againstthecourtier.
CourtiersgainadotoftheGoblinVow(mines).
Acourtiersmantlemaycausehermientoturnmetallic,herfeetmayappearpermanently
stainedredwithironore,orthemusicofacanarymaybeheardaroundthechangeling.
Acharactergainsthe9againqualityoncraftingrolls.
CourtiersgainaPersonalApproachrelatedtohowtheyfulfilltheidealsandstoryofthe
court.HuntsmencannotgainYearningfromaCourtApproachunlesstheyfulfillthePersonal
Approachfirst.
Apersonalapproachisuniquetoeachcharacterbutathighlevelsofmantlethecharacter
embodiessomeidealofthecourt.AcharactermaychooseanApproachthathasalreadybeen
defined,suchastheCraftsmansHammerdescribedpreviously,ortheymaycreatetheirown
withapprovalfromtheStoryteller.
Themantleisevenstronger.Thesmellofhotmetalrollsoffthecharactersmantleand
everythingimmediatelyaroundhertakesonametallicsheen,andthosewhocomeclosemay
catchthescentofsomethingthattheyvelostandmiss.
Asanepitomeofthecoppercourt,yourwork,scholarship,anddedicationhaveprovidedyou
withagreatdealofinformation.GainthebenefitoftheLibrarymeritat3dotsonthesubjectof
yourchoice.Thismayrepresentinformationyouhaveresearchedyourself,orbooksandother
recordsentrustedtoyouforsafekeepingasarankingmemberofthecourt.
CourtlyConflicts
Somefreeholds,suchasthoseruledbytheSeasonalsystem,relyonthecontinuedexistence
ofcertaincourtstomaintaintheirBulwarkagainsttheTrueFae.However,otherfreeholdssuch
astheIronHoldshownherearemoreflexible.Courtsgrowandcollapseovertimeandaslong
asatleasttwocourtsexistandtheBulwarkstands,thefreeholdstillsurvives.Asageneral
guide,aCourtrequiresaminimumof10dotsofmantleheldbetweenitsmembers.Ifitfalls
belowthis,thecourtcollapsesandallbenefitsthatitsremainingmembersbenefitedfromfade
awayentirelyuntilenoughchangelingsgathertoreestablishit.Whilecourtsdonotnecessarily
relyoneachothertomaintainthefreeholdssecurity,conflictshavethepotentialtobecome
morebloodyaffairs.

Scheherazade's Freehold: 1,001 Nights

Toronto,Canada
Torontoisayouthfulcity,proudoftheincrediblediversitypreservedinitsmanydistinct
neighborhoods.Itcelebratesapatchworkofculturesandindividualstoriesinsteadof
shoehorningeveryoneintoonevisionofCanadianculture.Immigrants,bothmortaland
changelingcomefromallovertheworldtobuildanewlifeandScheherazade'sFreehold
welcomesallLostwithstoriesoftheirownintothefold.

Scheherazade'sFreehold
Everyoneknowsthetalesofthe1,001Nights.Itsstoriesareregularlytranslated,abridged,and
expandedupon.Thestorieswithinitareculturaliconswithmoviesandbooksoftheirown.It
containspoetry,songs,fantasy,historicalfiction,crime,horror,andromance.Yetitisthe
frameworkofScheherazade'sownstorythatholdstheentirecollectiontogetherintoasingle
whole.
Thefreehold'sstorybeginsovertwohundredyearsagoinfarawayEsfahan,Persia.Itbegins
withafoolishShahwhoseprideshatteredhisfreehold'sBulwarkandbroughtadjinnandhis
huntsmendownuponthem.ScheherazadethecleverestandfairestoftheBrassCourtwent
outtofacethemalone.Asthestorygoes,shetoldthemataleandwhenthesunroseoffered
themhospitalitywithinherlamp.Eachnightshetoldthemanewstoryandeachdaytheyrest
withinthemagiclamp.
1,001nightspassedwith1,001talesbeingtold,andScheherazadegrewwearyanddidnot
wakeagainfromherrestwhenmorningcame.Thecourtsthathadgatheredaroundherand
swornloyaltyovertheyearsbecameafraidofwhatwouldhappenwhennightfellagainuntila
youngwizenedboysteppedforwardandtookupthelamp,declaringthathewasScheherazade
bornagaininspirit.Thatnighthetoldanewstory.Onethousandandonenightshavepassed
againandagain,andScheherazade'sFreeholdliveson.
Whetherthestoryistrueornotisthesubjectofdebatewithinthefreehold'scourts,buttheritual
oftellinganewstoryeachnightnotonethatanyScheherazadehasevertoldbeforeisthe
freehold'sBulwarkagainsttheTrueFae.TheweightofScheherazade'sresponsibilityisheavy,
buttherewardsfortakingonthesultana'scrownaregreataswell.Sheorhe,thoughthetitleis
alwaysstyledinthefeminineformisthesolerulerofthefreehold.Herwordislawandher
whimindulgedaslongasshecantellanewstoryeachnight.
ItisamonumentaltasktodocumentwhattalesScheherazadehastoldtomakesurethereare
noaccidentalrepeats,andtogathernewstoriesforthefuture.Becauseofthis,nomodern
Scheherazadehassurvivedlongwithoutthesupportofthecourts,whichactsasa
counterbalancetoanyunreasonablydictatorialwhims.Therehaveevenbeenperiodsinhistory
wherethecrownhaspassedtoanewmemberofthefreeholdeverynightuntilsomeonewithout
enoughpopularsupportagreedtotakeit.However,oncethefreeholdhasasultanawhohas
enoughsupportinthecourtstokeepthethronesheisjealouslyguarded.
Thecourtsofthefreeholdhaveshiftedovertime,risingandfallingwithshiftsincultureandthe
storiesthatthefreehold'smembersfeelareimportant.Today,courtswithrootsintheimmigrant
communitiesofTorontohavejoinedthefreeholdandbroughtwiththemnewstoriesfromall
cornersoftheworld.

Freehold History
BeforeScheherazade'sarrival,Torontohadlongbeeninstateofunhappyconfusion,opento
theHuntsmen'spredations.Withsomanyvariedculturesinthecity,changelingscouldrarely
gatherthenumberstoformcohesivecourtsmuchlessfreeholds.WhensmallFreeholdsdid
managetoform,theyoftenwenttowaragainstopposingmotleysinanattempttounifythecity
underthebanneroftheirculturalideals.
In1978Scheherazadehadapropheticdreamanightmarishvisionofthecomingrevolution
andthechaosthatwouldclaimherlife.Intheconfusionherfreeholdwouldfalltothe
Huntsmen,TrueFaewouldrideopenlyacrossIran,andthebloodshedoftheRevolutionwould
beworsebytenfold.Thenextnightshedreamedofafrozengroundwaitingforthewarmthof
springwherethefreeholdcouldbeplantedandthrive.ThatspringScheherazadearrived
throughthehedgeinTorontoaccompaniedbyherfiftycourtiersbelongingtothecourtsofBrass
andRuby,andsettledinalongthenorthsideofTorontoaroundYongeStreet.

The Brass Court

TheCityofBrass,theSimurgh'sCourt,theCourtofFaith
Faithisnottohaveaperfectknowledgeofthings,itisthesubstanceofhope.
TheBrassCourtisoneoftheoriginalcourtsofScheherazade,claimingtopredateitwithroots
stretchingbacktoIslam'sgoldenageoftheAbbasidCaliphate.Theirstoryis
TheCityofBrass
oneofthestoriestoldbytheoriginalScheherazade.Itisthestoryofaman,agreatandfaithful
Caliph,whotraveleddeepintothehedgeonaquestforatokentotraptheTrueFaeand
HuntsmenbySolomon.Eventuallyreturningvictoriousafteralong,dangerousjourney,the
tokentheywonistheverylampthatScheherazadeusedwhenfoundingthefreeholdandstill
oneofthemostdangerousartifactsthefreeholdowns.
Today'sBrasscourtiersarethosewhorefusetolosefaithinabetterworld.They'veclawedtheir
waybackfromArcadia,lifeisbeautiful,andworthfightingfor.ManyBrasscourtierstraditionally
arefaithfulMuslims,butfaithisnotlimitedtoonereligionorreligionatall.Sincemovingto
Toronto,thecourthasgainedmemberswhohavefaithinscience,humanity,andeveninmagic
itself.
Faithdoesn'tmeancourtiersstopaskingquestions,merelythattheybelieveandhopeina
particularanswer.Brasscourtiersoftendelvedeepintothehedge,exploringthehedge,
dreams,andsearchingforthoseanswers.Asstrangeanddangerouslyalienasthehedgeis,
theybelievethatitisthesumofthecreationitselfandiftheyholdtotheirfaith,theycanfind
whatevertheymightbehopingforwithinit.

Approaches
It'saTrap!:Brasscourtiersknowhowdangerousthehedgeisanddelveinanyways.Huntsmen
gainapointofYearningwhentheyarrangeforcourtierstofallintoatrapinthehedge.Thismay
beanambush,plantingaredherringtoderailtheirquest,oralteringatrodtoleadtheminto
dangerousterritory.
FoundationofSand:Noteveryone'sfaithisbuiltuponafirmfoundation.Huntsmengainapoint
ofYearningwhentheyattackandmanagetoshakeacourtier'sfaith.Itmightengagea
characterinadebate,oruseherfaithtomanipulateherbycreatingfalsesignsandevidence
onlytorevealthedeceptionatacriticalpoint.

Trappings of Nobility
TheBrassCourtisconservativeinitsdisplays.Itscolorsarebrassandblack.Theirprimary
symbolisthesimurgh,anenormousbirdsimilartoapeacockwiththeheadofadogandclaws
ofalion.Courtiershaveoccasionallybeenrescuedbythemysticalcreatureinthehedgeand
evenseeingoneisalwaysconsideredagoodomen.Othersymbolscommontothecourt's
heraldryincludelamps,thesunandcrescentmoon,thorns,feathers,andscimitars.

Titles
Vizier(Mantle5):Thehighesttitlewithinthecourt,theVizieractsasoneofScheherazades
closestadvisersandadvocatesfortheBrassCourtwithher.
Binbashi(Mantle4+):Themilitarycommanderofthecourt.Intimesofwar,theBinbashihasthe
rightofconscriptionoverallmembersofthecourt.WithScheherazadespermission,theright
mayextendovertheentirefreehold.DuringtimesofpeacetheBinbashiisresponsiblefor
maintainingthecourtsmartialpreparedness,huntingtheHuntsmen,anddefendingany
memberofthecourtwhencalledupon.
Hoja(Mantle3+):Arespectedteacherinthecourt.TraditionallyaHojatakesonseveral
studentstoteachinaspecializedareaknowledgewhetheritsasanmartialartsteacher,
religiousleader,oroccultistexploringthehedge.
Mulazim(Mantle2+):Arespectedmemberofthecourtwhohasformallygraduatedfroma
Hojastutelage.TheymayremainwiththeirHojaandcontinuetostudyorstrikeoutontheir
own,buttheyareconsideredtobepeers.
Softa(Mantle1+):AstudentofoneoftheHoja.
Sakka:Literallyawatercarrier,itsatitlegiventonewandprospectivemembersofthecourt
haventproventhemselvesyet.

Contracts
AffinitycontractsfortheCourtofBrassincludeContractsofTalespinning,ContractsofEmotion
(Faith),andXX[1]

Brass Mantle
CourtiersgainadotofEmpathy
CourtiersgainadotoftheGoblinVowmeritrelatedtothecourt.
Courtierstake+2onsurvivalwheninthehedge.
CourtiersgainaPersonalApproachrelatedtohowtheyfulfilltheidealsandstoryofthe
court.HuntsmencannotgainYearningfromaCourtApproachunlesstheyfulfillthePersonal
Approachfirst.
ACourtiersfaithstrengthensherwill.Gaina+1toWillpower.

The Ivory Court

TheCultofMitra,theBullCourt,theCourtofGreed
Money,influence,powercontrolhumangreedbeforetheHuntsmencangettheirhooksintoit,
andmortalswilloutmatchthefaeeverysingletime.
TheIvoryCourtwasthefirsttojoinScheherazadeaftertheFreehold'sarrival.Thefounding
memberscamefromamotleywithrootsinSouthAsiawhoembracedtheIndoIranianrootsthat
theyshared.However,greedcoloredtheirdecisiontofoundtheIvoryCourttheywerethefirst
toseethatScheherazade'sFreeholdwouldbecomeamajorpowerinthecityandknewwhich
sideofhistorywouldleadtoprosperity.TheirstoryisthatofMitra,theprotoIndoIraniangodof
oaths,contracts,andtruth.FromhimcameMitraoftheVedicpantheoninIndiccultures,Mithra
oftheZoroastrians,MithrasintheHellenicworld,andnowtheIvoryCourt'sCultofMitrahas
embracedthesharedhistory.
IndividualIvoryCourtiersestablishthemselvesinthemortalworld.Someusepurelymundane
charismaandskilltoworkthemselvesintoinfluentialpositionsinTorontowhileothersensorcell
anentourageofbodyguards,scholars,propheticdreamers,orpeoplewithwhateverskillsthey
feeltheyneed.Togetherasacourt,however,theyhavecreatedaliteralcultofmortalsaround
them.TheCultofMitraworshipsandprotectsIvoryCourtiersasgodswhowerecastoutof
paradiseandnowhuntedbydemons.

Mitra Cult Initiation ( to )

Mortalcultistspledgesecrecyandloyaltytotheirfellowmembers.LowrankingIvoryCourtiers
areoftenexpectedtoenterthecultaswell,actingasplantstohelpguidemortalnewmembers
deeperintothecult'strust.
Mortalinitiatesinductedintothecultrarelythinkthecultanythingbutanoccultthemed
fraternalorganization.Theysweartoaidtheirfellowsinthecultthoughneverseechangelings
withouttheirmasks.TheygainAllies(,CultofMitra)
Initiateswhohaveproventhemselvestrustworthyareinductedintothedeepermysteriesof
thecultandtothechangelingsastheyappearwithouttheirmasks.Theyareintroducedtothe
ideaoftheHuntsmenandexpectedtowatchforsignsoftheminToronto.Theygainaccessto
thecultslibraryandgainLibrary(,Occult)
Apriest,thecultisthelpsrunthedaytodayaffairsofthecult.Changelingsteachthecultist
tobecomeaLucidDreamer(),orUnseenSense(,Huntsmen).Changelingpriestsgaintwo
dotsoftheRetainermerit.
AhighpriestsofMitra,thecultistlearnshowtoreadherdreamsforsignsandportents.Gain
threedotsoftheDivinermerit.
AprophetofMitrahasbeenheavilytouchedbytheWyrd,perhapstheyvesurvived
oneiromanticbattlewithoneoftheHuntsmanorbecomeensorcelled.Fortunefavorsthem.
TheygainThiefofFate().Courtiersrarelyattainthisrank,leavingitforthemostzealousof
theirmortalfollowers,butthosethatdogainthreedotsinresources,allies,orretainersto
representtheirpoweroverthecult.

Approaches
BetrayalfromWithin:Whenrecruitingmortals,someoneuntrustworthywillinevitablyslippast
anysafeguardsthatareinplace.HuntsmengainapointofYearningwhentheymanipulatea
mortalpledgedtoanIvoryCourtierintobreakingtheiroath.
AllthatGlistersisNotGold:Greedismanycourtiers'undoing,eveniftheyclaimmasteryoverit.
HuntsmengainapointofYearningwhentheyentrapanIvorycourtierthroughtheirgreed.
TrappingsofNobility
TheIvoryCourttailorstheirappearancetodisplaytheirwealthandsuccesswithintheirchosen
communities.Thecourt'scolorsarewhiteandgold,andthebullsymbolizesthecourtforboth
thestockmarkettrendaswellastheRomancultofMithras.Othercommonsymbolsinclude
elephants,thesun,hornsandtusks,ivoryrings,emeralds,quills,andthemace.

Titles
Babaji(Mantle5):TheWyrdappointedleaderoftheIvoryCourt,theBabajicoordinatesthe
courtiers'effortsinthemortalworld,ensuringthatnooneworkscrosspurposetooneanother.
Mitrae(Mantle4+):OneoftheleadersoftheCultofMitrawhogoesunmaskedamongthe
trustedcultists.
Zamindar(Mantle3,Status3inamortalorganization):Alordofthecourt,thezamindarhas
provenhimselftothecourtandbecomeinfluentialinasectorofthemortalworld.
Contracts
AffinitycontractsfortheCourtofIvoryincludeContractsofTalespinning,ContractsofEmotion
(Greed),andXX.

Ivory Mantle
Courtiersareadeptatsensingpeoplesmotives.Othersreceivea1penaltywhentryingto
deceivethem.
CourtiersgainadotoftheGoblinVowmeritrelatedtothecourt.
Courtiersgainthe9againqualitywhenusingPersuasion.
CourtiersgainaPersonalApproachrelatedtohowtheyfulfilltheidealsandstoryofthe
court.
YouvetheCultofMitraatyourbeckandcall.GainthreedotsinRetainersandonceastory
youmaycalluponfullmightofthecult.ThismaytaketheformofaResourcespurchase,a
ContactsorAlliesroll,orfivedotsofretainersforanight.

The Jade Court

TheGuardedCourt,theImperialDragon,theCourtofPride
EveryonehasaStory,betruetoit.
TheJadeCourtjoinedthecourtsofScheherazadein1980,ayearandadayafterthefreehold's
arrivalinToronto.ThefoundersoftheJadeCourtfoundtheideaofaunifiedfreeholdinToronto
appealingandhadbeenoneofthelargestfactionsofchangelingsinpastdecades.Mainlyof
Chineseorigin,theyoriginallyattemptedtoestablishtheDirectionalCourtsinTorontobutdidn't
havethenumberstosupportafullfreehold.Thecourtbeganasanamalgamationofmany
differentideasandstories,butcourtiersunitedunderthepurposeofpreservingtheirheritage.
Thecourthastakenontheroleofsafeguardingthefreehold'slibraryandtakesgreatpridein
addingtheirownstoriesandlegendstothelistoftalesScheherazadehastold.
MembersoftheJadeCourtfindcomfortandsafetywithintheframeworkofthemortal
experience.Theybelievethatlivingasmundaneofalifeaspossibleforachangelinghelps
deflecttheHuntsmens'attention.Mundanedoesnotmeanboring,however.Jadecourtiers
oftenlivepassionate,obsessiveliveswhentheyputtheirfocustosomething.Theyareartists,
intellectuals,andwarriors,andoftenrisetotheprominenceinwhateverfieldtheyenter.

Approaches
MortalInfluence:WhenaJadecourtierfindsherselfinapositionofinfluenceinmortalaffairs,
HuntsmengainapointofYearningtoturntheserelationshipsagainstthechangelings.Alawyer
mayfindherselfaccusedofmisconductanddisbarredwhileafloristmightfindhergreenhouse
SWATedbypolicelookingfordrugs.
TheFall:Nothingbuildsprideandconfidencelikeawelllaidplan.Huntsmengainapointof
YearningwhendisruptingaplanmadebyaJadecourtier.

Trappings of Nobility
TheJadeCourt'sformalweartendstowardstraditionalculturaldress,beithanfu,dashiki,
hanbok,orsuitandtie.Colorsincludealwaysvividshadesofgreenandblue.Theirsymbolis
thedragon,bothChineseandEuropeanvariants,oftendisplayedentwinedtogether.Other
symbolsincludeascroll,hammer,brush,mirrors,balancedscales,andfish.

Titles
Huangdi:TheEmperoroftheJadeCourt,appointedbytheMandateofHeavenorWyrdover
thecourt.TheHuangdiexertshegemonyovertheothermonarchswithintheJadecourt.
Monarch(Wyrd4+):Theprecisetitlevaries,butamonarchleadsasignificantculturalminority
withinthecourt.Theirmembersansweronlytothem,andtheyansweronlytotheHuangdi.
Minister:Acourtesytitlegrantedtomembersofthecourtwhoworkforthecourtratherthan
focusingtheireffortsonthemortalworld.Mostofthesearelibrariansandresearchersandaid
allmembersofthefreehold.
QingLong:Namedfortheazuredragon,theguardianoftheEast,theQingLongarethe
warriorsofthecourtdedicatedtoprotectingthelibraryandfreeholdbystrengthofarms.
JadeEngineer:Thesecourtiersarepushingtheenvelopeofmixingmoderntechnologyandfae
magic.Theyaretheonesdigitizingthefreehold'slibraryandhedgespinningcomputersinto
existenceandtryingtobuildtheinternetoutintothehedgeitself.

Contracts
AffinitycontractsfortheCourtofJadeincludeContractsofTalespinning,ContractsofEmotion
(Pride),andXX.

Jade Mantle
Courtiersareincreasinglyconnectedtotheirchosenpathinlife.TakeadotofProfessional
Training.
CourtiersgainadotoftheGoblinVowmeritrelatedtothecourt.
TheirPrideistheirarmorandblowsshyawayfromstrikingthem.+1Armor
CourtiersgainaPersonalApproachrelatedtohowtheyfulfilltheidealsandstoryofthe
court.
Whileallfreeholdershaveaccesstothelibrary,Jadecourtiershaveaspecialaffinityfor
books,scrolls,andcomputerdatabases.Rerollfailuresonanyresearchroll.

The Silver Court

TheWildHunt,theEquineCourt,theCourtofWrath
Astorywithoutpurposeisjustfiction.
TheSilverCourtisthenewestcourttojoinScheherazade'sFreehold.In1995theremnantsof
theSeasonalandSeeliecourtsgatheredtogetherinsecrettodeterminewhethertocontinue
thefightagainstScheherazade'sdominanceinTorontoortosurrender.Thoughsome
changelingsatthisenclavejoinedtheothercourts,theSilverCourtwasborn.
TheyseizedthestoryoftheWildHuntastheirownwithalltheWrathofSummer,magicof
AutumnandtheSeelie,thejoidevivreofSpring,andthedeviousnessofWinterandthe
Unseelie.Whileothercourtsmayhide,theSilverCourtridesoutsearchingforpoweranda
fight.Courtiersseekthispowerinthemagicofcontracts,dreams,andcuttingdealswithhobs.
Allofthat,however,isjustameanstoanend.PowernotbeingusedtodefeattheHuntsmenis
powerwasted.Whilethecourtpreferstoworkprimarilyinthehedge,theywilltaketheWild
HunttothemortalworldinpursuitofaHuntsman.Thisrarelyendswellformortalswhocross
theirpath.Courtiersdonothesitatetotwistamortal'smindtotheirwillwithcontractsand
pledgesifnecessary,ortokillaHuntsman'spawn.However,thegoalisalwaysdefeatingthe
Huntsmen,notrilingupmortalhunters,anddiscretionisoccasionallythebetterpartofvalor.

Approaches
Checkmate:TheWildHuntisattemptingtoplaytheHuntsmen'sowngame.Hunstmengaina
pointofYearningwhentheyallowaSilvercourtiertolearnoneoftheirplotsonlytoturnit
aroundagainstthechangeling.
TemperTantrum:Inembracingwrath,somecourtiersfailtoalsocultivatepatienceandtheclear
sighttoapplyitappropriately.HuntsmengainapointofYearningwhentheydriveaSilver
courtierintoablindrage.

Trappings of Nobility
TheSilverCourtisostentatiousindisplayingthesymbolsofthecourt.Thefoundingmembers
alltattooedtheirnewlyswornallegianceincorporatingsymbolsoftheiroldcourtsintothenew,
andthetraditionhascontinued.Theircolorsaresilverandred.Otherheraldicsymbolsinclude
horses,wolves,foxes,HernastheleaderoftheWildHunt,thefullmoon,arrows,swords,
ghosts,andskulls.

Titles
King/Queen:TheSilverCourtmaintainsatraditionalmonarchyundertheScheherazade'srule,
theWyrdmarkingthechosenmonarchwithaslimsilvercoronetthatgrowsintotheirmien.
HuntMarshal(Mantle5):HuntMastersarethehighestrankingmembersofthecourt,andeach
choosesatargetandorganizestherestofthecourtaroundtheminpursuitofit.Somehunts
maytakeyearstoplayoutwithmuchofthetimespentgatheringinformation,buttheHunt
Mastermaintainsthechasenomatterhowlongittakes.
Jager(Mantle3):Anelitememberofthecourtwhospecializesininfantrystyleskillssuchas
sharpshooting,scouting,orguerrillatactics.
Arrows(Mantle3):Anelitememberofthecourt'scovertoperationsteam.Operativesare
generallyonlyknowntoeachother,andtheunitcontainscourtiersspecializinginsocialand
politicalaswellasparamilitaryactions.
SilverCavaliers(Mantle2):ThemartialcoreoftheWildHunt,theSilverKnightsarewelltrained
atworkingtogetherandcanprovidetheirownarmsandarmorwhencalleduponbytheHunt
Masters.

Contracts
AffinitycontractsfortheCourtofSilverincludeContractsofTalespinning,ContractsofEmotion
(Wrath),andXX.

Silver Mantle
CourtiersgainadotofIronStamina.
CourtiersgainadotoftheGoblinVowmeritrelatedtothecourt.
CourtiersgaintwodotsinXX
CourtiersgainaPersonalApproachrelatedtohowtheyfulfilltheidealsandstoryofthe
court.
Atrueleaderofthecourt,yourwrathandpassiontofightbackagainsttheHuntsmenisan
inspirationtoeveryonearoundher.GaintheInspiring()merit.

The Lost Courts

The Ruby Court
TheCourtofWisdom,theViper'sCourt,theCourtofAmbition
OneoftheoriginaltwocourtsthataccompaniedScheherazadetoToronto,theRubyCourtwas
foundedonthemythofKingZahhakandtheevilcounselorAhrimanwhomanipulatedhim.
Theywerekingmakersandbreakers,oneiromancers,andseers.Theywerealsoselective
aboutwhotheyallowedtojointhecourtandovertheyearssincemovingtoTorontobeganto
taketheexclusivitytotheextreme.Rejectedpotentialcourtierstooktheirskillstotheother
courtsandtheRubyCourtslowlylosttheprominentpositionofrespectthatitonceheld.
In2014theJadeCourtuncoveredaplottoassassinatekeyleadersintheSilver,Ivory,and
JadeCourtstoregaintheirinfluencewithScheherazade.Inspiteofvehementdenialsthatit
wastrue,theevidencewasagainstthem.Inonenightthefourcourtsgatheredupeverysingle
RubyCourtiertheycouldfindandexecutedeveryoneinvolvedintheplot.Theygavethe
youngercourtiersthechoiceofdeathorswearingloyaltytooneoftheotherfourcourts.
TheRubyCourtcollapsed,butitisn'tgoneentirely.Somesurvivors,boththosewhojoinedthe
otherfourcourtsandthosethatescapedtheroundupstillsupporttheRubyCourt'sideals.
Theystillproclaimtheirinnocenceregardingtheallegedassassinationplot,butsomethinkthat
itmightbejustthesortofapproachrequiredtoregaintheirtrueplacebehindScheherazade's
throne.

The Seasonals and the Seelie

BeforeScheherazade'sFreeholdarrivedinToronto,theSeasonalandSeelieCourtswerethe
mostorganized.Theywerefrequentlyatwarwitheachotherandoneofthefavoritetactics
usedwastosabotagetheotherfreehold'sbulwark.AstheSeasonalandSeeliecourtsexiston
aninternationalscaleit'dbeimpossibletodestroythecourtssimplybywipingoutitsmembers
inToronto,butbothfreeholdshavecomeandgonemultipletimesinthecourseoftheirwars.
ManycourtiersdefectedtoScheherazade'sFreeholdandtheSilverCourtbutsomeSeasonals
andSeeliestillliveinToronto.Inthelasttwentyyears,they'vegivenupontheirwarsandallied
togethertostrikeatScheherazadewhentheopportunitypresentsitself.They'vebeenquietthe
pastfewseasons,however,andwhispersonthestreetthinkthey'reabouttopullsomethingbig.

Lords and Ladies of Toronto

BlueSarahSarahisayoungelementalwithsapphirehairanddiamondeyes.Sheonly
escapedfromArcadiaafewyearsagoandjoinedtheJadeCourt.Shetookontheroleof
Scheherazadeunexpectedlyonlyafewmonthsagowhenherpredecessorfellilloneevening
andshewasworkinglateatthefreehold'slibrary.Theleadersofthecourtsoriginallytookthe
surprisewithgrace,expectingtomanipulateherwithease.Instead,BlueSarahhasembraced
hernewroleassultanaandisdrawingoninspirationfromBoudicca,TamarofGeorgia,and
GeorgeR.R.Martinonhowtokeepthepowerthathasfalleninherlap.She'slookingforallies
amongtheupandcomingmembersofeverycourt,notjusttheJade,andmorethanwillingto
danglethepossibilityofpositionorpowerinexchangeforpersonalloyalty.
GrigoritheWatcherAdarklinggameplayer,GrigoriisaSilverCourtHuntMarshal.Hewas
oncesworntotheUnseelieCourtandreputedtohavewononeoftheFae'ssurvivalgames
wherethelastmanstandingwasletfree.TodayheleadsthehuntfortheHuntsmanknownas
theQueenofHearts.Grigorihasverylittleregardformembersofothercourtsbuthehasasoft
spotforyoungandinexperiencedSilverCourtiers,andwillcometotheiraidifhecan.Ofcourse
heexpectsrepaymentofthatdebt.
NavidAyneNavidisoneofthesurvivorsoftheRubyCourt.Hewasthecourt'sVizierto
ScheherazadewhenthefreeholdcametoToronto.Nowmorethaneightyyearsold,thefairest
isstillamajorforceinTorontoandarallyingpointforanyonediscontentwithScheherazade's
leadership.Navidcomesacrossasareasonablemanandanexcellentsalesman.Ifa
changelingshowsenoughambition,shecouldquicklyberecruitedintothemotleyheisbuilding
totrytoreestabishtheRubyCourt.
ParveenParveenisanolderwizenedtelluricHojaintheBrassCourt.Sheteachesless
experiencedcourtiershowtonavigatehobgoblinnegotiationsandthemarketandevenownsa
stallintheKensingtonGoblinMarketwhereshesellsherservicesasascribeandcalligrapher.
ThoughfewoutsidetheBassCourtrealizeit,sheoncereignedasScheherazadeandbrought
thecourtstoTorontointhefirstplace.Parveenisstillheavilyinvolvedinpoliticsthoughshehas
noofficialroleatthistime.Changelingswhomeetherarequicklydrawnintoherplansforthe
freehold'sstabilityaswellastheBrassCourt'sinfluencewithinit.
QueenofHeartsThisHuntresshasplaguedTorontoforadecadenow,returningeveryyear
orso.ShefavorscoercinghervictimsintoagreeingtoreturntoArcadiaoftheirownvolition,
andwillpersonallycrusheverythingacourtiercaresaboutinordertoforcetheirsurrender.The
QueenofHeartsannouncesherreturnbysendingtheheartofherfirstkilltoherquarry.Her
handsarebrightredwithbirdliketalonsinsteadoffingersmarkingherasahuntsmannomatter
whatformshetakes.
RishaBhattRishiisoneoftheMitrae,aleaderoftheCultofMitraaswellasawellrespected
prophetanddivinerwhomaintainspledgeswithseveralmortalswithpropheticvisionsaswell.
Thoughsherarelyattendsfreeholdfunctions,thereisverylittlethatescapeshernotice.Her
visionsallowedthefreeholdtolocatedsomanyoftheRubyCourtiersandhertestimonyof
informationgleanedfromtheoneiroshelpedsealthecourt'sfate.
Locations

CN Tower
TheCNTowerisaniconofToronto'sskylinebothinthemortalworldandhedge.Rumorclaims
thattheHuntsmenhadahandinitsconstructiononbothsidesofthehedgeandthatifits
shadowtouchesyou,anyhuntsmenlookingforyouwillknowwhereyouare.There'sahedge
gateatthebaseofthetowerthoughchangelingsavoidit,andcharacterstryingtousethe
hedge'stowertohelpnavigatealwaysfindthemselveswalkingtowardsit.

Kensington Goblin Market

KensingtonMarketisawellknown,pedestrianfocusedneighborhoodindowntownToronto.
Theareaisfullofuniquemulticulturalshopsandrestaurants,andbetweenthemortalvendors
changelingscanslipintothehedgetofindoneofthelargestgoblinmarketsinCanada.
Changelingsarewelcometosetupshopinthemarket,iftheycanaffordtheexorbitantfeesthe
marketconsortiumdemandsinexchangeformembership.

Yonge Street
YongeStreetisthelifelineofToronto.Thelongstreetstretchesthroughtheheartofthecityand
everymajorintersectionmarksanew,uniqueneighborhood.Itconnectseverythingfromseedy
holeinthewallshopstotowersofglassandbrightlights.Whenthecityhasareasontogather
whetherincelebrationorprotest,theycomehere.YongeStreetcontinuesintothehedgeas
well.GateshereopenonamajortrodthatstartsattheKensingtonMarketandleadsstraight
intothedeephedge,perhapseventothegatesofArcadia.

CustomContract?
The Rest of Our Lives
Honshu, Japan
Tokyo is the seat of the single largest Changeling kingdom by population, beyond any
argument. The Yosei Kingdom (essentially "The Kingdom of the Rest of Our Lives")
spans all of Honshu, and boasts some twenty thousand of the Lost. Over half those exist
within the Tokyo metropolitan area, and a fourth around Osaka.

How The Many Coexist

The freehold is far from draconian, but nearly three fourths of the Honshu Lost
participate in freehold society at least semi-actively. This doesn't mean massive
conventions of changelings; instead, the Lost meet in community centers and izakaya,
usually in small numbers. These small groups send delegates to ward and city meetings,
which send delegates to regional meetings, who send delegates to communicate with the
leadership council near Mt. Fuji.
This process means messages take time, often too long, to reach leaders. The highest
leadership changes every year, and sometimes simple messages take longer than a year to
go up the chain. This breeds a paradoxical sense of individuality and community, as the
smaller groups solve almost all problems internally without resorting to higher authority.
Only the gravest, lasting issues make way to the high council.
The Courts act as political parties of sort, lobbying for influence largely on the lower
levels of society, within the communities and cities. While the greater kingdom
recognizes the Courts, they carry no special privilege, and indeed the highest of the Lost
in Honshu must forsake her Court upon adopting the mantle of moon princess.
The Moon Princess
The recognized ruler of Honshu is called "the moon princess", and she abdicates her role
to another each year. This transference of role happens of her accord, with her sole
judgment. Her council can advise her, and often bring prospects. From time to time, the
council attempts to shoehorn choices. However, the position demands judgment from the
moon princess, so she must be trusted and simultaneously independent but loyal to the
kingdom, and ultimately that fact rises after a year or two of attempted council control.
Her role in the kingdom is that of a cornerstone. For the freehold to fall to the Gentry, she
has to be wooed away. The Other must enter the kingdom, and vie for her hand in
marriage. She must pose a (seemingly impossible) challenge to the would-be suitor, and
the suitor conducts the task. If she agrees to the courtship, the whole kingdom falls apart,
and the floodgates open to alien monstrosities. But for five hundred some years, she's
stood strong, and rebuked all advances.

The Tale of the Woodcutter

The Tale of the Woodcutter is the loose inspiration for the Yosei Kingdom. Nobody
remembers just why the Courts tie to the Tale - it's been five hundred years and the
written records have long vanished with time. In very simple terms, the story is that a
woodcutter found a tiny infant in a stalk of bamboo he was cutting. He and his wife
raised her, calling her Kaguya-Hime. They began finding gold in their cut bamboo, and
became rich. As the infant grew into a beautiful woman, princes from all over came to
court her. She would offer them ludicrous, impossible tasks for her hand. Some died.
Some were caught falsifying evidence. Eventually the emperor of Japan asked for her
hand. She refused, as she said she was not from his nation. It came to light that she was
actually from the moon, and had to go back. The gold in the bamboo was given by the
moon, to help pay for her upkeep. She gave the emperor a letter, and an elixir of
immortality. He discarded the elixir and burned the letter atop the highest mountain in
hopes she'd see it from the moon. The mountain became called Fuji, or "immortality".
The burning letter became the smoke atop the volcanic mountain.
Nobody knows how far the freehold goes back. The earliest records come from the
sixteenth century. Thorough records of all the princesses, one per year, exist since the late
eighteenth century. A handful of women served multiple "terms", never consecutive. The
position changes hands on the Chinese New Year.

The Courts
The three extant Courts are named after the impossible tasks given to three of the five
suitors to Kaguya-Hime. As far as anyone knows, the relationship ends there. They may
have born more significance centuries ago, but have long since evolved. In ages past,
another two Courts stood in Honshu, but over time they merged with the three that persist
today.
The Court of the Fire Rat
The Court of the Fire Rat primarily believes in taking a proactive, powerful approach to
the Gentry, to the Huntsmen, and to all the frightening machinations of the fae. Their
emotion is defiance.
As an ideal, the Court of the Fire Rat believes that things are not okay in the present, and
things must change. Theyre agents of evolution, and even chaos is preferable to
complacency. Fire Rats tend toward creativity, many musicians and artists boast Fire Rat
membership. As well, political leftists, dissidents, anarchists, and malcontents tend
toward the Fire Rats.
As an Approach, the Court of the Fire Rat prohibits repeat performances. Attacking the
freehold in the same way twice simply does not work; one must try new things to oppose
the moon princess.
The Court of the Fire Rat has impromptu festivals and rituals, observing no scheduled
times and dates. Members gather spontaneously in block parties of sort, called
chokozetsu informally. While organization might suffer, this means meetings happen
frequently, as most members are rash to call parties for fear of growing apart. In essence,
everyones collaboration toward spontaneous parties is a sort of conformity in its own
right.
Unlike the other two Courts, the Fire Rats reject the idea of an ancestral home, and
instead diffuse to a fault. Technically, Tokyo is where the most Fire Rats live, but thats
simply a matter of population density and general acceptance of more brash ideas than
any formal homeland.
Contracts: Talespinning, Emotion (Defiance), Lashout
Fire Rat Mantle
Fire Rats gain the following Mantle advantages.
The Mantle manifests are a vibrant, lively, fiery demeanor. Gain +2 when seizing the
initiative and doing something unexpected.
Courtiers gain a dot of Goblin Vow (rebellion).
Courtiers gain two dots in Retainers, as they draw and inspire followers.
Refine the Court Approach.
Courtiers gain three dots in Fame, as their exploits become all but legendary.
THERES A NEW CONTRACT UNDER EACH COURT. YOU CAN
COMBINE THE THREE INTO A SINGLE SIDEBAR IF YOU WANT. OR
YOU CAN JUST DO THEM AS A STAT-STYLE BREAKOUT WHERE
THEY STAND.

New Contract: Lashout ( to )

You embody pure defiance. When someone strikes your cheek, you rend
his asunder. This Contract triggers reflexively the first time in a scene
where your character takes a lethal or aggravated wound in one of her last
three Health boxes.
Cost: 1 Glamour
Dice Pool: None
Action: Reflexive
Once active, your next successful attack against the source of the
triggering wound causes additional damage equal to the dots in this
Contract. The damage caused is bashing.
Darkling: Not only do you lash out, but you take the opportunity to
vanish. Reflexively move up to your Speed to find cover. Any attempts to
find you in this scene suffer your Merit dots to their dice pools.
Fairest: Your retribution is unerring, flawless, just. If your attack would
cause less damage than the attack which triggered the Contract, you can
cause that amount instead.
Ogre: You react with pure wrath. The additional damage caused is lethal
instead of bashing.
Catch: The initial attack was one also of retribution, perpetuating a cycle.
The attacker used an all-out attack.
The Court of the Dragon's Jewel
The Court of the Dragon's Jewel believes the only realistic response to the fae is one of
conservatism and defensiveness. They believe the freehold is a great castle. Their
emotion is conformity/tradition.
As an ideal, the Court of the Dragons Jewel believes in gathering and holding tight to
resources with which to defend the freehold from outside interference. Most importantly,
they believe tradition is a valuable resource, perhaps the most valuable. Dragons Jewels
tend to be from working class or political backgrounds. Many Lost historians and lore
keepers join the Court. As well, a significant number of courtiers were romantics,
infatuated with a better time.
The Dragons Jewel Approach requires assailants first assault freehold defenses an
attacker cannot bypass every line of defense and attack the courtiers directly.
Dragons Jewels honor all traditional Japanese rituals and celebrations. In particular, they
all participate in the Bon festival (or Obon), which is an observance for dead ancestors.
Contracts: Talespinning, Emotion (Conformity/Tradition), Hoard
Dragons Jewel Mantle
Dragons Jewels gain the following Mantle advantages.
Gain two dice on any effort using a tried and true, traditional path.
Courtiers gain Goblin Vow (Tradition).
Courtiers gain two dots of Safe Place.
Refine the Court Approach.
Courtiers gain three dots in Status in a human organization, as their steadfastness
inspires obeisance.

New Contract: Hoard ( to )

You have access to things lost, but not things forgotten. If you have a
pocket, bag, or other portal to a place unseen by human or Lost eyes, you
can pull out something lost to the world, hidden away in a legendary,
Arcadian monsters hoard.
Call out the item chosen. The Storyteller assigns an Availability rating.
Assuming your dots meet or exceed that rating, you can access the item.
Cost: 1 Glamour per dot used
Dice Pool: Wits + Survival + Wyrd
Action: Instant
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: Not only do you not find the object youre looking for,
but you pull out something Arcadian and very much alive. Its something
small, but something very strange, and something liable to cause a lot of
trouble.
Failure: You cannot find the object you want.
Success: You pull out the object. But it takes a little rummaging. This
takes about a minute per dot of Availability.
Exceptional Success: You find the object, and find it immediately. You
have access to it in the same turn.
 Note: At the end of the scene, the object fades back into Arcadia.
Beast: With the Dramatic Failure entity, you can offer it simple, non-
suicidal commands, one per dot in the Contract.
Elemental: The item is an iconic example of the desired object. It gains
your Contract dots in Durability and Structure.
Wizened: You can invest Willpower, one per day, to keep the item from
fading back to Arcadia.
Catch: The item was yours to begin with, before being lost.
The Court of the Begging Bowl
The Court of the Begging Bowl claims to bear an ancient legacy, encouraging willful
poverty and asceticism. They believe the fae is but a distraction, an illusion meant to pull
the Lost back toward the dark fantasy of Arcadia. Their emotion is harmony/peace.
As an ideal, the Court of the Begging Bowl attempts to find tranquility, by rejecting the
chaos and illogic of Arcadia. Courtiers, perhaps better called adherents, see travel into the
Hedge as a regrettable necessity to be kept to a responsible minimum. The Court of the
Begging Bowl is a diverse lot, many coming from staunch Buddhist backgrounds, but
many coming from a place of irreconcilable trauma, from which they cant recover. For
these Lost, asceticism and avoidance appear the only solution for a semi-manageable life.
The Court of the Begging Bowls Approach requires a would-be attacker only use ten
percent or less of his resources when assaulting the freehold.
Begging Bowls do not recognize any holidays, formal rituals, or other distractions. To
the average Begging Bowl, ritual celebration looks too much like mysticism, which looks
too much like the Fae. Some personally observe Buddhist and Shinto traditions, but not
as an organization at large.
Contracts: Talespinning, Emotion (Harmony/Peace), Calm Before Storms
Begging Bowl Mantle
Begging Bowls gain access to the following Mantle advantages.
Take two dice on any roll embodying passive resistance, or otherwise utilizing
proactive inaction.
Courtiers gain the Goblin Vow (Skepticism).
Courtiers gain two dots of Safe Place.
Refine the Court Approach.
Courtiers gain three dots in Resources, ironically as her asceticism and poverty
inspires a massive influx of donation.

New Contract: Calm Before Storms ( to )

You favor inaction until opportune times. Its always better to wait and
learn, instead of charging in. You can hold back for a time, then let loose a
tidal wave when you finally act.
Cost: 1 Glamour
 Dice Pool: None
Action: Instant
When stakes grow, and initiative starts, you can activate this Contract. It
must be during a tense scene, where abstaining carries clear risks or costs.
You can hold your action for a number of turns up to your dots in Calm
Before Storms. When you finally act, if successful your action gains
additional successes equal to the turns waited.
Fairest: You know when to hold your tongue. When taking a Social
Action with Calm Before Storms, you gain the 8-again quality, and add
Doors equal to your Contract dots for anyone opposing you.
Ogre: You are a gentle giant. During the time waiting, you gain armor
equal to your Contract dots.
Wizened: You find shortcuts with your time spent. Turn an extended
action into an instant action with this Contract. Add twice your Contract
dots in successes.
Catch: You have not committed that specific action in a month or more.

The Bulwark
The ritual to uphold the freehold is relatively simple. Every member of the freehold must
be part of a Motley. Every Motley must give up a small offering of gold each month,
about a thumbnail's size shaving, or a ring. Regional leaders judge whether a given
offering is sufficient. The regional leaders collect these offerings, and give the combined
treasure to the new moon princess each year. This used to finance her office, and the
leadership council directly. In modern times, she has the gold melted and sold in bulk,
and her leadership council is expected to hold lucrative jobs in human society.

Positions of Power
The freehold recognizes the following positions, and afford them authority accordingly.
The Moon Princess
The Moon Princess is the single highest authority in the Yosei Kingdom. She maintains
the ultimate right of law. She can make any decree she wishes, and it becomes true. The
only exception is that she must abdicate the throne after a year of service. She must
choose another woman to sit above Honshu after her term ends, and her successor then
gains full authority in her stead. Some argue that her greatest power is in choosing her
successor, who in some cases gave back the throne after a year, starting a limited back-
and-forth between two princesses. Theres no formal rule to this effect, but every Moon
Princess in modern times has shed her Court membership before taking the throne.
She acts as the arbiter of the Yosei Self-Defense Force, and on occasion commands them
directly from the field of battle. Most Princesses only deal with the force through her
appointed generals, but each Princess rules differently.
Additionally, she appoints the Leadership Council. They largely remain in service from
one Princess to another, but she can relieve members and appoint new ones as she sees
fit.
Lastly, she appoints the Envoys to the Others, a diplomatic council which deals with the
other supernatural creatures across Honshu. They tend to work independently of her
office most of the time, only dealing with her, the Leadership Council, and the Yosei
Self-Defense Force when absolutely necessary.
Most of the Lost say she rules from atop Mt. Fuji. Thats not at all true. While most
Moon Princesses have traveled at least once to the top of the mountain, none in modern
history have actively maintained residence on the peak, largely on account of tourist
appeal. Instead, she maintains a relatively austere office in nearby Gotenba.
Technically, the Moon Princess stands above all, and can override any decision by lesser
authorities. In practice, she has only rarely done so.
The current Princess is Emi Hira, a Draconic Fairest from a farming community near
Maebashi, in Gunma Prefecture. Before taking the throne, she was a proud Fire Rat. She
gained her predecessors attention while working to organize the nearby Lost to stand as
a united front against a notorious rampaging Huntsman. Her passion, zeal, and
steadfastness in the face of danger awed the previous Princess, who took her under her
wing and groomed her for the next years throne. Emi is struggling with finding her own
replacements, thanks to particularly high standards and an unwillingness to compromise
on imperfect candidates.
The Leadership Council
The Leadership Council meets monthly at the Moon Princesss Gotenba office to discuss
matters of law, of security, and of general stability and prosperity. When a new Moon
Princess takes the throne, she inherits the previous Leadership Council. Most bring in a
handful of new councilors, and most relieve a handful as well. Some choose to maintain
existing councils. A few Princesses have eliminated and replaced the entire council upon
taking the throne. Generally, the Council operates by basic democratic vote. This has
changed from time to time, but has remained the accepted system for the better part of a
century.
Theres no hard rule about the size of the Council, but most Princesses maintain about a
dozen councilors, which see a solid distribution across Honshu. Currently, eight sit on the
Council, with four standing councilors, three of the Dragons Jewels and one Fire Rat,
who have maintained their positions across over twenty Princesses rules. Most who care
see them as unfair and disproportionately powered. Fire Rats see this is clear evidence of
oppression, whereas the Begging Bowls see it as a form of unacceptable stagnation, tying
them to times long gone and old answers to new problems. As one Fire Rat street poet put
it, half our voice has been saying the same things since before the Internet was in every
home, and those things dont matter now.
The primary official function of the Leadership Council is to listen and digest the
platforms and positions of regional leaders, then to communicate them to the Moon
Princess. This sort of gatekeeping behavior is often decried by politically active courtiers,
but limited direct access to the Moon Princess means its unlikely to change soon.
The Envoys To The Others
The Lost of Honshu have a rather unique office under the Moon Princess theyre called
the Envoys to the Others, and theyre a council of diplomats to many of the other
supernatural groups across Japan. As with the Leadership Council, the Moon Princess
appoints, fires, and organizes them as she sees fit. Unlike the Leadership Council, these
councilors typically remain in their positions for significant lengths of time, and always
number twelve in total.
Every one of the envoys is expected to maintain at least a nominally public persona, with
readily accessible contact information in case regional leaders or motleys have to reach
out on short notice. Beyond that, no given envoy has a specific responsibility to address a
given concern. Most will most of the time, but frivolous requests or requests from the
publicly shamed get ignored.
Each envoy employs multiple assistants who cover geographical territory, specific gangs
of monsters, or other aspects of the job. In rare emergency cases, envoys can conscript
other Lost to fill deputy roles. As Storyteller, consider these deputy roles for the players
characters if they seem to fit a possible avenue.

New Merit: Envoy to the Others ()

Your character is an Envoy to the Others, appointed by the Moon Princess.
She gains three dice on any Social Action with that supernatural type,
provided theyre mainstream and respect general authority. For example,
anarchist, monstrous vampires who dont respect the vampiric status quo
are also unlikely to respect an Envoy.
Once per chapter, your character can call upon the services of a small
cabal of her chosen monster. Theyll assist her in a reasonable time of
need.
Additionally, the Envoy can purchase Allies, Contacts, Mentors,
Retainers, and Status reflecting supernatural creatures of their given type.
While other characters may have access to similar Storyteller characters,
the Envoy has knowledge of their abilities, and generally has them at her
disposal within reason. For players using other games such as Vampire:
The Requiem, the Status allowed reflects organizational Status Merits
within those supernatural groups. While most of these groups are highly
secretive and restrictive of membership, agreements in Honshu are such
that Yosei diplomats are regularly afforded respect. Status in these
organizations is generally limited to three dots.
New Merit: Envoy Assistant ()
Your character assists an Envoy in official capacity. She gains one die on
any Social Action with that supernatural type, with the same limitations as
the Envoy.
Additionally, Envoy Assistants can purchase Allies, Contacts, Mentors,
Retainers, and Status reflecting supernatural creatures of their given type.
As with the Envoy, this comes with a certain knowledge and access
beyond what would be considered normal. Status in these organizations is
limited to a single dot.
Created Kuranosuke Ninomiya: Ninomiya governs relations with the Created
artificial beings literally brought into being by human alchemists or by one another. A
group calling themselves the Urugan maintain particularly tight relationships with the
Lost. Urugan are crafted with shamanistic rituals, using human souls. Despite having
very small population numbers in Kanto, maybe a couple dozen at most, these Urugan
find the Lost deeply captivating. They study humanity, in what appears an effort to adopt
human identity. The Urugan believe the Lost are filtered essence of the human
experience, since humanity is defined by its stories, and the Lost are nothing if not stories
made flesh. Additionally, they find certain more celebrant Lost particularly interesting,
since they embody human fire so deeply.
Ninomiya helps facilitate connections between the Created mostly the Urugan and
Lost motleys to study and work with.
The Dead Kou Takewaki: Takewaki is perhaps an odd candidate to speak with the
dead. Shes the liveliest Fairest Dearheart you could ever imagine. Shes flush, lovely,
and vigorous in everything she does. But the risen dead, Sin-Eaters they call themselves,
adore her. She spends a great deal of her time with them, sharing stories and experiences.
She knows they obsess over reconciliation, vengeance, and otherwise shedding baggage
from past lives. She helps with this, and often connects with other Lost capable of
helping in unique circumstances. In fact, if a motley becomes recognized for a specific
skill or approach to problems, Takewaki might bring a needy Sin-Eater to them in order
to help bring about a resolution.
The Sin-Eaters in Honshu almost all become what they are through a pilgrimage to the
Watarase River in Tochigi Prefecture. They take this pilgrimage with help of a human
group of priestesses called the Azusa Miko. These Miko are quite versed in yokai
legendry, and make fast friends with the Yosei in most scenarios.
Demons Mitsuko Kanou: Demons are quite common in Honshu, but most have no
interest in Kanous dealings. Shes a calculating Wizened, and understands that demons
have their own stressful existences to deal with. Most would be content to never be
known, to never do anything that might draw attention to them. She does have some
associates, however, who tell of their time in a great, underground spring of the dead
called Yomi. Its a dark place, with vast gloom and nothingness. Each of these demons
escaped, but terrible forces wish to ferry them back. These forces, called Shito (or
apostles), hide amongst the living in the form of people, of urban infrastructure, and all
the trappings of modern life. Some Lost can see these Shito for what they are, and thus
are invaluable to those demons willing to risk association.
That said, it appears the Shito are unwilling to use their more heavy-handed tactics in
front of the Lost. While this is a noticeable trend, the demons have no good explanations
for why that is, and thus largely remain wary of taking that risk. On the other hand, a
small number have embraced the risk, and maintain solid working relationships with the
Lost under Kanous guidance.
Fae Takayuki Kinami: Kinami holds an odd position as diplomat to other things fae.
While this encompasses a great number of entities, his role is mostly comprised of two
main jobs. First, hes the chief regulator for a massive, standing goblin market near
Ameyokocho shopping district in Ueno, Taito Ward in Tokyo. While he cant do much to
the goblins directly, they seem to respect his diplomacy and police their own. This
guarantees that deals are upheld fairly (or as fairly as they can be in a goblin market).
His second job is to act as a diplomat to the Gentry. This of course isnt a commonly
exercised form of diplomacy, as they wont change their desires, nor will they allow him
safe passage to Arcadia. However, he does act as a liaison between the Gentry and the
Moon Princess. He screens would-be suitors, and acts as an arbiter of their gift-giving
and the mythic tasks given to them by the Moon Princess. His is arguably the most
strategically essential in the freehold. Hes a sort of gatekeeper between the storm and the
village, and hes done his job very well for nearly a century.
Gods Maho Suzuki: Nobody really knows what Suzuki does, or what her job entails.
Shes technically the emissary to the gods, but only few Lost recognize gods on any
literal level, since they remain unseen unlike the rest of the worlds supernatural beings.
Rumor has it, though, that she has a few strong ties with truly ancient beings, kings and
queens reborn into human bodies time and again over the centuries. She doesnt make her
findings or meetings publicly known, however. Shes been trusted for some thirty years
with the role.
Humans Tsuyoshi Yusada: Yusada is the most controversial of the emissaries. Hes
not emissary to a particular supernatural creature, but instead to human groups. Namely,
he sits on the board of Hototogisu Incorporated, a human group with immense clout in
the supernatural community. They identify themselves as the leaders of the vampires,
despite not actually being vampires, and not being recognized as leaders by the vampires
at large. Regardless, Hototogisu has undeniable influence, as they conduct scientific
studies on monsters of all shapes and sizes. However, Yusadas diplomacy and the raw
numbers of the Lost have kept the Hototogisu at bay in that regard. Even with immense
resources at their disposal, the countless thousands of Lost would make quick work of the
corporation if called to arms.
Additionally, Yusada deals with monster hunters, ancient conspiracies wielding
supernatural gifts in the fight to protect humanity. Hes maintained a strong position that
the Lost are but victims of the supernatural, and are not victimizers of the innocent. Most
monster hunter groups respect this.
Myths Akira Hayashi: Hayashi is a Gravewight Darkling of the Dragons Jewel. He
maintains diplomatic relationships with the beasts of legend, the dragons, the leviathans,
the kirin of Japan. He started in his role nearly fifty years ago, and still maintains a
position as a museum archivist in Tokyo. He hunts for ancient treasures in his spare time,
and this fascination brought him into knowledge about the great monsters hoards. He
actually deals with multiple groups on an individual level, trading secrets and tips with
mages, with dusty vampires, and the resurrected dead. Some criticize Hayashis hobby
as frivolous and distracting from more important diplomatic work, but most recognize
that his role is as diplomat to a relatively small population of monsters that doesnt
frequently interact with the Lost at large.
The Myths have a general agreement of mutual self-defense with the Lost, but its rarely
called in. The two have starkly different predators, and deal with them in starkly different
ways.
Mages Aoi Hashimoto: The mages of Honshu boast immense numbers, almost as
many as the Lost. Hashimoto maintains strong relationships with their leadership, but the
sorcerers tend to keep her at some distance if only because theyre so very busy with their
own interests. Mages deal with a unique problem in Japan, in the form of strange magical
dead zones which cause all manner of conflict. Theyre also flooded with strange
supernatural phenomenon, which draws great curiosity. Also, opposing mages toy with
the populace, influencing them into pettiness and stagnation. While occasionally,
Hashimoto works with the Lost to help mage interests, this is very rare. Mostly, its a
matter of pride mages simply dont want help because they dont want anyone else in
on their territory. She explains that inspiration and innovation are good for both sides, but
the mages wont hear it.
Otodo Haruka Kurosaka: The Otodo are an ancient breed of human-oni hybrids, born
of human mothers, but with demonic blood. They look mostly human, but wield immense
demonic power. Most of these Otodo travel and fight the evilest of monsters, in an effort
to redeem their demonic heritage. Kurosaka was a young woman born of the Otodo when
she was taken by the Gentry, so she stands uniquely able to act as diplomat to the demon-
blooded.
Otodo interests often run parallel with the Lost; the worst monsters cause problems for
everyone. So, often Kurosaka will take tips and suggestions from Lost facing
insurmountable issues with monsters, and pass them on to various Otodo. This doesnt
guarantee the demon-blooded will act, but they often do. In at least a couple of instances,
the Otodo have destroyed rampaging Huntsmen.
The Otodo sometimes turn their fiery hammers toward the Lost, but only when the Lost
egregiously abuse humanity. Unfortunately, motley relationships often mean other Lost
will be caught in the crossfire when the demon-blooded go hunting.
Vampires Eiko Furata: Furata is emissary to Honshus large vampire population.
Shes a Fairest Flamesiren, and the vampires are drawn to her like moths to a flame. She
attends all their biggest parties, and is typically the life of the event. In Tokyo, she works
with three major vampiric organizations, to establish safe feeding grounds and territories,
as well as arbitrating conflicts that arise between the two groups. She generally avoids
Kyoto, dealing by email or phone since she isnt a fan of their deeply traditional, stuffy
organization. She spends a great deal of time in the slightly more westernized all-night
society of Osaka, where she holds an honorary Advocate position amongst the
vampiric Invictus. In fact, in Osaka shes so revered that she can (and has) called for the
execution of offensive young vampires without standing. Amongst the upper crust, shes
a paragon. To the lower dredges, shes a boogeyman.
Her greatest hobby is starting passionate dalliances with vampire lovers. As a Flamesiren,
they cannot touch her. Thus, she likes to tease. At one event in Utsunomiya Tochigi, she
cut herself and leaked blood on the floor for a vampire lover to lick off the marble.
Shes very good at her job; Lost who run afoul of vampire gangs can contact her quickly
and expect quick responses. She finds minor issues rather bothersome though, and will
shame and discredit those who abuse her station lightly.
Werewolves Yuichi Okamoto: Compared to other usually prominent groups, the
werewolf population in Japan is rather small and disorganized. This makes Okamotos
role uniquely difficult. He must deal with numerous individual packs, none of which
recognize higher authority. Werewolves are highly territorial, and often run afoul of Lost
who share interest in their holy places of power.
This is doubly problematic, since most packs either dont know Okamoto, or havent
been able to establish a relationship with him. He has to work quickly with high stakes,
and often dispatches numerous deputies for rapid coverage. On more than a couple of
occasions, deputies have been ripped to shreds by angry werewolf packs. Somehow,
Okamoto has avoided this fate for nearly ten years.
Others Ayumi Yamada: Yamada bears the illustrious role of Emissary to the
Others. If something supernatural occurs, but isnt under the auspices of the other
emissaries, shes called in. For this reason, her role is more akin to that of a paranormal
investigator than a diplomat, since many things under her purview are of questionable
sentience. She and her deputies investigate yokai sightings, rumors of alien lifeforms, and
weirder things still.
Most see her role as an odd one, and afford her limited to no respect. This includes the
other emissaries. She does not let that deter her. She takes great pride in her work, and
investigates with immense academic rigor.
The Yosei Self-Defense Force
The last wing of the Moon Princesss government is called the Yosei Self-Defense Force.
Theyre a small army of the Lost, who answer to the Moon Princess, but also the Envoys
to the Other and most often the Leadership Council. The army is comprised of numerous
free agents, and many dedicated motleys which can be dispatched at short notice all
across Honshu. Their efficient, thorough organization has helped keep Honshu relatively
safe from the Gentry and from the Huntsmen for some time. At very least, they guarantee
Approaches are respected.
The Soldier General of the Self-Defense Force is Shin Kaneko. Hes a Draconic Ogre,
and perhaps the most respected Fire Rat in Honshu. While the Lost of Honshu are largely
anti-military, they recognize and respect Kanekos hard work in defending the kingdom.
Kaneko maintains a group of five regional Soldier Colonels. These Colonels organize and
train under their auspices, and manage day-to-day deployments to address threats within
their purviews. Every Colonel guides a single major city, except for Osaka which is
governed by the General. The Colonels hire Captains, who lead elite groups or manage a
handful of smaller groups. Some captains manage smaller cities. Sergeants lead smaller
groups, or take on highly specialized individual tasks. Privates are at the bottom of the
Force.

New Merit: Yosei Self-Defense Force Status ( to )

Members of the Self-Defense Force can purchase the following Status
Merit. If advantages such as Resources would take them over five existing
dots, allocate those dots into other logical Merits. Safe Place Merits reflect
Force lodgings, safehouses build to house a motley of soldiers (or more) in
strategic locations.
This Merit affords a disproportionate number of advantages to the cost.
This is counterbalanced in responsibility, as Force members are expected
to put their lives on the line at a moments notice.
 Private: Privates are part-time workers, and receive a dot of Resources
and Safe Place.
Sergeant: Sergeants have full-time responsibilities. They receive
two dots of Resources and a dot of Safe Place.
Captain: Captains have full-time responsibilities. They receive
two dots of Resources and two dots of Safe Place.
Colonel: Colonels have full-time responsibilities. They receive
three dots of Resources and three dots of Safe Place.
General: The General is fully dedicated to the cause. They
receive four dots of Resources and four dots of Safe Place.
Also, Kaneko operates as a sort of crime boss capacity to fund the Force. He sells
services in relatively peaceful times, deploying Force motleys to other supernatural
groups in need. If, for example, a vampire needs an elite force of bodyguards for a
function, Kaneko can provide a custom-tailored motley to serve that purpose for a rather
remarkable sum. He hires specialists who sell and trade in the spoils of war, creating
often lucrative alternative revenue streams.
The Yosei Defense Force can conscript anyone they wish, in theory. But theyre not
hurting for capable volunteers. This is partly because Shin Kaneko pays rather well, and
its stable, under-the-table work available to most Lost. Kanekos motto is that theres
room for everyone willing to work. Under current estimates, Kaneko hires just over three
hundred of Honshus Lost in various capacities, including administrators, teachers, and
fences for procured goods.
Places of Interest
These are but some of the places of particular interest to Honshus Lost.
Mt. Fuji
Mt. Fuji, and the nearby town Gotenba, are the seat of government for Honshus Lost.
None may enter without express permission of the Leadership Council, the Envoys to the
Others, or the Colonels or General of the Yosei Self-Defense Force. Most Lost will never
visit the area, because of this intense security lockdown. However, some visit and lobby
for permission to climb the mountain.
The Moon Princess maintains a small but impressive motley from the Self-Defense Force
which patrols the area meticulously for intruders.
Ameyokocho Marketplace, Tokyo
Ameyokocho is a long street full of vendors and markets in Tokyo, often very crowded
and full to the brim with great deals and strange finds. However, a goblin market makes
its permanent home within some of the abandoned buildings. Because of its public
positioning, many humans stumble upon the market. These onlookers forget what they
saw, theyre never believed, or they simply disappear forever.
By and large, Ameyokocho is your standard goblin market, which is to say its strange,
unique, and always changing. You can always find what you want, if youre willing to
look hard enough and pay dearly. Unlike most though, it has a changeling named
Takayuki Kinami governing transactions, guaranteeing theres no vague wording or
abuse of terminology. This isnt to say its somehow less frightening in a sense its
perhaps more so, since the Lost enforce debts. But, what you see is what you get, and
when you agree to terms, you know what youre getting into (if not the implications).
Gion, Kyoto Prefecture
Gion is a historic district in Kyoto, in front of the Yasaka Shrine. While it has a long
history, known for its geisha amongst other things, its also now the seat of the Dragons
Jewels. Regional leaders visit Gion regularly, and others make infrequent pilgrimages to
the historic neighborhood. Its an area known for preservation of traditional arts and
architecture, and the Dragons Jewels protect it vigorously. Some number of Jewels
invest vast sums of money into maintaining the galleries and tea houses.
Theres a popular misconception that Gion was a red-light district, but thats largely due
to misunderstanding of geishas historical roles. Gion is more of a cultural center.
Nikko, Tochigi Prefecture
The Nikko Toshi-gu historic shrine, and the surrounding communities of Nikko are home
to the Begging Bowls. While most members travel to the mountainous shrine at least
once, the Court doesnt maintain a massive population in the area. Instead, the Court
thinks of all Tochigi as under their purview. Many members study at the Ashikaga
School on the far side of Tochigi. Many in human business operate out of the city of
Utsunomiya.
Westerners may know of the Nikko Tosho-gu as the home of the see no evil, hear no
evil, speak no evil monkeys.
Osaka, Osaka Prefecture
Osaka boasts the main offices of the Yosei Self-Defense Force. The leadership maintains
numerous ties to businesses and criminal enterprises in the area. The Force operates out
of the Umeda district, where it keeps a modest office. Training mostly occurs in the rural
suburban areas, free from prying eyes.
While the Forces main offices are in Osaka, every major city has a satellite office for
Colonels and Captains of the militia.
 Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Carl Jung
Changelings exist at once in two worlds. They stand in the mists between the dreamlike magic of
Faerie and the mortal world of shadows and glass. Ripped from the lives they knew, theyve become
something neither human nor True Fae. They are Lost, but have found in themselves something new to
call their own.
The following rules demonstrate the ways the Lost differ from any other people. We call these other
people, these normal people that make up wide swaths of the population, mortals. Technically, the
Lost are mortal, too, but theyre touched by the Fae in irreversible ways.
The Mask
Glamours hide fae magic from human eyes. Only in the world of deepest dreams do mortals awaken to
the magic of Faerie. These same glamours weave about the Lost, disguising their true natures to the
unensorcelled. Changelings call this powerful illusion the Mask.
The Mask defies mortal senses and manmade equipment alike. It is not of changeling design, but
something perhaps conjured by the Others in ancient times. Maybe it is simply the nature of fae things,
for which illusion and deceit are as real as flesh and blood. It hides them so completely that it persists
even beyond death. To those fooled by the, the transformations undergone in the Durance simply dont
exist. A changelings horns, fiery hair, or scaly skin all become a part of the illusion. A lover caressing
her mates hair never realizes that tongues of silent flame stream through her fingers, seeing only long
red locks instead. Dry, flaky skin hides the pitted scales, while miniature gossamer wings become
pronounced shoulder blades. A noxious odor of brine exuded by the changeling kept in the stagnant
deeps manifests as terrible body odor, and so on. A little of the changelings true nature bleeds through,
but not enough to recognize without being a part of that world.
Fae beings, ensorcelled mortals, and other supernaturals with mystical senses can see through the
Mask. In the mirror, a changeling sees herself as she truly is, and not how the world sees her. She sees
other changelings in their fae mien, and only with great effort can see anothers Mask. This extends to
objects woven with the Mask, such as a sword forged out of a dragons claw or a gown spun only of
perfect snowflakes. The Lost see these objects as they truly are, but to mortal eyes these things are
mundane, if exceptional in some way. The Mask only covers objects and beings from the fae world,
and not any mundane clothing or items a changeling might wear. Fae tokens and objects retrieved from
the Hedge almost always resemble their real-world counterparts (or closest counterparts, in the case of
Hedge beasts whose like is not found on Earth). For example, a bloodstained battleaxe might look like
a fire axe with a rusting head, or a princely crown becomes an ornate hat or headband. Such items,
crafted from the strange stuff of the Hedge, serve as status symbols as well as useful articles for those
with not-quite-human forms.
The changeling can strengthen her Mask such that even other Lost cannot pierce it, if she wishes it. To
do so she spends a point of Glamour as a reflexive action and wills the Mask to become solid, as
though it were her real flesh and bone. For the rest of the scene, her Mask hides her even to fae eyes.
Changelings using sensory magics can oppose this disguise with a Clash of Wills (see p. XX). If the
Masked changeling prevails, she remains hidden, except for one detail: her shadow. A changelings
shadow always betrays her true fae shape, even when the Mask is at its full power.
Desperate changelings can also scour away the Mask with an act of will. This is not undertaken lightly
because of the risks and ramifications. It requires that the changeling spend a point of Glamour as a
reflexive action. As she does so, the Mask shatters in dramatic fashion, burning or breaking or crawling
away from her fae form. For the rest of the scene, all observers see her as she truly is. The Mask
reinstates itself at the end of the scene, or if the changeling gains at least two points of Glamour, and
then spends one to reinforce the Mask. Revealing herself in this way is fraught with peril, but does
confer some benefits. While her Mask is stripped away, she gains a bonus to all Contracts: each use is
treated as though she had rolled an exceptional success, regardless of the actual successes rolled. If
instead the number of successes is important (such as with damaging powers, or ones that last an
amount of time based on successes rolled), she counts her rolled successes, her Wyrd, or her Mantle
rating, whichever is greater. With her fae nature no longer hidden to the world, she has an easier time
working magic.
The price for such revelation is steep. The very act of tearing away the Mask also opens any gateways
to the Hedge within ten meters per dot of Wyrd. It is not simply revealing the changelings hidden self,
but ripping away the illusion that hides the world in which she walks. This act also alerts any
Huntsmen within one hundred meters per dot of Wyrd, a potentially far more dangerous consequence.
The Huntsmen instantly become aware of a changelings presence and her general direction, forcing
her to quickly move on or prepare for their arrival. Due to the risks involved, a changeling only ever
lowers the Mask if desperate or in complete trust of her surroundings and her fellows not a common
thing. The initial act afflicts mortal onlookers with the Bewitched Condition, although anyone seeing
her later in the scene wont gain the Condition.
Bewitched (Condition)
Your character has been vexed by fae magic. She can no longer trust her senses, as she sees things that
cant be real. Perhaps youve been cursed, or witnessed some perception-shattering act of magic. Now
you cant unsee the things that haunt you and its driving you mad.
For the duration of this Condition, your character suffers a -2 to all perception-based rolls. At the edges
of her vision and in fleeting glimpses she sees into the Hedge through doorways, or sees goblin-like
creatures scurrying out of view. You also see through the Mask, but in a distorted, terrifying way, like
youre under the influence of psychedelic drugs.
Possible Sources: Witnessing a changeling tearing away her Mask, suffering a curse, exposure to
goblin fruits.
Resolution: Eat another goblin fruit (and endure its effects), cut your own or another's flesh with pure
iron, suffer some pratfall based entirely in mundane earthly activities (an embarrassing business
meeting or social faux pas, a traffic accident, etc.) .
Beats: n/a
Mien
What the Mask hides is a changelings fae mien. This is her true shape, transformed by her time in
Faerie. An Elemental might have icy blue skin and hair that streams like frigid water about her
shoulders. A Beast has scaly skin and rows of bony ridges instead of hair. An Ogres stony flesh feels
rough to the touch and instead of two eyes, she has one, blinking slowly as it stares down on its prey.
The Mask disguises even these changes. A Snowskin Elemental feels cold to the touch, but her lover
only assumes she has poor circulation. A Fireheart's body runs unusually warm, but her friends simply
figure she is flush or has a fever. A changeling with clockwork mechanisms replacing her organs seems
perfectly normal under medical examination. The Cyclopean Ogres eyes are perhaps too close
together, or larger than normal, his skin rough and dry.
Changes wrought by the Durance reach beyond the cosmetic. A Firehearts burning hair can ignite
flames if she wills it to, a Hunterheart's claws rend flesh like real talons, a Leechfinger's lamprey-
fingers actually do latch on to drink blood from his victims. The Mask does not fully hide these
changes. Other such changes are more subtle; they manifest in a free Specialty chosen during character
creation. These adaptations represent the extent of a changeling's transformation, such as a Windwing's
air-filled bones allowing her to jump that much further. To mortal observers, the effects can be
explained away as unusual but ultimately mundane circumstances: long nails, strong hands, an
uncommon limberness. Though the Mask hides disguises even their effects, it does not diminish them.
A Razorhands hands will shred a person, even though witnesses dont see that her hands are made of
scissors.
The fae mien grows more pronounced as a changelings Wyrd rises. Even the Mask strains to disguise
it. Autumn winds or subtle, cool breezes, scents like the ocean, auras of fear where the shadows seem
to deepen around the changeling, an impression of glinting, catlike eyes. A changeling's Mantle can
flavor these effects, sending Winter chills down a bystanders spine, filling someone with the warmth
and vigor of Spring, the greed and envy of Gold-lust. The effects are mostly harmless, unlike the more
potent magics of the Lost, but help to define a changeling as something not of this world. Humans
notice these subtle but potent signs of fae nature and the changeling finds herself distanced yet a little
more from her former kin.
Damage and Deprivation
Changelings endured conditions that no human should ever have to weather during their time in Faerie.
The power of that realm, the Wyrd, changed them into something new at their Keepers command.
When they escaped, their bodies changed back to some degree, but not completely. They remain
enchanted through with faerie magic, although many human concerns still apply to them. Changelings
hunger as mortals do, still require sleep, still bleed and feel pain. Poisons still sap their strength,
although changelings are more resistant to disease and decrepitude than mortals (as described below).
The Lost suffer damage just like humans, whether from fire, chemicals, weapon attack, or accident.
Bashing, lethal, and aggravated damage affects them in the same way as it does any human.
Changelings can bleed out and suffer wound penalties as normal. They heal as mortals do, barring the
aid of magic or goblin fruits.
Changelings respond curiously to scars. Some of them develop scars that heal in unique ways, forming
unnatural markings like a signature of the wounds a changeling has overcome. These marks may be
luminous sigils or craggy ridges, or any number of things that personalize the experience in some way
unique to the changeling. Scars may look dramatically different on a changelings Mask. Changelings
appear to have some control over this, wearing these scars as a badge of honor.
Iron
Legends tell that long ago, the Gentry broke a contract with Iron. As a result, iron has ever been the
bane of Fae. Some changelings theorize that instead, irons mythic significance as it brought about
industrial revolution (and a deathblow to the age of superstitions and legend) makes it anathema to
creatures of dream and magic. Changelings suffer the bite of iron as well, due to their fae heritage.
Whatever its origin, iron that is at least half pure ignores fae-born defenses and magic. A Contract,
Token, Hedgespun artifact, or other fae magic that provides armor and enhanced Defense will not
shield a fae creature (including changelings) from iron weapons. Iron is difficult to find in the modern
day, outside of antique shops, old estates surrounded by wrought-iron fences, special order, and so on.
So-called cold iron is even more devastating, particularly to the True Fae. To qualify as cold iron,
the metal cannot have been shaped or transformed by magic. It must have been forged by hand, not
mass-produced, cast, or created by a machine. This iron inflicts aggravated damage to the Gentry and
Changelings. Even handling or touching iron causes great pain to the True Fae, and changelings,
especially as their Wyrd rises, find it uncomfortable at best. Subtract a changelings Wyrd from all dice
pools while she touches cold iron.
Longevity and Disease
The Lost do not age as humans do. Touched by Faerie, they inherit a measure of the Gentrys
timelessness. As their Wyrd rises, it adds to their lifespan, as well as providing a bonus to rolls to resist
infirmity like disease and the effects of age. Additionally, her Wyrd adds to rolls to stay conscious or
resist death (see p. XX). The most powerful changelings are said to be immortal, but few can prove or
disprove the veracity of this claim. A changeling who has lived for centuries likely has lost touch with
reality little different from the Others but some may hold onto a shred of Clarity. Others probably
withdrew from human society entirely and became living legends, creatures transformed by the Wyrd
into things more fae than human.
The bonuses to lifespan granted by Wyrd slow the changelings aging, so that she remains
proportionately aged for her total lifespan. Additionally, increases in Wyrd and the concomitant
lifespan extension are retroactive, which can sometimes age a changeling backwards. For example, if a
changeling is weathered and elderly at 80 years old, and her Wyrd rises so that her lifespan grows by
another 75 years, she will gradually de-age so that she only looks middle-aged. Changelings age well
regardless of their total lifespan and suffer few, if any, effects of age until their time is up.
The table on p. XX shows the bonuses to lifespan and against infirmity conferred by Wyrd. If for some
reason a changelings Wyrd ever decreases (even temporarily), so does her lifespan as the ravages of
time crash into her like waves sweeping away a sandcastle. She might wither away in hours or even
minutes with Glamour no longer able to sustain her.
Caging a Dream
Changelings escaped Arcadia, a land where fate and time are mutable and the whims of monstrous
solipsists shape reality. By doing so they forged a Contract with Faerie itself, so that not even dreams
can hold them prisoner. Changelings can escape any confinement by opening a door to the Hedge or
slipping free from bonds. The latter costs one Glamour as a reflexive action and is automatic, although
if her bonds are supernatural in origin she engages in a Clash of Wills with the effects creator. She
may retry again without penalty, however, an exception to the rule about successive actions. Simply
put, a changeling will always escape if she makes the conscious decision to do so.
This ability to escape applies to all grapples (see p. XX) with non-supernatural attackers. She must use
a Clash of Wills against supernatural attackers.
To open a door to the Hedge, your character must have access to a closeable portal that she could fit
through, such as a door, window, manhole, or otherwise. Spend a point of Glamour, and roll Clarity.
Additional Glamour can be spent to add additional dice to this roll. Success means she opens a door
within one mile of her intended location in the Hedge, since space works differently between the
worlds. Exceptional success means she ends up exactly where intended. Failure has her arrive
somewhere completely random, and dramatic failure lands her in the direct attention of a Huntsman.
The reverse works as well; if she finds a portal within the Hedge, she may spend Glamour and open it
in order to flee to the human world. Use the same rules.
This is not to say that escape is without consequences. The ability does not protect her from her jailers.
A changeling can escape police custody. Handcuffs and a cell cant hold her. But she still has a
mugshot, her criminal record, and the police after her. Escaping just made everything worse. The
changeling must weigh the risks of the consequences against her the risks of incarceration, rather than
expecting a get out of jail free card.
Embracing the Wyrd
Faeries transformative magic imbues the bodies and souls of the Lost. This power is called the Wyrd,
and its Glamour leaves nothing unchanged. Changelings feel the Wyrd in every breath, every act of
magic. Their fae halves respond subconsciously to the ebb and flow of Wyrd energies, and the act of
feeding on emotions to regain Glamour only reinforces the connection to the Wyrd. All fae keenly feel
that connection, but some, like changelings, have learned to call upon its power for brief surges of
incredible prowess. This act is called Embracing the Wyrd.
Embracing the Wyrd means just that: the changeling opens her soul to the transformative powers of the
Wyrd. She allows them to flood into her, envelop her. Limned in ethereal energies, she becomes
capable of seemingly impossible feats stolen straight from dreams and nightmares. The process makes
her stand out like a beacon fire to any fae entities in the area. To mortal observers, she seems hazy and
indistinct, like a figure in a dream just out of reach. Embracing the Wyrd even leaves human minds
reeling, grasping for answers, and many simply conclude that what they saw was recalled from a
dream. Only the strongest-willed can remember with any clarity what they saw. Mortal onlookers
(including werewolf-blooded kin, Sleepwalkers, and ghouls) make a Resolve + Composure roll,
penalized by the changelings Wyrd. On a success, the observer can recall the events, but they seem
like half-remembered fragments of a dream. With an exceptional success, the observer recalls the
changelings actions with perfect clarity. If the observer fails this roll, she struggles to rationalize the
events as a nightmare and gains the Bewitched Condition. On a dramatic failure, she gains the
Condition but becomes plagued with nightmares about the event, robbing her of the ability to rest and
regain her grip on the world. The Bewitched Condition becomes persistent, and worse, she begins to
see entities and forces from her nightmare in her waking life.
The benefits to Embracing the Wyrd are potent. First, the changeling spends a point of Willpower and
one point of Glamour reflexively. For the duration of the scene (or until the changeling stops
Embracing), she gains her Wyrd in bonus dice every turn. She can apply these dice to any active rolls
(as a rule of thumb, anything taking an instant or extended action), to her Resistance traits, or she can
apply them to directly increase her Defense. A changeling with higher Wyrd can divide the bonuses as
she chooses, even changing them from turn to turn. She may also spend Glamour to increase this
number for a single turn at a rate of 1 die per point of Glamour. For example, a changeling with Wyrd 5
might choose to add 3 dice to an attack action and 2 to her Defense in one turn, then next turn place all
5 points into her Defense. If the same changeling spends 3 Glamour, she gets 8 dice to divide instead of
5. This added Defense even applies to firearms attacks. She also adds her Wyrd to her Speed for the
duration of the power.
Additional cosmetic effects accompany this surge in power. The character might glow with a faint,
shimmering light. Shadows might deepen around her, making her seem taller, more terrifying. Her
fangs seem to grow longer, or her fiery hair crackles and roars. Some even report hearing faint music
playing in the background, or a chorus of inhuman cries. Looking upon the Wyrd-enhanced changeling,
hearing and seeing things that should not be possible, feels like stepping into another world. These
effects are unique to each changeling, as she enforces her own narrative through the Wyrd. The
similarities to the Gentry and their obsession with crafting stories are not lost on changelings. These
effects are not identical to scouring away the Mask, but if a changeling chooses to, she may drop her
Mask for free as part of Embracing the Wyrd. If she does she gains no added bonuses, only the ability
to reveal her true self even as she exults in magical power.
Embracing the Wyrd is not without its drawbacks. Activating the power is a breaking point trigger (see
p. XX). She also suffers a penalty to any breaking point rolls equal to half her Wyrd (rounded up) for
the rest of the scene. It is difficult to keep a grip on reality while overcome with fae magic and
Glamour. Embracing the Wyrd robs the character of clear thought and vision.
New Advantage: Wyrd
The magic of Faerie transforms things. Shapes, dreams, concepts. This same magic now courses
through the body and soul of every changeling. They call this power the Wyrd, and it leaves all it
touches forever changed. The changeling character gains Wyrd as a supernatural advantage,
representing just how much the effects of Glamour has changed her. At first, changelings can call upon
only a little of the Wyrd's immense powers, but with time and experience, they can work tremendous
feats of magic. In time, they can even leave behind human limitations, becoming paragons of dreamlike
power. Through the magic of Wyrd, even their mundane capabilities grow to surpass mortal limits.
The Wyrd exacts a price for its power. As it rises, the changeling remembers more of her time
imprisoned in Arcadia. She becomes less human and more fae, in stark contrast to the reasons she
originally fled Faerie. As she grows more inhuman, she becomes more a creature of emotions and
feelings, volatile in a way usually reserved for children and the Gentry. She cannot rein in the intensity
of her feelings, growing so strong in her passions she becomes a lit match that others can scarcely bear
to hold for long.
Increasing Wyrd also distances the Lost from humanity in other ways. Even the Mask strains to hide
her true nature. Pieces of her fae self begin to bleed through the illusion. Others begin to notice, and it
unsettles them in the way that disturbing dreams do. Worse still, changelings of high Wyrd begin to
suffer from quirks and weaknesses born of superstition and folklore.
All changeling characters begin play with one dot of Wyrd. Players may purchase additional dots by
spending Merit dots (see p. XX) or by spending Experiences. The story elements involved mean the
character immerses herself in the magical fae side of her life. She might travel the Hedge, experiment
with her magic and pledges, or seek the dangerous wisdom of elder fae.
[[TABLE: WYRD
Wyrd Attribute/Skill Max Max Glamour/Per Turn Longevity Infirmity Bonus Incite
Bedlam Total Frailties
1 5 10/1 +10 years +1
2 5 11/2 +20 years +1 One minor
3 5 12/3 +30 years +2
4 5 13/4 +40 years +2 Two minor
5 5 15/5 +50 years +3
6 6 20/6 +75 years +3 Once per chapter One major, two minor
7 7 25/7 +100 years +4 Twice per chapter
8 8 30/8 +200 years +4 Once per session One major, three minor
9 9 50/10 +500 years +5 Once per day
10 10 75/15 Immortal? +6 Once per scene Two major, three minor
END TABLE]]
Benefits of Wyrd
Superhuman Capabilities: As Wyrd rises to higher levels, so does a changeling become more a
creature of magic and legend. Eventually she surpasses human limits on Attributes and Skills. In game
terms, Wyrd at levels 6+ becomes the new maximum for the changeling's Attributes and Skills.
 Glamour Usage: Wyrd also determines how much Glamour a changeling can absorb into her body at
once and how much she can spend per turn.
Goblin Fruits: A changeling is limited in how many goblin fruits she can bear into the mortal world.
Wyrd determines the amount (see p. XX).
Pledges: Wyrd determines how many pledges a changeling can have active at a given time.
Dreams: Add the changeling's Wyrd to all rolls made to remember or interpret dreams. As Wyrd
rises, her dreams of time in Arcadia grow in clarity and frequency. At Wyrd 1-3, she barely remembers
her dreams, recalling only fragments. At higher Wyrd (4-6), she recalls some of these dreams with
relative clarity. More powerful changelings (Wyrd 7-9) frequently dream of their time in Faerie and
remember it clearly, as though watching it happen just outside arms' reach. The paragons of fae power
(Wyrd 10) dream very often of Arcadia and remember it all so clearly it's not unlike experiencing that
time in person. This benefit is largely a roleplaying concern, giving players and Storytellers a chance to
develop the character's history and add new elements to her Durance, or for the Storyteller to deliver
cryptic omens. These dreams can also serve as justification for purchasing new traits or improving
existing ones. For example, a changeling might remember her time dueling on behalf of her Keeper and
so improve her Weaponry Skill with Experiences, or she raises Wyrd as she reconnects with her fae
aspects.
Supernatural Resistance: Changelings add their Wyrd to any rolls made to contest supernatural
powers. Wyrd protects against fae magics as well as the powers of other creatures (see Clash of Wills,
p. XX). Wyrd acts as an anologue to other Supernatural Tolerance traits from other games, like
Vampire: the Requiems Blood Potency, and Mage: The Awakenings Gnosis. If crossing over
games, these traits are compatible unless otherwise noted.
Timelessness: As Wyrd grows, so does a changeling's lifespan. They endure long count of years, and
the greatest among them are said to be just as immortal as the Gentry.
Incite Bedlam: A changeling of sufficient power can unleash a wave of raw Glamour-infused
emotion. Born of her own powerful, primal feelings, this surging emotion threatens to sweep away
reason and carry its victims out to a sea of passion. This ability affects any living creature within 10 x
Wyrd in yards, including the changeling's allies. It is not the controlled power of a Contract. It is
unrefined, indiscriminate, and cares nothing for subtlety or circumstance. Victims caught in the Bedlam
act as do the True Fae, driven only by momentary need and selfish desire. They become lost in
whatever emotion grips them.
Cost: 1 Willpower + 1 Glamour
Dice Pool: Presence or Manipulation + Wyrd vs. subject's Composure + Wyrd
Action: Instant and contested
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The target doesn't feel the emotions the changeling exudes, and remains immune to
Bedlam for the rest of the story. He also experiences a strong sense of antipathy toward the changeling.
Failure: The target is unmoved.
Success: The target experiences a surge of uncontrollable emotion and likely gives in to whatever
urges such feeling engenders. For example, inciting a fear Bedlam causes targets to flee in terror from
any source of danger, while someone under the sway of a desire Bedlam throws herself into any
hedonistic activity. This effect lasts until the end of the scene. While it doesn't cause targets to act
suicidally stupid, they do act on instinct and raw emotional response instead of reason. They can still
react to danger or changes in situation, but do not stop to logically consider these factors beyond what
gut instinct tells them to do.
Exceptional Success: In addition to the above effects, the target rationalizes their behavior as natural.
Unless prompted by some outside source, subjects will not think to investigate the events, and if they
revisit them at all, it will be to recapture the feelings involved.
[[SIDEBAR: SCENE FRAMING AND BEDLAM
Bedlam is an unpredictable and dangerous thing. Only desperate and foolhardy changelings unleash its
power without great need, because they cannot control the consequences. Nor can they simply invoke
any emotion with equal ease. The current scene dictates any bonuses or penalties; invoking fear during
a horror movie is much easier than inspiring humor, and desire proves more potent at a concert or
dance club than at a wake. Invoking a Bedlam emotion that coincides with the current framing
elements of a scene can grant bonus dice. Causing uncontrollable joy at a sporting event is worth +1,
stoking the flames of desire at a concert or strip club might give +3, and fanning the hatred at a racist
rally grants +5. By contrast, trying to invoke the same joy at a wake suffers -1, causing widespread
apathy at the same sporting event suffers a -3 penalty, and causing an uncontrolled orgy of lust at a
local library is very difficult (-5).
End table]]
Drawbacks of Wyrd
Visibility: Changelings with higher Wyrd draw more attention from the fae worldincluding the
Gentry. While even characters with Wyrd 1 find themselves immersed in a strange magical world, the
True Fae pay little heed to those who did not escape them directly. At the highest levels, Wyrd 6 or
higher, the changeling has begun to match the lords and monsters of Arcadia in power. Her eldritch
might is such that she begins to interest True Fae not as a pawn or a victim but a potential rival.
Changelings sometimes feel thus trapped, running as fast as they can just to stay in place. By increasing
their fae power to better defend themselves against the Gentry, she instead only interests them further
and draws more notice in their twisted games.
This drawback is more of a storytelling concern than strictly a mechanical one. The point is to add plot
hooks and potential story seeds, not create random encounters. When a powerful changeling is drawn
into the machinations of True Fae, she participates on a different level than creatures of lesser magic.
However, when a Huntsman or other fae creature pursues a changeling, add her Wyrd to his dice rolls
to find her.
Glamour Addiction: At Wyrd 6+, changelings become physically and psychologically addicted to
Glamour. The character can go a number of days equal to her Resolve before needing to obtain
Glamour again in her preferred harvest method. She must harvest a number of Glamour points equal to
half her Wyrd (rounded up) in that period or else suffer one resistant lethal damage every day until she
does in addition to the Deprived Condition (see p. XX). This is incredibly painful as her body
consumes its own magical energy to satisfy the hunger for Glamour. The Mask begins to crack, like a
fractured mirror where each piece shows a different reflection of the fae underneath. This special type
of damage cannot be prevented or healed, nor can the character resolve the Condition, until the
changeling has supped upon Glamour once more. Additionally, a changeling at 0 Glamour begins to
suffer from both physical deprivation, as though starving, as well as suffering the effects of the
Condition. No matter how much she eats or drinks, she cannot gain nourishment until she possesses at
least 1 point of Glamour. This penalty applies to any changeling, not just the most powerful. More
powerful changelings begin to starve at higher amounts of Glamour: those with Wyrd 6+ suffer from
Glamour deprivation when their Glamour falls beneath their Wyrd rating. The most powerful
changelings can sometimes seem greedy with their Glamour as a result, despite their vast stores of
magical energy, always paranoid about falling into that desperation.
Frailties: Legend ascribes alien behaviors, aversions, and desires to fae. The more powerful the fae
being, the stranger and more powerful its quirks and weaknesses. Changelings call these limitations
frailties, and they come in two forms: taboos and banes. A taboo is either a compulsion or a behavioral
restriction. These acts occur in certain situations unique to each changeling. A bane is a weakness
many supernatural creatures possess, something that can cause the changeling great harm. Banes cut
instantly through all forms of armor and protective magics, and cannot be healed until the bane is
removed from the changeling's presence. Even acting against the source of the frailty is difficult.
Acting against a frailty requires a point of Willpower, which does not add to the dice pool.
Additionally, the character suffers a -3 penalty on all rolls related to acting against the cause of a minor
frailty. This penalty increases to -5 when acting against a major frailty.
Minor Frailty: Minor frailties are difficult to manage but uncommon to encounter. Taboos require very
specific circumstances, and banes are rare items or situations. Examples of minor taboos include being
unable to enter a dwelling without permission, a compulsion to count spilled rice grains, or an inability
to step on lines. Minor banes include touching wolfsbane, an aversion to the sound of church bells or
wind chimes, hearing one's name said backwards, or revulsion to milk set out to ward away the fae. A
character can spend one Willpower point to resist the behavior associated with a minor taboo for the
rest of the scene. Exposure to a bane causes continuous lethal damage at a rate of one per turn until the
bane is removed. A bane weapon inflicts lethal damage that cannot be healed until the changeling has
escaped the bane's presence.
Major Frailty: At this level, frailties come to dominate some aspect of the changeling's life. Taboos
become major behavioral restrictions or compulsions that are difficult, cropping up every day. Major
banes are common substances or situations, and rapidly prove fatal to the changeling. Some major
taboos could be an inability to go outside while the moon (or sun) is in the sky, being forced to walk
backwards or hop at all times, and perform a favor for anyone who recites the character's true name.
Major banes include things like holy symbols or effigies, pain when around a certain class of people
(such as children), or touching glass. Overcoming a major taboo requires one Willpower point per turn
or one Willpower dot to do so for the rest of the scene. Major banes inflict one aggravated damage per
turn until the changeling escapes the bane's presence. Bane weapons at this level inflict aggravated
damage. If the changeling is killed by a bane, her entire body unravels in spectacular fashion,
exploding into thorns and leaves or hundreds of torn gossamer wings.
The legends and lore that comprise old folktales and faerie tales provide many examples of possible
frailties. The goal is not to cripple the character but instead create interesting frailties that make for
exciting roleplaying opportunities.
Decreasing Wyrd
It is possible for a changeling to voluntarily lower her Wyrd rating. She might do this for any number
of reasons, such as retreating from the terrors of the fae world, trying to bridge the growing gap
between herself and mortal companions, or a simple denial of the strange and awesome power of Wyrd.
This is always a choice that a changeling must deliberately make in the end, and can never be forced
she can be coerced, but never outright commanded.
Lowering one's Wyrd comes at a cost. First she must spend all Glamour points save for the bare
minimum needed to stave off deprivation. She cannot use her Contracts, make pledges, venture into the
Hedge or into dreams, make use of any supernatural Merits or goblin fruits, or anything that involves
fae magic at all. The character can only harvest the bare minimum amount of Glamour needed to
survive. Passive magical effects do no count against this rule as long as the changeling does her best to
minimize their impact. Successfully abstaining from the wonders of Glamour decreases Wyrd by one
dot after a number of months equal to her current Wyrd rating. This also rewards the character with 5
Experiences, just as if she had spent them to raise Wyrd.

Sidebar: Fading Magic

What happens when a changeling removes her final dot of Wyrd? Is such a thing truly
possible? Fearful rumors and hopeful myths surround the idea that some of the Lost
have found their humanity and returned to a normal life. If it is possible, it cannot be
done the same way as described above for lowering the character's Wyrd. Ripping all of
the fae magic from your soul is difficult and costly, and only apocryphal tales exist to
suggest it is even possible.
In order to accomplish this feat, a changeling must have a living fetch counterpart. Then,
she rejects her fae nature as much as possible, as detailed above, for a year and a day.
Finally, she must spend five Experiences as though raising her Wyrd. A changeling who
succeeds at this sheds her final dot of Wyrd, which then transfers to the fetch, who
becomes fully ensouled. But the transformation is not yet complete, for a changeling
still possesses Clarity, with no way to raise it anymore. She can only lose her grip on
sanity and perceptionuntil she kills her fetch and sends that fae part of her soul
screaming back to Arcadia, in the process reclaiming her missing shadow. To do so
forfeits a dot of the Integrity a now-human character regains, and counts as an Integrity
breaking point. She is condemning a being linked to her through twin souls to
imprisonment, punishment, or worse, at the hands of those who once transformed her.
Becoming human again requires an inhuman act of selfishness, a final legacy of the
True Fae. It is a beautiful lie, a bittersweet truth, that in order to undo what the Gentry
have done, a changeling must act just like the True Fae themselves.

New Advantage: Glamour

Glamour is the very essence of fae magic. It is an energy that infuses Arcadia, the True Fae, creatures
of the Hedge, Contracts, and changelings themselves. Born of emotion, Glamour gives shape to dreams
and nightmares. The Gentry steal mortals because they cannot produce Glamour themselves, and
instead must leech it from the sentiment of creatures truly capable of feeling. As part of their
transformations, changelings learn how to tap into Glamour, to feed on it, to fuel their magics with it.
At higher levels of power, they need it to survive, just as the True Fae do, but even at lower levels, the
Lost use Glamour in a variety of ways.
Spending Glamour
The following are the most common ways in which changelings use Glamour. If the changeling's Wyrd
is high enough and the actions allow for it (many uses of Glamour are reflexive), she may use multiple
such abilities in the same turn.
Blessings: Seeming and kith blessings frequently make use of Glamour.
Contracts: Many Contract clauses require Glamour.
Activating Tokens: Tokens normally require a Wyrd roll to activate. Changelings can spend a point
of Glamour instead to rouse the token from its slumbering state (see p. XX).
Strengthening the Mask: A changeling can spend 1 Glamour to strengthen the Mask (see p. XX).
Dropping the Mask: By spending a point of Glamour as a reflexive action, the character can dispel
the Mask for one scene (see above, p. XX).
 Inciting Bedlam: Powerful changelings can unleash waves of raw emotional energy (see p. XX).
Harvesting Glamour
Harvesting Glamour is an intensely emotional action. Many changelings liken it to a
combination of euphoric high, revelatory dream, and body-shuddering orgasm all
taken in a single breath. They feed on the power of sentiment and the essence of
emotion, drawing life from the very feelings of living things. This is not necessarily a
predatory act; although changelings can prey on their victims in an act called
Reaping. Instead, it's as if the subject creates a vapor cloud of emotional energy in
which the changeling immerses herself, breathing it in, tasting it, allowing it to fill her
lungs and her mind and her heart. While a changeling cannot harvest Glamour from
any fae creatures (including other changelings, denizens of the Hedge, or the True
Fae), there is no limit to the type or amount they may attempt to harvest from mortal
beings. By default, changelings cannot feed on the energies of other supernatural
creatures, but see the Exotic Airs Merit (p. XX) for a way in which they can learn to
do so.
Changelings can harvest Glamour from live emotions as well as from dreams. The
most skilled dream-walkers can move from dreaming mind to dreaming mind,
absorbing Glamour from the visions they encounter. While the mortals may wake up
feeling not particularly rested, there are no reliable tales of this causing any serious
harm.
Here are the most prevalent sources of Glamour and the systems for harvesting them.
Emotions: Changelings most frequently harvest Glamour from human emotions.
The type of emotion doesn't matter; it can be positive or negative, joy or hatred, lust
or sorrow, as long as its is a strong feeling. The changeling must be close enough to
experience the emotional reaction firsthandshe cannot harvest Glamour from across
the street, watching her target with binoculars. She can also be the cause of the
emotion, and most often this is the case. The roll required for harvesting is flexible in
practice, depending on just how the changeling goes about interacting with the target.
A hard-edged Ogre might feed on the fear of the thug he just intimidated with
Strength + Intimidation, while a Beast swooping through orgiastic crowds of
clubgoers might use Manipulation or Wits + Socialize. Composure is often used when
attempting to remain relatively passive while soaking up ambient emotion, while a
Power or Finesse Attribute plus a relevant Skill works when actively eliciting
emotions.
Changelings garner one point of Glamour per success on a harvesting roll. The actual
amount or the required roll can be modified by various factors. Fresher or more deep-
seated emotions are more nourishing in a sense than fleeting or faded old feelings.
Slapping someone in the face generates a quick rush of anger, but it is the fae
equivalent of a candy bar: little enough sustenance except to sate the moment's
appetite. Provoking a fight or a long-festering rage provides much more potent
Glamour. New love, fresh and powerful grief, or the ecstasy of an addict taking that
first hit for the day are to changelings what a three-course meal is to the candy bar
example above. A single character may only be harvested once per scene.
A harvested character loses a single point of Willpower, reflecting a subtle loss of
emotional intensity. Since this usually happens on Storyteller characters, and in
particular those less prone to use Willpower, this should be reflected in narration.
Imagine the characters harvested emotion as a volume knob, ranging from 1 to 10.
Picture wherever that characters emotion is at the time of harvesting, and drop it by 1
post-harvest. It should be a subtle shift.
Harvesting the emotion favored by the character's Court grants an additional point of
Glamour on a successful roll. Animals may not be harvested; their emotions are
simply too far from human to fuel the changelings fae mien.
Suggested Equipment: Mood-setting objects (candles, flickering lights, music, deep
shadows) +1, strong or long-harbored emotions (anger enough to fight, a massive
crush on a friend) +3, very powerful or deep-seated feelings (unrequited love, hatred
born of soul-scarring grief) +5, new emotions the subject has never felt before +5.
Possible Penalties: Fleeting emotions (momentary anger or lust) -1, repressed
feelings -3, common emotions (such as those associated with repetitive work tasks) -
5.
Dreams: Dreams contain powerful emotional energy for those skilled enough to
find it. Changelings can step into mortal dreams and harvest their energy, and enjoy
the benefit of the emotions being unfiltered by the conscious mind. Harvesting the
fonts of Glamour hidden within dreams is not always a safe or simple process. To
even do so, she must access the Hedge or use Contracts or other magics to access a
mortal's dreams. Once inside, she must brave the surreal shifting dreamscape to
acquire Glamour. The roll required is typically Composure + Wits + Wyrd. The more
experienced and powerful the changeling, the greater her chances of success
harvesting from dreams. At the Storyteller's discretion, harvesting from specific
dreams and memories can substitute different Skills, such as understanding the pain
an abuse victim felt as a child (Composure + Empathy + Wyrd) or the exultation of a
flying dream (Dexterity + Athletics + Wyrd). Regardless of the Attribute and Skill
used, the changeling always adds her Wyrd to this roll.
Harvesting Glamour from a dream may be the focus of a scene unto itself. It is a more
time-intensive process than taking it from waking emotions. The changeling might
suffer penalties for attempting to rush the process, but whether or not she does, a
successful roll yields twice the Glamour as normal. That is to say, each success offers
two Glamour.
Pledges: If crafted for these purposes, pledges can provide Glamour upon the
fulfillment of the changeling's obligations and side of the bargain. See Pledges, p.
XX, for more information.
Hedge Bounty: Certain objects and places in the Hedge are rife with Glamour.
Typically this takes the form of goblin fruits, though rare pools of almost raw
Glamour sometimes well up in the Hedge. These emotional watering holes are
never left unattended for long, and many tales abound of unwary changelings lured to
their capture by Gentry using such enticing pools. Eating some Hedge beasts provides
Glamour, but also risks perception-warping indigestion when not prepared correctly
(or even if so). Stranger artifacts exist, as well as places where certain actions can
provide Glamour (such as singing in a forest of resonating glass or dancing in a faerie
ring).
Dramatic Failure: On any dramatic failure while harvesting emotions or dreams,
something goes horribly awry, and the changeling draws far too much emotion from
the target. Instead of a normal harvesting, it becomes a Reaping (see below) with all
relevant effects. Do note that dramatic failure on a harvesting roll should almost never
happen accidentally; dice pools will almost never fall to chance die levels. Dramatic
failure on a harvest is almost entirely contingent on taking a voluntary dramatic
failure on a failed roll.
Reaping
If harvesting is subtly drawing from the ambient emotion around the changeling,
Reaping is directly and forcefully ripping emotions from a target, leaving them a
deadened husk.
Reaping does not normally require a roll, but costs your character a dot of Clarity.
The victim loses one Willpower point per dot of your characters Wyrd. The victim
gains the Reticent Condition (see p. XX). Your character replenishes all lost Glamour.
Note that this isnt inherently obvious; it manifests like a severe lethargy, which may
not even be evident for hours afterward. It could be mistaken as depression.
Characters aware of the phenomenon, such as hunters and Huntsmen, may use Wits +
Occult actions or other reasonable actions to understand the supernatural source of the
phenomenon.
Reticent (New Condition)
Your character has lost emotion, and is but a dull reflection of her normal self. She
cannot regain Willpower so long as she has this Condition. However, she gains a +3
bonus against any attempts to manipulate her emotions, or move her to impulsive
action because she lacks drive and desire to manipulate. Additionally, if she has
Glamour, she cannot gain Glamour except through Reaping.
If left unchecked, this Condition lasts one day per dot of the changelings Wyrd. If it
fades, it does not grant a Beat.
A Reticent character cannot be harvested or Reaped.
Resolution: Experiencing a massively euphoric, exhilarating, or otherwise
rejuvenating event. Fulfilling her Virtue in a particularly impressive, exciting, or
dangerous fashion. Reaping a victim.
Beat: N/A
Terrible Harvest (, New Contract)
This Contract allows your character to repeatedly Reap those around her while shes
Embraced the Wyrd.
Cost: 1 Willpower
Dice Pool: Presence + Intimidation + Wyrd
Action: Reflexive
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: Instead of Reaping those around her, her emotions explode
outward. Divide her maximum Glamour among the number of people present,
rounded up. Give every character present that many Glamour; mortals in this case
shed the Glamour after the scene, but see the Wyrd as if their Integrity dots were
Clarity dots. Your character gains the Reticent Condition.
Failure: The Contract fails to work.
Success: Your character may Reap a number of characters equal to her successes as
reflexive actions, but no more than once per character and once per turn. She does not
suffer the normal Clarity loss for these Reapings; she only loses a single Clarity for all
of them once the last success is used, or the scene ends, whichever is first.
Exceptional Success: She may Reap reflexively once per turn to her hearts Content.
She only suffers Clarity loss at the end of the scene.
Fairest: Instead of granting Reticent to Reaped characters under this Contract, she
may grant Swooning.
Ogre: An Ogre can choose to cause bashing damage instead of Willpower loss with
her Reapings through this Contract.
Darkling: A Darkling can Reap changelings with this Contract.
Catch: The changeling touches his first victim, skin to skin.
Clarity
Changelings have been transformed by the power of Faerie into something both fae and human. Stolen
from the lives they knew, plunged into an arcane world, the Lost struggle with perceiving things that
others cannot. They see hidden magic and things not born of the mortal world. Yet their connection to
the mortal world allowed them to return in the first place. Most changelings still feel the need to
identify with the world around them and its people. They struggle to do so through glimpses of a world
of deceptively beautiful magic.
Clarity is the struggle to maintain this delicate balance. High Clarity represents just that: a keen
perception and ability to distinguish between the two worlds. Low Clarity changelings struggle to
separate the fantastic from the mundane. Her dreams bleed into reality, and elements from the fae
world peek through more and more. She sees faces, hears the voices of strange Hedge beasts, or objects
from Faerie transposed on the mortal world. As Clarity slips further, these figments and mistaken
perceptions become more dangerous. Changelings of low Clarity find it difficult or eventually
impossible to function properly in either world.
Clarity replaces the Integrity trait used by human characters (see p. XX). Mortal characters who
undergo a Durance replace Integrity with Clarity. Changelings escape the Hedge with seven dots of
Clarity. While Clarity and Integrity do share characteristics, Clarity functions on a different level.
Humans worry about maintaining a grip on just one world, but changelings must maintain a delicate
balance between a world of concrete and one where dreams flow like rivers. As such, Clarity is less a
measure of personal fortitude and more a measure of how clear the changeling's perceptions remain.
Clarity operates on a range from 0 to 10. A changeling at Clarity 0 is every bit as alien as the True Fae
that rule Arcadia. Those with Clarity 10 are some of the most perceptive beings in the World of
Darkness, capable of seeing the very lines between thought and reality.
Players should work with Storytellers to define appropriate breaking point triggers for their characters.
A character begins play with two breaking point triggers. At the third, fifth, and every additional dot of
Wyrd, she gains one additional breaking point trigger. Additionally, Seeming provides one trigger she
shares with all others of her Seeming. Below, we provide advice for crafting appropriate triggers, but
the Lost are anything but standard, and players and Storytellers should work together to craft and
adapt strong, story-appropriate triggers.
A changeling who commits faces a trigger suffers a breaking point and must roll to maintain her
perceptions. Roll Wits + Composure, with modifiers dependent on the circumstances. If she still has
Touchstones, she can roll additional dice, but she cannot spend Willpower normally on this roll for
additional dice. However, she may spend Willpower to postpone the breaking point for one turn in a
tense scene, or until the end of a scene with no immediate danger. Whenever your character faces a
breaking point, take a Beat.
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: Your character not only loses Clarity, but gains a temporarily warped perspective.
She takes the Delusional Condition, but it becomes Persistent until she gains Clarity. Your character
cannot act, and loses access to her Defense, until the end of the scene. After the first turn, she may
spend Willpower to take an action for a single turn, and this Willpower does not add to her dice pool.
However, Embracing the Wyrd ends this effect (and causes another breaking point at the end of the
scene).
Failure: A little more of your clarity of mind slips away. Your character cannot act this turn, and loses
access to his Defense. The line between the real world and the fantastic blur. In addition to losing a dot
of Clarity, your character gains the Warped Condition.
Success: Your character retains her hold on stability despite the strings of detachment tugging at her
mind. She does not lose Clarity. She gains the Acuity Condition.
Extraordinary Success: Your character sees through the fogs that cloud her vision. She has a brief
moment of revelation that grants her the Acuity Condition, and one other such as the Inspired
Condition or similar Condition representing a newfound focus.
Acuity (New Condition)
Your characters senses have achieved particular, immediate sharpness. She understands the world in
ways most will never, if temporarily. She gains 8-again on any rolls which would normally benefit
from her Clarity perception bonus, even if shes currently suffering a penalty. On the other hand, strong
stimuli can overload her. Any time she experiences very loud noises, bright lights, or other commotion,
she loses her perception benefits and takes -3 to all actions. This Condition fades after one day per dot
of Clarity. If it fades, do not take a Beat, and do not gain Clarity.
Resolution: Undergo a moment of personal significance which reaffirms your place in the world. If
resolved, gain a Clarity dot.
Beat: N/A
Condition: Delusional
Your character has gone fey, stricken with hallucinations and a warped sense of perspective. She may
react to or even converse with things that are not there (or perhaps they are, but only for her). She is
slowly losing touch with the mortal world and may even feel the call of the Hedge. In game terms, the
character suffers a -2 on all perception rolls, detachment rolls, and Social Skill rolls not made with
creatures of the Hedge. Something seems very off about her. The feeling is not unlike intoxication,
and the character's judgment, especially where it concerns the flagrant use of magic, may be
compromised. This Condition fades naturally after one day per dot of wyrd. If it fades, do not take a
Beat.
Possible Sources: Losing a Touchstone or Clarity, some fae magic.
Resolution: Gain a dot of Clarity, a new Touchstone, or undergo a moment of significant personal
growth to ground yourself once more.
Beat: Your lack of discretion causes you trouble in mortal or changeling society (only if Persistent).
Crafting Triggers
Breaking point triggers are unique to every changeling, although many common threads persist. These
triggers are persons, places, things, behaviors, or any other reminder that he exists in a state of constant
duality. Confronting these triggers calls into question his Clarity.
A characters two starting triggers should follow the below criteria:
One trigger must tie directly to the changelings manner of captivity. This could be reflected in the
service she conducted in Faerie, it could be literally tied to a material or type of object, a specific
behavior, or whatever reminder of why she had to leave.
Another trigger should reflect what she lost in her abduction. Its a place where she mentally detached
when leaving the mortal world, and has yet to reconcile that loss. This could be a broad concept such as
fidelity, a specific thing such as sexual contact, honesty, children, repetitive work, a place, or any other
thing that made her captivity strike hard.
Additional triggers do not have to follow these rules. Instead, they should reflect the changelings
existence since the escape, and any specific trauma hes experienced.
Triggers should ideally be simultaneously specific and broad. If your character lost his husband in the
abduction, that husband could be his second trigger. However, the very concept of marriage might be
the triggers broader expression. So, while confronting his lost love could trigger a breaking point, so
could being invited to a wedding, or passing by bachelorette party on his way to the club.
Triggers in Play
When does a trigger come into play? Ultimately, the answer should be when dramatically
appropriate, and when the player feels it fits. Some triggers are going to be more common than others,
and differently so in different types of games. This could happen incidentally as play progresses, but
should never be a gotcha moment the Storyteller introduces. In fact, players should feel
empowered to introduce triggers to confront when they feel it would suit the tale. In our above
example, his player might put him in a situation where hes asked to see a sappy romantic comedy with
his friends from work. His player might say that just being invited is enough to trigger a breaking point.
Or, he could struggle with going or staying home, since going out with friends is one way to emulate
normalcy.
When dealing with the general application of a trigger, the player should receive full authority on when
it does or does not apply. However, if a character faces the specific trigger (in our example, if he
confronts his former husband), thats a definite breaking point.
[[TABLE: SAMPLE TRIGGERS
The following are just a few examples of breaking point triggers a character might face. Players and
Storytellers are encouraged to create triggers that aid in furthering a character's story.
Aeryn is a Windwing newly returned from the Hedge. In Arcadia she served as a hunting companion
for her Keeper, bidden to track other changelings and screaming fae beasts from emerald skies. For her,
the act of being trapped away from the sky might be a trigger, but so could the act of taking something
from another by force. Any time she uses her Windwing blessing to attack someone, she definitely
faces a breaking point.
When she was abducted, Aeryn worked as an aspiring musician. Hearing amateur musicians play can
be a breaking point, or hearing someone playing her chosen instrument of the flute definitely risks her
Clarity, reminding her of what she lost.
Later on, Aeryn's power grows and she gains Wyrd 3. At this point, she gains a new trigger, something
related to her adventures. Aeryn's player notes that she has spent the past story exulting in her
newfound freedom as a Spring Court member, healing and helping others to overcome their scars.
Causing any kind of abuse victims harm, including other changelings, might count as a trigger
(mitigated perhaps when acting in self defense), and definitely if she harms them with the use of magic.
Another character in the motley is Three-Forged Jinn, a Fireheart of the Summer Court. Jinn became
Three-Forged by the heat of three events: abduction, escape, and joining the Summer Court. He
considers himself a brand the Lost may use to beat back the dark and the things that lurk therein. In
Faerie he served as his Keeper's favorite method of torture, a living bronze bull that screamed with the
victims trapped inside. Now Jinn burns hot, sometimes too hot, and he may hurt those around him
without meaning to. Whenever Jinn's hot temper causes harm to someone he doesn't intend, he faces a
breaking point.
Before he was taken, Jinn was a gifted mechanic. He owned his own auto shop. Now, every time he
sees a customer or a car he knows he worked on, he might face a breaking point. If he drives past his
auto shop, where his fetch now works on the very cars he once knew so well, or interacts with a former
customer, he definitely faces a trigger.
The Benefits of Clarity
Changelings who maintain high levels of Clarity benefit from keener senses than their delusional
brethren. At Clarity 6 or higher, they gain bonuses on all perception-based rolls (see the chart). All their
senses are heightened and their minds quicken, more accustomed to filtering the sensory input of
disaparate worlds. This applies to any perception-based rolls, including Contracts and other fae magics.
It also applies to rolls to solve riddles, to piece together logical conundrums, and to discern the truth.
Clarity can also help a changeling resist magic. Any time she could spend Willpower to add to a
Contested roll, or subtract from a Resisted roll, her Clarity can replace the normal +3 or -2 itd confer.
This does not protect her from fae magic, curiously, but other forms of supernatural power. So it wont
defend against the Gentry or changeling Contracts, but it defends against vampiric Disciplines, ghostly
Numina, and all the other strangeness of the World of Darkness.
CLARITY CHART
Clarity Perception
10 +5
9 +4
8 +3
7 +2
6 +1
5 0
4 -1
3 -2
2 -3
1 -5
Kenning
The act of kenning is tuning one's senses to magical phenomena. Many changelings are skilled at
this, at least until they lose their grip on Clarity and sink into madness. Any changeling can use a
reflexive action to detect the presence of magic in the area. Roll Clarity as a dice pool. The Storyteller
may make this roll on the character's behalf as a reflexive ability. At Clarity 4 or less, this requires a
Willpower point and an instant action. It can no longer be done reflexively.
If the magic is intended to hide, obfuscate, conceal, disguise, or confuse, instead add her Clarity to her
dice pool in a Clash of Wills (see p. XX).
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: Some lie takes shape in the character's mind, making her see something where
nothing sinister exists or go oblivious to an obvious supernatural danger. Choose a Condition reflecting
this temporary delusion.
Failure: The character receives no impression of magic in the area.
Success: With a success, the changeling gains an impression of any supernatural presences and forces
that lurk in the area. For each success rolled, ask one yes or no question of the Storyteller, relating to
the magic in question. She must answer correctly and provide sensory clues as to the answer.
Exceptional Success: The changeling not only senses the presence of the occult, but sees its truest
supernatural nature. She sees bloody fangs and cold hunger if she senses a vampire, a werewolfs
hybrid form, or a path of thorns leading to a fae creature's bone-littered lair.
Drawbacks of Low Clarity
Low Clarity has many drawbacks. Low Clarity imposes penalties to perception-based rolls (see the
chart).
At Clarity 0, a changeling is wholly detached from reality. She becomes a pale reflection of the Gentry,
a solipsistic monster completely without empathy or reason. The character is removed from the player's
control and almost certainly meets a terrible end, perhaps even returning to Arcadia to join the mad
dance of the True Fae. A few rumors hint at a possible redemption for these truly Lost souls, but none
have been substantiated. Such an act would involve literally piecing a realistic world perspective back
together shard by broken shard.
Gaining Clarity
Clarity comes and goes for most changelings. Such is the sad fact of life for the Lost. Every time a
changeling feels shes close to understanding and truly seeing her unique world, those threads fall apart
again.
Raising Clarity does not cost Experiences; its done by successfully resolving the Acuity Condition.
Additionally, each Seeming has specific terms in which they can freely regain Clarity once per story.
With Storyteller discretion, any meaningful story event which helps a character ground herself and her
perceptions can grant a dot of Clarity once per chapter.
Anchors
Anchors ground the Lost in a world they sometimes can't understand. These are the people, places,
even concepts and ideas that help changelings remember what brought them home in the first place.
Without their Anchors, changelings would never have survived the return trip through the Hedge.
Changeling: The Lost characters begin with three Anchors: Mask, Mien, and Touchstones.
Mask and Mien
A changeling's personal Mask is the role she plays, perhaps the same as the one her Keepers forced her
to play. This is not the illusion that hides her true self from human eyes. It is the face she presents in
public, an air of magic and mystique that hides her true self. Mask is the surface Glamour, the illusions,
the lies, the fleeting truths and surface emotions.
Mien is the changeling's hidden, vulnerable self. It is her heart and soul when she takes off the costume
and retreats from the bal masqu long enough to let her inner self show. If Mask is the shallow feelings
and effected airs, Mien is the character in her dreams. It is her deep-seated emotions and the passions
that drive her.
Each of these Anchors provides two methods of Willpower recovery. One option recovers a single
Willpower point. This option may be used multiple times in a scene. The other, far more difficult
option refreshes all Willpower, but may only be used once per chapter. This always involves great risk
and momentous events for the character, such as risk of recapture, breaking points, and moments of
defining drama.
Masque and Mien Archetypes
Here you will find several example archetypes. The examples in this list can serve as either Mask or
Mien; the shifting, dreamlike nature of the fae allow changelings to manifest many different faces. This
list is by no means exhaustive, and these examples should serve to help you create and define your own
archetypes.
Actor
To an Actor, all the world's a stage. Any worthy role demands a consummate performer and he is just
the man for the job. Whatever the role, whether hero or villain, you can fill it.
One Willpower: Set yourself up as foil to another character.
All Willpower: Take on a role as central hero or villain in a story involving the freehold.
Artist
The Artist demands perfection of herself. She pours her soul into the things she creates, and she sees
beauty where others see only objects.
One Willpower: Reveal a truth in a scene, object, or action.
All Willpower: Create a work of art that inspires fervid emotions in others.
Belle
Her beauty and grace commands attention. None are more charming, alluring, or the center of the
scene.
One Willpower: Gain something from an admirer.
All Willpower: Win the undying devotion of another.
Child
You are not unlike the capricious, childlike fae that flit through Arcadian realms. You care for no
responsibility and know that someone else will always step in to take care of your problems.
One Willpower: Shunt responsibility for your mistakes onto someone else.
All Willpower: Commit a serious crime with long-lasting repercussions on someone's life simply
because it suits your fancy.
Guru
The character wreathes herself in answers like a Fae prince wreathes himself in leaves. More
importantly, you share that wisdom with others so that they can avoid the mistakes of the past.
One Willpower: Someone succeeds at a goal by following your advice.
All Willpower: The wisdom you bestow averts disaster that could encompass the freehold.
Follower
The Follower is not one to lead. He prefers to stay back in the corner, taking his cues from those who
know betteror are willing to risk more.
One Willpower: Follow an ally without questioning the cause.
All Willpower: Follow someone into ruin simply because you won't take charge for yourself.
Fool
The Fool ever plays his part in the divine comedy. You show others that nothing is so gravely serious
that one cannot laugh at its absurdity.
One Willpower: Laugh or convince others to laugh at an absurdity in an otherwise serious scene.
All Willpower: Find the joke in a tragedy and share it with otherswhether appropriate or not.
Idealist
The Idealist accepts nothing as good enough. She fights for a better future for herself, or others who
follow her lead, and refuses to accept a bad situation for what it is.
One Willpower: Refuse a compromise that might go against your ideal.
All Willpower: Refuse safety or satisfaction when it would taint the purity of your ideal.
Martyr
The martyr is angry, outspoken, determined to sacrifice her own peace of mind so that others needn't
suffer as she once did.
One Willpower: Suffer damage or loss during action taken on another's behalf.
All Willpower: Give up something dear or put your life in danger in order to save a person or a belief.
Monster
You are not the refined hunter or the graceful killer. You are the mad beast that lives in the rank
darkness beneath bridges, in swamps, in the sewers. Your hunger frightens little children...and their
parents.
One Willpower: You frighten away wary mortals from a particular place.
All Willpower: You kill to keep the sanctity of your lair.
Nomad
Your character cannot stay in one place for long. She must move on with the sun and seek new places
of rest by the time the moon falls. Maybe she travels between areas a lot or maybe she simply cannot
remain in one relationship or job for too long.
One Willpower: Abandon a home or relationship to seek a new one.
All Willpower: Abandon an important organization, like a freehold, or leave the city in which you
currently reside.
Predator
The predator exists to take what she wants from those too weak to stop her. Only the strong survive;
your time in Arcadia proved that.
One Willpower: Take something valuable from its owner.
All Willpower: Stalk your prey, hounding him until you have taken all he values from him.
Rebel
Rules hold no sway over the Rebel. He follows nothing save his own will and two feet.
One Willpower: Openly flout Courtly traditions.
All Willpower: Act out against one of the local freehold leaders for the sake of rebellion.
Romantic
A romantic lives her life with passion. The life of the Lost is one full of color and rich drama, and the
romantic soaks it all up with gleeful abandon.
One Willpower: Seduce someone into ignoring the banality of life in favor of momentary pleasure.
All Willpower: Endure heart-rending loss or sacrifice something dear for your beliefs.
Scholar
You study the mysteries of the world, both magical and mundane. Where mortal and magic meet, you
seek the truths that bubble up from the shadows.
Single Willpower: Uncover a lost magical secret.
All Willpower: Bring to light some forbidden secret of the True Fae.
Survivor
All changelings are survivors, but you are tough even among the Lost. You endure the burdens that
would fell lesser folks.
Single Willpower: Turn away from danger to take the less risky, less rewarding path.
All Willpower: Risk great danger to yourself or others in order to attain your goals.

Touchstones
A Touchstone is something that helps keep your character in touch with the mortal world. It is both
anchor and lifeline to Clarity. The character's Touchstone may be the very reason she escaped Arcadia,
something important enough to her to cut through the Glamour that held her spellbound in her Keeper's
grasp. The Touchstone is something solid, a bastion of stability in a world oft beset by beautiful
madness.
Touchstones are almost always mortal in nature, or born of the mortal world. Most often they take the
form of a person, although they can be places and sometimes deeply-held ideologiesthere is no place
like home, after all. When threatened, a Touchstone gives your character motivation beyond her own
well-being. Their presence in her life gives her a reason to embrace Clarity and keeps her from slipping
into the selfish, narcissistic debauchery of the True Fae.
Players may declare any number of Touchstones, but gains no mechanical benefit from these (or
drawback) until she chooses the Touchstone Merit (see p. XX). See the Merit description for full details
on the benefits of a Touchstone. If the character has no Touchstones, instead take a -2 penalty to
detachment rolls.
Losing Touchstones should always be an important story consideration. If your character acts to defend
her Touchstone or her attachment to it, she regains a Willpower point as though she had just satisfied
her Archetype. If in the process she suffers serious harm or loss, she regains all spent Willpower,
instead.
When a character loses her last Touchstone, no matter the cause, she can either gain the Delusional
Condition immediately or lose a dot in Clarity.
Your character can gain new Touchstones by taking the Touchstone Merit (p. XX). You can also
replace a lost or dead Touchstone by gaining Clarity, playing through a story exploring the relationship
to the new Touchstone, or similar means. The character may in the meantime spend the Merit points on
other Merits (as per the Sanctity of Merits rule, p. XX).
Example Touchstones
The following list of examples is meant only to help you flesh out your character. Players should
personalize their Touchstones, and feel free to come up with their own using these as examples.
Storytellers should remember that Touchstones mark things important to their players' characters, and
should be treated thus in the story.
The Fetch
You see in him the life you should have. The one that was taken from you. He's blind to his own
hollowness, and so are the people you once called family. You want what he has, and now his dreams
are haunted by something he can't quite understand. Will you try to dispose of him and reclaim what's
rightfully yours? Or do you help him and those around him to live the normal life denied to you?
The Friend
Your friend has never stopped supporting you through all the bad times. He's been there with you
through it all, even when you took that sudden vacation without telling him. And now he knows
something is wrong, that things have changed, and there's something you're not telling him. He's the
one who reminds you of how things always were, but how can you stop him from asking the wrong
questions?
The Home
There's really no place quite like it. This is the one place you can feel safe, you can take off the mask
(so to speak) and be yourself. It's the place where you are in charge, and even the threat of the True Fae
seems less when inside these walls. Now you know its exits into the Hedge, and your magics sit upon
its foundation.
The Love
She was the last thing you thought of when the Gentry abducted you, and the first thing on your mind
when you returned. You clawed your way through the Thorns to return to her, but how can you explain
the things only you can see? How can you tell her that even a casual promise might bind you both in
the eyes of the Wyrd? And what do you do if she never knew you were gone?
The Occultist
She pretends to know more than she does, but what she does know can be quite dangerous. Maybe it's a
ritual or two, maybe it's enough knowledge to catch the attention of something from the Hedge. It's
your job to protect her from the entities she courts, but you find kinship in her curiosity over the magic
that has become commonplace in your life. And you know what dangers lie hidden in the shadows.
Kiths
Arcadiaisarealmofchaosandchange,andtoallowthemtosurvive,Keepersmusttransform
theircaptives.TheordinaryhumanstheGentrytaketoArcadiareturnwithinhumanforms
hiddenbehindtheirMasks.Thatformisthechangeling'skith.Onechangeling'sKeeper
transformshimintoaninhumanlyenthrallingmusicianwithdisturbinglylongfingersandthe
eyesofacat,whileanotherKeeperremakeshercaptiveintoaneverhungrymonsterwithvast
jawsfilledwithrazorsharpteeth.
ChangelingsgaintheirseemingwhentheyescapefromArcadia,buttheirKeepersdecideupon
theirkithswhentheyenter.WhilesomechangelingsmadedealswiththeGentryandchosethe
natureoftheirtransformation,manyhadlittleornochoiceinthematter.Instead,theGentry
whoabductedthemdecidedhowtheirnewcaptivecouldbestserveoramusethemand
transformedthechangelingaccordingtotheirwhims.Whatkithanychangelingbecameisa
combinationofthenatureofthenatureoftheGentry'srealm,theroletheGentrywishedthe
changelingtoplay,andinsomecases,thechangeling'swishes.Eveninthosecases,the
changelingneverquitegotwhatsheexpected.
Keepersalmostalwaystransformchangelingsintokithsthatfitintotheaestheticsoftheir
realms.Inarealmofsunscorchedsand,riversofburninglava,andelaboratecastlesmadeof
brass,kithsassociatedwithflame,metal,sand,anddesertcreaturesarecommon,whilekiths
associatedwithjunglesoricelikelydon'texist.Similarly,inavastcitymadeofcrystaland
platinum,whereelegantmechanicalmenandattractivehumanoidanimalsservewhiterobed
Gentry,mostchangelingarelivingstatuesoranimalistichumans,whileanimatesandstormsare
unlikelytoexist.
Fittingintoarealmisonlyoneaspectofachangeling'skith.TheGentryhaveplansforevery
individualtheyacquire.Theymakesomeintodrudgelikeservantsandtransformothersinto
livingartordeadlybodyguards.Achangeling'skithmayrevealwhattheirKeepermadethemdo
inArcadia,buttheGentryarefarfromunifiedintheirtasteoropinions.Gentryusedifferent
kithsforthesamepurposeandthesamekithfordifferentpurposes.OneKeeperonlyuses
metalfleshforbodyguards,anotheronlyusesdraconics,andathirdhasguardsbelongingto
halfadozendifferentkiths.
OccasionallyfadssweepthroughArcadia,wheremanyKeeperssuddenlywishtohavemore
membersofaspecifickith.ThesefadsandmattersoftasteleadtoKeepersoccasionallytrading
changelingsoroneKeepercreatingaspecifickithofchangelingsfordozensofGentryinreturn
forsomeotherreward.Also,kithsarenotstatic.LikeeverythingelsetheGentrypossessor
create,theystealtheinspirationforeverykithfrommortalmyths,dreams,andstories.Asmortal
mythsandstorieschange,theGentrydevisenewkithsandsomeolderonesfalloutoffashion.
Achangeling'skithdoesnotdefineherlifeoncesheescapesfromArcadia,butitdoesprovide
herwiththeabilitytoexcelatparticularsortsoftasks.Changelingshavestereotypesabout
membersofvariouskiths,andlikeallsuchgeneralizations,somearetruebutmostarenot.Law
abidinglurkersandfloweringswhodisliketheoutdoorsbothexistandarenotunique.Also,
whilemanychangelingsacceptoroccasionallyevenembracetheirnewbodiesandcapabilities,
othersrejecttheirformerKeepers'desiresandavoidanyactivitythatremindsthemtoomuchof
theirdutiesinArcadia.
Formanychangelings,themostdisturbingaspectsoftheirkithisthattheirKeeperclearlydid
notassignkithsatrandom.OneresultoftheGentry'slackofcreativityisthefactthatKeepers
cannottransformanychangelingintoakithwhichthepersonisnotinsomewaysuitedto.The
natureoftheconnectionbetweenachangelingandherkithcanbeasobviousasagloomy
musicianbeingtransformedintoanightsingerorassubtleastransformingsomeonewithstrong
passionsintoabrightone,butthisconnectionalwaysexists.However,thisdoesnotmeanthat
allchangelingswhobelongtothesamekithareparticularlysimilartooneanother.Beforeher
Durance,onegargantuanmighthavebeenanexceptionallylargepersonwhoenjoyedusing
hersizetointimidateothers,whileanothermighthavebeensomeoneofaverageheightwho
passionatelylongedtobetaller.Whenplayerschoosekithsfortheirchangelings,theyshould
alsodecideonareasonwhytheircharacter'sKeepertransformedherintoaparticularkith,but
thatreasonneednotbeobviousorlikeanyoneelse's.
TheprocessofaKeepertransformingsomeoneintoamemberofakithisasvariedasthekiths
themselves.SomeKeeperstransformchangelingswithawaveoftheirhandorgivethecaptive
foodanddrinkwhichcauseshertofallasleepandthenawakenforeverchanged.Other
Keepersinflictpainfulandsometimeshorrifictransformationsthatseemedtolastfordaysor
evenweeks.Regardlessofthemethod,theresultsofthetransformationarethesame.
Someonewhowaspreviouslyphysicallyhumanisnowvisiblychanged,atleasttothosewho
canseethroughtheirMask.

LimitsofTransformation
TheGentrycantransformchangelingsintoanalmostinfinitevarietyofforms,buteventheir
realitywarpingpowershavelimits.AlthoughtheycanassumeanypossibleforminArcadia,
whenchangelingsentertheHedge,returntothemortalworldorevenjourneytoadifferent
realmcontrolledbyanotheroftheGentry,theyreverttoaroughlyhumanoidform.TheGentry
canpermanentlytransformsomeoneintoahumanoidplantorevenintoalivingstatuemadeof
solidrubyandtheycanmakeachangelingsomewhatlargerorsmallerthannormal,butthey
cannotpermanentlytransformahumanintoacentipedeorevenacentaur.Alltransformations
intoradicallynonhumanformsareinherentlyunstableandifthechangelingescapesfrom
ArcadiaorleavestheportionofArcadiacontrolledbytheirKeeper,theirnaturalhumanoidform
reassertsitself.
WithintheirKeeper'srealm,achangelingwhoappearsasahumanshapedfireinthemortal
worldcouldhavebeenastationarypillarofflame,awanderingbonfire,orevenasingletongue
offlamethatwaspartofavastfieryplain.TheformthatanychangelinghadinArcadiamay
havebeenfarlesshumanthantheformthatchangelingtakeswhenhereturnstothemortal
world.
Onereasonthatmanychangelingshavesomuchdifficultyrememberingtheirexperiencesin
Arcadiaisthattheseexperiencessometimesinvolvedbodiesormodesexistencethatare
drasticallydifferentfromanyhumanexperience.Onceachangelingregainsamostlyhuman
form,shecannolongermakesenseofthememoriesofbeingariveroralivingbreeze.While
somechangelingswereservantsorwarriors,othersweresourcesforelectricalenergy,
decorativefountains,portionsofanimatesandstorms,orevenlivingsymphonies.Radically
inhumanformsarecommoninmanyportionsofArcadia,butwhileachangeling'skithdefines
whatsortofstrangeandutterlyinhumantransformationssheunderwent,theextentofsuch
transformationsvarieswidelybetweenchangelings.Onefireheartmayhavespentherentire
timeinArcadiaasaswiftmessengerwhoseformcloselyresemblesherMask,whileanother
mighthavebeenaroaringfireinahisKeeper'sgreathall,orthetinynightlightherKeeper
chattedwithbeforesleeping.

Kith&Durance
Whileachangeling'sphysicalformandtheroleassignedbyhisKeeperbothdependedtoa
largeextentuponhiskith,thenatureofhisDuranceoftendidnot.Onerazorhandmighthave
spentherDuranceasagladiator,forcedtokillotherchangelingstoavoidherownpainfuldeath,
whileanothermighthavebeenthepamperedandfiercelyloyalbodyguardofaGentryqueen
whotreatedmostofherchangelingsmoderatelywell.Eventwochangelingswhohadthesame
kithandexactlythesamedutiescouldhavevastlydifferentDurancesdependingupontheir
Keepers'whims.Whilemanychangelingsareinitiallydrawntootherswhosharethesamekith,
discussionsoftheirDurancesswiftlyrevealthatmostofthemhaddifferentandoftenhighly
idiosyncraticexperiences.

Kith,Seeming,andAppearance
Everytimeachangelinglooksdownathishandsorgazesintoamirror,heseeswhathewas
madeinto,alongwithvisibleevidenceofhowhisappearancechangedagainduetothechoices
hemadewhenescapingfromcaptivity.Bothachangeling'skithandherseemingdetermineher
appearance.Becauseachangelingbelongingtoanykithcanbecomeanyseeming,therange
ofpossibleappearancesformembersofanykithisquitelarge,especiallysincesex,race,build,
andapparentagealsoaffectachangeling'sappearance.
Despitethedifferencescausedbyachangeling'schoiceofseeming,allsixdifferentversionsof
asinglekithalsohavemanysimilarities.Regardlessoftheirseeming,palewraithsalwayshave
transparentskinandchangelingswhobelongtotherazorhandkithalwayshavesomesortof
naturalorartificialweaponattachedtotheirhands.However,thedetailsofappearancevary
significantlyfromoneseemingtoanother.Onerazorhand'sweaponmaybeajaggedspurof
livingbone,whileanothermighthaveabronzeorglassbladeweldedtoherwrist.
KithDescriptionsAndMechanics
Everykithprovidesthechangelingwithaspecificblessing.Theseblessingsconsistofeithera
generalbonustospecificactivitiesrelatedtothekith,amorepowerfulabilitywhichcanbeused
ifthecharacterexpendsGlamour,ormostoften,acombinationofbothcontinuousandGlamour
activatedabilities.
IfablessingprovidesaMerit,itignoresanynormalprerequisites,anddoescounttowardother
Meritprerequisites.Ifablessingprovidesarmor,itstackswithwornarmor,orarmorfromother
supernaturalsources.
Notallblessingsgivecleardescriptionsofwhyorhowtheywork.Forexample,draconicscan
spendGlamourtogainabonustoIntimidationrolls.Whendesigningyourcharacter,decide
howyourcharactermanifeststhatblessing.Doesshehavearoarlikethunder?Dohereyes
haveafrightening,serpentineappearance?
Kithblessingswhichaffectappearance,shape,andsizeaffecttheMeinbydefault.Acharacter
maychoosetohavetheseblessingsaffectherMaskaswell.

ModifyingKiths
InadditiontotheoptionofplayersandStorytellersworkingtogethertocreateentirelynewkiths,
theycanalsomodifyexistingones.Oneplayermightwishtoplayachangelingwitha
thunderbirdkiththatwasidenticaltotheifritkith,exceptthethunderbirdappearsbirdlikeand
hasabilitiesrelatedtoelectricityratherthanfire.Anothermightwishtoplayaphoenixkiththat
emphasizeshowswiftlyfirecanmoveandsopossessesthesameblessingasthelevinquick
kith.Themostimportantpartofmodifyingkithsinthisfashionistoworkouttheiressential
nature,whattheirKeepercreatedthemtodoandtheirappearance.Ifallofthesefactorswork
togethertocreateacoherentwhole,thenaddinganappropriateblessingthatissharedbyone
ofthekithsdescribedbelowisperfectlyfine.Also,playersarefreetochangethelisted
appearanceofakithbelongingtoaparticularseemingaslongastheirStorytellersagreethat
thenewdescriptionfitswiththemeaningandfeelofthekithandthechangeling'sseeming.
Thekithwriteupsbelowalsocontainthreeoroccasionallyfourbriefdescriptionsofthe
appearanceofamemberofthatkithwhoalsobelongstoaparticularseeming.Achangeling
belongingtoanykithcanalsopossessanyseemingthesedescriptionsaremerelythereto
illustratetherangeofappearanceeachkithcanhavewhenitiscombinedwithaparticular
seeming.

Airtouched
Heresyourkiteback,kid.Thattreewaseasiertoclimbthanitlooked.No,no.Dontyoutryto
goupthere,OK?
Kingdomsofglitteringicebuiltonimmenseclouds.Balconiescarvedintothefaceofatowering
mountain.Mansionswithstiltsthatdisappearintothefogunfathomablemilesbelow.The
changelingsthatbecomeairtouchedareasvariedastheloftyrealmsinwhichtheyspenttheir
durance.Floating,flying,orglidingwastheonlymethodoftravelpossible,andsotheirKeepers
changedthem.Somehadwingsgraftedtotheirflesh,somerodelightningboltsassteeds,and
someweremadelighterthanair,carriedbythewinditself.

Beast: Round,unblinkingeyes,asweepingcrestofwindruffledfeathers,andfingersthatend
inhookedtalons.

Fairest:Footfallsthatbarelytouchtheground,gentlyrustlingclothes,andamassofswirling
whitehair.

Ogre: Thickslabsofmuscle,skinthatglowssunsetred,andaconeofroilingsmokeinplace
oflegs.
Blessing: AddyourcharactersWyrdtoherInitiative.Shesuffersnodamagefromfallingunless
thefallisfromterminalvelocity.SpendapointofGlamourandyourcharactercanmultiplyher
jumpingheightanddistanceby1+herWyrd.

Antiquarian
th
ThisdaggerwasmadeinPersiaintheearly14 century,IbelieveitwasmadeinTabrizandthe
bladeismeteoriciron.Itwasalsousedtomurderanotherofourkind11daysago.
Somepeoplehaveanaturalaffinityformuseumsandhistorymanyseektomakeacareerof
this,othershavetheirvocationforceduponthembytheGentry.Likemostofherkind,the
antiquarianwascreatedtocareforherKeeper'scollections.Shewaschargedwithknowingthe
locationofeveryitem,fetchingitforherKeeper,andoftenexplainingittothem.

Beast:Withlargeeyes,slenderdexterouspaws,shortgreyfur,andlongwhiskers,this
changelinghasaratlikeappearance.

Elemental: Sheappearstobealivingstatuemadefromantiqueivoryandpolishedbrass.

Wizened: Hiseyeshavebuiltinjeweler'sloupsandhishandscontainpreciseclockwork
gears.Heisameldingofcenturiesoldtechnologyandgrey,slightlydustyflesh.
Blessing: SheautomaticallygainstheInformedCondition(p.XX)onallAcademicsor
Investigationrollsrelatingtoancientloreortobooksorartifactsthataremorethanacentury
old.IfshespendsapointofGlamour,shecanusethePsychometryMerit(seep.XX)without
spendingWillpower(orpurchasingtheMerit).Gainingimpressionsfromeventslessthana
weekoldimposesa3penaltyonherroll,whichdropsto2foreventslessthanamonthold,
and1foreventslessthanayearold.Oldereventsimposenopenalty.

Artist
Idon'tdocommissionsanymore.Idon'tcarehowmuchyouarewillingtooffer.ThesedaysI
makemyartforme.Ifyoulikewhatyouseehere,I'dloveforyoutobuyit,butnowmytimeand
myinspirationismyown.
ArtistspursuedorattemptedtopursuetheirartbeforetheirDurance,andoftentheireffortswere
whatdrewtheGentrytoothem.TheGentryprizeartists,butmanydonottreatthemwell,
commandingthemtocreatenewwonderswithoutceasing.Anartist'sDuranceusually
consistedofendlesstoilmakinghisartorarts.

Darkling:Amenacingandsomewhatinsectlikecreaturewithlargeeyesanddexterous
hands.

Ogre:Thisillformedmuscularbrutehasintelligentpenetratingeyes,fingersthatareas
dexterousastheyarestrong,andscarsmadebythetoolsofitstrade.

Wizened: Thiscreature'sbodyexiststobestperformitsfavoredformofart.Itsfingershave
additionaljointsanditsentirebodyisoptimizedfordrawing,woodworking,orwhateverotherart
ismostoftenperforms.
Blessing: WhenmakingaCraftsorExpressionrolltocreateanewworkofart(whichcanbe
anythingfromacaketoasymphony),theartistonlyrequires3successes(insteadof5)to
achieveanExceptionalSuccess.IfhespendsapointofGlamour,forthenextscenehealso
adds+3tohisrollstocreatethiswork.
Author
Iknowhesquietanddoesntweighinmuch,buthehashisopinions.Justbegladhekeeps
themtohimself,orelsewedallbejustdoingwhateverhewanted.Hesgotthiswayoftalking
thatwinstheheartandmind.Thatsadangerouspower,sobegladhedoesntturnitonus.
Despitehergrasponlanguageandstorytelling,anauthortendtobequietandreserved.She
wasforcedtowriteprose,tellstories,andcraftverbalimageryforherFaemaster.Sometimes,
anauthormighthavebeenhermastersonlyconnectionwithhumanlanguage,havingtoteach
wordsandmeaningstokeephimuptodate.Afterspendingsolongcreating,mostpreferto
simplyreadandabsorb.

Darkling:Heispaperyandthinwithwordsandinkstainsforminghisfeatures.

Wizened: Thechangelingismadeupofthepagesofherownprose,leatherandwooden
bindingsholdinghertogetheratherjoints.
Blessing: TheauthorcanneverfailanExpressionrolltotellorwriteastory.Sheautomatically
achievesonesuccessonsuchrolls,inadditiontotherollresults.Also,shecanreadand
interpretanythingwritteninamortallanguage.

Blightbent
Paramedicsaidyourlungswouldlooklikefriedscrappleifyouhadntgottenyourmaskon.Me?
NahImfine.YoudbesurprisedhowlongIcanholdmybreath.
NotalltherealmsofArcadiaareuntouched,primevalwilderness.Whetheratwistedreflectionof
urbanlandscapesorcorruptedfromthebileoftheirFaeowner,somearepollutedhellscapes
ofsulfuricclouds,corrosivesludge,andcontaminatedsoil.Blightbentsarethosechangelings
whosurvivedintheseconditions,breathingfoulairandeatingpoisonousfood,forcedto
becomelesserversionsoftheirtaintedmasters.

Darkling: Asootstainedwaistcoat,sizzlingfootsteps,andastovepipehatthatoccasionally
belchessmoke.

Elemental: Pittedchunksofconcreteandglobsofasphaltstrungtogetherwithrustedrebar.

Wizened: Skinlikeslickyellowplastic,amouthlikeaGigeresquerespirator,andnictitating
membranes.
Blessing: Thechangelingreducesthelevelofanymanmadeextremeenvironment(p.XX)and
theToxicityofanydrugorpoisonbyherWyrddots.SpendapointofGlamourtoproducea
cloudofcausticsmogwitharadiusinmetersequaltoyourcharactersStamina.Thecloud
eithercausesaconcealmentpenaltyordealslethaldamagewithaToxicityequaltothe
charactersWyrd.Thecloudlastsforascenewithoutoutsideintervention.

Bloodbrute
Laurasgreattohavearoundwhenthegoinggetstough.Youjusthavetowatchoutwhen
thingsarecalm,shegetsantsyandlooksforreasonstogetintoafight.Shesahandfulat
thosetimes,butIwouldnttradeherforallthechangelingsinthefreehold.
BloodsportisacommonpastimeamongsttheGentrywithchangelingspittedagainsteach
otherfortheamusementoftheFaeaudience.Thefightsarerarelystraightforward,butinstead
utilizerandomrulesandstipulationsatthewhimoftheGentry.Abloodbruteisthegrizzled
survivorofpitfightsandhorrifyinggamesofsurvivalofthefittest.Thebloodbrutehaslearnedto
controlhisfightingspiritandputittowardsagreatercause.

Beast: Sheisapredatoranimalriddledwithscarsandwearfromhertimeinthepits.

Darkling: Thechangelingistallandlonglimbed,litheandstrongwithpitchblackskinand
darkgreyscarsmarkingherbody.

Ogre: Hehasbitsofchain,barbedwire,andglassembeddedinhisthickhide.
Blessing: Abloodbruteisalwaysreadyforafight,andcanuseanythingasanimprovised
weaponwithoutsufferingthe1penaltytoherattackpool,nordoestheweaponsufferdamage
uponhits.Shecannotbeambushedbycombatants.Whileshemightsufferfromatraporother
threat,peopleintendingtoattackhercannevercatchheroffguard.Additionally,whenthe
charactermakesanunarmedattack,herfistsdeal0Lethaldamage.

Brewer
NeverletSaramixyouadrink.Thelasttimesheplayedbartenderforthefreehold,weallwoke
upthreedayslaterinaclearinginthehedgewithagangofgoblinscallingJoe,yourmajesty.
Thebreweristrainedintheartofalchemyandpotionmaking,supplyingbothintoxicating
substancesandpoisonsforthefreehold.Thechangelingwascreatedtobrewarcanetinctures
forhermaster.Notonlydidshemakebrewsandpotionsofunknownsubstances,butoftenshe
wasforcedtotestthepotencyandefficacyofherbrewsonherself.

Elemental: Thechangelingiscoatedinasheenofviscousfluid,herhairistintedthecolorof
driedvegetation,andhereyesareliquidbrown.

Ogre:TheOgrehasoverlargemusclesandhisskinismottledwithsoresandbruisesasthe
effectsofhisbrewtesting.

Wizened: Sheislargeandportlywithsomepieceofhertradeapermanentpartofherbody.
Maybehertorsoisacauldron,orherfingersareflattenedlikewoodenspoons.
Blessing: ThechangelingmayspendapointofGlamourwhiletouchinganyliquidtochangeit
eitherintoapotentalcoholorapoison.Ifitisanalcohol,itgainsaPotency(seep.XX)equalto
herWyrdplussuccessesrolledonaWits+Craftsroll.Ifitisapoison,itsPotencyishalfthat,
roundedup.

BrightOne
Itdoesappearsuddenlybrighterinhere,doesntit?
Twinklingeyes,radiantsmiles,glowingskinallsignsofthepassionandvitalitythatburnswithin
somepeople.AllofwhichdrewtheTrueFaetothesemortalslikegiantmothstoafragile
candleflame.InFaeriethatinnerlightwaspulledtothesurface,harnessedbythechangelings
Keeper.Hungfromceilings,installedinwallsconces,orsealedinglassdomes,theseLostwere
usedtoilluminateallmannerofFaedwellings.

Darkling:Anglerfishthingswithtranslucentskin,bioluminescentpatches,andlidless,glowing
eyes.

Elemental: Phosphorescentfiguresseeminglycarvedfrompolishedamber,warmivory,and
glisteningice.

Fairest:
Perfectlysculptedphysiqueswithglowing,oiledskin,halosoftiny,glimmeringstars,
andincandescentbrands.
Blessing: Thechangelingcanemitasoft,palelightthatextendsoutforthreemetersaround
her.Althoughthislightissuesfromandmoveswiththecharacter,observersunabletosee
throughtheMaskassumeitisambientlightfromsomeothernearbysource.Spendapointof
Glamourasareflexiveactiontoincreasethebrightnessofherlighttoablindingintensity.
AnyonewithaclearlineofsighttothecharactermustmakeaStamina+Composureroll
penalizedbythechangelingsWyrddots.AnyonefailingtherollgainstheBlindedTilt(p.XX)for
aslongashestillseesthebrightone.

Broadback
Weshouldstop.Youlooklikeyourereadytofallasleeponyourfeet.
SomeGentrycollectvaststoresofmaterialgoods.Whetherasbeastsofburdenpullingendless
wagontrains,orasporterswithwholehousesstrappedtotheirbacks,thechangelingsusedto
transportthesegoodsbecomebroadbacks.Drivenbeyondmortalexhaustiontheyploddedon,
tappingintoreservesofstrengthanddeterminationtocontinuetheirpointlessjourneys.Theyre
stubbornbastards.Theyhadtobe.

Beast:Chimericalamalgamationsofanimalsknownforbeingstubborn,rhinos,elephants,
goats,andcamels.

Ogre:Tireless,toweringbruteswhoignoreallinjurywhilemethodicallyclosinginontheirprey.

Wizened: Shrunkenbodiesstrappedintosmoking,clankingmetallicwalkingmachines.
Blessing: Thechangelingsuffersnopenaltiesduetofatigueandinjury.Thecharacteralso
addshisWyrdtohisDoorsinSocialManeuvering.SpendapointofGlamourasareflexive
actionduringasocialinteractiontoaddhisWyrdtoacontestedactiontoaResistancetrait.

Brollachan
You'dliketogetawaywouldn'tyou.Infact,you'ddoanythingtoescapefromme,butyoucan't.
I'mnotgoingtoreleaseyouuntilyoutellmeexactlywhatyoutoldtheHuntsmen.Tellme
everythingandyoucango.
Brollachanarecreaturesofunseenfear.InArcadia,theywereutterlyshapelessmassesof
darknessthatmostKeepersusethemasguards,soldiers,orinterrogators.Brollachanexcelat
understandingandinflictingfear.BeforeherDurance,abrollachanwasusuallyeithersomeone
whocouldbeterrifyingorsomeonewhohadbeenafraidformuchofherlifeandwas
determinedtolearntoturnthetablesonhertormentors.

Beast:Ashapelesspoolofdarknesswithglowingeyes.
Elemental: Astatuemadefromlivingdarknesswithglowingeyesandlonggraspingarms.

Ogre:Acrudelyshapednightblackcreaturewithlargehandsandglowingeyes.
Blessing: Shegains+2toallrollstoestablishagrapple,andgainsthe8againqualitytoall
Stealthrolls.IfshespendsapointofGlamouronceshehasgrappledsomeone,shecanmake
aPresence+Intimidation+Wyrdvs.Composure+Wyrdroll.Ifsuccessful,shecanchooseto
inflicteithertheInsensateTilt(seep.XX)ortheFrightenedCondition(p.XX)onthetarget.A
singletargetcanonlysufferfromoneoftheseatatime.

Chatelaine
Whileyourewithinthefreehold,Isuggestyoufollowallrulestothebestofyourability.Icannot
beheldresponsibleforthekindsoftroubleyoumayfindyourselfinifyoubreachprotocol.
Rulesareinplaceforareason,nottheleastofwhichissafety.Yoursafetyforthemostpart,
sinceenforcementofmannersismyutmostconcern.
Thechatelaineshaveareputationaswellmanneredandmeticulouslyneatchangelingswitha
preoccupationfororganization.Achatelainedoesnotbegrudgethisstereotypesinceitoften
givesheraplacewithinafreeholdandsheisnotonetoshyawayfromresponsibilities.The
TrueFaemaketheChatelaineasaservantorpersonalassistant,groomedforspecificand
exactingtasksaroundtheGentrysestate.ShymayhavespentherentireDuranceperforming
onetaskoverandoveragain,strivingforaperfectionthatwasjustoutofherreach.

Fairest:
TheFairestisbeautifulandtall,herfacemirroredtobetterreflecthermaster.

Ogre:
Thechangelingislargeandstrongoftenwithouteyes,ears,ortongue.

Wizened: Heisshortofstatureandeasytooverlook.
Blessing: Thechangelingcanneverfailarolltoexpresspropermannersandetiquette,and
addsonesuccessonsuchrolls.Additionally,shemayspendaGlamourtoaddherWyrdto
PresenceandManipulationrollsfortherestofthescene.Anysupernaturalpowerwhichwould
forceherintoasocialfauxpasautomaticallyfails.

Chimera
I'dhateyou,exceptyousimplyaren'tworthmytrouble.Youabductedme,butlookatthemess
youmadewhenyouattemptedtotransformme.Nowyoursupposedlywondrousmagicsnot
onlycan'tforcemetocomebacktoArcadiawithyou,theycan'tevenstopmefromhittingyou.
Thesechangelingsarepatchworkcreatures.Gentrywhoattempttocreatenewkithsby
randomlycombiningportionsofexistingonesdeliberatelycreatesome,butmostchimerasare
createdaccidentally,whenchangelingsbecomeinfusedwithtoomuchofArcadia'schangeable
natureandtheirbodiesalterinanuncontrolledfashion.Everychimera'sappearanceisdifferent,
oftenradicallyso.Despiteappearingtobepartiallyamemberofseveralkiths,achimeragains
noneoftheadvantagesofthesekiths,butbeingacompositecreaturehasitsownunique
benefits.

Elemental: Thisentityisformedofthreeormoreunrelatedmaterials,likeruby,ice,andbone.

Fairest:
Thechangeling'sdisparateelementsallcometogethertocreateanattractiveand
harmoniouswhole.

Wizened: Atleastthreedifferentcreaturesappeartohavebeengraftedtogetherinascarred
Frankensteinlikeassembly.
Blessing: Shegains+2toallsocialrollswheninteractingwithcreaturesfromtheHedge.Also,
oncepersceneshemayspendapointofGlamourtoapplytherotequalityonsinglerollto
resistorotherwiseavoidanyContractorothersupernaturaleffecttargetingher.
Chirurgeon
Senora,Iwon'ttakeyourmoney.ThisisafreeclinicandIdothisworkformyselfasmuchas
foryourdaughterandmyotherpatients.IhavedonethingsIamashamedofandIworkhereto
helprepayothersfortheillthatIoncedid.
SomeGentrycreateachirurgeontohealinjuredGentryorchangelings,butotherscreateone
sothathecaninturntransformordinarymortalsintochangelingsortoalterchangelingsthathis
Keeperwishestoremake.

Beast: Adisturbingcreaturewiththeeyes,mandiblesandmanyjointedarmslikeapraying
mantis.Alloftheseinsectilepartscloselyresemblesurgicaltools.

Darkling: Hehasaroundbodywithlonglimbsendinginmanylongfingersandtoes,allof
whichhavemanyscars.Eachofhisfingersendsinadifferentsurgicaltoolmadefromfingernail
orbone.

Fairest:Portionsofherskiniscoveredindecorativescarsthatresembletattoosandherlong
silverfingernailsconcealsurgicalinstrumentsthatretractlikeacat'sclaws.
Blessing: Whenperformingallformsofmedicineonpatients,achirurgeonneversuffers
penaltiesduetolackofpropertoolsandgainsthe8againqualitytoallMedicinerolls.Daily
visitsbyachirurgeondowngradewoundsinexactlythesamemannerasintensivecare
treatment(seep.XX).IfhespendsGlamourwhentreatingapatient,thepatientaddsthe
changeling'sWyrdtoallrollstorecoverfromdiseasesandhealsalltreatedwoundsfourtimes
fasterthannormal.

Coldscale
ThisindoororchidgardenismyfavoriteroomandIholdallofmymeetingshere.Yes,it's
expensivetokeepalloftheseplants,butthedealwearetalkingabouthelpspaythosebills.If
yougivethesecuritycontracttomyfirm,we'llmakeabsolutelycertainthatyourneighborhoodis
protectedfromallthreats,evenonesyoumightneversuspectorperhapsevenbelieve.
Keepersdwellinginrealmswherereptileswerethenormorinhotdryrealmswhereonlythe
toughestinhabitantscouldsurvivecreatedmostcoldscales.Bytheirnature,acoldscaleis
somewhatdistantandifshefeelsstrongemotions,sherarelyexpressthem.Beforeher
Durance,acoldscalewasusuallyanoutsider,notasmuchbecausepeoplerejectedher,but
becauseshechoosetokeepherdistancefromothers.

Darkling: Aserpentlikecreaturecoloredsothatitiseasilyoverlooked,butdisturbingtolook
upon.

Elemental: Areptilianfigurecarvedfromlivingjade.

Fairest:Asleekandelegantreptilianhumanoid,withsmallattractivelypatternedscales.

Ogre: Resemblingagilamonsterwithlargecrocodilelikescutes,thiscreatureappears
exceptionallytough.
Blessing: Herreptilianmetabolismallowshertoadd+3toherStaminaforresistinghunger,
thirst,poison,heat,orlackofair.Herscalesprovide1/1armor.Onceperscene,shecanspend
apointofGlamourtostrikewithincrediblespeed,gainingthehighestInitiativeforoneturn,
regardlessofherroll.Iftwocoldscalesusethispowerinthesameturn,usetheirnormal
Initiativevaluetodeterminewhogoesfirst.

Coyote
Thesoundoflaughterfilledtheroommarkinghisdefeat.Whathadstartedasasimplejobhad
turnedintoanutternightmareaseachnewdiscoveryleadtomoreandmoreenemiesfollowing
histrail.Allforthefavorofonegirl,someonewhopromisedhimallshewantedwasthe
satisfactionofknowinghehadsucceeded.Whoknewshehadsomanyenemiesforhimto
succeedagainst.
Knowntomanyastrickstersandmastermanipulators,everythingcomesatacostwhendealing
withacoyote.Createdbymasterswhoenjoyeddeeppoliticalintrigue,theCoyoteunderwenta
DurancethatpittedhiswitsagainstthoseofotherGentryalwaysforcedtofindanadvantageor
anupperhandtoanysituation.Suchhabitsarenoteasilyovercome.

Beast: Shemayhaveatailorclawsofacoyote,buttheyallhavetheheadofoneattachedto
ahumanbody.

Fairest: Thechangelingtakesonasleekappearanceofabipedalcoyotewithglisteningfur
andgleamingeyes.

Ogre: Thechangelinghastuftsoffurandhairoveranotherwisesmoothbody.
Blessing: Thechangelingisgreatatmakingfirstimpressions,leavingpeoplefeelinglikeshes
trustworthyandeasilymanipulated.WhenattemptingaSocialManeuver,thecoyotecharacter
alwaysstartsoneimpressionlevelhigherthansheotherwisewould(seep.XX).Additionally,
shegainsadotofSubterfuge,whichcanallowhertogooverhernormaldotlimitinthatSkill.

Cyclopean
Icanalmosttastetheemotioninthispiece.What?No!Imostcertainlydidnotjustlickthe
sculpture.
CyclopeanarethosechangelingstakentoArcadiatobecraftsmenandbuilders.Maimedor
deformedduringtheirlabors,usuallyaspunishmentforproducingworkthatfailedtomeet
exactingandeverchangingstandards,theywereforcedtocontinuetheircraft.Somereplaced
lostpiecesofthemselveswithtoolstokeepworkingwhileotherssimplylearnedtomakedowith
asinglearmoreye.

Darkling:Clackingsandals,awickerbasketcoveringadeformedhead,andchiseltipped
fingerspokingoutfromlongsleevedmonksrobes.

Ogre:Elephantinetusks,thecallousedhandsofastonemason,andagreat,roundeyeinthe
centerofamassiveskull.

Wizened: Aleatherapronhungwithtongsandfiles,lungslikebellows,andonehandreplaced
withaforgehammer.
Blessing: YourcharactergainsafreedotinCraftsandafreeSpecialtyinanartformthat
requiresphysicalstrength,suchaswoodcarving,blacksmithing,ormasonry.Shemayuse
StrengthinsteadofWitsorIntelligencewhencreatingorappraisingitems,andgainstheTaste
Merit(p.XX).SpendapointofGlamourtocraftanitemrelatedtoherSpecialtyasaninstant
actioninsteadofanextendedaction.Sheneedsaccesstopropertoolsandmaterialsasusual,
butgainsautomaticsuccessesequaltoherWyrd.

Dancer
Illmakesureeveryoneseyesareonme.Theyalwaysare,ofcourse,butImeanmorethan
usualthistime.
Thereisanundeniablebeautyinherentinallmotion.TheLostwhobecamedancersknowthis,
thoughlikeeverythinginFairies,thatknowledgewaspaidforinwaysbestforgotten.Some
performedonstagesofredhotbronzeorwhilewearingshoesofjaggedcrystalfortheir
Keepersentertainment.Othersservedinpalacesmadeofglitteringknives,theiragility
necessarytocarryoutevenbasicactions.
Beast:
Longlegsendinginthreetalentedtoes,animpossiblythinneck,andaflutteringtrain
ofemeraldandsapphirefeathers.
Elemental: Afranticallycavortingpillaroffire,asinuouslyundulatingcolumnofwater,agently
swayingtree,allvaguelyhumanoid.
Fairest:
Lithe,pliablelimbs,exaggeratedangularfeatures,andflowing,dancelikemovements
tomusiconlytheycanhear.
Blessing: AdancergainstherotequalityonallAthleticsandExpressionrollsrelatingto
dancing,andaddshisWyrdtoanyPersuasion,Socialize,orSubterfugerollswheremovement
wouldhelp.Whileperforming,allonlookersapplyhisWyrddotsasapenaltytotheirWits+
Composurerollstonoticeanythingotherthantheperformance.SpendapointofGlamourto
forceonlookerstomakeaComposureroll,withtheirWyrddotsasapenalty.Anyonefailingthe
rollgainstheObsession Condition(p.XX)relatedtohim.

Draconic
Getoutofthisneighborhood!IfIseeeitherofyouoranyofyourfriendsaroundhereorifyoutry
tosendtheHuntsmenafterus,I'llknowwhotoblame.IknowwhoyoutwoareandifanythingI
don'tlikehappens,Illcomeforyouboth.
TheGentrycreatedraconicstoinspirefearandawe.Thesereptilianbeastsaredestructive
creaturesofprimalterror.OneKeeperwhocreatedadraconicmighthavewishedowna
wondrouslyimpressivebeast,anothersoughtanimpressiveguardormilitarycommander.
BeforetheirDurance,manydraconicswereinterestedinpowerandallofthemwerefilledwith
confidence.Now,everydraconicisterrifyingandtough.

Beast:Ahorrifyingreptilianmonsterwiththickscalesandlongclaws.

Elemental: Adragonlikeelementalbeast,mostappeartobemadefromstone,metal,or
coloredglass.

Fairest:Withhisscalesandelaboratecrest,heistheessenceofterrifyingbeauty.

Wizened: Sheisclearlyahumanwhohasbeenremadeintoadragon,withhumaneyesand
theformsofhumanlimbsbeneathherscales.
Blessing: HisthickscalestransformthefirstWyrdpointsoflethaldamagehetakesinaturn
intobashingdamageandhecandolethaldamagewithhisunarmedattacks.Hecanspenda
pointofGlamourtoaddWyrdtoallIntimidationrollsforthescene.
Earthbones
Hesasstrongastheearthandasimmovable.Thatsnottosayhedoesnthavefeelings.Hes
probablythesoftestoneofusdeepdown,hejustdoesntknowhowtoshowitpastallthatrock
hardexterior.
Anearthbonessayslittleandenduresmuch.Hisrockybodyaffordshimbothstrengthofform
andspirit.Theearthbonesmighthavebeenmoldedfromclayorhewnfromstone,orhemay
havespentallhistimeinFaeriewithinacavetooclosetothesoil.Thechangelingmayhave
beenforcedtostandasasupportpillarforastructure,formasmallprivateislandforhismaster,
orsimplybethestonestatuegracingherhalls.

Elemental: Hisskinandhairisthecolorofrichsoil,andhisnailsandteethareformedfrom
hardstone.

Fairest:Thechangelingiscarvedcompletelyfromobsidianstonewithmossandlichen
servingashishair.

Ogre:TheOgresbodyisformedfromlargelumpsofmismatchedclaypressedtogetherand
heldinplacebyrodsofhardpackedearth.
Blessing: Theearthbonesisaspowerfulandindestructibleastheearthandstoneheisformed
from.ThecharacterappliesonehalfhisWyrd(roundedup)asarmor.WithapointofGlamour,
hecanalsotakehalfhisWyrdasballisticarmorforaturn.Thisarmorstackswithmundaneor
supernaturalarmors.

Farwalker
LongJohnsaysitllbefasterifwefollowhimacrosstheridgethere,atitslowestpoint.Yes,I
knowhedidntsayanything.Didntyoucatchhisgestures?
UnlikemanyotherLost,afarwalkersDurancewasnotoneofcaptivitybutofnearendless
solitudeandisolation.Spiritedawaytovastforests,windsweptmountains,orswelteringjungles,
thesechangelingsrarelysawanothersoulduringtheirtimeinFaerie.Constantlyonthemove,
whethertooutrununseenbuteverpresenthuntersorinavainattempttofindsomesortof
civilization,theyroamedtheruggedwildsofArcadiaalone.Withonlythesilenttreesandrocks
forcompany,someslowlyforgotthesoundofhumanspeechorthattheyhadeverevenhada
name.

Beast: Long,powerfullimbs,athickcoatofshaggyhair,andatreadassureasamountain
goat.

Fairest:Leafmatteddreadlocks,uncuredanimalhideclothing,andaraw,primalsexuality.

Ogre: Skinlikeoldleather,handscoveredinclimbingcalluses,andsilent,carefulfootfalls.
Blessing: Thechangelinggainsthe DirectionSenseMerit(p.XX).Thecharacteralsoreduces
theeffectivelevelofextremeenvironmentsbyherWyrddots,andaddsherWyrdtoher
Staminawhencalculatinghowlonguntilshestartstakingenvironmentaldamage(p.XX).
SpendapointofGlamourtoaddherWyrdtoanyAthleticsrolltotraverseruggedordangerous
terrain.
Fireheart
Irememberexistingasasingleflameinanendlessplainoffire.I'mhomeandfree,butI'mstill
drawntolargefires,Isupposethat'swhyIbecameanarsoninvestigator.
Afireheartisnotmerelyacreatureofflame,herthoughtsarealsoinhumanlyswiftbecausefire
alsoengulfedhermind.Keepersdwellingrealmsofflame,brass,andstonecreatedsome
fireheartstoserveasscholarsorhighlyattentiveandeffectiveservants.Otherfireheartsspent
theirDuranceasworksofartmadeoffireoraspartofawalloffiresurroundingandprotecting
theirKeeper'shome.

Beast: Aglowingphoenixlikecreaturewhereeachfeatherisaseparatetongueofdancing
flame.

Darkling: Patternsofflickeringgreenandblueflamescoverthecreature'shairlessskinlike
livingtattoos,anditseyesshinewithwickeddancingfiresofthesamecolor.

Wizened: Crystalbandsglowingwithflickeringinternalfirearegraftedtothecreature'sjoints.
Whenitbecomesemotional,firebrieflyengulfsitsheadorhandsbeforethecrystalssuppressit.
Blessing: Afireheartgainsa+2toInitiativeandwhenevershewishes,hertouchcanstartafire
likeamatch.ByspendingapointofGlamour,thechangelingcanperformanyextendedtask
thatismostlyorentirelymental,likecomposingaspeechorperformingresearchwithblinding
speed.Ifeachrollinanextendedtasknormallyrequiresanhourorless,shecanmakeoneroll
perturn.

Flowering
Takeoffyourshoesandjuststandhereforaminute.Isthereanythingbetterthanfeelingofsoil
betweenyourtoesandthesunonyourskin?
Warmedbythesunscaressandnourishedbytherainstears,thesechangelingswerethe
livingornamentationofcountlessgardensacrossArcadia.Plantedinsoilwheretheytookroot,
somefloweringwerelefttogrowwildinhiddenfaeriegroveswhileotherswerekeptinpots
underfluorescentlightsinsteaminggreenhouses.Allexperiencedlongperiodsofhappiness
andbliss,punctuatedbythesharp,metalkissoftheirKeeperspruningshears.

Darkling: Broad,flathandswithfingerslikeinterlockingteethandanirresistible,saccharine
reek.

Elemental: Cordedlimbsliketwistedstems,acascadeofcurlingfiddleheadsinplaceofhair,
andacalming,earthyscent.

Fairest:Pink,rosepetalskin,anintoxicatingperfume,andcruelthornstosnagtheunwary.
Blessing: WhenestablishingafirstimpressionduringSocialManeuveringthefloweringalways
moveshisimpressiononestepup(p.XX).SpendapointofGlamourtoaddhisWyrdtoany
Persuasion,Socialize,orSubterfugerollmadetoopenavictimsDoorsanexceptionalsuccess
onthisrollopensDoorsequaltohisWyrd,inadditiontothenormaleffectsofexceptional
success.
Gameplayer
ThatsthethirdtableIveseenherruntonight.Ithinkshemightbecountingcards,butifsheis,
thehousedoesntseemtobeabletocatchheronit.Istoppedplayingcasualgameslikechess
withheralongtimeago.AfterImakemyfirstmove,shetellsmehowthegameplaysoutand
shewins.Itkindoftakesthefunoutofit.
ForsomeTrueFae,everythingisagameplayedwithpiecesmadeofpeopleslivesand
actions.NomatterwhattypeofgametheGentryfavors,noneenjoylosing,sotheyspenda
greatdealoftimeamusingthemselveswithgamesandrulesthatensuretheirvictory.A
gameplayerwasmadetoeitherbeapartofaparticulargame,orwasforcedtoplaygamesfor
hermastersenjoyment,orboth.Shenotonlyenduredtheendlesshoursofbeingpartofa
game,butalsosufferedtheireofhermasterifhehappenedtoloseagame,evenifitwasnot
herfault.

Elemental: Heisawoodenorplasticgamepiece,withacrudehumanoidshape.

Fairest:Thechangelingisastoneormarblegamepiece,craftedwiththeabilitytomove
aboutonherown.

Wizened: Thecharactermayresembleacardoradeckofcardswithlegsandarms.
Blessing: Thechangelingisamasteratseeingpossibilities,workinglogicpuzzlesand
generallyreadingwhatotherpeoplemaydo.ShegainsadotofIntelligencewhichcantakeher
abovehernormalmaximumbasedonherWyrd.Whensolvingaproblemwithlogicorgame
theory,youmayspendapointofGlamourtobenefitfromtherotequalityonceperscene.

Gargantuan
Standback.Imgoingtoblockthehallway.
Aswithallthingsrelatedtohumanity,theTrueFaehavenoconceptof,norcareabout,human
scale.Palacesarebuilttoimmensedimensions,eachbrickthesizeofacityblock.The
changelingsstolenawaytothesetitanicrealmsneededtoberesizedtofittheirnew
surroundings.Somewerestretchedonmassiveracks,whileotherswereforcefeduntilthey
reachedanappropriatesize.Afewweresimplyluckyenoughtobetheheadofamassive
collectionofgrotesquelyfusedbodies.

Darkling:Somethingthatresemblesasolid,threedimensionalshadow,changingsizewith
eachnewfurtiveglance.

Ogre:Amassivebrute,seeminglyclothedinrocksandboulders,capableofswellingtoeven
moremonstrousproportions.

Wizened: Telescopingclockworklimbs,aninflatabletorso,andahuffingbellowscanister
strappedtoitsback.
Blessing: Thechangelingseemssomehowlargerthansheactuallyis.AddadotofPresence
thiscangoabovehernormallimitation.ShegainsthefourdotversionoftheHeavyWeapons
FightingStyleMerit(p.XX)butitonlyappliestoherunarmedBrawlattacks.Usehalfthe
changelingsWyrd(roundedup)astheweapondamagewhenusingthisMerit.Spendapointof
Glamourandaninstantactiontogrowstotitanicproportions,addinghalfherWyrddotstoher
Sizeforthescene.
Gravewright
Yes,thishouseisdefinitelyhaunted.Noamountofinsulationwillfixthatcooldraftorthenoises
youhearatnight.However,forasmallfee,Icansolvebothyourproblemsandtheproblemsof
yourunfortunatespectralvisitors.
TheGentrydonotunderstanddeath,butsomeoftheirmoredisturbingrealmshave
connectionstotheUnderworld.Gentrywithaninterestinthedeadcreategravewrightsas
emissariestotheUnderworld.OnegravewrightmayvisittheUnderworldandstay,perhaps
willingly,anothermightspendhisDurancedealingwithghostsandUnderworldcreaturesas
wellaswiththeGentry.

Darkling:Adryandskeletalcreaturethatlookslikeabodythathasbeenleftburiedinthe
sandforyears.

Fairest:Withperfectskinbearingahintofpearlgreycolor,acompletelackofbodyheat,and
neverahairoutofplace,helookslikeanespeciallylovelycinematicimageofavampire,
lackingonlythefangs.

Ogre:Alargecreaturewithskinlikewellagedrawhideandasomewhatcorpselike
appearance.
Blessing: Thegravewrightcansee,hear,andspeaktoanynearbyghostsinTwilight.In
addition,hecanspendapointofGlamourtoaddorremovetheAnchor,Open,Controlled,or
MaterializedCondition(seep.XX)toorfromaperson,location,orobject.AddingaCondition
requiresitsprerequisiteandremovingonecausesittoreverttoitsprerequisite.Removed
Conditionscannotberestoredbyanyonebutthesamegravewrightforoneweek.

Gremlin
Asheturnedthekeyintheignition,heheardthefamiliarroarofthecarsenginecomingtolife.
Thiswasfollowedquicklybythesoundoftheenginecatching,backfiring,andthenstallingout,
apuffofsmokeeruptingfromthehood.
TheGremlinisamischievousdabblerwhotendstolikepullingmeanpranksonothers.Sheis
smallandseemsharmless,whichletshergetintoalotoftrouble.AGremliniscreatedsolelyfor
theamusementofherTrueFaemasters.Thechangelingservedasacourtjesterandfool,
makingamockeryofguestsandcausingthempainandanguishinthenameofhermaster.If
shedidnotperformtowhateverstandardshermasterputtohereachday,shewastortured
untilsheperformedbetter.Nowshecanthelptakingadvantageofasituationtopullpranksand
actout.

Beast: Sheisananimalnormallyassociatedwithmischievousbehavior,suchasasquirrel,
weasel,orchimpanzee.

Ogre:Shessmallandhunchedwithuglygreenskinandwartsalloverherbody.

Wizened: Thechangelingismostlyhumanoidwithlongfingersandlongearsandbigbright
eyes.
Blessing: Thechangelingcancausepeopleoritemstofailatcriticalmoments.AsaReflexive
action,shecanbestowadicepenaltyequaltoherWyrdonavictimshecanseeasheattempts
anactionusinganycomplexmachine.Alternatively,shecantouchamachineandcause
StructuredamageequaltoherWyrd.AGremlincanonlyusethisBlessingonceascene.

Grey
Youreallyshouldbemorecarefulwhoyoushakehandswith.NowthatIknowallabouthow
youbetrayedthepreviousWinterQueenareyoumoreinterestedinagreeingtobackmy
candidacy?
ThiskithisrelativelynewandistheresultofKeepersenhancingchangelings'minds,oftenat
theexpenseoftheirbodies.Onewascreatedasawatchfuloverseerforotherchangelings,able
tospyonhercharges'thoughts,anotherhelpedhisKeeperlocatemortalstoabduct,andathird
wasacomponentofavastGentrycontrolledtelepathichivemind.BeforeherDurance,agrey
mayhavebeenanintellectualwhohadtroubleunderstandingothersandwasgrantedher
desireinastrangeandoftendisturbingfashion.Anothermighthavehadlatentpsychicgiftsthat
theGentryfounduseful.

Beast: Hergreyrubberyskinresemblesthatofadolphinorasquidandshehastheblack
featurelesseyesofashark.

Fairest:Attractivelyandrogynous,completelyhairless,withlargeeyes,andanelegantlylarge
head,thiscreaturelookslikeafashionmodelfromasciencefictionstory.

Wizened: Hisgreyhairlessskinhasbeenfittedsmallimplantsmadeofmetalandglowing
glass,especiallyaroundhisenlargedskull.
Blessing: ShegainstheEideticMemoryMerit(p.XX)andifshespendsapointofGlamour,
shecanusethe3dotTelepathyMerit(p.XX)ifshetouchessomeoneorlookintohiseyes.
UsingTelepathyinthisfashiondoesnotrequirespendingWillpower.
Gristlegrinder
Ihearyouneedabodydisposedof.Giveme,sayhalfanhour?Hey.Youwouldnthappento
haveaforkandknifehandy?Iseemtohaveleftmineathome.
GristlegrinderswerethosechangelingsforcedtoeattheirownduringtheirtimeinArcadia.
Whetherservedassteaming,pinkslicesongoldendinnerplatesorrippedrawfromthebones
ofwaywardtravelers,thefleshofotherfaeslowlybecametheirpreferredmeal.

Darkling: Impossiblywidemouthsfilledwithrecurredfangs,leadingdowntoelastic,
distendinggullets.

Fairest:Immaculatedinnerattire,impeccabletablemanners,andjawsthatunhingebehind
politelyshieldinghands.

Ogre: Railroadspiketusks,bonecrunchingmandibles,andtongueslikeserratedfilesfor
extractingmarrow.
Blessing: Shecanmakebiteattackswithoutneedingtograpple,andherteethcountasa
weaponthatdoeslethaldamageequaltohalfherWyrddots,roundeddown.Shecanalsoeat
atatrulyterrifyingspeed,devouringanumberofkilogramsoforganicmaterialequaltoher
Wyrddotseachminute.SpendapointofGlamouratleastfivekilograms,andshedowngrades
aleveloflethaldamagetobashing.
Hunterheart
Ivegothisgazenow.Aslongasyoudontmakeanysuddenmovements,helljuststandthere
likeadeercaughtintheheadlightsofatruck.
TheGentrydontneedonlyhumanoidservants,andhedgebeastslackacertainintelligence.
Thechangelingsthatbecamehunterheartsweretheguarddogs,trainedfalcons,andhunting
houndsoftheArcadianrealms.

Beast:Furandfeathers,teethandtalonsachimericalcombinationofpredatoryanimalsfrom
Dr.Moreausworstnightmares.

Elemental: Beartrapjaws,riflebarrelfingers,Ghilliesuitskinhungwithfishingluresthe
essenceofhuntinggivenform.

Wizened: Clawslashedtohandsandfeetwithsinew,mottledgreenandbrownskin,and
slittedeyesbeneathananimalskullheadpiece.
Blessing: ThechangelingmaydeallethaldamagewithherunarmedBrawlattacks.When
attackingaspecificbodypart,reducecalledshotpenaltiesbyherWyrd.Spendapointof
Glamourasareflexiveactionandlockeyeswithsomeonetofreezethatpersoninplaceor
causehimtofleeinterror.RollPresence+WyrdthetargetsResolveandapplythe Insensate
Frightened
Tilt(p.XX)orthe Condition(p.XX)ifsuccessful.

Ifrit
Doyourecognizeme?Iwasonly15whenyouturnedmyfamilyoutontothestreet,butI'm
oldernowandI'velearnedafewthings,includinghowtoburnyourlovelymansiondownaround
yourearsunlessyoubegformyforgiveness.I'dstartbegging,thehallbehindthatdooris
alreadyburning.Theonlywayoutisthroughme.
Keeperscreateifrittobeweaponsofterroranddestruction.Anifritembodiesfire'sdestructive
potentialandlikelyspenthisDuranceasahugefieryweapon,incineratingarmiesof
changelingsforhisKeeper.Someifritwereabductedbecausetheyhadatalentformaking
othersafraidothersdreamedoffindingawaytomakeothersfearthemandsomesimplyloved
fireandwishedtohelpitspreadandgrow.OnceinArcadia,theGentrymadethempowerful,in
afewcasessopowerfulthateventheirKeepersbegantofearthem.
Beast:Ajaggedbearlikecreaturemadeofsolidfirewithglowingeyesandlongburning
claws.
Elemental:Ananimatebonfirethatlooksreadytodevoureverythingaroundit.
Ogre:Flamesflickerjustaboveshinyhairlessskinmarkedbyburnscars.
Blessing: Hegainsthe8againqualitytoallIntimidationrolls.Hepossessesthethreedot
PsychokinesisMerit(p.XX)toaffectfire,butuseGlamourinsteadofWillpowertoactivateit.
Manipulatingfireinanobviousfashionalsoadds+2dicetoallofhisIntimidationrolls.

Illes
I'msorry,I'mbusytoday,butwecangooutlater,Ipromise.I'dlovetoseeyouryachtinthe
moonlight.
SomeGentrydwellindimcavernousrealmsandeveryonetheyabductbecomespartoftheir
lightlesskingdom.Theycreateillesasemissarieswhotraveltootherrealms.TheseKeepers
cannotforgeanyillusionsthatsurvivebrightlight,buttheiremissariesbecomebeingsof
wondrousbeautyatnightorawayfromthesun.Atthesetimes,anillescanpersuade,seduce,
orconotherswithgreatease.However,herbeautyvanishesatthetouchofsunlight.
Darkling:Awayfromsunlight,heappearsasanoblecreaturewithelegantlyexaggerated
featuresandlonglovelyfingers.Sunlightrevealshimtohaveanunpleasantlyratlikefaceand
disturbinglyspiderlikehands.

Fairest:Atnight,everyonelookingatherasseestheirperfectidealofbeauty.Insunlight,her
shiningskinbecomesadullgreyandshelooksperfectlyordinary.

Ogre:Insunlight,heisabrutishhulkingcreaturewhobecomesagorgeouslymuscledwonder
ofstrengthandpoweratnight.
Blessing: HecannottaketheStrikinglooksMerit(p.XX),butgainsdoublethenormalbenefit
(+4)ofhavingtwodotsofStrikingLooksbetweenthehoursofsunsetandsunriseorifheis
isolatedfromeventhemostindirectsunlight.IfhespendsapointofGlamourinthesesame
conditions,forthenextsceneheonlyrequire3successes(insteadof5)toachievean
ExceptionalSuccesswithanyrollinthatbenefitsfromhisappearance.

Jeweleyes
Youhurtmyfriend,hervoicewassteadyandcalm,despitetheexertion.Withagruntshe
heavedthemanacrosstheroom.Shestalkedtohislimpform,ignoringthebulletsslamming
intoherbodyashisgoonsfiredather.Sheputonefootonhisneckandpusheddownhard,
hearingasatisfyingsnapasshedidso.Shetookonelookaroundtheroomaseverythingwent
quiet,Whosnext?Sheaskedinthatsamedeadpantone.
Thejeweleyesisknownforhereventemperamentandstoicresolve.Sometimesother
changelingsmistakehercoolattitudeasaloofnessorapathy,butunderneaththecoolexterior
burnsafiercepassion.Ajeweleyesisforgedfromtheearthaslivinggemstones,forcedto
proveherworthtotheGentryinbattleringshopingtobeseenasthemostlovelyanddeadly
andgivenashortreprisetositondisplayinthecavernoushallsofhermastersabode.Forced
toalwaysfight,ajeweleyeshasahardtimerelatingtoothers.Yet,whenshefindsafriend,she
istruerthananyother.

Elemental: Elementaljeweleyesarehumanoidinshape,butarecomposedentirelyofa
crystallinestructure.

Fairest:Thechangelinghasjeweledpointsonhisbody,hisnails,eyes,andteethglitterwith
thelookofcutgems.

Ogre: TheOgreisacreatureformedfromuncutstones,thecolorandslightshimmerofthe
hiddengemsglintingatherjoints.
Blessing: Ajeweleyeisforgedinthepainofconstantbattle,andsheknowshowtotakeahit
andkeepongoing.ThechangelinggainsasingledotofStamina,whichcantakeheroverthe
normallevelallowedbyhisWyrd.Inaddition,thechangelinggainsanautomaticsuccesson
anyStaminarollstoendurefatigueorpain.ByspendingapointofGlamour,youcanreverse
anywoundpenaltiesshesuffers,andturnthemintodicebonusesforthescene.
Larcenist
Watchhishandsthere,didyouseeit?
Seewhat?
Hetookherringoffherhand.
Hedidnteventouchherhand,hewastouchingherwaist.
Thatswhathewantedyoutosee,thatswhathewantedhertosee.Ifyouwatchhishandsyou
canseeit,otherwiseitslikemagic.
Quickandnimblefingered,alarcenistcannothelptouching,takingfromorplantingitemson
everyonearoundhim.Smartchangelingskeepawidebertharoundalarcenist,feelinghis
penchantforthieverymeansheisdishonest,yetthatisoftenfurthestfromthetruth.The
larcenistsisfoundinthestrongholdsofgreedyandcovetousTrueFae.Heisforcedtotake,
steal,orpersuadeitemsfromherenemies.Hedoessounderstrictrulesofengagementhe
isnotallowedtooutrightlie,hecannotphysicallytouchthevictim,hecannotsethiseyesonthe
objectheisstealing,ormaybehehastoreplacetheobjectoncetaken.

Beast: Thecharacterhastheformofananimalthatstealsandhoards,suchasaferret,
magpie,orraccoon.

Darkling: Thechangelingiscompletelynondescriptwithneutralcoloredskin,hairandeyes,
easytodismissorforgeteverseeing.

Fairest:Shehaslongfingers,agracefulbody,andcaptivatingeyes.Sheusesherbeautiful
featurestodistracthertargetsfromwhatherhandsaredoing.
Blessing: Thechangelingonlyneeds3successestobenefitfromanexceptionalsuccesson
Larcenyrolls.Additionally,shemayspendapointofGlamourtoaddherWyrdtoSubterfuge
rollsforthescene.

Leechfinger
Idon'tliketobegrabbed,itremindsmeofeventsI'dratherforget.See,youdon'tlikebeing
grabbedeither,andIimagineyou'refeelingabitweak.I'llletyougothistime.IfIeverseeyou
pawinganotherwoman,I'llmakecertainyouneverdosoagain.
LeechfingersarepredatorsthatKeeperscreatetopreyuponotherchangelingsandhedge
beasts.SomeKeepersforgethemasoverseersorforcombat,othersusethemtodealwith
hedgebeastincursionsinanentertainingmanner.Aleechfingerdoesnotneedtofeedto
survive,butfindsstealinglifeverypleasurable.SomeKeepersmadeleechfingersfromhuman
predators,otherKeeperssoughtoutdesperateoramoralindividualsinpoorhealth.

Beast: Acreaturewithsmoothsquidlikeskin,andlongslendertentaclesinsteadofhair.Her
hands,arms,andtentaclesarecoveredinsmallfeedingsuckers.

Fairest:Atallbeautifulcreaturewithlongsomewhatanimatehair.Hishairisbrightred
immediatelyafterhefeedsandbecomespalerthelongerhegoeswithoutfeeding.

Wizened: Narrowtubesradiatingfromherheartrunalongthesurfaceoftheskinofherarms
andtorso.Thesetubesconnecttofineneedlesunderherfingernailsandinbandsaroundher
wrists.
Blessing: ByspendingoneormorepointsofGlamourandtouchingtheskinofahumanor
livingsupernaturalcreature,shecanstealHealth.EachpointofGlamourcausesthevictimone
pointoflethaldamage.Theleechfingercanusethisdamagetohealtwopointsofbashing
damageoronepointoflethaldamagetoherownbody.Shecanalsouseeachpointtoeither
downgradeonepointofaggravateddamagetolethaldamageortogiveherselfonedotofthe
HardyMerit(p.XX)forthenext24hours.ThiscanexceedthenormallimitationofHardy,
raisingittoapotentialfivedotsoryourcharactersWyrd,whicheverisgreater.

Levinquick
Yourdaughterisinthatcar,butIcangetherback.Inthistraffic,IcaneasilycatchthemandI'll
havehersafebeforethekidnappersnoticeshe'sgone.
TheGentrycreatelevinquickbytransformingachangeling'sbodyintolivingelectricityorbinding
lightingintoherflesh.SomeKeepersdwellinrealmsthatareeternallyfilledwithwildelectrical
stormsorwherelightningflowsacrossthegroundlikejaggedrivers.Otherssought
messengers,livingdecorations,orperformersmadefromarcingcurrent.BeforetheirDurance,
somelevinquickwerefascinatedbyelectricity,whileotherswerenervousorhighlyenergetic
individualswhowereinconstantmotion.RegardlessofwhyhisKeeperstransformedhim,a
levinquick'sbodyiscomposedmostlyorentirelyofelectricityandhebecomesaswiftinhuman
creature.Oncebackinthemortalworld,alevinquickusuallyhastroublewithbothpatienceand
stillness.

Darkling: Thecreature'shair,eyes,andclawsareallcomposedsolelyofelectricity,whilethe
restofitsbodyappearsgnarledandmenacing.

Elemental: Acreatureoflivinglightning,itsbodyappearstobemadeofpreciselycontrolled
electricarcs.

Ogre: Arcsofelectricitycontinuouslyrunalonghisbodyandanetworkoffinescarsarevisible
beneaththesearcs.
Blessing: Headds+1tohisInitiative,Defense,andSpeed.ForeachpointofGlamourhe
spends,theycanalsotripletheirSpeedandusetheirDefenseagainstfirearmsforoneturn.
SpendingadditionalGlamouraddsmoreturnsofthiseffectnotadditionalSpeed.

Lurker
You'veseenwhatIcando.PaymyfeeandI'llsneakintothepolicestationandremoveyour
phonefromtheevidencelocker.Ifyoulike,Icanevenreplaceitwithadifferentphone
containinglesstroublesomeemails.
Lurkerswerespecificallycreatedtobespies,sneaksandthieves.Gentryareoftenjealousof
eachother'spossessions,butalmostnonearewillingtoriskthemselvesattemptingtoacquire
them.Instead,Keeperslookforpettycriminals,stagemagicians,oreventeenswhohavehad
tolearntoavoidbeingnoticedandtransformthemintolurkers.

Beast:Thecolorandpatternsofherfeathersislikeajackdaw's,andherbirdclawhands
appearinhumanlydexterous.

Elemental:Aliving,looselyhumanoidshadowthatmovesinalmostcompletesilence.

Wizened: Extrafingersandjointshavebeengraftedontohishandsandwiresthathelpspeed
hisreactionsrunalongthesurfaceofhisarms.
Blessing: ShegainstheSleightofHandMerit(p.XX)andneversufferspenaltiestoLarceny
actionsforlackofpropertools.IfshespendsapointofGlamour,shecanaddherWyrdtoall
LarcenyandStealthrollsshemakesfortheremainderofthescene.

Maker
Icanhavethisdoneforyoulatertonight.Ifyouarewillingtowaituntiltomorrow,Icanthrowin
anobjectfileformakingitvia3dprinting.Thatway,ifyoueverneedanother,someonecan
printyouone.Icouldalsogetyousetupwitha3dprinterofyourownthey'rereallyalotof
funtoworkwith.
TheGentrycanstealandcopy,buttheycannotcreateanythingtrulyneworunique.However,
manydesirenewtoysandentertainmentsaboveallelse.Theycrafthumansintomakersso
theseindividualscanspendtheirdayscreatingtoysortrapstothwartrivalsandensnare
mortals.OthermakersspenttheirDurancemaintainingandrefashioningtheirKeeper'sexisting
toys.

Darkling:Thisgoblinlikechangelinghaslargeeyes,longslenderarms,andmorethana
dozenexceedinglylongfingers,eachofwhichhasfourormorejoints.

Elemental: Madeofmetalandtemperedglass,thechangelingappearstobeasculpturewith
beautifultoolsinsteadofhands,andnotatraceofwarm,weakflesh.

Fairest:
Thisbeautifullyhairlessandexceedinglyflexiblecreaturehasmorethanadozenlong
fourjointedfingers.
Blessing: TheMakergainsboththebenefitofthe8againruleandtheGoodTime
ManagementMerit(p.XX)onallComputer,Crafts,orSciencerollstodesign,build,modify,
repair,orunderstandanysortofdevice,mechanism,orsoftware.Inaddition,byspendingone
Glamour,hecanaddhisWyrdtoanysuchrollsduringthesamescene.

Manikin
Ifyouthinkyoucansneakpasttheguards,don'tworryaboutme.Oncewegetinthestoreroom,
yousetthefireandgetout.Whenthesmokebuildsup,I'llopenthedoorandfloodtheplace
withsmoke.Then,I'llgetthethreecaptivesoutintheconfusion,whileyouandJuliawait
outsidetotakecareoftheloyalists.
Keeperswhoeitherenjoyedplayingwithlivingdollsorwhoserealmshadnoplaceforliving
fleshandbloodtransformedmanikinsfromhumansintoartificialconstructs.Amanikin'snew
formismerelyanimitationofhumanity,butitalsolackmosthumanfrailties.

Fairest:Acreationofmetal,jewels,andperfectlycraftedjoints,thishumanoidfigureis
stunningandelegant.

Ogre: Thisterrifyingcreationisroughlyhumanoidandexceedinglyfunctional.Withinthelimits
ofthehumanoidform,littlecarewastakentomakeitappearbeautifulorevenparticularly
human.

Wizened: Althoughnotraceoffleshremains,it'sclearthatthisconstructofbrushed
aluminum,coloredwires,andadvancedcircuitswasmadebyreplacingportionsofahuman
bodyonepieceatatime.
Blessing: Sheadds+3toherStaminaforpurposesofresistingfatigue,hunger,thirst,orlackof
air.ByspendingapointofGlamour,themanikincanapplytherotequalitytoeitherasingle
physicalactionthatshehasactivelywatchedsomeoneelseperforminthelastsceneortoall
rollstoresistfatigue,hunger,thirst,orlackofairforthenextscene.

Metalflesh
No,reallyI'mfine.Thebeamjustgrazedme,althoughitdoeslooklikethefalldenteditabit.
Let'sgoremindthenewkidthatsafetystandardsarethereforareason.Noteveryoneisgoing
tobeasluckyasmewhensomeonedropsarolledsteelIbeamonthem.
SomeGentryusemetalfleshasguards,othersaslaborersorlivingart,butallofthemseekout
individualswhoarementallyandphysicaltough.TheirKeepersthenmakemetalfleshfar
tougher.Thesamedurabilitythatallowsmetalfleshtosurvivetheirtransformationoftenhelps
themescapefromArcadia.

Beast:Amonstrouscreaturewithbrassclawsandlargebronzescales.

Ogre:
Aroughlycarvedstatueoflivingbrass.

Wizened: Weldedandrivetedplatesofbronzefitaroundwhatwasonceahumanbody,but
whichmaynolongerexistbeneaththemetal.
Blessing: Hegains1/1armorandhisfistsandfeetareconsideredlethalweapons.By
spendingapointofGlamour,hisarmorbecomes4/4forthenextscene.

Minstrel
Aneeriecalmwashedovertheroomasthefirstfewcellonoteswashedoverthecrowd.Gentle
sighsofcontentmentfilledtheroomandallpreviousthoughtsofangeranddisappointment
werepushedoutoftheirheads,hermusicworkingitsmagic.
Musichasanabilitytoinvokeallkindsofemotionsfromjoyandhappinesstoangerand
sometimesfear.Songstellstoriesasmuchastheyentertain.Aminstrelslifewasdevotedto
musicboththeactofcreatingandperforming.Thechangelingmighthavebeencreatedasa
musicalinstrumentplayingsoftlyinthebackgroundduringeveningsinhermasterssalon.
AnothermighthavebeenforcedtocomposeandsingballadsrevolvingaroundtheGentry,each
newverseorlineforcedtoshowherinaglowinglight.

Beast:Thechangelinghastheplumageofasongbird,andhervoiceisclearandsweet.

Fairest:
Heishumanoidbuthasasingingvoicethatcouldrivalthemosttalentedopera
singers.

Wizened: Thechangelinglookslikepiecesofaninstrumentputtogetherandanimated.She
hasamixofwoodenandbrassmakingupherbodyandguitarstringsashair.
Blessing:ThechangelingcanneverfailonanExpressionroll.Shegainsoneautomatic
successonanyExpressionrolls.WhenusingExpressioninanattempttoharvestGlamour,she
achievesexceptionalsuccessonthreesuccessesinsteadoffive.
Mirrorskin
Officer,I'msogladtoseeyou,buthowdidyougetinhere?IjustcalledthepolicestationafterI
lockedtheburglarinthisroom.Wait,whereisshe?
Sir,thedoorwasopenwhenIgothere,shemusthaveescaped,Ishouldcheckoutsideforher.
Foryoursafety,Ineedtoaskyoutowaithere.
MirrorskinsarepremierdisguiseartistsandGentrymakefulluseofthisability.SomeKeepers
usemirrorskinsasspiesandinfiltrators,butatleastasmanyusethemforentertainment,
includingafewKeeperswhoonlyhaveasinglechangelingwhotheyordertotakeonthe
appearanceofdozensofdifferentindividuals,providingthemwiththeillusionofavastretinue.
MostmirrorskinswerenaturalmimicsbeforetheirDurance.Somewereactorsotherconartists
butallhadatleastsomeunderstandingofsteppingintoanother'sskin.

Darkling: Whennotdisguised,thechangelinglookspartiallyformed,withinhumanlyindistinct
featuresandpalegreyskin.

Fairest:Whennotdisguised,hisappearancebecomesagenerallyattractivemeldingofthe
featuresofeveryonearoundhim.Ifheiswithasingleperson,heappearspleasantlysimilarto
thatperson.

Ogre:Sheappearstohavebeenroughlysculptedfromwetclaythathasnotyetfullydried.
Blessing: Amirrorskinneversufferspenaltiesforlackofproperequipmentwhenmaking
disguiserollsandgainthe8againqualitytotheserolls.IfshespendsapointofGlamour,she
canmakeadisguiserollasareflexiveaction.AllofthesedisguisesaffectbothherMaskand
herMein,asthechangeisbothphysicalandsupernatural.Thismeansacharacterthatcan
piercesupernaturaldisguiseabilitieswillstillseethemirrorskinasphysicallychanged.

Moonborn
Lunacyisnotanafflictionsomuchasastate.Thinkofitlikewaterinabottlethathastoomuch
pressure,itscoldenoughtofreeze,butitdoesnthavethespacetoexpand.Openthatbottle
up,orevenmixthemoleculesandyouinitiatethechange.Potentialmyfriend,everyonehas
thepotentialforlunacy,youjustneedtoknowhowtomixthemoleculesproperly.
Themoonbornshiftmoodandpersonalitywiththewaxingandwaningofthemoon.Sheisoften
describedasmadduetothesecyclicmoodsandtheerraticbehaviorthataccompaniesthem.
Themoonborniscraftedofthemoon,setintotheskytomimicthenightfortheGentry.Her
Durancewassimple,yetnotatallpeaceful,asshewasforcedtoactoutsceneswitnessedby
thenightskyforherficklemaster.

Darkling: Thechangelingsskinappearspaleandtranslucent,likethecolorofthemoon.

Elemental: Moonlightexudesfromthecharacter,makingithardtodistinguishwhereshe
beingsandwherethelightends.

Fairest:Thechangelingissurroundedbymoonbeamsthatglistenandtricktheeye.
Blessing: Onceperday(24hours)themoonborncantouchanotherpersonandinflictherwith
theLunacyCondition(seep.XX).Ifthepersonheistouchingdoesnotwantthecontact,he
mustsucceedonatouchattacktoaffecthisvictim.ThisConditionlastsforasinglelunarcycle,
oruntilresolved.
Muse
Ithinkthatsafantasticidea.Youshoulddefinitelymakethatmixtape.Yourdayjobcanwait.
EventheomnipotentTrueFaeoccasionallylosetheirinspiration.Theirbizarrerealmsgofallow
andtheirnonsensicallaborslieunfinished.UntilthechangelingsthatbecomeMusesprovide
themwithinspiration,drawnoutbyhotkissesorcoldbladesifneedbe.

Elemental: Luminousfleshofcoalescentcreativepotential,stretchedlikecanvasoveraframe
builtfromcrystallizedinspiration.

Fairest:Abodybeggingtobesculpted,avoicethatsparkssymphonies,movementmeantto
becapturedindance,andeyesthatbringobsession.

Wizened: Paperywingsthatdropcurlsofparchment,silversharppennibfingertips,anda
smokybreaththatreeksofgenius.
Blessing: AddyourcharactersWyrdtoanyrollmadetouncover,embed,orchange
someonesgoals.WhenengaginginSocialManeuvering,removetwoDoorsratherthanoneif
presentingaclearpathastohowhellhelpthesubjectreachanAspiration.Spendapointof
Glamourtoforceamortalintofocusingononeoftheirdreams.RollPresence+Wyrdroll,with
thesubjectsResolveasapenaltyiftheyareresistant.Ifsuccessful,thesubjectgainsthe
Obsessed Condition(p.XX)relatedtoanAspirationofthesubjectschoice.OnanExceptional
success,themusenotonlyknowsthesubjectsAspirations,butchooseswhichthetarget
obsesseson.

Nightsinger
Yousir,intheback,Ibelieveyouyelled"rapsucks".Ididn'tcomeheretoperformvapidpop
musicandtonightisanopenmikenight.I'mgoingtobeuphereforthenext10minutes,
whetheryoulikeitornot.However,inhonorofyouI'llchangeupmystyleabitandplay
somethingthatmayteachyouathingortwo,ifitdoesn'tsendyourunningscreaming.
SomenightsingersspenttheirDuranceplayingfrightfulmelodiesinhauntedrealms.Others
accompaniedbandsofwarriors,usingtheirmusictodistract,weaken,orensorcelenemies.
BeforetheirDurance,nightsingerslovedmusic,andmostpreferreddisturbingsongsabout
despairorhappypopsongsaboutmassmurder.

Beast:Heresemblesahumanoidsongbird,butthecolorofhisfeathersisblackandhiseyes
arebloodred.

Darkling: Thisgoblinlikebeingappearscruelandattenuated,butherhandsarestrongand
cleverandhervoicebeautiful.

Fairest:Withhisstrongarms,exquisitevoiceandlongfingershe'salivingarchetypesofwhat
anattractivemusicianshouldlooklike,exceptforhisblackfeaturelesseyesandpointedteeth.
Blessing: Anightsingercanplaypowerfulhauntingmelodies.Hegainsthe8againqualitytoall
rollstoperformmusic.IfhespendsapointofGlamour,hecandrawlisteners'darkerfeelingto
thesurface.ThenightsingermakesaWits+Expressionroll,Resistedbylisteners'Composure.
Ifthenightsingerwins,hecanimposetheDeprived,Guilty,orShakenConditiononlisteners,or
otherConditionswithStorytellerdiscretion.Listenerscanonlybeaffectedbyoneofthese
Conditionsfromasinglenightsingeratatime.
Nix
Isn'tthatthemostamazingsunsetyou'veseeninyears?Let'sgooutsidetogetabetterlook.
There'snoone'saround,sotherewon'tbeaproblemifyouleaveyourcheckpointforaminute
ortwo,andtheviewissomuchbetteroutthere.
NixesareamphibiouscreaturescreatedbyGentrywholivedinaquaticrealms.Mostwere
forcedtodwellonsmallislandsorseashores,wheretheirKeepersorderedthemtolure
intruderstotheirdoomortotrapvisitorswithriddlesorbindingpromises.MostoftheirKeepers
livedinelaborateunderwatersplendorwhichtheirnixesrarelysaw,withtheexceptionofafew
nixesthattheirKeepersusedasstorytellers.BeforetheirDurance,themajorityofnixeswere
unassumingpeoplewhowerenotobviouslycharismatic,butweregiftedstorytellersorsales
people.

Darkling: Withtheeyesandscalesoffishandabeaklikeasquid,thiscreatureappears
strangeandsomewhatmenacing.

Elemental: Avaguelyfishlikehumanoidmadefromcloudy,opalescentwater

Ogre: Shehasthelongsharpteethofdeepseafish,aswellaspatchesofscalesonherhide.
Blessing: Anixcanbreathewateraseasilyasairandadds+2toallswimmingrolls.Ifshe
spendsapointofGlamourandspeaks,sheaddsherWyrdtoallPersuasionorvocal
ExpressionrollsforthesceneandlistenerssubtractthenixsWyrdfromallWits+Composure
rollstonoticeanythingexceptthechangeling.

Oni
Someoneheredoesntfitin.You!Youretheraisednail.
TheTrueFaearesticklersforrulesandetiquette.Fairytalesarefullofexamples,withthepoor
mortalswhobreaktheserules,knowinglyornot,puttosleepforacentury,turnedintotrees,or
worse.ButeveninArcadia,theGentryhaveneedofmakingsuretheirarbitraryandever
changingdecreesarefollowed.Thechangelingsthatbecomeoniaretheirenforcers.Through
rigoroustrainingandfrequentpunishmenttheylearnedtorootoutthosethatdidntfitin.

Beast:Curvinghorns,sharpfangs,theworstqualitiesoftigerandoxrolledintoonenasty
package.

Darkling:Robesthecolorofthunderclouds,ahoppinggait,andaheadthatrotatesinall
directions.

Ogre:Brightredorblueskin,ananimalskinloincloth,multipleeyes,andavoicelikea
thunderclap.
Blessing: TheonicaneasilyspotthosewhodontbelongandaddstheirWyrddotstoanyrolls
madetofindaspecificpersonamongacrowd.Healsoknowshowtoblendin,addinghisWyrd
toanyrollsmadetointeractorblendinwithgroupsbasedonidentity.SpendapointofGlamour
asareflexiveactiontoblanketanareaofuptoacityblockinhowlingwinds,drivingrain,and
deafeningthunder.Foroneturntheaffectedareabecomesanextremeenvironment(p.XX)
withalevelequaltohisWyrd.AdditionalturnsrequireadditionalGlamour.
Oracle
Unlesswedosomethingtostopthem,ateamofHuntsmenwillinfiltratetheKingoftheWest's
ascensionceremonyandtrytokidnaphim.Icanfindoutmorelater,butthataloneshouldbe
sufficienttoperhapsallowustopreventthisdisaster.
Oraclesarechangelingswhohavebecomeslightlyunstuckintime.TheirKeepersfindhumans
whoareluckyorwhohaveatalentforprophecyandenhancethisabilitysothattheOraclescan
providethemwithinformationaboutthefuture.SomeaccompanytheirKeepersasliving
warningsystems,whileotherspendtheirtimelockedawayandonlytakenouttodispense
propheciestotheirKeeperandherallies.

Beast: Thisravenlikecreaturehaslargeeyesfilledwithshiftingcolors.

Elemental: Acreaturemadefromlivingclockwork,withaclockdialforaface.

Wizened: Hehasathird,obviouslyinhumanorartificialeyeinthemiddleofhisforehead.
Blessing: Thecharacterregularlycatchesglimpsesofthenextsecondortwo.Hegains+5to
Initiative,+1toDefense,andgainsonefreesuccessonanyrollstodetectambushes(seep.
XX).IfhespendsapointofGlamour,hecanlookfurtherintothefutureandcanaskyesorno
questionsaboutthemostlikelyfutureofasingleperson,place,orobject,suchaswhethera
murderwilloccurinalocationintheday.Insecret,theStorytellerrollsthecharactersWits+
Occult.Foreachsuccess,shemustansweraquestioncorrectly.Shedoesnottelltheplayer
whenhersuccesseshaverunout.Theplayercanonlyaskaboutthefutureofasingletarget
onceperday.

Palewraith
No,youmissedmeagain.Youreyesareplayingtricksonyouthatcanhappenwhenyoustay
outtoolateandwandertoofarfromtherichneighborhoodswiththeirbrightstreetlights.Put
awaythatgun,it'snotdoingyouanygood.Ifyougivemethatpackage,I'llletyouleave.
Somepeoplenaturallyfadeintothebackground.Gentrywhoneedspiesorwishunseen
servantswhowillnotdisturbtheirelaboraterevelstransformtheseindividualsintopalewraiths.
Althoughlightdoesnotharmher,apalewraithisanocturnalcreatureofwhoismost
comfortableindimandshadowyenvironments.Sheisuncomfortablebeingthecenterof
attention.Evenifsheisnotshyorsociallyawkward,shehaslittleinterestinfame.Instead,she
findsiteasiertowatchfromtheshadows,asshedidinArcadia.

Beast:Acreaturewiththehugereflectiveeyesandtransparentskinofadeepseafish.

Elemental: Alivingstatueoftransparent,almostcolorlessglass.

Wizened: Clearlyartificialtransparentplasticskinstretchedoveroddlypaleorgansand
muscles.
Blessing: Indimlight,fog,orotherconditionswherecharacterssufferatleasta1penaltyto
rollsinvolvingvision,apalewraithonlyrequire3successes(insteadof5)toachievean
ExceptionalSuccessonanyStealthroll.IfshespendsapointofGlamourinthesesamelow
lightconditions,sheincreasesherDefenseby+2,andcanuseherDefenseagainstfirearms.
Theseeffectslastuntilsheentersawelllitarea,ortheendofthescene.
Playmate
Iwouldntcallhimselflessoraltruistic.Sure,hestheretohelp,buthegetsacertainsatisfaction
outofbeingtheonetoalwayshelp,theonetoalwaysmakethedifferencebetweensuccess
andfailure.Dontthinkhesdoingitforyou,becausehesnot,hedoesnthelpunlesshealso
hassomethingtogainfromyoursuccess.
Theconceptoffriendship,boredom,andentertainmentarecompletelylostontheTrueFae.
Onemayfeeltheseemotionsonsomebasiclevel,butneverforlong.IfeveraGentrydesiresa
companion,shesimplymakesone,andifevershegetsboredofsaidcompanion,shecastshim
aside.Aplaymatelivessuchalife,createdtofulfilladesireforbaseentertainmentforashort
time,forcedtointeractwithhismasteruntilshegrewbored.

Fairest:
Sheismadeoffineporcelain,herhairissilkenandhernailsandeyeslooklike
paintedglass.

Ogre:Thechangelingisbigandgreen,likeanoversizedarmyfigure.

Wizened: Heismadeupofpartsoftoydolls.Hisskinismadeofplasticandhishairiswoven
yarn.
Blessing: Theplaymatehasanabilitytoworkwellwithothers,despiteherdifferences.
Wheneverworkinginateam(seep.XX),sheaddsherWyrdtoalldicepools,whetherasa
supportingorprimaryactor.Additionally,ifshespendsapointofWillpower,shecanremovethe
penaltyforasupportingactorsfailure.

Polychromatic
Everycoloroftherainbow,everyemotionknowntoman.Lookingatoneofthemisalmost
painful,helloscillatesofast,itshardtotellwhathemightbethinking,itsevenhardertopredict
wherehellendup.
Generallyeasygoingandusuallysedate,thepolychromaticisviewedasenigmaticmemberof
changelingsociety.Heismarkedwithvibrantcolorsoftherainbowthatshiftsandchangeswith
hismood.Thepolychromaticwascreatedforthesolepurposeofdecoratingthehomeofhis
Gentrymaster.Hewasasculptureofrichcolorsthatchangeswithhismood.Hismasterwould
incite,cajole,tempt,andtaunthimtoelicitacolorresponsetogowiththedcor,orwhatever
elseshemightwantatthemoment.

Elemental: Thechangelingisacaricatureofherelementpaintedinbrightprimarycolors.

Fairest:Heisastunningrainbowofcolor.Hisskin,hairandeyestakingonthehueofhis
emotion,sometimesscintillatingcolorsacrosshisbodyintimesofturmoil.

Wizened: Eachdistinctpartofherbodyisaseparatecoloroftherainbow,alwaysfollowing
neatanddistinctlinesregardlessofthefactthatthecolorschangeataseemingwhim.
Blessing: Apolychromatichassteeledhimselfagainsthistorments,allowinghimtoaddhis
WyrdasabonusonallResolveandComposurerollstoresistemotionalmanipulationofany
kind.Thisbonusalsoappliestorollstoresistimpulsesorunwantedreactions.Thisappliesto
anysupernaturalabilitiesthatwouldcausetheseeffectsaswell.
Razorhand
Youmademeyougavememyshinyclawsandforcedmetokill.Nowthesesameclawsare
goingtotasteyourperfectblood.
AKeepercreatesarazorhandtobeakiller.SomeGentrywantedabodyguardwhocould
swiftlydispatchanythreat,othersdesiredanassassinabletoslayhisvictimswithasingleblow
butallwishedtocreateexceptionallydeadlychangelings.TheirKeepermadethechangeling's
bodyintoalivingweapon.Whilesomeembracepacifismaftertheirescape,inArcadia,their
Keepersforcedrazorhandstomurderdozensofchangelingsandtoalsoeliminatetheir
enemiesamongtheGentry.RegardlessoftheirSeeming,allrazorhandslookdeadlyandhave
blades,claws,orperhapsshardsofcrimsonglassattachedtotheirhandsorfingers.

Beast: Asleekandpredatorycarnivorewithshortfur,sharpfangs,andexceptionallylong
claws.

Darkling: Asharpfacedfurtivelookingindividualwithpointedteeth,exaggeratedfeatures,
andlongfingers.Eachhandhasasixthfingernormallykeptfoldedagainstthepalm.Thisfinger
isashiningbladeofpalebone.

Ogre: Astronganddeadlylookingbrutewithalargespursofsharpenedbonealongthe
edgesofeachofherhands.
Blessing: HernaturalweapondoesWyrd/2damage.Thiscauseslethaldamage,evento
creatureswhichnormallytakebashingdamagefromlethalwounds(likevampires).Ifshe
spendsapointofGlamour,arazorhandcanalsocausehernextsuccessfulattackwiththis
weapontoautomaticallyinflictoneofthefollowingTilts:ArmWrack,Blinded,Deafened,orLeg
Wrack.

Render
OnetimeIsawhercutthroughasteeldoorlikeitwaswarmbutter,withjustherhands.This
stuffwasntaluminumlikeyouseeonhouseseither,itwasthathighgrademilitarystuff.
Arenderiscapableofrippingatreeapartwithherbarehands,orjustaseasilypullingdowna
buildingorshatteringaretainingwall.Sheisnotjustbrutestrength,butemployswickedtalons
toaidherinherdestruction.Therenderiscreatedtodestroy,usuallybyGentrywhocantbe
botheredtocreateactualdevicessuchasawreckingballorbatteringram.Shefunctionsasa
dispensableshocktroopandwasrarelyexpectedtosurvivefirstcontactwithamission,andif
shedid,shehadtherewardofbeingemployedinnewanddangerousways.

Beast:Shelookslikealargegorillawithoverlydevelopedmusculararmsandlegsandlong
sharpnailsprotrudingfromherfingers.

Elemental: Thechangelingismadeofstonewithlargemetalbladesattheendsofherfingers.

Ogre:Thechangelinglookslikeanormalhuman,butherarmsarelargeandmuscularwith
longsharptalonsattheendsofherfingers.
Blessing: RendercharactersgaintheTouchoftheWorkmansWrathContractforfree,andshe
gainsthe8againqualitywhenrollingfortheContractsactivation.Also,sheignoresarmorin
anyunarmedorWeaponryattacksshemakes.
Riddleseeker
Youseekanswers?Dontweall?Mylifeisaconundrum,andIhaveyettofindananswer.Do
youthinkyoucansolvemyriddle?Iamlost,yetIcannotbefound.Iamtruth,butmyexistence
isalie.IamnothumanandIamnotother.WhoamI?
Otherchangelingsmayfindithardtorelatetoariddleseeker,findingherconstantlyprobingand
logicalpersonalitysomewhatcoldanddistant.Forariddleseeker,everythinghasalogical
explanation,everythingcanbedissectedandanalyzed,andeverythinghasasolution.The
riddleseekerswascreatedtomake,solve,orevenbeapartofpuzzlesforherTrueFaecaptor,
forcedtoconstantlypitherwitsagainstotherchangelingsortheirmasters.

Beast: Shehastheformofabeastknownforitsintelligence,maybeasnake,anowl,orafox.

Darkling: Heisformedfromariddle,maybeheisdarkness,andmaybeheislight,ormaybe
heissimplyaman,butwhateverformhetakes,heisthetrueanswertoariddle.

Wizened: Thechangelingismadeupofinterlockingpartsofapuzzle,herpiecesabletomove
orshiftatwill.
Blessing: AriddleseekergainsadotofWitswhichcanbringherabovehernormallimitbased
onherWyrd.Additionally,shegainsafreeSpecializationinInvestigationforRiddles,and
achievesexceptionalsuccessonthreesuccessesinsteadoffivewhenusingthatSpecialty.

Roteater
Nocluewhatthatismoldscovereduptheexpirationdate.Looksfinethough.Imeanitsstill
mostlysolid,right?
AlthoughtheGentryareimmortal,theirservants,slaves,andretainersarenot.Arcadiaknows
itsshareofbloodshedandviolence,andthechangelingswhobecameroteaterswereforcedto
disposeoftheresultingcorpses.Somewerechainedandkenneled,fedthescrapsandoffcuts
offailedsurgeries.OthersfollowedinthewakeofFaerieHuntingHosts,pickingoverwhatever
tattersoffleshremained.

Beast:Bonecrunchingjawsatopapowerfullycordedneck,astenchlikerottingmeat,and
deftfingersforpickingthroughrefuse.

Darkling: Glitteringbeetleshellsandflywings,patchesofpalefungiandmassesofwormsin
abodylikeclumpedsoil.

Wizened: Agutlikeacastironstove,flamesvisiblethroughgratelikeribs,internalfires
burningupanythingswallowed.
Blessing: TheroteatercangofordaysequaltoherWyrdwithoutfoodorwaterbefore
beginningtosufferdeprivation.Shesuffersnoilleffectsfromeatingfoodregardlessofits
condition,andcangetalongjustfineonweekoldcarrionorevenworse.ReducetheToxicity
ratingofanyingesteddrug,poison,ordiseasebyherWyrd.SpendapointofGlamourtoforage
asaninstantactioninsteadofanextendedactionasusual.AddadottoherStaminathiscan
gobeyondhernormallimits.
Runnerswift
Atthesoundofhisfootstepsgettingcloser,shedecidednottochanceitandtoinsteadrun.In
onebigleapingbound,shewasoutthedoorandacrossthestreet,easilyoutpacingher
pursuer.
ThehuntisjustasimportantasthekilltomanyGentry.Theycreatecreaturestooutrunthe
hunter,makingthehuntthatmuchmoreenjoyable.Arunnerswiftiscreatedasprey,constantly
infearofthebayingofthehoundsandcallofthehuntinghorn.WhilesuchaDurancecould
createfearfulandtimidchangelings,therunnerswiftisanythingbut.Emboldenedbyhis
constantfightforsurvivalandpittinghiswitsagainstthoseofthehunter,therunnerswifttends
tobeoutspokenandengaging,embracingdangeronhisownterms.

Beast:Thechangelingembodiesaswiftanimal,possiblyanantelopeorarabbit.

Elemental: Acreaturecomposedofmovingairorstreamingwater,rushingaboutatalltimes.

Wizened: Thechangelingappearsasanamalgamationofclockworkgearsandwheels
designedtomovefast,butisexceedinglyfragile.
Blessing: Thechangelingaddstwo,plusherWyrdtoherbaseSpeedthisisdoubledas
normalwhenthecharacterisrunning.Forexample,acharacterwithSpeed10whobecomesa
Wyrd4runnerswiftwouldhaveSpeed16,or32running.Additionally,anyoneattemptingto
trackorfollowthecharactersuffersherWyrdasapenaltytoalldicerollsinvolvedintheaction.

Sandharrowed
AssoonasI'mdonedrillingthisholeinthewall,I'min.Then,I'llgoaroundandopenthedoor
foryou.Don'tworryaboutguardsthey'llhaveahardtimedoinganythingtome.
SomeGentrycreatedsandharrowedtobespiesorguards,otherswantedstrangelivingart,but
allofthemsoughttoremakehumansintoparticularlystrangeandalienforms.InArcadia,some
ofthesechangelingsspenttheirexistenceaslivingsandstormsthatnevertooksolidformand
otherswereanimatesanddunesthatlayinwaitoutsidetheirKeeper'spalace,readytoengulf
intruders.

Fairest:Fromadistance,heappearstobeanordinarylookingpersonwithoddlyreflective
skin,butcloseobservationrevealshisfleshismadefrommillionsoftinycrystalsandshining
motesofdust.

Ogre: Abrutishfigurethatappearstohavebeenroughlycarvedfromsandstone.

Wizened: Acreaturemadeofshiftingsandstabilizedbynarrowglowingmetalandglass
bandsatitsmajorjoints.
Blessing: Hegains+2toallgrapplingrolls.IfhespendsoneGlamour,hecanbrieflybecome
lesssolid,slippingthroughanyopeninghecanfitthetipofhisfingerthough,oradding+2tohis
DefenseandusinghisDefenseagainstfirearms.EachpointofGlamourallowshimtobecome
lesssolidforoneturn.Whilelesssolid,hecannotuseweaponsortoolsandcannotperformany
physicalactionsexceptgrapplingormovement(orotherappropriateactions,atStoryteller
discretion)
Skitterskulk
WegotthecreepcorneredinthealleyaroundHowthehelldidhegetupthere?Youtelling
mehesomehowclimbedthatwall?
TheWildHuntsarealwaysinneedoffreshquarryandmanyLostspenttheirDurancetryingto
stayonestepaheadofterrible,inhumantrackers.Thosechangelingswhousedtheerratic,
alienterraintotheiradvantageweremadeintoskitterskulks.Scalingmountainsofjagged
crystalshards,crawlingthroughthicketsoftwistedplastictubing,scramblinguptowersof
gnarledrustedgirders,thesechangelingsforcedthemselvestonavigateobstaclesandhazards
eventheTrueFaeavoid.

Beast:Glitteringmultifacetedeyes,fingersthatbendintoomanyplaces,andfleshthathas
edgesatthejoints.

Fairest:Aframethatsalluringinitsgauntness,constantinjitterymotionthathintsatbarely
containednervousenergy.

Wizened: Shriveledlimbsbarelyvisiblebeneathaskirtcomposedofmillionsofspindlysilver
legs.
Blessing: TheskitterskulktriplesherDefensewhendodging(insteadofdoublingit),andadds
herWyrdtoanyreflexiveWits+Composurerollstoavoidbeingambushed.Shesuffersno
environmentalpenaltiesfromAthleticsrollsshecanclimbanysurface,nomatterhowsheer.

Skogsra
Doyounoticehowallofthosecrowsarelookingrightatyou,asisthatcoyoteoftoyourleft?
They'rewithme.Putawayyourgunormycrowswilleatyoureyesandthecoyoteandher
friendswillfinishyouoff.
Gentrycreatedskogsratodwellinwildernessareas,wheretheyservedasgamewardens,
scouts,sentries,orespeciallycleverpreyforGentryhunters.Gentrymakepeopleintoskogsra
byaddingelementsofwildernesscreatures.InArcadia,skogsraweresimultaneouslyservants
andwild,untamedcreatureswhowereoftendifficulttocontrol.BeforetheirDurance,many
skogsrarebelledagainstrulesandconventionalexpectations.

Beast:Awild,shaggycreaturewithhornsorantlersandlongunkemptfur

Fairest:
Anattractiveindividualwithseveralsubtleinhumantraitsliketheeyes,tail,orfeetof
awildanimal.

Ogre:Fromthefront,shelookslikesomeoneusedtolivingoutdoors,butotherwisenormal.
However,herbackishollowandlooksliketheinteriorofarottingtree.
Blessing: Askogsragainsthe8againqualitytoallStealthandSurvivalrolls.Inaddition,ifhe
spendsapointofGlamour,forthenextscenehecancommunicatewithanywildorferal
animals,andgivethemsimplecommandsthattheywillobey,unlessthecommandisobviously
suicidalortheanimalisalreadyundersupernaturalcontrol.Ifundersupernaturalcontrol,usea
ClashofWills(seep.XX)withtheskogsrasPresence+Wyrd.
Slewfoot
Itssimple,really.Iftheybothproduceafewnotesthatareflat,whilewalkingonthreelegsin
theevening,thenweshouldask this that
guardianwhat guardianwouldsayaboutwheretheir
owndoorleads.
EntertainmentinArcadiaisntallFaeriemasqueradeballsandWildHunts.Riddlegamesand
logicpuzzlesarepopularaswell,butinthenonsensicalworldoftheTrueFae,logicisas
changeableastheweather.ChangelingswhobecameSlewfeetamusedtheirKeeperby
answeringquixoticconundrumsandillogicalenigmas.Constantlyforcedtothinkoutsidethe
box,theywereconditionedtoinstantaneouslyunravelmetaphoricalandallegoricallanguage
andidentifypatternsinrandomelements.Thosethatdidntwererebuildandrewireduntilthey
performedtoexactingstandards.

Fairest:AFaerieknightingleamingplatinumarmor,bloodtricklingfromemptysocketsabove
perfectlychiseledcheekbones.

Ogre:ARomanesquefaceatopaleoninebody,shoulderscappedbyvestigialwings,and
talontippedscaledhands.

Wizened: Ashrunken,angularfigurewithconstantlytwitchingfingers,andtheanswersto
everythingwritteninminutescriptaroundtheiririses.
Blessing: ThecharactergainsthreedotsintheProfessionalTrainingMerit(p.XX)forthe
DetectiveProfession.SpendapointofGlamourwhenusingInvestigationtosolveamental
puzzleorexamineasceneforcluesasaninstantactioninsteadofanextendedaction.She
sufferspenaltiesiflackingpropertoolsandmaterialsasusual,butanysuccessfulrollis
consideredtohavesuccessesequaltothoserolled,orherWyrd,whicheverisgreater.

Smith
Iknowitlooksbad,butthere'sreallynotmuchwrongwithit.I'llhaveyourdeliveryvanworking
inacoupleofminutesyou'lldefinitelybeabletodeliverallthoseholidaymealsontime.
TheGentrycreatesmithstowork.ManyspenttheirentireDurancewithinadozenmetersof
theirforges.SomeGentrylookforpeoplewhoenjoymakingthingsandworkingwiththeirhands
andfashionthesepeopleintosmithswhoexisttocreateforbeingsdevoidofcreativity.Some
smithsspendtheirDuranceforgingweaponsandarmor,otherscreateexoticwonderslike
wingsthatallowthewearertoflyorchariotsthatcantravelacrossanyterrain,includingwater,
orevenclouds.

Fairest:Thisstrongandmuscularchangelinghasclearlybeenshapedbyhercraft,butin
waysthatmakeherappearbothpowerfulandwise.Herbronzefingernailsandshiningmetal
hairgivefurtherevidenceofherpast.

Ogre:Hisfleshbearsmarksthatmakeitappeartohavebeenforgedandhammeredinto
shape,andhishairispermanentlysingedandsmellsofsmokeandmetal.

Wizened: Herpowerfulcordedmusclesandstronghandsareaugmentedbymetalcables
runningalongherarmsandtoolsreplacesomeofherfingers.
Blessing: Hegains+3toallCraftrollsbuildingwithorrepairingobjects.Thisdoesnotapplyto
pureartobjectstheobjectmusthaveapracticalfunction.ByspendingapointofGlamour,he
canrepair,modify,orsabotageanyobjectwithinhumanspeed.Iftherepairoralterationwould
requireanextendedaction,hemakesrollsontheextendedtaskonceaturn.

Snowskin
Hegavethemananimpassivelook.Thoughhestoodagoodthreeinchesshorter,heheld
himselfwithanairofauthority.Idleavenowbeforethingsgetroughforyouhere.Thepower
ofcoldassuranceresonatedwithinhiswords,andthemanturnedandnearlyranoutofthe
building.
Withpallidskinandanauraofcoldthatseemstofollowhereverywhere,asnowskinfindsit
hardtorelatewithotherchangelings.Whileasnowskinisadeptatprojectingacooland
uncaringmaskwhennecessary,shestillhasenoughhumanitytofeelallmannerofemotions.A
snowskinsismadeoficeorsnow,craftedtoservewithinthecoldestplacesinArcadia.Shewas
aservantinanicepalaceinwhicheventhewarmthofhumanbreathmightdestabilizethe
structure.Shemighthavesimplybeenanicyornamentcreatedsimplytoserveanaesthetic
purpose.

Darkling:Herskinisdarkandcoveredinasheetofblackice,herhairandnailsarelong
icicles.

Elemental:Thechangelinglooksmostlyhumanoidwithpaleblueskinandfrostyblueeyes.

Fairest:
Sheismadeofglitteringice,translucentandbeautifulasitcatchesthelight.
Blessing: Asnowskinknowshowtomaskheremotionsandmakehervoicecarryachilling
terror.ShecanaddherWyrdtoSubterfugerollstohideherfeelings,andshegainsadotin
PresenceorManipulation(yourchoice)whichcanbringherabovehernormallimitbasedon
herWyrd.

Telluric
Thestarssuggestthatyourplanwillsucceed,butnoneoftheiranswersareeverperfectlyclear.
TheyalsosaythattheHuntsmanarecurrentlyoutsideofEli'sapartmentweneedtogetthere
now.
TheGentryunderstandthatwisdomcanbefoundinthestarsandaltersomehumanssothey
canmosteasilyaccessthisknowledge.BeforetheirDurancemostTelluricweredreamersand
mysticswholovedthenight.TheirKeepersusedmosttelluricsasseerswhoprovidedadvice
andspiedontheirenemies.

Beast:
Anowllikecreaturewithhugeeyesthatlooklikewindowsintoanightskyfilledwith
stars.

Elemental:Ahumanfigurewithskinlikeaperfectlycloudlessandmoonlessnightsky.Its
eyesarethetwobrighteststarsinitslivingfirmament.

Wizened:Itslargeeyeslooklikeswirlinggalaxiesandareobviousartificial,asarethethin
onyxplatesattachedtoitsskinwithshiningsilverrivets.
Blessing:Atelluriccanseethingsinthepatternsofthestarsthatothercannot.Onceanight
whengazingupatthesky,shecanusethe OmenSensitivity
Merit(p.XX)withnodrawback
andwithoutspendingWillpower.IfshespendsapointofGlamourandstaresupatthenightsky
 Clairvoyance
foratleastoneminute,shecanusethe Merit(seep.XX)withoutneedingto
spendWillpower.

Thusser
Noma'am,Ihaven'tseenyourdiamondbraceletanywhere.WhenI'mperformingIgettoo
caughtinthemusictonoticemuchofanything,butsurelyyouwouldhavefeltsomeonetakingit
offyourwrist.Iexpectitfelloff.Haveyoucheckedlostandfound?
TheGentrycreatemostthusserstoentertain,butothersusedthemtodistractfellowGentryand
theirretainers,enablingthemtospyorstealfromrivals.Theycreatethussersfrommortalswho
arepassionateaboutmusic.MostthussersweremusiciansbeforetheirDuranceandthevast
majorityretaintheirloveofmusicevenafteryearsofforcedperformances.

Darkling: Histwistedbodyandpointedteethareatoddswiththegraceofhishandsandthe
beautyofhisvoice.

Elemental: Sheismadeoutofpartsfromherfavoredinstrument,carvedandinlaidwithcare.

Ogre:Althoughhisbodyandlegsappearscarredanduneven,hishandsandmouthare
strongandperfectlyformed.
Blessing: Thechangelinggainsa+2bonustoallrollstoperformmusic.Byspendingapointof
Glamourandperformingmusic,hecanenthralllistenersbyrollingWits+Expressionvs.
Resolve+Wyrd.Enthralledlistenerssubtractthechangeling'sWyrdfromallrollstonoticetheir
surroundingsandsufferfromtheInsensateTilt(p.XX)foraslongasthecharacterplaysmusic.
Whileenthrallinganaudience,thechangelingcannotperformanyPhysicalactionsexcept
moving.Ifthechangelingmoves,enthralledvictimsattempttofollowhim.Otheractions,suchas
furtherinfluencinglistenerswithSocialactionsarepossiblewithStorytellerdiscretion.

Troll
Jokeaboutmyeveningwalksifyouwant.Youllnoticethisistheonlyblockwithoutnightly
breakins.
ThelandscapeoftheFaerierealmsarefullofunseendangershiddensnarestocatchthe
unwaryorfoolish.Thechangelingswhobecametrollswereforcedtoexertsomecontrolover
thesenaturalhazards.Madetoguardanarea,whetheratreasurechamber,dankswamp,or
theclassicfaerietalebridge,thechangelingturnsthelanditselfagainstintruders.

Beast:Clovenhooves,curlinghorns,andapeltthatlookslikeapileoflawnclippings.

Elemental:Adiminutivehumanoidcollectionoflichenspeckledbouldersandmosscovered
treestumps.

Ogre:Lumpystonelikeskin,abackcoveredintoadstools,andjaggedrockshardsinplaceof
teeth.
Blessing: FastTalking
Thetrollgainsthethreedotversionofthe Merit(p.XX).Spendapoint
ofGlamourandwalktheperimeterofanareatocreateatemporary SafePlace Merit(p.XX).
TheleveloftheMeritisequaltohalfthechangelingsWyrd(roundup)andtheeffectlastsfor
24hoursfromcreationoruntilsheleaves,whicheverislonger.Theareacanmanifesttrapsthat
causelethaldamagetointrudersasperSafePlace,butwithoutneedingtopossessCrafts.
Thesetakenoextratimetosetupastheeffectjustenhancespotentialdangersinthearea,but
alwayscauselethaldamageandoftenmisjudgewhocountsasanintruder.

Truefriend
Idon'tcarehowmanyweaponsormonstersyouhavewithyou,meandminearen'tgoingtolet
youtakeanyoneelse.Gohomeanddon'tcomebacktoanyplaceweclaim.
SomeGentrywishtoapetheexperienceofhavingabelovedcompanion,othersseekto
motivatetheirchangelingsbyprovidingthemwithsuchacompanion.TheseGentryfindpeople
whoareespeciallyloyalandcaringandtransformthemintotruefriends.WhilemanyGentrywho
keepthesechangelingsattempttotreatthemrelativelywell,somewerelaterdiscarded,and
otherscaredmoreforfreedomthancomfort.BothinArcadiaandbackinthehumanworld,
truefriendsseekcompanionstheycantrustandcareabout.

Beast: Ablendingofapersonwithapowerfulbutloyalseemingcatordog

Fairest:Hisunnaturallysmooth,somewhatexaggeratedfeaturesandbrightlycoloredcatlike
eyesmakesthischangelingappearsbothfierceandkind.

Ogre: Alargehulkingapelikebrutewhoseemslikeshecouldbeamonstroussidekickfrom
anadventurestoryforchildren.
Blessing: Ifaddressingasmallgroupofindividualsshegenuinelycaresabout,shecanusethe
InspiringMerit(p.XX)onthem.Characterssuccessfullyinspiredcanrecoverapointofspent
Willpoweronceperchapter.IfshetouchessuchapersonandspendsapointofGlamour,then
bothsheandthepersonshetouchedgaintheSteadfastCondition(p.XX).Truefriends
automaticallyresistallpowersthatattempttocoerceorforcethembetrayanyonetheycare
about.TheymayhaveanumberofsuchlovedonesastheyhaveWyrddots.

Tunnelgrub
Gettingthroughistheeasypart.ItsholdingmybreathuntilIpopoutofthetoiletontheother
endthatsgoingtobetricky.
Lockedawayfromthelightandwarmthofthesun,tunnelgrubswerethosechangelingswho
spenttheirdurancebeneaththesurfaceoftheearth.Slinkingalongthroughechoingcaverns,
silentcrypts,orslimysewertunnels,theypulled,pushed,andslidtheirbodiesthroughthedank
Arcadianunderground.Thevastweightofearthpressingdownonthemstretchedthemout,
crushedthemflat,andmadethemmalleableenoughtowriggleandsquirmthroughthetiniestof
spaces.

Darkling: Maggotpaleskin,blindwhiteeyes,andamouthringedwithvibrationsensitive
tentacles.

Ogre: Avastbulkofrubberyfleshthatbendsandcontorts,flowingthroughcrackslikeblack
ooze.

Wizened: Ashrunken,coaldustcoveredfigure,withlong,draggingarmsandgrasping
fingers.
Blessing: Thetunnelgrubcandeformhisbodyintrulygrotesquewaysbendingbonesand
poppingjointsoutofplaceatwill.HisWyrdappliesasapenaltytoallrollstoestablishor
maintainagrappleonhim.SpendapointofGlamourtoreducehiseffectiveSizebyhisWyrd
untiltheendofthesceneforpurposesofsqueezingthroughnarrowgapsortightspaces.As
well,increasehisDexteritybyonedotthiscanexceedhisnormalmaximum.

Venombite
IdbackoffrightnowifIwereyou,asshole.Believememybiteissomuchworsethanmybark.
Arcadiaisfullofnoxious,toxicsubstances,andvenombitesarechangelingswhowerealtered
bythosepoisons,becominglethalasaresultoftheirdurance.Somelivedinarealmwherethe
veryairwaspoisonous,orgainedtheirabilityfrombeingforcefedtoxicsubstances.Otherswere
groomedbytheirKeeperstobeguardiansorbodyguards,theirvenomousnaturewrittenlarge
ontheirfleshinbrightlycoloredbands.Stillotherswereassassins,poisonbarbedtongues
readytodartforthinafatalkiss.

Beast:Abrightbluemaw,vividredonyellowstripes,andjointscoveredwithchitinousplates.

Elemental: Jagged,crystallinegrowths,limbscoveredintriggerhairs,andacrownoffloating,
translucenttentacles.

Fairest:Adustingoffinescales,verticallysliteyes,andaneedlefangedsmile.
Blessing: Thechangelinggainsboththeoneandtwodotversionofthe Grappling
Fighting
StyleMerit(p.XX)withoutneedingtomeettheprerequisites.Theyalsogainabonustoall
IntimidationandgrapplingactionsequaltotheirWyrddots.SpendapointofGlamourtodeliver
avenomousbitewhenusingadamagemoveaspartofagrapple(seep.XX).Ifsuccessful,the
venombitecauseslethaldamageandinjectsthevictimwithvenomwithaToxicityratingequal
toherWyrd.

Waterborn
Itsnotsafetoplayaroundthewatersedge,kid.NexttimeImightnotbearoundtograbyou.It
mightbesomethingelse.
Pitchblackoceansthathaveneverknownlight.Broad,swiftriversthathavenoend.Wide,
placidlakescoveringgreenfieldsofwaterweeds.Faeriehasitsbodiesofwater,strangeand
fantasticliketherestofArcadia.Thechangelingsthatbecamewaterbornspenttheirdurancein
theseaquaticrealms,servingstrange,waterloggedKeepers.

Elemental: Bonesofdriftwoodandriverstones,thickbraidsofkelpslappingwetlyagainstsea
foamflesh.

Fairest:Adampskinnedseanymph,withquaveringoildropeyesandasealpelthungfrom
theirshoulders.

Ogre: Scalygreenskin,catfishwhiskers,andlong,webbedfingersforsnatchingchildrenwho
venturetooclosetotheriversedge.
Blessing: Thewaterborncanbreathefreelyunderwater,andmovesatherfullSpeedwhen
swimming.ShealsoaddsherWyrdtoallrollstoestablishagrapple,orusethechoke
maneuver(seep.XX).Shegainsthe Psychometry Merit(p.XX),treatinganybodyofwater(or
akilometerindiameterperdotofWyrdforbiggerbodiesofwater)asifitwereasingleitem.
SpendGlamourinsteadofWillpowertoactivateit.
Whisperwisp
Ohsweetie.Coveringyourmouthwontwork,youknow.ItsnotlikeImreadingthosepretty
pinklipsofyours.
TheGentryarealwaysspyingoneachothergatheringinformationandstoringitawayforlater.
Notidbitistoosmall,noconversationisunimportant,andnopieceofgossipisuseless.The
changelingswhobecamewhisperwispswerethespiesandundercoveragentsofArcadia,sent
outtoobserve,eavesdrop,andreportback.

Darkling: Aperfectlyordinaryappearance,exceptforearsandmouththatdisappear,instantly
reappearingondistantobjectstoeavesdrop.

Elemental: Abodyoflightlyfrostedglass,nearlytransparent,surroundedbyacloudofbarely
audiblesusurrations.

Wizened: Ametalcollarwrappedaroundmouthandears,suturedtotheflesh,andcovered
withreceiverdials,wavingantenna,andcracklingspeakers.
Blessing: Thechangelinggainstherotequalityonallrollsmadetogatherinformationthrough
conversation,andhasperfectrecallofallconversationsoverheard.Awhisperwhispcanhearat
greatdistancesshecanhearupwithperfectclarityuptoacityblockawayforeachdotofWyrd
shepossesses.ByspendingaGlamour,shecanmakesomeoneelseabletohearherwhispers
atthesamedistance.Focusingonspecific,lightsoundsinaloud,congestedspacemayrequire
aWits+Investigationroll.

Witchtooth
Youngman,ifyoudon'tstoptryingtobreakintothatshop,youwillsoonregretyouractions...
My,isn'tthataloudalarm...
Officer,theyoungmanran,orratherstumbledthatway,Idoubtyou'llhavemuchtrouble
catchinghim.
Gentryseekingtocreateawitchtoothtypicallyfindpeoplewhoarefilledwithangeratthe
injusticeoftheirlivesandaninterestintheoccult.MostoftheseGentryusethechangelingasa
toolagainsttheirrivals.OtherGentryamusethemselvesbyorderingthewitchtoothtocurse
otherchangelings.InArcadia,awitchtoothisfearedbyotherchangelingsandsometimesby
everyoneGentryexceptherKeeper.

Darkling: Apredatoryfigurethatresemblesastereotypicalevilwitch,withgreenskinanda
longhookednose.

Fairest:Abeautifulandterrifyingfigurewhowouldappearutterlygorgeous,exceptforafew
smallfeatureslikefeaturelessblackeyesorsubtlypointedteeth.

Ogre:Agnarledwitch,whohashorns,clovenhooves,birdfeet,orsomeotherobviousanimal
feature.
Blessing: HisOccultrollsallgainthebenefitofthe8againrule.Ifhelookssomeoneintheeye
orpointsatthemandcursestheminawaythatthetargetcanclearlyperceive,thewitchtooth
canusetheThiefofFateMerit(p.XX)onthatperson.SpendingapointofGlamourwhenhe
usesthe+4WillpowerbonusgainedfromusingThiefofFate,causesthisrolltobecomean
exceptionalsuccessifherolls3ormoresuccesses.
Woodblood
No,Idon'tneedaninterventionorpeoplefromsocialservicescomingouttobotherme.Ilivein
thisforestbecauseIfinditfarmorecomfortablethananyhouseI'veeverbeenin.I'min
excellenthealthandIgetconsiderablymoreexercisethanyoudo.Ilikeyouandwanttostay
friends,butnotifyourefusetorespectmychoices.
Gentrycreatewoodbloodsbytransformingachangelingintoananimatetree.Thechangeling
requiressunandsoilmuchlikehumansrequirefoodandisnowattunedtothelandandthe
seasonsinadeepandfundamentalfashion.BeforetheirDurance,manywoodbloodswereavid
gardenersorhikers.OnceinArcadia,theirKeeperstransformedthemintosentries,decorative
woodlands,orresidentsofdangerousforestsfilledwithdeadlyanimateplants.

Beast:Awoodcoveredmonstersomewhatlikeabarkcoveredgorilla.

Darkling: Abushlikecreaturewithlonglimbsandacrouchinggait.

Elemental: Avaguelyhumanoidtreewithafacemadefromknotholesintheupperpartofits
trunk.
Blessing: AWoodbloodgainsthe8againqualitytoallStealthandSurvivalrollswhileonsoilor
othernaturalsurfaces.Iftouchinganyvegetation,includinganyplantastallandwideassheis
orevenonalawnatleastaswideassheistallinbothdimensions,anyrolltofindhersuffers
herWyrdasapenalty.Additionally,shecannotsuffertheKnockedDownTiltwhilestandingon
dirtorvegetation.

Woodwalker
Hetoldmeoncethathecantstandanythingoverhisheadthatblocksoutthesky.Saysit
makeshimfeellost,likehecantfindhisway.Iveneverseenhimgetlost,noteventhattime
wewereinthethickestpartoftheHedge.Hejustlookedaroundandupattheskyandwentina
direction,anhourlaterandwewerebackonawellworntrod.
Thewoodwalkerisawildanduntamedthing.Lefttoherowndevices,sheprefersasolitarylife
surroundedbywoodedareas,yetshecanbeconvincedtoliveinmorepopulatedurbansprawls
aslongasshecanstayonthestreets.TheGentrycreatethewoodwalkertotendtothewildest
placesofArcadia.Shemighthavesimplytrodpathstokeepthemusable,orwasforcedtoforge
newpathsorcutthroughdangerousovergrowth.
Darkling:
Thechangelingisthecolorofanightdappledforest,camouflagedwithdarkgreys
andgreens.
Elemental:Herskinishardandcallousedwithawoodentexture.Sheiscoveredwith
creepingvineslikethickunderbrush.
Wizened:Thechangelingismadeupofdifferentpartsofaforest,shehasbramblyarms,light
dappledhair,andthicktrunksforlegs.
Blessing: Thechangelingisneverhinderedbyhardtotraverseterrain,andneversuffersfrom
penaltiestoSpeedorDefenseduetoherenvironment,andgainsherWyrdasanInitiative
bonusanytimeheropponentsaresufferingpenaltiesduetoenvironmentalhindrance.
Additionally,shemayaddherWyrdtoSurvivalrolls.

Cleareyes

All the better to see you with. All the better to see
your friend, too. Or did you think the fog would be
enough? Is that Dove? Tell her I liked the other face
better. The one she was wearing at the coffee shop, not
the one from the park. What, you thought the eyes were
for show?

The cleareyes is a Keeper's spy and sentry. She had to adapt to the dark forests and musky bogs
where she is forced to hunt and survey. While all the cleareyes senses are powerful, she has a
sense in particular she can push to legendary heights: she might feel the vibration of a Keepers
whisper or follow the scent of fresh air to the end of a twisting labyrinth.
Beast: Oversized animal traits associated with the improved sense: a bloodhounds nose, a
bats massive ears, or the wide eyes of an owl.
Darkling: An exaggerated tongue in a too-small mouth, milky eyes with bright pink pupils,
and scalloped, tattered ears.
Ogre: Fee-fi-fo-fum! Ogre cleareyes have massive noses, huge mouths, and eyes like dinner
plates. Much of their weight is in the head, hands, and feet.
Blessing: Cleareyes gain the three-dot Trained Observer Merit (p. XX) and never suffer
situational penalties due to inhibited perception. Spend a point of Glamour to expand an already
impeccable sense to mythic proportions (seeing the distant sound waves from a fleeing intruder,
tasting gunpowder in the air of an hour-cold crime scene), making the next perception-based
action the rote quality. If shes done so, she cannot be ambushed or surprised in that scene.

Corpsegrinder

Hey! Things down here aint supposed to be moving! Thats

real simple fix, though. Dont look so scared! Ill clean
it up real good. Itll be like nothing was ever moving
down here.

The Gentry are careless with human and changeling lives, and the result is often messy. A Keeper
might keep the corpsegrinder around just to keep the more accident-prone parts of their realms
tidy. She might be made for this purpose, or crawl wholly formed from the pits where the
Keepers throw their broken toys. The ghoulish corpsegrinder doesnt always eat the bloody
messes of her master, but she will always make them disappear.
Beast: The beaks and little black eyes of carrion birds, or grease-colored dog muzzles stained
by who-knows-what.
Darkling: Hollow-eyed, chittering things with stretched-thin skin and mouths of broken,
yellow teeth.
Fairest: Perfectly preserved mortician-masterpieces with powdery skin and rose-colored lips.
Ogre: Muscular monsters with sallow, hairless bodies and wounds that never heal.
Blessing: When a victim is denied his Defense and suffers from wound penalties, spend a
Glamour to deal a Killing Blow (p. XX). If a target is undead (zombies, vampires, etc), this costs
no Glamour and only requires the victim to be denied his Defense. The corpsegrinder only
suffers a Clarity breaking point from making Killing Blow in this manner if it violates her
Seeming Curse.

Shadowsoul

It was like Id forgotten that Nathalie was in the room.

I remember the lights flicking off and feeling very
alone, even with her hand in mine. It wasnt long before
I started thinking of the room as empty. Empty of
Nathalie, empty of me.

The shadowsoul is the almost-familiar figure in a photographs negative. Shes after-images that
remain when the light goes out in a crowded room. She was created by luminous Others whose
brilliance peeled the shadow from her body, or tenebrous Others who wove wriggling shades
between the living fibers of muscle. Shadowsouls are a kith of nighttime greyscales, whispered
names, and secretive eyes.
Elemental: They have very little form at all, with hard-to-see features swimming in a childs
black crayon approximation of a human being.
Darkling: Bright, yellow eyes set in silhouettes with indistinct edges and proportions just
askew from human.
Fairest: Stark black and white figures cast in cinema-perfect chiaroscuro. Film noir come to
life.
Ogre: Narrow and lanky-limbed creatures with monstrous shadows that rarely behave.
Blessing: The shadowsoul and anyone shes touching gain a bonus to Stealth and Subterfuge
dice pools equal to half her Wyrd (round up). Once per turn, she can spend one Glamour while
unseen to step from one shadow into another. Both the entry and exit shadow much be visible,
match or exceed the shadowsouls Size and be no farther away than she can run in a turn. Travel
is instantaneous. Shadowsouls never incur penalties due to darkness.

Soldier

Maybe they thought Pernoja would be less dangerous

without her gun. Maybe they thought the knife was for
 show, or they didnt notice how bruised her knuckles
were. Anyway, thats three goons thatll have a story to
tell when the doctors unwire their jaws.

To the Others, war is a pastime. They wage terrible games on themselves or imaginary foes, but
the Keepers are armchair players, at best. Its the pieces on the board that stand knee-deep in
bloody mud and fire gossamer bullets into their fellow captives. These deadly mock-battlefields
make soldiers out of drafted changelings. The horrors of war are the rules by which these
changelings are forced to play, and they are forced to play many parts if they want to keep their
own intact.
Elemental: Toy soldiers made up of the flotsam of war: barbed wire, shrapnel and blood. Its
hard to tell where weapon ends and changeling begins.
Fairest: Colorful anachronisms with gaudy, beautiful uniforms and weapons that gleam like
gold.
Wizened: Stocky and compact, chocablock with scars, powder burns and missing fingers.
Their weapons take on an antique verdigris in their hands.
Blessing: A soldiers is adaptable. She can ignore any Attribute or Skill prerequisites for Fighting
Style Merits. With a full nights sleep, she can exchange any dots in a Fighting Style Merit for
the same number of dots in other Fighting Style Merits. When another character uses a Fighting
Style, Spend a point of Glamour to know which. A soldier does not take Initiative penalties from
weapons, and reduces Defense penalties from armor by half her Wyrd, rounded up.

Swimmerskin

Come into the deeps with me / Of the river, lake and

sea / Leave your troubles on the shore / Leave your sail
and your oar.

A swimmerskin is the quintessential merfolk of myth: curious, aloof and dangerous. Aquatic
Keepers -- and those Gentry interested in seeding their maritime buffets with life -- introduce
these changelings to the deep, cold pressures of faerie oceans and expect them to thrive.
Predators, alien fishermen, and intelligent, poisonous waters harry these prisoners constantly.
The ones that manage to flee generally do so at great personal cost. Too often, the swimmerskin
that escapes through the Hedge finds they can no longer walk on land.
Beast: Gnarly-limbed octopods with humanoid torsos and ink-black veins. Broad, sharp-tipped
beaks for mouths with human teeth carved from baleen. Legs only functional as elegant fishtails.
Gills that undulate when speaking.
Elemental: Shell-like protrusions at the joints and curly, coral reef tresses. Schools of
unidentifiable fish just beneath translucent blue skin. Rows of pale shark teeth.
Fairest: Exotic, tropic fins and a glittering patina of colorful scales. Unbearably beautiful
human faces, untouched by scale. Sea-shell clothing seamlessly adhered to curvaceous, eel-skin
bodies.
Wizened: Ghastly antique diving helmets huge, glass eyes. Brassy shoulder-blade propellers
with leathery ligaments stretched across narrow crankshafts. Skin like waxy canvas.
Blessing: The swimmerskin can breathe water as easily as air. By spending one Glamour and
touching their targets lips, she can impart that ability for a scene. She can remove this gift at any
time. When entirely submerged, the swimmerskin moves at double her normal Speed and does
not suffer from environmental exposure due to cold.

Miner

Tired already? Boy, when I was your age I could carry

twice that load for twice as long! And the ore was hot!
And the ground was slick! The air was too smoky to
breathe! If you stopped, They would notice. And you
never, ever wanted Them to notice.

Far beneath Arcadias soil are tunnels deep and dark. By the light of crackling lanterns
changelings are forced to dig unknown minerals from those gloomy holes. The Durance of the
miner is labor-intensive, agonizing, and endless. They toil against stone that weeps, and their
yield is as grotesque as their quotas are large. When Gentry overseers crack their whips, they
expect inhuman work. What they get are inhuman workers.
Elemental: Smokey, wrought-iron things with cart-track ribs and furnace eyes.
Ogre: Granite grey cave-dwellers with mossy hair and stripes of green lichen.
Wizened: Squat, soot-caked sourpusses in disarrayed protective gear, unable to ever truly be
clean.
Blessing: Miners gain the three-dot Demolisher Merit (p. XX). Miners take no penalties from
wounds or fatigue. A miner standing on solid ground can spend a Glamour to create a tremor that
strikes everyone on the ground within three meters per dot of his Wyrd. Roll Strength + Wyrd,
affected characters contest with Stamina + Athletics. If the miner achieves more successes, he
inflicts the Earthquake Tilt (p. XX) on that target for one turn per success. The severity of the Tilt
is half the changelings Wyrd, rounded up.

Flamesiren

Im sorry, maam. Its the clubs policy that you dont

touch the dancers unless they ask, and Cesar rarely
asks. He says it for your protection.

Flamesirens are the beauty and movement of fire given flesh. Theyre the flame that mesmerizes,
hypnotic and seductive. The Gentry kept them as the centerpieces of massive dining room tables,
or as dancers on truly exotic stages. Flamesirens are the ultimate in look-but-dont-touch, even so
far as their own as their own Keepers. More than one flamesiren has a tale of searing a captivated
Others hand, though few of those stories end well for the flamesiren.
Elemental: A red-orange conflagration with hints of a tantalizing figure inside.
Fairest: A luminous body too bright for most outfits to conceal, and hair like a luxurious
fireplace flame.
Wizened: An agile figure covered in an impossible spectrum of blue-white glittering sequins
and dramatic and bright, shifting bodypaint.
Blessing: The flamesiren gains two dots of the Striking Looks Merit (p. XX). This can go
beyond the normal two dot limit. Any time your character succeeds in a performance, you may
spend a point of Glamour to inflict an audience member with the Swooning Condition (p XX).
Anyone with the Swooning Condition who touches the flamesiren treats him as an Extreme
Environment (see p. XX) with level equal to half the flamesirens Wyrd, rounded up, for the
duration of exposure..

Lurkglider

I saw what you did in the penthouse. I followed you. You

and I should take a step outside. 22 floors up? Couldnt
be more than 21.

The Gentry are known to keep lurkgliders on the embrasures of their castle battlements. They
hang from the rooftops of mile-high Gothic cathedrals, crouch in the shadows of mansion spires
and loom over the doorways of eerie hospitals. Some are so still their grotesquery goes unseen
for ages, others so beautiful even their Keepers forget theyre more than statues. These silent
sentries serve many purposes, but the line almost always falls between palatial guard and
fearsome ornament.
Darkling: Small, leathery-winged nightmares with shadows always a little too tall. Its hard
not to notice the intensity in otherwise empty eyes.
Fairest: Angelic statues of flawless, unbroken alabaster, or colorful glass figurines with
kaleidoscope wings.
Ogre: Burly, stone-textured gargoyles with heavy jaws and gorilla-like arms. They wear their
chipped, cracked skin with pride.
Wizened: Gangly, withered beings in dark hide cloaks. Their wings are made of well-greased
iron and taut canvas.
Blessing: Lurkgliders are still and silent. Subtract her Wyrd from dice pools to notice her while
shes still or falling. If she moves, speaks, or performs any action beside plummeting, the penalty
no longer applies. If she falls on a target who is denied their Defense, she can immediately
establish a grapple as if the action had the rote quality. The lurkglider can fall from almost any
height and take no damage, up to terminal velocity. Beyond that, she must spend a point of
Glamour to slow her descent to a safe speed.

Windwing

They gave me a new freedom just to take it away. Nothing

will take it from me again. I will never be so close to
the ground that jealous hands can take it.

Windwings are most often found in the habitats of Keepers that dont bother dividing the land
and sky, or in realms with immeasurably tall features. These changelings are hollowed out by
their Keepers and stretched thin. A painful process, but nothing compared to being earthbound by
the transition through the Hedge. Some windwings regret escaping their masters, but few who
return find the skies of Arcadian as freeing as they remember.
Beast: Agile, feathered and narrow, with scaled feet and long noses or beaks. Graceful in a way
few things will ever manage to be.
Darkling: Leaf-nosed with red eyes and bat-like ears. They have teeth too large and claws at
the end of their wings.
Elemental: Transparent except for the clouds beneath their skin. Puffy and white when theyre
pleased, but grey and stormy when theyre not.
Blessing: The windwing can fly at twice his Speed for as many turns as he has dots in Stamina,
but must spend a turn without a movement action before he can fly again. Spend a Glamour to
increase the duration of his flight to a minute per Wyrd. During flight, he can use his Defense
against Firearms. The windwing can land and perch on anything capable of holding a small child,
regardless of his real weight.

Dearheart

Why dont you stay? Maybe lay down? I just put tea on.
Smell that? Its jasmine. Ill go get us a cup while you
tell me about your day. Did you ever find that Token you
were looking for? You can tell me. Secrets are safe
here.

It's hard to keep your secrets from the dearheart. His smile makes everyone feel special. His
touch is all warmth and comfort. He loves with abandon. The dearheart serves a Keeper as
liaison to more combative changelings or a means to reassure those captives too scared to
function. The dearheart is equal parts manipulator and companion. More often than not, the
Durance of a dearheart ends with another changeling standing between a spurned Keeper and the
grinning dearheart they've both come to desire.
Darkling: Shapely succubi and hard-bodied incubi, or the other way around. Often both at
once, or just this side of neither.
Fairest: Too perfect and symmetrical, with soulful eyes that distract from plastic, doll-like
features.
Wizened: Knowing, comfortable grins and features just a little different to everyone. They
smell of childhood summers and fresh baked bread.
Ogre: Towering, statuesque giants with smiles like movie stars and a drowsy embrace.
Blessing: Dearhearts gain the Sympathetic Merit (p. XX). A dearhearts touch reduces the
subjects Composure by half her Wyrd (rounded up), which affects any relevant traits such as
Willpower, or Doors. Spend a point of Glamour while touching to learn a subjects Virtue, Vice,
Needle, or Thread. Once shes done so, she may share one of her Aspirations with the target. He
must share one in response or spend a Willpower point. The same Aspiration may not be shared
twice.

Steepscrambler

Tell me where Averys cell is. The gate isnt an issue.

Twenty feet and a little razor wire? Its harder to get
into my apartment.

Immense trees, surreal cityscapes, looming crags -- there are steepscramblers all over Faerie, so
long as there are heights. On spider feet and squirrel paws, they seek high places normally
inaccessible to those without flight. Most serve as messengers and laborers during their Durance,
though their talents are often put to more nefarious use. Steepscramblers loyal to the True Fae
bring their masters new victims from the cozy beds of the third-story bedrooms. Those
changelings who remember their kidnappers are often cursed to become them.
Beast: Gecko feet, chipmunk tails and leopards claws are all common.
Darkling: Many-limbed arachnids with spotted black chitin and sticky webs for hair.
Elemental: Springy humanoid gelatin with only passing regard for shape or gravity.
Wizened: Spindly mountaineers with clockwork climbing gear and sepia skin.
Blessing: Steepscramblers gain three dots in the Parkour Merit (p. XX), and add their Wyrd to
any Athletics rolls to climb, free-run, or fall safely. Spend one Glamour to carry something (or
someone) up to Size 6 without penalty. While climbing, the steepscrambler may use her
Dexterity to initiate, control, or escape a grapple in place of Strength.

Weisse Frau

Shhh. You must be calm Adlai. There are those who would
harm you rather than see you in my masters care. We just
need to wait a little bit. Close your eyes and remember
 the song we practiced. Ill make sure no one follows.

The weisse frau are special among the captives of Faerie in that they often serve their Keepers'
interests on Earth. Their leashes are short, but when an Other needs to assure the safety of a
captive, there is no better choice than the weisse frau. These are compassionate changelings
whose desire to protect is twisted into a tool of the Gentry. Its when their Keepers push that
empathy too hard that they risk a weisse frau turning their considerable will against the masters
of the Hedge. And their wrath is fearsome to behold.
Beast: Luminous antlers beaded with silver dew drops. The build -- and teeth -- of a ferocious
mother bear.
Fairest: Gowns of icicle-gossamer with veils over faces that, like the La Llorona, can never
stop weeping.
Ogre: Broad, affectionate eyes set in the snarling face of a moonlit giant
Blessing: The weisse frau gains three dots in the Telekinesis Merit (p. 174) and pays Glamour or
Willpower to activate it. The cost is waved when Telekinesis is used to defend a child. Weisse
frau can benefit from the all-out attack option (see p. XX) when using Telekinesis.
Beasts
You hear that sound? Like an animal, wounded, god that gets the blood
going, doesnt it? Im just going to go check it out

Theyve got wild eyes and untamed hearts. Theyre reckless, passionate,
and dangerous. Theyre a wet dream made flesh when theyre turned on,
which is common, theyre walking nightmares when theyre angry, which
is also common. The Beast has reached inside, found her animal self, and
embraced her id. The animal inside of her kept her alive at the worst
times. Humanity has failed her, failed her when she was the most in
need, and so she rejected it.

Appearance: You will know a Beast by her gait, by her pose, by her
appetite, but most often, you will know a Beast by her eyes. To the
mundane eye, the Beast is wild and unkempt, or perfectly kept but with
the presence of the animal about her. No one says of the Beast, hes like
a shark. They say, he is a shark.

To the Changeling eye, the Beast has let the wildness inside out, and
remade himself from parts of the wild real and imagined. He may be
simply lion on two legs, proud and golden and beautiful. Or he may be
parts and pieces, a horn, a maw, dripping bird-talons and snake teeth.
Chimera-like Beasts may reflect a conflict between the Kith inflicted on
them and the animal soul they claimed for themselves at the time of their
escape.

Background: Many Beasts lived before their Durances, already trapped

and caged. Social bindings or literal incarceration can both lead to an
attempt to escape. For examples, a cog in the wheel of a big corporation
willing to make any deal to get out of their cubical or a three-strike looser
serving life on a technicality. Even a lovely, well kept house-wife in a
gilded cage dreaming of some other, wilder life, might fall into the
clutches of a Keeper, anything to escape confinement. Thats not to say
that free spirits who lived life in the wide open cant become Beasts, as
they do, but most often, a Beast felt trapped before they were captured.

The Escape: From one cage to another, the Beast has been pushed too
far. She already knows what it feels like to be without choices, to submit,
to lean on humanity and civility. After all, that way failed her as her
situation went from bad to worse in the hands of her Keeper. So she
makes a choice, she chooses to do something wild, something socially
unacceptable, something animalistic. She bites through flesh, claws
through soil, smears herself with shit and blood to escape the Huntsman
on her heels. She chooses to break a taboo, destroys her civility, and in
making that choice, she escapes. In making that choice, she becomes the
Beast, the frail captive she once was left behind, forgotten.

Character Creation: Beasts favor the physicality of life, and test her
capability at every turn. This is not to say that all Beasts are hulking
brutes or thoughtless thugs. Cunning can be tied to physicality; after all,
the brain is a part of the body. Instead of assuming Beasts are meaty,
brainless animals, create a character who is always testing her limits. A
fair scattering of Skills is likely as the character tires and bores of
everything the world has to offer. At some point, the Beast will find a
thing she wishes to focus on, some perceived limit in her capacity that
shell push and push and perfect. And so, a Beast only a few years out of
the Hedge may appear a jack-of-all-trades. A Beast with some time,
however, will look more like a creature of passion, hyper focused on the
thing she thinks is her pinnacle. Like a cat playing to perfect her hunting
skills, the Beast is relentless in improving this one aspect.

Blessing: Clarity of Abandon. Lost in the lies and oppression of society, a

Beast has great difficulty making head or tales of the cultural landscape
before her. She remembers, though vaguely, that there is a reason for
many of the rules and laws that keep people civilized, but the importance
of those reasons has faded away. Rules of society are only chains around
her neck, and obedience to those old ways is suffocating. (Perhaps
suffocating to everyone, but only the Beast is wise enough to notice.)
Once per story, a Beast can flaunt a cultural taboo despite great personal
cost, and regain a point of Clarity for free.

Curse: A Beasts Burden. Confinement is a fate worse than death to the

Beast. Shes experienced it already, and her spirit is simply too big to fit
comfortably into bondage. A Beast can, of her own free will, enter into a
Contract or Pledge or other more intimate acts of binding, but it chuffs
her more than the average Lost. Forced confinement, especially the
physical kind, is too much for her. Escaping bonds requires three Glamour
instead of one. Once per story, if a Beast is confined or imprisoned, she
suffers a Clarity breaking point.

Concepts:

The brokers made of teeth and cunning. Hes figured out how to land the
big fish; hes a shark and hes always hungry.

Shes free, running like the wind at the first sign of danger, not out of
cowardice, but because nothing matters more than the freedom to run.
Hes got a drumbeat in his blood and every heavy step shakes the earth
under him and he will never, ever, forget the one that tried to poach him.


Darklings
IwillfollowyoutotheendoftheearthifImust,butplease,please,donteverturnyourbackto
me.
Darklings,shadowsofwhattheyoncewere,hoodedeyespeeringfromoutsidetheworld
lookingin.TheDarklingcarriesabrokenheart,eithertheirownorshardsofsomeoneelses.
Once,theychosetheshadowsoverthelightanditsavedthem,andthatsachoiceandresult,
theycannevertotallyshake.ADarklingisneverreallyamongfriends,aDarklingisalways
waitingforthelighttochasetheshadows,andthemselves,away.Therighteouspath,thegood
guywayofdoingthingslefthimtosufferhorrorsatthehandsofhisKeeper,andhewillnever
againlettherightwayofdoingthingsstophimfromdoingwhatneedstobedone.Darknessis
not,andneverhasbeenaboutgoodandevil,andtheDarklingisalivingembodimentofthat.
Appearance:
YouwillknowaDarklingbytheshadowsaboutthem.Youwillknowthembythe
waytheycrouchratherthansit,loomratherthanstand,andslinkratherthanwalk.Youwill
knowthembecausetheydisguisetheirface,withhairinhairintheireyesoramaskovertheir
mouthandnose.ADarklingisalwayshidden,orelse,hidingsomepartofhimselffromprying
andjudgmentaleyes.ToChangelingeyes,theDarklingisawispofhisformerself.Withlong
twitchingfingersandtendrilsofairthatdisappearintoshadows.Hemighthavespiderwebs
formathisjoints,ormothsinhisclothes.TheDarklingisnotespeciallyclosetodeath
inherently.Rather,theDarklingtendstotheforgottenplaces,theplaceswithnolight,andall
thosethingslongagoabandoned,perhapsbeforetheirtime.Sometimesthismeansaffectations
ofghostsandcemeteries.Sometimesitmeansabandonedtechnology,orforgottencultures.
Anythingthatwasleftbehind,astheDarklingoncewas.
Background:
BeforebeingdrawninbyaKeeper,manyDarklingwerepowerfullyloyalpeople.
Dedicatedtoajob,toafamily,toafriendorasecretlover.WhilefewDarklingswerewhatone
wouldcalluniversallyethical,aboutthethingtheywereloyal,theyweresteadfast.Oldschool
companymen,ordedicatedwiveswhostayedeventhroughalltheaffairs.Theybelievedinthe
thingstheybelievedin,andsteadfastclungtotheirideals,itmadethemstrong.Italsomade
thempushovers.Atsomepointalongtheway,thethingtheybelievedinmostbetrayedthem,
inaveryrealorpowerfullyimaginedway.ItwasthisfirstbetrayalthatsenttheDarklingtobe
fleeingtotheHedgeortheirKeepersarms.TheywalkedintotheHedge,alreadybleeding,and
morethanwolvescansmellthatkindofbloodintheair.
TheEscape:
Frequently,asitiswithmanyChangelings,theDarklingtobewasnotalonein
herDurance,withotherslikehersufferingalongside.Herturningpoint,then,iswhenshe
watchedaherowalkaway.WhenshewatchedanotherChanglingmakeachoiceescape,and
ineffectleftherbehind.Realorimagined,first,theDarklingfeltabandoned,andthen,she
decidedthatnoonewasgoingtosaveher.Andso,shedidwhatshehadtodotoescape.In
hermind,orinreality,thatmeantscrewingsomeoneelseover.Itmeantleavingsomeone
behind.Itmeanttakingadvantageofthesituationandmakingthehardchoicenottheright
choice.Andinthatdecision,sheletshadowsin,sheaccepteditinandabandonedthelightand
righteouspath.Shedecided,inthatkeymoment,thattherighteousarefoolsorliars,andshe
wouldbeneither.Butitbrokeherheartintoathousandshards,glintingintheshadowsaround
her.
CharacterCreation:
Darklings,aftertheirescape,cravetheabandonedandforgotten.This
maybeoutofasenseofsolidarityoroutofaguiltyconscious.Researchintothemacabre,the
forgotten,orpossibly,theobscure.IfaDarklingwasaviolinistinlife,hewillseekoutthemost
difficultpieces,notbecausetheyareachallenge,butbecausemostotherviolinistshave
abandonedthem.Butnotjustthat,butformanyDarklingsmakingtheseeminglyirrelevant
relevantisadrive.Thatforgottenmartialarts?Lookhowtrulyeffectiveitis,yourebrightfancy
kungfuisshit.Darklingspecialise,andthen,pulleveryshadowystringhecantomakethat
specialitymatter.
Blessing:
ClarityofAbandon.Therearejusttimeswhenthebestchoiceistheworstchoice.
AnytimeaDarklingisforcedtostepinandmakeabadchoiceforothercharacters,makethe
choicenooneelsecould,shegainsaasenseofherself.SheregainapointofClarityforfree.It
is,ofcourse,importantforaStorytellertomachinatethesesortsofsituationsaboutoncea
story,asmuchasitisaDarklingstendencytoseekoutthesesituationsforherself.
Curse:AShadesDistrust.ADarklinghasbeeninjuredinthepast,andbelievesshesinjured
otherstosurvive.ADarklingtrustedonce,alongtimeago,andanyoneaskinghertotrustmay
bepushinghertoohard.Trustinganyone,evenaDarklingsclosestallies,followingthem
blindly,causestheDarklingtosufferaClaritybreak.

Concepts
Shesathief,pureandsimple,stickingtobindspotsandskipsfromoneholeinsecuritytothe
next.Thethingis,shesneverstoleasinglethingthatwasinthehandsofitsrightfulowner.
Heskilled,morethanonce,intheserviceofhiscountry,anditfeelsliketheresalwaysblood
onhishands.Hesleepswelleverynight,though,becausehellputdownthebadguys,because
nooneelsewill.
Necromancy,demonology,fetishismandthehomunculuscrafting?Theyrelost,forbidden,but
why?Whatmakesthemevil,whatmakesthemdangerous,andwhousesthemdespitethe
taboo?Shemeanstofindout,andifshemustfightfirewithfire,shewill.

Elementals
We dont do, we just are!
Michael Alig

They appear to have skin, just like the rest of us, but thats just a sack, a
shape to hold in the storm. The Elemental is the coming storm, the
deluge, the forest fire, the one who leaves nothing in it his wake.
Sometimes, instead of being overt destruction, instead, the Elemental is a
sort of existential place where other people go missing. The saying goes
something like this, spend too long in the arms of an Elemental, means
dying of exposure. Thats not entirely true, of course, some people learn
to survive, and are, arguably, better for it. As for the Elemental himself?
Eh. Its all nature, after all.

Appearance: They are dangerous and beautiful or dangerous and

unrelenting, but an Elemental is never repellant. Hes intense, takes all
the air of out the room, and when anyone else is in his presence, theyre
looking for exits. Not because hed directly threatening anyone, but
because in presence of an Elemental triggers all sorts of survival instincts
in a person. He sets alarm bells that tells anyone else; conserve water,
prepare to run, find a safe place to weather the storm. To those who like
a challenge, adrenaline junkies and the like, flock to the Elemental.
Everyone else just burns out, for freezes solid in their presence.

To the Changling eyes, the Elemental is an embodied manifestation of the

Element they claim. He might be a man-shaped fire with wings. She may
be a tree, with roots for legs who whips about, tossed by unfelt storms, a
young green thing. She is a sculpture of ice who leaves foot prints of
frost. He seems mostly normal, though his skin is dry and his lips
parched, but when you look into his eyes, into his mouth, you see
inescapable death of a hundred fifty degree sun and nothing but sand
further than a person can walk in a lifetime.

Background: It can be said of those who would be Elementals, that in

their first life, they could not see the forest for the trees. In mundane life,
she had no peripheral vision, had no environmental awareness, both
literally as well as an ignorance or innocence about cultural and social
climate. As such, in many cases, she simply never saw it coming. This is
not to say that the Elementals are, before, innocent and wide-eyed,
virtuous and guileless. In fact, most Elementals believed that he was the
single most interesting person he knows. Usually, hes a big fish in a small
pond, and because of his blindness, he has no idea how truly small that
pond is. Until, one day, he met someone considerably more interesting,
someone amazing, someone that made him begin to realise how small his
pond was, and how much hed missed. So, he tried to make himself more
interesting, more unique, the bigger fish, and somehow, this all pushed or
pulled him through the Hedge.

The Escape: Maybe the Elemental-to-be stayed on course, attempting to

be the most special, the most important, the most unique of all the
captives at the Keepers hand. Maybe she determined to burn the
brightest, even in hell. Or maybe she went dim, fading, beginning to
become nothing since she could never hope to matter anymore. And yet,
at some point, brutal winds toughened her skin, or else the pain of hot
steel dimmed and she felt only the sensation, not the agony. She saw, for
the first time, the elements around her, and realised how big and wild
nature itself was, the biggest most important thing. In that moment, she
decided to release her ego, her need to be special vanished in an instant,
and her heart fell out, hitting the ground, and shattering to a thousand
useless pieces all at once. Quickly, she filled that hole, her heart, herself,
with the raw possibility of the elements, embodying fire, electricity, ice,
light, any such overwhelming force. And in making that choice, she used
the element itself to escaping, becoming its child in the real world, free of
the Hedge.

Character Creation: To say that Elementals focus on survival is a bit of

an understatement, and runs the risk of narrowing their focus too much.
The Elemental survives in her environment, whatever that environment
is. If they find that they have fallen into science or politics, the Elemental
studies, learns, or learns how to fake exactly as much as they need to
survive that environment. Many Elementals are fickle, after a fashion,
though, and will be content with only what they literally need to survive.
No more, no less. Why waste time, in the off chance the wind changes,
and his environment changes? Occasionally, an Elemental will find
themselves in a literal position that ties well into the element they
embraced, a water Elemental making a living as a professional surfer, an
ice Elemental doing research in Alaska. In these situations, Elementals
are more likely to specialise and not just survive, but thrive.

Blessing: Clarity of Forces. Elementals appear to be creatures of whim

and devastation, burning bridges, throwing caution to the wind, and
storming through life without a thought or concern. Thats not exactly
true, as the Elemental knows instinctively, their chaos has a pattern, and
theres order behind the destruction. Once per story, when the player of
an Elemental can bring meaning and purpose to what appeared to be an
act of pure chaos earlier in the story, that character gains a point of
Clarity for free. The player did not have to be planning for this meaning at
the time the character created the chaos, it can be completely reverse
causality.

Curse: Burning without Ego. To Escape, the Elemental needed release his
ego and become one with the force she choose to accept into herself. The
freedom to be without self often means forgetting that others are still tied
to tiny notions like me, and now. Therefore, whenever an Elemental is
confronted with the damage in her wake, and sees a good example that
not everyone is a raw force like she is, its a Clarity Break. Additionally,
Cold Iron, in its ability to make the etherial static, is particularly harmful
to the Elemental. Any time she is injured by cold iron, she suffers an
additional and specific Condition unique to her elemental nature. So, an
ice Elemental may choose that her character also becomes Lethargic
when hit by cold iron. An Elemental of wind might become Spooked after
a cold iron injury. This Condition should be picked at character creation,
but can be changed through play with Storyteller approval.

CONCEPTS
Hes a party monster, he came crashing into the party like a bolt, and the
airs just electric anytime hes there, rolling. The parties get more intense,
more excited, more extreme with every new party, and at this trajectory,
its only a matter of time before someone dies.

She spent her life holding it in, hiding what she knew herself to be, to
protect her friends and her family. Things are different now. Shell burn
them all with the bitter cold inside of her. Shell create her own world of
ice and snow where shes completely free, and who cares who freezes to
death in the process.

His voice crashes like waves against the shore, cool and crisp and
ageless. Hes not good enough for you, Laura, he tells his listener over
the radio, a thousand house wives listen in, swatting away their
husbands attention or anger. No one would blame you if you left, hell,
no court would convict you if you killed him, Laura. A pregnant pause.
Come down to the studio some time, Laura. Id like to talk to you some
time.
Iknewwhatmyjobwasitwastogooutandmeetthepeopleandlovethem.DianaofWales
TheFairestisabrilliant,shining,idealisation.Theyretoobrighttolookat,oramirrorthatreflectsbackto
youthewayyouwanttheworldtobe.TheFaireststruggles,everydayandnight,toliveuptotheirown
myth,tobethegreatherothattheyexpectedtobe.Theymadeachoicetotakeontheresponsibilitiesof
othersontotheirownshoulders,andsometimetheysucceed.WhenaFairestdoesfail,whenthecrown
fallsfromtheirbrow,itistofallinflames.AFairestmaynotbetheleader,butfatemakesthemaleadertime
andtimeagain.Whethertheyembracethat,orrunfromit.
Appearance
:YouwillknowtheFairestbythelinesinherbrow,theweightonhershoulders,andthehope
inhersmile.Whenshespeaks,itseasytobelieveher,andevenifshesdressedjustthesameaseveryone
aroundher,itsasifitsthemostperfectexpressionofwhatsexpected,fromthepooresttothewealthiest
company.Shedoesntputonaires,shesgenuine,orasgenuineasshecanbe,butmostpeoplewilldo
whatshesaidsolongasitsnottoounreasonablewithouteventhinkingaboutit.
TotheChangelingeye,hecanneverremovethesignofleadership,oftenintheformofasmallcrownor
militarydecoration.Whatevershedoes,theFairestdutyandresponsibilitypeekthrough,andsowhen
someoneisintrouble.Withoutconsideration,itstheFairestsfeettheywillthrowthemselvesdownon.
Fairestoftenhaveagloworilluminationaboutthem,sparkle,reflection,orlightfromwithinvaryingfrom
FairesttoFairest.
Background
:Before,manyFairestwerediamondsintherough,flowersthathadnotbloomed,orswords
neverdrawn.Wastedyouth,wastedlife,wastedtime.Minutes,hours,days,tickawayandmaybeshe
realises,ormaybeshedoesnt,butherlifeispassingbytickbytick.Shecouldhavestayedinschool,or
tookpianolessons,oraskedforthatraise,ordoneamillionthingsdifferentlytomakeherlifematter.But
shejust,didnt,andherpotentialbuiltandbuiltandrippedherupinside,fillingherstomachwithguiltofwhat
couldbeuntilitstartedtoconsumeher.Then,atrigger,apreventabletragedythatwouldnthavehappened
ifshedjustliveduptoherpotential.Thatswhensheknewwhatawasteithadallbeen,andeithersheflees
totheHedge,orsheacceptsawelltimedofferforchangeandgoestoherKeeperwillingly,ifnotwittingly.
TheEscape
:Once,hedbeapotentialwasted,now,inisDurance,hewasapotentialsuppressed.He
couldhavebeensomeone,hestillhadtime,buthemadeabadchoice,orhadshitluck.ButtheFairestto
beisalsokeenlyawarethatheisnotalonehere.Withhisownwastedpotentialstinginglikesaltintheeyes,
hecansee,know,sense,thatalltheotherswithhim,werewastedpotentialtoo.Itwasntjustabouthisown
failuretogrowanymore,itwasaboutotherslikehimwhowerebeingsmothered.Andso,theFairestmakes
achoice,tosacrificehimself,oratleast,riskhisownlifetoseepotentialblossom.Hewontleavealone,he
offersahandoutanddoeswhathecantohelpothersseetheycango,run,makeitbackhome.TheFairest
hasachangeofheart,andchangestheheartsandmindsofthosearoundhim,andinthatmoment,he
escapes.
CharacterCreation
:Fairestare,naturalleaders,andofcourserapidlyandeasilypickuptheskillstogo
withthat.Unlessheactivelyavoidsit,manyFairestshowaknackforpoliticsandlaw.ManyFairestaswell,
endupdevelopingspecificknowledgeofthelogistical,ifnotmysticalworkingsofOaths.Nooneisexactly
surewhy.
Blessing
:ClarityoftheCrown.Thetruthofleadershipisthis:sometimesitsnotaboutbeingright,itsabout
appearingright.Itsaboutappearingright,evenwhenthereisnorealrightorwrong.Itisntpretty,andits
certainlyaquickpathtocorruption,butitremainstrueregardless.Mostpeopleneedtobelead,andwhen
theyrescaredordesperate,theyrenaturallygoingtoturntotheFairest.Itstheeasychoice.Andsinceso
manyarenaturallygoingtoputthemselvesinthehandsoftheFairest,theFairesthastodosomething,
anything.AnytimeaFairestbluffs,blusters,orshootfromthehiponherwaythroughacallforleadership,
andfindherselfrevivedbyit.Onceperstory,aFairestcanfeelherwaythrough,andshegainsapointof
Clarityforfree.
Curse
:WeightoftheRighteous.Withmeasuredresponseandskill,orblindluckandhope,makingtheright
choicefeelsdamngood.Butsoonerorlater,failureweighsontheFairest,andthecrownonherheadgets
heavierandheavier.AnytimeaFairestmakesacallasaleader,andsomeonegetsseriouslyhurt
physicallyorotherwise,isaClarityBreak.

Concepts
TheysaysheturnedtheheartofaHuntsmanwhosoughttoseduceherbacktotheKeeper.Theysayshe
showedhimrealloveandchangedhisnature,andwhenhewascalledbacktohisKeeper,shewentinto
theHedgeafterhim.Isittrue?Whocansay,butshewearsagoldring,acontentsmile,andgentlybrushes
asideallsuitors.
Heleftthedistrictattorneysofficebecausehebelievedthatwasntwhererealjusticehappened.Nowhe
workswithlowincomefamiliesfacingforeclosure.Andbysuingbanksandbankers,movingfundsaround,
hesmakingaprettypennyoffitaswell.Seethatsrealjustice.Alotofpeopleintheneighbourhoodsare
askinghimtorunformayor.Notasking.Demanding.Andwhoishetoargue?
Amajorityofpeoplewillnevernoticehim,heblendsinalltheotherhomelessdrunksanddrifters.The
bottomofthebottom,livingintunnelsoverthecity.Theydontseethegleamingswordhewearswith
honourathisside.Itsbetterthatway.Itmakesiteasiertofindtheworstoftheworst,thescumthatkills
thosethatthecityhasforgotten.Hedefendsthedefenceless,withaswordofgoldandlight.The
princeprotectorofthesewers.

Ogres
What do you want to know? Names? Dates? Locations? What food was on their
breath? What color their eyes were? Want to know the last words they spoke?
Want to know which ones deserved it? Or better yet, the ones that didnt? Want
to know which ones begged?
Eliot Spencer, Leverage

If the Ogre is a brute, a thug, a monster, it is because it is necessary for

him to be so. Of all the Changelings broken by their Keepers, none have
an ending with such potential for tragedy. For the Ogre, the need for
violence, for control, for consumption is a means of survival. For the
Ogre, all becomes survival of the fittest. For those around the Ogre, one
has to question if survival is worth it when it costs so much. The Ogre
puts up stonewalls between himself and any danger, emotionally and
physically, and when you dig in to why, its hard to even blame him.

Appearance: You will know the Ogre by the scowl on her face, the clench
of her fists, and the subtle sound of teeth grinding against teeth, or joints
popping in anticipation of violence. Not all Ogres are physical thugs,
throwing punches and beating up anything smaller. They may be small
and mean, or conduct their violence emotionally or verbally rather than
physically. They may even find a way to control the rage, directing it only
for some greater good they cling to.

To the Changeling, the Ogre takes up more space than it seems like she
should. The floor slopes toward her as if the weight of her potential
violence in inevitable, a slow slide. Joists in the ceiling bend to make
room for her head, if shes actually that tall or not. Shes not got skin, or
if she does, its softness is hidden behind a layer of something harder. It
might be patchy, or a complete shell, but by and large, any visible part of
the Ogre is hidden behind tough leather, stone, mud, scales, anything but
delicate human skin.

Background: Ogres can came from a lot of backgrounds, like so many

Seemings, but by and large, they share one thing. Ogres were bullied.
Most often, this bullying is real, brutal, constant. Bullying thats really
better to call abuse. More rarely, but not impossibly, Ogres come from
people who perceived bullying where it wasnt really happening, and so
the abuse that drove them was mostly from their own persecution
complex. Mostly, though, Ogres were first people who were pushed and
pushed and hurt and hurt until they had no choice but to lash out, to
respond with violence or brutality, and that moment, when they snapped,
they fled, flung, or were grabbed into the Hedge. The power to snap, the
thing that pushed them over could come from within, but often, comes
from the Keeper and his servants, to draw the Changeling in.

The Escape: An Ogre-to-be spends her Durance waiting. They know all
about abuse before the Hedge, and all thought its fantastic and horrific,
its just more of the same. He went in to the Hedge raw, skinless,
vulnerable, but theres no way hell stay that way. The Ogre-to-be bides
his time, building up his strength and his shields, sculpting muscle and a
new skin out of the violence and chaos around him. He doesnt just make
himself armour, he makes himself into armour. Eventually, when things
get hard, when the pain isnt just physical, he makes a choice. He reaches
into his chest and pulls out his own heart, replacing it with rock or clay so
that he becomes, he thinks, invulnerable. Liberated from the part of him
that can still hurt, he makes a break for it. Hed been watching, you see,
enduring, planning his escape, and now is the moment he goes. He
destroys everything in his wake, moving with such brutality and chaos
that he cant be stopped.

Character Creation: Its an easy mistake to assume that all Ogres are
combat focused meat-machines with their whole character build focused
on hitting and getting hit. Violence, and inflicting violence has nothing to
with fighting and combat. Some Ogres might, on the surface, eshew
fighting, leaning on pacifism and that kind of morality, or out of
cowardice. But the anger builds, regardless of intent, and so they
manipulate and abuse violently, or protect themselves with brutal social
rhetoric. Bullies happen in academics, the sciences, and anywhere there
are people. An Ogre can thrive in almost any field, so long as she
operates by brute force rather than finesse.

Blessing: Clarity of Violence. Suffice to say, Ogres arent especially good

at communicating with words. There are some ideas only her fists can
communicate. Once per Story, if an Ogre can manage to get a message
across through the use or threat of violence, she gains a point of Clarity
for Free.

Curse: Hurt People Hurt People. Despite their outward appearance and
instance otherwise, Ogres do feel pain just like anyone else, and so, when
someone else can prove to an Ogre, or those around the Ogre, that
something is causing him real pain, its a Clarity breaking point. This
Clarity break only happens once per any specific source for the pain. So,
after some heavy conversation and a lot of beers, an ex boyfriend tells an
Ogre that his real problem is that he never forgive his parents for dying,
and its a Clarity break. Bringing up those dead parents again wont do it.
However, pointing out that hes broken his fist in a fight about the honor
of his dead mother, thats a new break.

CONCEPTS
Everyone told him someday, hed whoop his kids the way his daddy
always whooped him. He swore no. The night his wife told him she was
pregnant, something else went wrong. He didnt hit her, but he put his fist
in a wall, and that night, walked away. He walked into the Hedge. When
he broke out, he never went back. He sends her letters and money, but
never even asked what his babies name was. Better not to know.

No one ever hit her, or called her names, they just left her to herself, and
a child without love and support is a child abused. She turned her anger
inward, hate and violence saved for herself. When she hurt herself bad
enough to go to a hospital, she went to the Hedge instead. Shes whole
now, and understands better what was done to her, and when she broke
out, it was to get revenge.

They couldnt understand how important he was, how much smarter.

They were stupid, and ignorant, and hed been planning his revenge for
years. He never realized that his mistreatment of his little sister, the way
that he vented his rage at her, would mean her one day selling him out to
his Keeper. When he escaped, he came back determined to make them all
pay. He doesnt know that sis is still watching him, undoing him, and
should he ever find out, well It wont be pretty.
Wizened
Placeholder quote about art and shit

You can cry for the mechanical man, for the machine girl, for the person
made by their own hands, but they wont cry for themselves. The
Wizened doesnt know to, or care to. Theyve found a way to cope and
live, and it works for them. Wizened are crafters, makers, creators,
endless invention embodied in a body or mind that is otherwise
incomplete. Theyre a jigsaw puzzle missing the edge pieces, and because
of it, or related to that, the puzzle can go on forever, adding more pieces,
moving pieces around, endlessly creating always building never complete.
The tinkerer is the toy with the Wizened, and the sculpture can be the
sculpture.

Appearance: Youll know the Wizened by his stiff joints and muttering.
He talks to himself about high concepts of his craft that you cant possibly
understand. He caries the aire of the dysfunctional genius who so very
close to solve a Millennial Prize Problem, but cant remember to tie his
shoes. She is a violinist so perfect in her performance that must be
reminded to stop practicing when her fingers start to bleed.

To the Changeling, she is incomplete, where parts of herself are replaced

with parts of her craft. She is a surgeon without fingers or face, both of
which having been replaced with obsidian scalpels and a mask
respectively. He is a woodsman of tin and wood, limbs replaced when the
axe slipped. Shes a dancer with feet made of silk and leather, stuffed
pointe shoes bound to her knees. The Wizened is a blend of their art and
their imperfection. They are beautiful and perfect and broken.

Background: Before the Durance, many Wizened already had their craft.
She had a skill or talent that drove her and made her unique and
different. She excelled in this particular field, and it made it stand out.
Maybe because of this, or simply connected to this, she has always had a
problem connecting with people. Among normal people with normal lives
she felt different, outside, and maybe even a little broken. There was
something everyone around her seemed to have, and she was missing.
Maybe it bothered her, maybe she didnt even know it exactly, but that
missing something is what they used to lure or trick her into the Hedge.

The Escape: The Durance isnt easy for anyone, but for the would-be
Wizened the change is just too much. In the hands of her Keeper, there is
no pattern, no safe routine to fall back to. No time to practice her craft or
rhyme and reason to escape too. Even if the Keeper brought the would-be
Wizened to perform her art, the very nature of the unreality means that
pattern, order, routine are impossible. This is a natural cruelty that makes
all other concerns seem secondary for the would-be Wizened who may
have a strong need for comfortable repetition. The reality of the place it
self breaks down the would-be Wizened, literally, they fall a part a piece
at a time, unable to handle the chaos. Fingers snap off, limbs wither and
drop away, her heart shrivels and a wind carries it off like ash pushed
away by bellows. But for the would-be Wizened, they have something
outside of themselves. As terrible as the chaos and the conditions are,
there is something inside the would-be Wizened that cant be taken away.
They know how to do a thing, and they are good at it, and it drives them.
Even as they found themselves in pieces, the tool of their trade are a
comfort, the symbols of their skill fill the gaps. And so, the with whats
left of their hands, their arms, their mouths, they sew themselves back
together, build from the ground up, and bind the their tools into
themselves, bodily. She join with their art, rebuilding herself from the
ground up. With this new body, the choice to devote herself to the thing
that brings safety, comfort, and praise, she abandons the human parts
that failed her, and with that choice, she escapes.

Character Creation: Naturally, any Wizened will have a decent score in

the craft they have devoted themselves to. When building a Wizened,
players should consider that the skills reflected on a character sheet are
highly conceptual, and playing pool, for example, may require a suite of
skills at two or three to reflect real skill at pool, rather than one skill at a
four or five. Additionally, its important to consider what the focus of
character growth should be, if the Wizened is still perfecting their gift, or
if their gift is a given and the character will focus on developing in other
ways. The important thing when creating a Wizened is this; four dots in
Expression does not a Wizened make. Not on its own.

Blessing: Clarity of Comfort. Her special gift has been and will always be
the place she can go to in order to feel safe, to recover, to recoup. Any
time she runs away from the world, avoiding problems by using her gift
as a means to self comfort she gets an exceptional success on three
successes rather than five. Once per Story, she can also regain a Clarity
point for doing so for free.

Curse: The Problem with Perfection. The line between genius and
perfection is thin, and the considerable talent that Wizened have devoted
themselves to can also consume them. Any time a Wizened fails a roll
related to their unique talent, its a Clarity break.

Concepts:
But youre a Wizened, arent you? they all say. Arent you supposed to
be good at something? they chide. They dont know what she can do, its
not as obvious as theyd hope, but on the day they understand, truly
understand, it will be like the fire of heaven, scorching the ignorant. Until
that day, though, she takes their abuse quietly and devotes her self more
deeply.

If only he could do it himself! His vision is clear, his tools are perfect, its
the models that keep failing! Why cant they hold still longer? Why cant
they smile just the right way?! Hes considering alternative paths to the
perfect tableau. Desperately.

She cant hear your words, and while she can read lips when shes paying
attention, shes almost never paying attention. The music is in her head,
and she doesnt need hearing to confirm if its correct. She just knows. All
other concerns are secondary.
Contracts
The oldest Contracts hail from the dawn of Arcadia, when the True Fae bargained with the world
to let them move beyond the laws that constrain mere mortals. While the Gentry care little for the
other citizens of Faerie, their omnipresence is such that these bargains also apply (albeit to a
lesser extent) to their subjects. Any citizen of Arcadia, including changelings, may claim the
benefit of a Contract as her right. This claim requires conscious effort, represented by finding a
teacher, a tome detailing the Contract, or meditating extensively upon the nature of the deal. It
also requires acknowledgment of her status as denizen of Arcadia; something a changeling might
find empowering as she takes back her fate, or which might serve as a painful reminder that she
is no longer human.
Once a changeling claims a Contract as her own, it forever changes her. A Contract isn't just
something the changeling uses; it's part of what she is. Entering a Contract with smoke makes the
world seem a little bit darker, while entering a Contract with stone gives her skin a mottled gray
appearance. When the changeling invokes a Contract, she can perceive the power it was
bargained from, be it as whispers in flames, faces in stone, or another effect.
In addition to the ancient deals bargained for by the Gentry, a changeling can also enter Court
Contracts and Goblin Contracts. Like Universal Contracts, Court Contracts are initially made by
a thirdparty, the Court, and a changeling can buy into them if she is a member of that Court.
Each Court has its own Contracts and requirements for membership, and most changelings find
the benefits of joining worthwhile. A changeling can also circumvent Universal Contracts and
Court Contracts altogether, by entering a new Contract of her own. These are called Goblin
Contracts and, as the name implies, are struck between a changeling and a goblin. Though
powerful, Goblin Contracts carry a risk since they require the changeling to leave part of herself
with the goblin. No one knows if the goblin empowers the Contract directly, or simply brokers it
on behalf of another entity, which could leave the changeling connected to an unwelcome
partner.
Universal and Goblin Contracts are shaped through Wyrd as the changeling uses her fae heritage
to alter the world around her, and these Contracts increase in power when her Wyrd rises. Court
Contracts, on the other hand, are shaped through Mantle. Contracts exact a further payment in
Glamour, though the Gentry dislike being pinned down and every Contract has a loophole a
catch through which payment can be avoided.
How Contracts work
Each Contract has a dot rating which costs one experience per dot. Most have no prerequisites
and can be bought immediately. Every Contract also has favored seemings that invoke effects in
addition to the basic Contract. If a changeling is of that seeming, she gains the effect for free
upon purchasing the Contract. Otherwise, she may learn the effect from a teacher and pay one
experience for it. A player can purchase as many favored effects per Contract as she wishes and
can activate none, any, or all of them, as long as she pays all their costs (if any) regardless of
using the Catch.
Seeming effects are flavored to fit that Seeming. A Contract that allows an Elemental to create
lava traps in her path, lets a Wizened rapidly craft small clockwork monsters to attack pursuers.
Players are encouraged to further tailor a Contract's effects to her character. When your character
invokes Light-Shy, does she hear her Keeper's raspy whispers, or see her doom spelled in the f?
Some Contracts have multiple dot ratings, with the higher version having greater effects. If your
character has the lesser version, she can improve her Contract rating by paying the difference in
experience; she doesnt have to purchase the greater version as a new Contract altogether.
If a Contract lists a resisted or contested trait for the target, the target can choose to abandon
resistance if hes willing, and either understands the Contract, or is aware the changeling is
conducting some form of magic on him.
Unless otherwise noted, Contracts, last for the current scene. A changeling can end a Contracts
effect before its full duration. Negative effects and Conditions gained through Contracts, cannot
be shed by ending the power prematurely. The Storyteller decides when any granted Tilts or
Conditions (positive or negative) end.
Catches
Contracts have catches, which are specific conditions in which the Contract has no cost. The
character can also choose to fulfill the catch and still spend one Glamour, to make that Contract
reflexive if it would normally take an instant action. She can activate any given Contract
reflexively only once per turn, but may activate multiple Contracts if she can spend the Glamour
and fulfill all their catches.

Clash of Wills
Occasionally, two supernatural powers oppose each other. This is resolved in a
Clash of Wills. Both players roll an Attribute + Wyrd. If the power employs a
Finesse Attribute, use that one in the Clash of Wills. Otherwise, the Storyteller
decides which is appropriate. Contracts of a longer duration grant a dice bonus:
+1 if the Contracts lasts until sunrise/sunset or a day, +2 if the duration is a week,
+3 if the duration is a month, and +4 if the duration is a year or longer. The effect
invoked by the winning player resolves as normal, while the conflicting power
doesn't affect her.
If the opposing creature is a different type of supernatural creature, her player
rolls a Clash of Wills using a dice pool dictated in her respective book. For
example, vampires use Blood Potency + Discipline dots, and werewolves use
Primal Urge + Renown. Since each game uses different rules for supernatural
powers, this system is meant to abstract struggles between wildly different
abilities.

Universal Contracts
The following are available to any character.

One Dot Contracts

Bite of the Wooden Fang ()
You have escaped Faerie, but your flight through the Hedge remains with you forever. You call
on the Hedge to empower a blunt wooden weapon, and dozens of thorns erupt on its surface.
Cost: 1 Glamour
Dice Pool: Dexterity + Brawl + Wyrd
Action: Reflexive
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The thorns bite back, causing the changeling to drop her weapon. This
instills one lethal damage, and the Arm Wrack or another appropriate Tilt.
Failure: The weapon gains no bonus.
Success: Thorny growths appear along the length of the weapon (intended, or improvised),
granting an additional +2 to the weapons damage rating for the scene.
Exceptional Success: As per success, but any successful strike with the weapon causes an
appropriate Tilt, depending on the nature of the weapon and blow.
Elemental: The Elemental sprouts tendrils of her element from her weapon, granting three
additional dice to grapple and ensnare her target.
Ogre: The Ogre's weapon comes down with such force, that she strikes the ground and causes
the Earthquake Tilt with a rating equal to her Wyrd.
Catch: The weapon is made of a piece of Hedge.
Changeling Fate ( to )
Being abducted was the worst of luck; escaping the best. Living through both extremes, you can
sense and manipulate the strands of fate.
Cost: 2 Glamour
Dice Pool: Wits + Occult + Wyrd vs. Resolve + Wyrd
Action: Instant
Duration: One turn
Dramatic Failure: The Contract turns against the changeling as per Success.
Failure: Fate remains unchanged.
Success: The changeling can add or subtract two dice from the target's dice pool, or lower or
raise his exceptional threshold by one, per Contract dot.
Example: With Changeling Fate , you can add or subtract four dice from his dice pool, or lower
or raise his exceptional threshold by two, or add or subtract two dice while also lowering or
raising his exceptional threshold by one.
Exceptional Success: The changeling sees beyond luck, and into skill. The Storyteller reveals
your target's worst and best dice pools, though not their dot ratings.
Ogre: The target suffers from the Shaken Condition whenever he uses the cursed dice pool,
until the sun next crosses the horizon.
Wizened: After seeing the target's roll, you may direct them to reroll. The second roll stands.
Catch: The changeling deliberately botches (take a dramatic failure) one of her own actions this
scene.
Ban: Changeling Fate can be on a given target only once a day. Attempting to use this Contract
on the same target more often, results in the changeling herself becoming cursed.
Cloak of the Elements ( to )
The changeling cloaks herself in one element, granting her protection and allowing her to cause
harm with the element.
Cost: 1 Glamour
Dice Pool: Stamina + Occult + Wyrd
Action: Instant
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The character takes damage from the element equal to one half her Wyrd,
rounded down.
Failure: The Contract fails to work.
Success: The character surrounds herself in one element for a number of turns equal to
successes. She gains immunity to natural instances of the element, and suffers only half damage
(rounded down) from magical sources. The element forms an armor around the character,
affording her 1/1 armor per dot invested in the Contract to all incoming attacks, either mundane
or based in her element. Additionally, the armor damages anyone who comes in close, dealing
one lethal damage per turn to anyone the character could reach with her hand.
Exceptional Success: The elemental armor deals two lethal damage per turn instead.
Elemental: Elemental characters can cloak themselves in two elements at the same time.
Fairest: The changeling gains a +1 bonus per dot invested in the Contract to all Intimidation
rolls.
Catch: The changeling is touching the element when she invokes the Contract.

Elements as Contracts
Just like the Elemental Seeming in the terms of Contracts, elements refer to broad
categories of environmental factors, not exactly elements from the periodic table.
Examples include fire, water, wind, earth, wood, metal, darkness, light, and any
refinement of those that make sense.
Creeping Dread ()
A changeling can use this Contract to make people more susceptible to fear and intimidation. Her
victim initially feels a light touch of fear that grows quickly into a state of jumpiness and
paranoia.
Cost: 1 Glamour/target
Dice Pool: Manipulation + Empathy + Wyrd vs. Resolve + Wyrd
Action: Contested; resistance is reflexive
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The changelings Contract turns against her giving her the Spooked
Condition.
Failure: The Contract fails and has no effect on the target.
Success: The victims ability to resist fear and intimidation is impaired, and he suffers a penalty
equal to the changelings Wyrd to resist fear or intimidation. The changeling spends one
Glamour per victim she is targeting with this Contract. She must be able to see her victims to use
this power.
Exceptional Success: The target also suffers from the Shaken Condition.
Darkling: The changeling also applies the Spooked Condition to her target.
Fairest: The changeling can choose to instead make her targets trust her implicitly, giving him
a penalty equal to her Wyrd to resist persuasion from the changeling.
Catch: The changeling uses this Contract while in the shadows.
Fang and Talon ( to )
The character takes on aspects of the beast, allowing him to move and perceive as the beast does.
Cost: 1 Glamour
Dice Pool: Wits + Animal Ken + Wyrd
Action: Instant
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The characters senses are muddled and he suffers a -3 penalty to all
perception rolls for the rest of the scene.
Failure: The Contract fails to function.
Success: This Contract can invoke three different effects. The changeling chooses one when she
purchases this power at one dot, and the second and third as she invests in the second and third
dots. Each time this Contract is activated, the character benefits from each effect has access to.
The character gains the senses of a beast, giving her a +1 bonus per success gained to all
perception-based rolls for the rest of the scene.
The character gains the mode of transportation of a beast, increasing her Speed by +2 per
success rolled for the rest of the scene.
The character gains the attack of a beast, allowing her to treat her Brawl attacks as a weapon
with a rating of 0 lethal damage for the rest of the scene.
Exceptional Success: The effects of the Contract last for 24 hours.
Beast: Beast characters gain a +2 to her perception rolls per success, or +4 to Speed per success
gained.
Catch: The changeling sees or touches an animal as she invokes the Contract.
Inanimate Communion ( to )
By touching an object or device, the character can communicate with its spirit and learn its
secrets, such as when it was last used and by who, as well as any damage or weak points.
Cost: 1 Glamour
Dice Pool: Wits + Crafts + Wyrd
Action: Instant
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The character misinterprets the objects information and suffers a -2 penalty
when attempting to use or repair the device for the next scene.
Failure: The character gains no information from the object.
Success: The character learns the objects secrets, giving her an advantage when working with
the device. This Contract can invoke three different effects. The changeling chooses one when
she purchases this power at one dot, and the second and third as she invests in the second and
third dots. Each time this Contract is activated, the character benefits from each effect has access
to.
She knows how the object is constructed and all its weak points. Halve the objects Durability
(round down) for any attack she makes against the object. Add her Wyrd to rolls to repair or
modify the object.
She gains an instinctive knowledge on how to use the device to its utmost effect. Add her Wyrd
to dice rolls to wield, utilize, or employ the device.
She gains an impression of the last time the device was used. She has a vision of the person (or
persons) that last touched the object as well as the circumstances of the scene. She sees anyone
within 3 meters who is interacting with the person touching the object, but nothing beyond that.
Exceptional Success: The effects of the Contract last for 24 hours. Either the character can
repair, destroy, or gain his bonuses for that time, or she sees scenes from the objects use for up
to 24 hours. If the object had not been handled for a full 24 hours, then the changeling can view
the previous time it was used as well as the last time.
Wizened: Wizened characters gain the Informed Condition about the device upon activation of
this Contract.
Darkling: Darkling characters can spend a Glamour to summon a shadow representation of
whatever object she last used this Contract on, which lasts for a scene. The object functions
exactly as a mundane version of whatever the device is, with its normal equipment bonuses, but
it is clearly a shadow representation of the object. The changeling cannot replicate an item with a
Size higher than her Wyrd.
Catch: The object is owned by a close friend of the changeling, but does not belong to the
changeling.
Know the Competition ()
Living at the whim of the mercurial Fae, you see behavioral patterns in the slightest minutiae and
can take a rival's measure by playing a game against him.
Cost: 1 Glamour
Dice Pool: Wits + Socialize + Wyrd vs. Composure + Wyrd
Action: Instant
Duration: One week or until used
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The changeling misreads her opponent, and suffers the Misinformed
Condition on her next action against him.
Failure: The Contract yields no insights.
Success: After playing a game against her target (win or lose), the changeling gains insight to his
mind and adds a +4 dice bonus on any one roll against him.
Exceptional Success: The changeling knows her opponent so well, that she can invoke the
Contract again without the need for an additional game. All costs and rolls still apply.
Beast: If this Contract is successful, the Beast's rolls twice against her target (not the invocation
roll). The best roll stands.
Darkling: The Darkling invokes this Contract after observing her target in a game, rather than
playing him herself.
Catch: Her opponent challenged the changeling to the game.
Mask of Superiority ( to )
The use of this Contract allows the changeling to convince a single subject that she is a member
of his organization, or a person of some importance to this individual.
Cost: 1 Glamour per target
Dice Pool: Presence + Intimidation + Wyrd vs. Resolve + Wyrd
Action: Instant
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The subjects of the Contract take umbrage with the changelings obvious lies
and immediately becomes hostile towards her.
Failure: The Contract fails to work.
Success: The changeling convinces her subject that she is a respected member of whatever
organization he belongs to, as though she had a number of dots in the Status Merit equal to the
number of dots invested in this Contract. The changeling can spend Glamour to have this
Contract affect multiple targets (and each individually contests the original activation roll), but
her new Status must be in an organization or group common to all of her subjects. The effect of
this Contract lasts for a scene (and she may add new targets as the scene progresses).
Exceptional Success: Instead of convincing the subject she has Status in a similar organization,
she convinces him that she is a trusted Ally, as though she had the Ally Merit equal to the
number of dots invested in this Contract.
Fairest: The use of this Contract serves to open a single Door per dot invested in the Contract
as though the character had successfully completed a Social Maneuver on the targets.
 Ogre: An Ogre appears as security within an organization, adding her Contract dots to
Intimidation rolls against the subjects.
Catch: The changeling is wearing an article of clothing that could be perceived as part of a
uniform or normal mode of dress within the organization.
Pathfinder ()
Mingling practical navigation with omens and divination, you find Hollows, trods, local goblin
fruit and dreams spawned in the Hedge.
Cost: 1 Glamour
Dice Pool: Wits + Survival + Wyrd
Action: Instant
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The Contract yields inaccurate information, leading the changeling into
danger while she explores the Hedge and giving her the Hunted Condition.
Failure: The changeling learns nothing useful.
Success: The changeling gleans the following things: whether a particular feature exists in the
local Hedge, what the general direction of that feature is, and its distance from the changeling's
current position. Only information about the Hedge itself is yielded, not about the creatures
lurking within.
Exceptional Success: As success, and the changeling gains the Informed Condition while
dealing with this part of the Hedge.
Beast: The Beast's finely honed instincts yield information about nearby creatures.
Elemental: The Elemental automatically knows if goblin fruits grow nearby and if they are
beneficial or detrimental.
Catch: The changeling has plucked a thorn from the local Hedge and left a drop of blood while
doing so, within the last day.
Read Lucidity ()
Innately familiar with the ebb and tide of lunacy, you can read another Lost's mental stability at a
single glance.
Cost: 1 Glamour
Dice Pool: Manipulation + Empathy + Wyrd vs. Composure + Wyrd
Action: Instant
Duration: Instant
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The changeling misreads the target, and the Storyteller tells you a random
Clarity rating (which your character believes). Additionally, she take the Misinformed Condition.
Failure: The changeling can't read her target.
Success: The changeling gains a sense of the subjects Clarity. While this translates to your
Storyteller telling you a dot rating, your character interprets this organically. The changeling also
knows from which Clarity-related Conditions her target suffers.
Exceptional Success: The changeling uncovers the circumstances of the target's last drop in
Clarity.
Darkling: With an exceptional success, the Darkling makes the subject immediately undergo a
Clarity breaking point.
Fairest: The Fairest grants the Acuity Condition to a changeling once per story.
Catch: The changeling touches the target, skintoskin.
Reflections of the Past ( to )
Arcadia and the Gentry are but empty reflections of dreams and nightmares. Embracing this
nihilism in yourself, you look beyond a reflective surface and into the past.
Cost: 1 Glamour per dot used
Dice Pool: Intelligence + Occult + Wyrd
Action: Instant
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The reflection shows a false event, and the changeling takes the Misinformed
Condition.
Failure: The changeling doesn't see the past.
Success: The changeling states a time, and sees that moment as it originally reflected in the
surface (it might be blurry or obscured). Anyone watching sees the same vision. The changeling
sees further back by invoking more dots of this Contract, with one dot equaling a week, two a
month, three a season, four a year and five a decade.
Exceptional Success: The reflection is clearer than the original. The changeling can look around
the edges of the pool, seeing more of the vision.
Wizened: The Wizened commands the surface to show a specific object without stating an
exact time. She states the Contract dots she wants to spend; if the object's reflection didn't pass
within that time, it fails.
Fairest: The Fairest commands the surface to show a specific person without stating an exact
time. She states the Contract dots she wants to spend; if the person's reflection didn't pass within
that time, it fails.
Catch: The reflective surface belongs to someone to whom the changeling has a close emotional
connection.
Trivial Reworking ()
The changeling can temporarily change and reshape a small object. She can change the shape of
an object as well as the image on the object, but these changes are always minor.
Cost: 1 Glamour
Dice Pool: Wits + Crafts + Wyrd
Action: Instant
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The object is broken and cannot be used for any purpose.
Failure: The Contract fails and the object remains unchanged.
Success: The changeling can take any object of Size 1 and reshape it into a similar object. The
basic shape of the object remains the same, though it is changed to a new purpose. For example,
a changeling could change the image and information on a drivers license to have her picture
and say anything she wants, but she couldnt turn the ID card into a credit card. Careful
examination via specialized equipment or professionals trained to find such things can identify
the objects as fake, but otherwise appear real to the casual observer. The changes last for a scene.
Exceptional Success: Changes to the object lasts for the next 24 hours.
Wizened: The character can change the image on any two-dimensional object of any size,
though he cannot change the objects form.
Ogre: The character can use this Contract on an object Size 3 or smaller.
Catch: The character is changing an object that she has owned for a least one year.

Two Dot Contracts

Boon of the Scuttling Spider ()
This Contract allows the changeling to move across any solid surface strong enough to support
her weight.
Cost: 1 Glamour
Dice Pool: Dexterity + Athletics + Wyrd
Action: Instant
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The character stumbles and falls prone and loses her next action.
Failure: The Contract fails to work.
Success: The character can walk or run along walls, ceilings, or slick surfaces that would
normally be treacherous to attempt to cross. The surface must be solid enough to carry the
characters weight, even if she is clinging to it, such as a ceiling. She can move at normal Speed,
and can act without hindrance while moving in this fashion.
Exceptional Success: The character is not only able to move across her chosen path, but she is
so deft at her movements that she gains a +2 to her Dexterity while using this Contract.
Darkling: The character is surrounded by a shroud of darkness that extends 5 meters from her
body. Anyone else acting within the shroud or attempting to attack someone within it suffers the
Blind Tilt.
Beast: The changeling exudes a gossamer film which defends her from pursuers. As an instant
action, she may attack with this web using Dexterity + Athletics. If successful, the victim is
grappled. The web itself may only use the Immobilize maneuver, and its effective Strength +
Brawl is equal to your characters Wyrd.
Catch: The changeling is following the path of an actual spider along the surface she is
traveling.
Changeling Hours ()
Time means nothing to Faerie, where years pass in less than a single night in the mortal realm.
You call upon this temporal fluidity to rewind, freeze or speed a non-living object in time.
Cost: 2 Glamour
Dice Pool: Intelligence + Crafts + Wyrd object's Size
Action: Instant
Duration: One day
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: An item carried by the changeling, chosen by the Storyteller, begins to age
rapidly. Steel becomes nothing but rust, clothes turn into tattered rags, and food is riddled with
maggots.
Failure: The object is unaffected.
Success: This Contract can invoke three different effects. The changeling chooses one when she
purchases this power at two dots. A second and third power are bought at three and four dots
respectively.
Rewind the clock: The item becomes as if it were newly made. Any damage done not by age
remains, nor are missing parts replaced.
Speed the clock: The item begins to corrode, suffering one damage per turn which ignores
Durability, up to a total damage equal to the successes rolled.
Freeze the clock: The item is frozen in time and place, making it impossible to move and
immune to damage.
Exceptional success: The changeling can choose to make the effect permanent.
Elemental: The Elemental also affects flora, though not people, with this Contract.
Fairest: The Fairest affects people, including Changelings, with this Contract.
Catch: The changeling knows the name of a former (not current) owner of the object.
Dreamsteps ()
You step into the dreams of a nearby sleeper, to travel from the mortal world to the Hedge and
back. While you physically travel through the dream and might encounter creatures there, the
journey takes place at the speed of thought meaning no time passes in the mortal world.
Cost: 1 Glamour
Dice Pool: Intelligence + Occult + Wyrd
Action: Instant
Duration: Instant
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The changeling becomes trapped, allowing the Storyteller to run a dream
sequence. The changeling is expelled into the mortal world near her starting position when the
dream ends. Any injuries sustained in the dream, remain.
Failure: The changeling cannot enter the dream.
Success: The changeling enters the dream, and travels from the mortal world to the local Hedge,
or vice versa. She emerges in the general area of her choice, and can stipulate one additional
condition for each success rolled (e.g. where no one sees me, or under the old willow).
Exceptional Success: The changeling sees a glimpse of the dreamer's soul, granting her the
Informed Condition.
Fairest: The Fairest gains one free reroll as the sleeper's mind bends to her presence. The best
roll stands.
Catch: The changeling brings a physical object that she crafted herself, and leaves it behind in
the dream. The sleeper feels drawn to the changeling as long as the item remains, though the
Storyteller determines whether this affection is positive or negative. The item can be retrieved
and used by other dream walkers.
Glimpse of a Distant Mirror ()
Mirror space is a kin to Arcadia and you can bend it. Looking into one reflective surface, you see
out of another in which your face has been reflected before.
Cost: 1 Glamour
Dice Pool: Manipulation + Subterfuge + Wyrd
Action: Instant
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The effect is reversed, and anyone looking into the receiving surface sees the
changeling. The changeling is unaware of this.
Failure: The changeling sees her own reflection.
Success: The changeling, and anyone watching with her, can see out of the receiving surface.
The medium must have reflected her face before and the vision is only as clear as the surface
allows. The changeling is visible in a corner of the reflection, and astute observers may see her.
Exceptional Success: The vision is clear regardless of the medium. Furthermore, both the
changeling and anyone on the other side can hear sounds transmitted through the medium.
Beast: Harking back to the legend of Beauty and the Beast, Beasts have a special affinity for
this Contract. She may look out of any surface reflecting a person who is currently under an oath
to her or invoking her name, even if the medium hasn't previously reflected the Beast.
Darkling: The Darkling's image in the receiving surface is obscured and yields no details to
her identity.
Catch: The owner of the mirror the changeling looks into has sworn enmity against her.
LightShy ()
You become as ephemeral as a dream, and shadows cloak you in the obscurity of forgotten
memories.
Cost: 1 Glamour
Dice Pool: Dexterity + Stealth + Wyrd
Action: Instant
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: Shadows retreat from the changeling and she gains the Shadowless
Condition.
Failure: The changeling remains visible.
Success: The changeling cloaks herself in shadows, gaining a +3 to all Stealthbased dice pools.
Additionally, witnesses suffer her Wyrd as a penalty to all rolls to notice her.
Exceptional Success: The changeling becomes truly invisible; even recording technology no
longer detects her.
Darkling: The Darkling spends a Willpower, and the target suffers her Wyrd as penalty to
notice her for the remainer of the week.
Wizened: Preferring to observe rather than be seen, the Wizened maintains this Contract as
long as she remains motionless.
Catch: The changeling has told a significant lie about herself to someone she cares about. This
lie must be great enough to harm the relationship if discovered. The lie need not be recent, but
the threat it poses must still be viable.
Might of the Terrible Brute ()
The character temporarily gains the ability to use her strength more effectively.
Cost: 1 Glamour
Dice Pool: Strength + Athletics + Wyrd
Action: Reflexive
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The character strains her muscles and suffers the Arm Wrack Tilt for the
remainder of the scene.
Failure: The changelings Strength is unaffected.
Success: The character adds her dots in Wyrd to her dots in Strength for a number of turns equal
to successes. This can bring her over her normal dot limit dictated by her Wyrd.
Exceptional Success: The bonus Strength lasts for a scene.
Ogre: Ogre characters always exceptionally succeed when using this Contract.
Beast: Beast characters may add her dots in Wyrd to her dots in Dexterity instead.
Catch: The character is fighting multiple opponents.
Murkblur ()
You call on the myriad deceptions and distractions of Arcadia to obscure another's vision.
Cost: 2 Glamour
Dice Pool: Manipulation + Subterfuge + Wyrd vs. Resolve + Wyrd
Action: Instant and contested
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: Light and color painfully enhances the changeling's sight. She gains the
Stunned Tilt for one turn, and the Blinded Tilt for the rest of the scene.
Failure: The target is unaffected.
Success: The target gains the Blinded Tilt for the scene.
Exceptional Success: As success, but the changeling also dulls her target's other senses,
instilling the Deafened Tilt.
Fairest: The Fairest overwhelms her target's senses, instilling the Insensate Tilt for one turn.
Ogre: The Ogre cuts her target's senses off so completely, that he takes the Stunned Tilt for one
turn.
Catch: The changeling swallows the eye of an animal or person while invoking the Contract.
Nevertread ()
Your passage is as ephemeral as a dream, and you leave only tokens and emptiness in your wake.
Cost: 1 Glamour
Dice Pool: Dexterity + Stealth + Wyrd
Action: Instant
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The changeling's footmarks stand out, giving her the Marked Condition.
Failure: The changeling's passage is unchanged.
Success: The changeling changes her footsteps, leaving a trail of hooves, broken twigs, or
whatever else she desires, and inflicting a 4 dice penalty to track her. Footmarks changed with
this Contract, remain altered after the scene ends.
Exceptional Success: The changeling's footmarks disappear altogether, inflicting the Lost
Condition on anyone tracking her.
Beast: The Beast places her mark on a number of people equal to her Wyrd. Everyone marked,
gains the benefit of this Contract while traveling with the Beast.
Elemental: The Elemental leaves patches of ephemeral elements in her wake, effectively
setting traps as per the Safe Place Merit equal to her Wyrd.
Catch: The changeling leaves a note, bloody fingerprint or other clue of her passing. This can be
hidden, but must provide a clue to her identity if found.
Nights Subtle Distractions ()
This Contract allows the changeling to heighten the physical conditions that limit perception,
cloaking herself in darkness and enhancing the sounds and smells of the night to cover her
passage.
Cost: 1 Glamour
Dice Pool: Dexterity + Stealth + Wyrd
Action: Instant
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The targets are unaffected and instead the changeling and anyone she
attempts to exclude from the effect suffer from the effects of the Contract.
Failure: The Contract fails to affect anyones perceptions.
Success: The changeling is able to distract her opponents. For the rest of the scene, targets suffer
the changelings Wyrd as a penalty to notice or spot her. The changeling can affect a number of
targets equal to her successes on activating this Contract within a 50 ft. area.
Exceptional Success: The changeling affected by this Contract may use Stealth-based actions as
reflexive actions.
Darkling: Darklings only require three successes to achieve an exceptional success on this
Contract.
Elemental: Elementals may inflict an Extreme Heat or Extreme Cold Environmental Tilt
within the area.
Catch: The Contract is invoked outdoors at night.
Thorns and Brambles ()
You summon part of the Hedge to ensnare your enemies. You can use this Contract within the
Hedge itself if you dare.
Cost: 2 Glamour
Dice Pool: Wits + Survival + Wyrd
Action: Instant
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: Brambles cling to the changeling, draining one point of Glamour. They
establish a grapple (see p. XX) and use the damage maneuver with a rating equal to your
characters Wyrd. A dramatic failure in the Hedge, also instills the Lost Condition.
Failure: The Contract has no effect, or if used in the Hedge brambles erupt as per dramatic
failure.
Success: This Contract invokes three different effects. The changeling chooses one when she
purchases this power at two dots. A second power and third power are bought with a third and
fourth dot respectively. The brambles spread three meters in diameter, or smaller if the
changeling desires. Additional Glamour spent upon activation add meters to the diameter, at a
rate of one for one.
Leechweed: Brambles drain anyone they prick of one Glamour per turn, up to the changelings
Wyrd per victim. Targets can avoid being pricked by reducing their Speed to 2 or less.
Briarpatch: Brambles growing in the changeling's wake, entangle her enemies. Targets have
their movementrelated dice rolls reduced by the changelings Wyrd.
Field of Thorns: Brambles form around the changeling, attacking anyone who tries to break
through and using the changelings Wyrd as dice pool. They inflicts lethal damage and ignore
Defense (though Armor still applies). The brambles attack any given character only once per
turn. Field of Thorns does not move with the changeling.
Exceptional Success: You invoke two effects, even if you haven't purchased a second power.
The summoned Hedge also sprouts a beneficial goblin fruit of Storyteller's choosing, which
grows for a single day.
Darkling: If the Darkling uses Briarpatch, her pursuers become stuck; they cannot move until
they've used an instant action to break free.
Ogre: The Ogre adds her Strength to her Wyrd for determining Field of Thorns' effects.
Catch: The changeling litters a handful of Hedge thorns behind her.
Touch of the Workmans Wrath ()
The character can disable or seriously damage a device or vehicle with a mere touch.
Cost: 1 Glamour
Dice Pool: Manipulation + Crafts + Wyrd
Action: Instant
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The Contract takes effect on an unintended object, causing something nearby
to cease functioning or break.
Failure: The Contract fails and the device is unharmed.
Success: By touching the device, the changeling deals 1 level of damage to the object for each
success on the activation of the Contract. This can be in addition to an attack or other attempt to
normally break it.
Exceptional Success: The changeling deals damage directly to the Structure of an item, ignoring
its Durability.
Wizened: Wizened are capable of damaging a device by simply looking at it and
concentrating. The character must be able to see the object she wishes to disable.
Elemental: The changeling changes the substance of the device, making it brittle, reducing the
objects Durability by one-half her Wyrd rating (rounded down).
Catch: The Contract is used on a device that belongs to someone who owes the Changeling.
This could be because the person made a deal, borrowed or stole something from the changeling.
Vainglory ( to )
The changeling temporarily abandons her Mask, but does not actually scour it away. She shows
her Mein to onlookers which can dazzle, terrify or confuse humans.
Cost: 1 Glamour
Dice Pool: Presence + Intimidation + Wyrd vs. Composure + Wyrd
Action: Contested; resistance is reflexive
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The character appears clumsy and harmless causing her to suffer a -2 penalty
to all actions for the rest of the scene.
Failure: The characters appearance is unchanged.
Success: The character appears in her true form to humans, but does not actually scour away her
Mask. Cameras record her Mask, and people remember her as impressive, but not supernatural.
Supernatural creatures still remember the changelings true form, but this act does not open
Hedge gates or call Huntsmen to the character, but neither does she benefit from the Exceptional
success rule normally associated with scouring her Mask.
This Contract can invoke three different effects. The changeling chooses one when she purchases
this power at two dots. A second may be bought when she invests in a third dot, and she gains
access to all three when she has invested in four dots of the Contract.
Splendor of the Envoys Protection: Onlookers are awed by the changeling. Anyone looking at
the character gains the Swooning Condition. In addition, as long as the changeling does not
brandish a weapon or attempt to harm anyone, ordinary humans cannot actually harm her except
by accident. If the character personally threatens or attacks someone, the Contracts effects
immediately end.
Mantle of Terrible Beauty: Onlookers are driven insane by the presence of the changeling. A
single contested roll may be made reflexively for a crowd based on the highest Composure
present. Those affected gain the Delusional Condition. This power affects anyone who sees the
changeling for its duration, not just those present for its activation.
Words of Memories Never Lived: The changelings mien confuses those who see her, making
them pliable to suggestion. The changeling can implant a new memory on the group, or remove a
single shared memory, which lasts for 24 hours. The memory either implanted or removed
must be a concise memory, or an event lasting no longer than ten minutes. For example, the
changeling can remove the memory of exactly where the group is located, or the last ten minutes
of the meeting they were in, but cannot implant a complex memory about a shared childhood
friend.
Exceptional Success: The duration of Splendor of the Envoys Protection is persistent until the
target gains or loses Clarity/Integrity and the duration of Words of Memories Never Lived
becomes permanent. Those affected by Mantle of Terrible Beauty are also affected by the
Insensate Tilt.
 Fairest: When using Splendor of the Envoys Protection, the changeling can additionally
impart the Inspired Condition on those who see her, by asking them to perform a single task for
her.
Darkling: When using Mantle of Terrible Beauty, the changeling gains a +3 bonus to activate
the power.
Wizened: When using Words of Memories Never Lived, the changeling may gain the Informed
Condition in regards to information gleaned from a single individual in the group.
Catch: This Contract is invoked in a room with at least a dozen people.

Three Dot Contracts

Blessing of Perfection ()
By handling and making small adjustments to a weapon, vehicle or other device, the changeling
can bless the object, making it easier to use and more efficient. The Contract may also be used to
bless a crafting action, such as repairing, creating, or even treating an injury.
Cost: 2 Glamour
Dice Pool: Dexterity + Crafts + Wyrd
Action: Instant
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The changeling accidentally curses the device permanently, causing it to
malfunction and stop working at random times. Additionally, anyone attempting to utilize the
object suffers a -2 penalty.
Failure: The Contract fails leaving the device unaffected.
Success: The object gains a bonus equal to the changelings Wyrd to all die rolls made using it
for the next full scene.
If the changeling uses this Contract to augment an appropriate Crafts, Medicine, or Computer
action, she can add her Wyrd to the rolls involved in that specific action.
Exceptional Success: The blessed object retains its bonus to all die rolls made to use it until the
sun next rises or sets (whichever comes first).
If the changeling is using the Contract to augment her crafting action, the player gains the
Informed Condition about the project.
Wizened: Wizened require only four successes to achieve an exceptional success on this
Contract.
Fairest: The fairest may use the Contract to augment her ability to seduce, persuade, and
endear herself to others. She may apply her Wyrd to appropriate Expression, Persuasion, and
Socialize rolls.
Catch: The Contract is used on a device that belongs to someone the changeling has only
recently met either just now or once before in exchange for a small favor.
Control Elements ()
The changeling can summon and control an element, causing it to act and move in a directed
fashion.
Cost: 2 Glamour
Dice Pool: Manipulation + Persuasion + Wyrd
Action: Instant
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The element reacts in a wild and dangerous manner for the next scene.
Failure: The character fails to control the element.
Success: The character successfully calls forth and element and can control it. She can speak
with it and direct it to act, or learn information from it. She can choose to inflict one of the
following Environmental Tilts on an area with a 5 meter diameter per success in size
Blizzard, Earthquake, Flooded, Heavy Winds, or Inferno.
She can move her element at a rate of 5 meters per dot of Wyrd per turn. She can shape the area,
allowing the element to form a wall or barrier between herself and others. She can control solid
elements and have them move about or roll around, including mechanical devices primarily
made up of the chosen element. If she is controlling electricity, she can use it to power electronic
devices. Material has an effective Strength equal to your characters Wyrd for tearing away from
bindings, or making attacks on others.
Exceptional Success: The changeling adds +3 to her Wyrd for determining all effects of this
Contract.
Elemental: The character can control two elements at the same time.
Darkling: Summoned elements have a darkness around them and anyone caught in the area of
her Environmental Tilts suffer from the Blindness Tilt as well.
Catch: The character is calling an element to show off.
Discreet Conjuration ()
The character can remove a small object from a pocket or a drawer or any other location where
the object could be even if the object wasnt there before this Contracts use.
Cost: 2 Glamour
Dice Pool: Manipulation + Larceny + Wyrd
Action: Instant
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The character retrieves an item that is completely useless or exceedingly
awkward to have at the moment.
Failure: The Contract fails and the character finds nothing new in the location.
Success: The character reaches into a small location she cannot see into, such as a handbag or a
drawer and pulls out an item no larger of Size 1. This item can be anything the character has seen
or handled before. The item is the most basic of its kind, but fully functional and ready to use
a camera takes pictures, a smartphone can make calls and access a wi-fi connection, and a gun
shoots bullets from its fully loaded clip. Objects created this way cannot have special qualifier,
such as a gun having special types of ammunition loaded in, or water that has been blessed. No
matter what item the character conjures forward, it cannot carry a value higher than what could
be purchased with Resources 3.
The object vanishes after one scene or as soon as it leaves the characters hands or the character
stops paying attention to it, whichever comes first.
Exceptional Success: The item conjured can be of Size 5 or smaller, and can be of a value
purchased with Resources 5.
Wizened: Items created by this Contract by Wizened remain until the end of the scene,
regardless if the character is holding the object or paying attention to it.
Darkling: A Darkling may pull an object out of any dark space or shadow that she cannot see
the end of.
Catch: The changeling is pulling an object from a location belonging to, or guarded by, an
enemy.
Flickering Hours ()
Selecting the right trods, you alter the passage of time for yourself and any companions while in
the Hedge.
Cost: 2 Glamour for the changeling alone, 2 Glamour + 1 Willpower for a group
Dice Pool: Wits + Occult + Wyrd vs. Resolve + Wyrd
Action: Instant
Duration: Until exiting the Hedge
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The changeling finds that far more, or far less time (Storyteller's choice) has
passed than she hoped.
Failure: Time remains unchanged.
Success: The changeling changes the passage of time for herself and any companions traveling
with her, or for herself and a number of people equal to her Wyrd traveling separately. This
Contract is activated when entering the Hedge, but extends to any companions you pick up on
the way if using the first application. Time is either slowed by half, or sped up by two for
everyone affected.
Exceptional Success: Rather than speed or slow time for everyone, the changeling chooses who
is quickened and who slowed. Anyone quickened gains the Fleet of Foot merit, with dots equal
to the changeling's Wyrd, until the sun next crosses the horizon.
Elemental: The path becomes nearly impassable in the Elemental's wake, and suffers the
mechanical effects of the Ice Tilt.
Fairest: The Fairest ages or rejuvenates herself and/or her subjects by one year when using this
Contract. This effect is permanent.
Catch: The changeling smashes an antique clock or other old timekeeping instrument as she
activates the Contract.
Mirror Walk ()
You step into one mirror and, instantly traversing mirror space, out another.
Cost: 2 Glamour
Dice Pool: Dexterity + Athletics + Wyrd
Action: Instant
Duration: One turn
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The changeling becomes lost in mirror space. You roll each hour to return
her to her original position. If she was reaching for an object, she drops it in mirror space and it
becomes lost (though it can be retrieved with powers that reach into mirror space).
Failure: The mirror remains solid.
Success: The changeling steps into one reflective surface and out of another. Both surfaces must
be large enough for her, and she must have physically touched them before. She can bring
another person by holding hands, at a surcharge of one Willpower. The changeling can also
reach through the mirror, allowing her to take an object from the other side. She can see through
the surfaces while this Contract is active.
Exceptional Success: The mirrors remain portals for this scene, and anyone may pass through
freely (without the changeling's permission) in either direction.
Beast: After a dramatic failure, the Beast powers through and escapes to the target destination,
rather than the original.
Darkling: The Darkling becomes mirror-like after exiting the portal, only reflecting what is
already in the room. This renders her invisible to the naked eye for a number of turns equal to her
Wyrd.
Catch: A blood relative is currently reflected in the receiving surface.
Game Master's Table ()
War is just another game to the Fae. Using any game, you glean the tides of battle and direct
your troops.
Cost: 1 Glamour + 1 Willpower
Dice Pool: Presence + Expression + Wyrd
Action: Instant
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The changeling relays false information to the army, inflicting the Lost
Condition on the troops.
Failure: The battle is unaffected.
Success: The game moves on its own to represent the battlefield, granting the changeling the
Informed Condition. She can change the game to represent her wishes (e.g. moving a pawn to
capture a knight). Doing so lets a suitable warrior or unit leader know what she wants, though he
is under no compulsion to comply (if he refuses, the change resets).
All information gained is global. If a piece falls, the changeling knows which warrior is
incapacitated, but not whether he was captured, injured or killed. Likewise, she can let a warrior
know that she wants him to take a bridge, but not that he needs to do so stealthily. The
changeling decides whether the selected warrior is the only one aware of the order, or if other
warriors do too, allowing her to hand out secret or supported missions as needed.
Fairest: The Fairest extends the duration until the next sunrise or sunset.
Ogre: The Ogre grants her troops a bonus die to all actions.
Catch: The changeling uses a game piece that once belonged to the opposing commander.
Pipes of the Beastcaller ()
The changeling can talk to and command animals of a specified type. The character determines
the animal she wishes to call when she enacts the Contract.
Cost: 1 Glamour/species of animal
Dice Pool: Manipulation + Animal Ken + Wyrd
Action: Instant
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The animal either attacks the character, or completely misunderstands her
commands.
Failure: The character cannot communicate with the animal.
Success: The character sends out a call to summon all animals within a radius equal to her Wyrd
in miles. She can speak and communicate with these animals for a scene. With the expenditure of
glamour she can call and speak with an additional species of animal. She can give commands to
the animals, which attempt to obey to the best of their abilities. Hostile or unwilling animals may
attempt a Resolve + Composure to resist the call and commands of the changeling.
Exceptional Success: The character can control the animal for 24 hours.
Beast: Beast characters gain an empathic link to the animals she is commanding, allowing her
to give commands from a distance. She is also aware of its location and general physical
condition.
Ogre: The character can command two animals per Glamour he spends.
Catch: The changeling is requesting the animal to guard or watch his dwelling.
Portents and Visions ()
Time is malleable to the denizens of Arcadia, and you can see the past or future.
Cost: 1 Glamour
Dice Pool: Manipulation + Subterfuge + Wyrd vs. Composure + Wyrd if contested
Action: Instant, or instant and contested
Duration: Instant
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The changeling sees a false event, gaining the Misinformed Condition.
Failure: You gain no visions.
Success: You state if you want to see the past or future. Your character must see her target, and
can invoke this on herself by looking into a mirror.
Past: The changeling has a vision of the most impressive event that happened to the target. This
is not contingent on the target's memories: she might see a forgotten or suppressed event.
Future: The changeling sees the most important event in the target's next few days. The future is
not set in stone, and the changeling's involvement can alter it. The changeling (and the target if
she tells him) gains the Informed Condition.
Exceptional Success: The changeling may evoke emotions associated with the event in her
target; e.g. if the event was a night of passion, she reminds her target of his lover. The Storyteller
is encouraged to give the target a Tilt to represent this.
Ogre: The Ogre lends her strength to the target for a violent event to come. He gains the merit
Giant during the scene when (if) it comes to pass.
Wizened: The Wizened sees a traumatic past, and instills the Fugue Condition in her target
until the sun next passes the horizon.
Catch: The changeling has a childhood picture of her target.
RiddleKith ()
Calling upon the roiling chaos that is Faerie, you mold any mien into that of a kith of your
choosing.
Cost: 1 Glamour for a scene, or 1 Glamour + 1 Clarity until reversed
Dice Pool: Manipulation + Subterfuge + Wyrd vs. Resolve + Wyrd if contested
Action: Instant, or instant and contested
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The changeling sheds her own kith, but fails to assume another. Her body
becomes non-descript and she has no kith benefits this scene.
Failure: The changeling's mien is unchanged.
Success: The changeling alters her own or another changeling's features, to emulate a different
kith. Forcing a new kith upon an unwilling subject constitutes a breaking point, as she is
perpetrating the cruelty of the Gentry. This Contract cannot copy a specific changeling.
Exceptional Success: The changeling gains the benefits of the Dual Kith merit (her original and
the Riddle-Kith). She may purchase and keep the merit after the Contract ends.
 Elemental: The Elemental's fluid nature allows her to copy a specific changeling. This copy
passes visual inspection, but matching her target's mannerisms and behavior requires a Social
action
Fairest: The Fairest grants her subject a number of appropriate Merit dots equal to her Wyrd,
e.g. the Iron Skin merit to represent the physical resistance of a Draconian's scales.
Catch: The changeling has shared a meal with the kith she wishes to copy, within the last day.
Shared Burden ()
Calling upon stories of parents dying to protect their children, or lovers exchanging places in the
underworld, you make another's pain your own.
Cost: 1 Glamour + 1 health level per 2 health levels healed.
Dice Pool:
Action: Instant
Duration: Instant
Effect: The changeling negates 2 wounds on another's body. The most grievous of these injuries
(aggravated first, lethal next, then bruised) appears on her own body, and a second is lost to the
Contract.
Example: If the changeling's companion has suffered two lethal and one bruising damage, the
changeling transfers a lethal damage to herself. Her act of sacrifice compels the Contract to
negate another lethal damage. The beneficiary now has one bruising damage, and the changeling
one lethal. If the beneficiary has one aggravated, one lethal and one bruising damage, the
changeling takes the aggravated wound, the Contract negates the lethal, and the target is left with
the bruising.
Ogre: The Ogre's Contract heals 2 health levels per 1 absorbed.
Wizened: Skilled in the art of healing, a Wizened takes the lesser of the injuries rather than the
greater onto her own body.
Catch: The changeling holds a strip of skin, one foot or longer, of the creature that inflicted the
injury. This only removes the Glamour cost.
Ban: Injuries gained through Shared Burden cannot be alleviated through this Contract, nor can
their healing times be sped up by non-mundane means.
Skinmask ()
You harvest shards of human dreams and nightmares trapped in the Hedge, to change your mask
or aspects thereof.
Cost: 1 Glamour
Dice Pool: Presence + Subterfuge + Wyrd
Action: Instant
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The changeling becomes a misshapen, broken copy of the intended mask.
This instills either the Blind or Disabled Condition, as her face melts or her bones crumble.
Failure: The changeling's mask remains unchanged.
Success: The changeling assumes the desired mask. If she copies an existing mortal, it passes
visual inspection by anyone, but copying her target's mannerisms and behavior still requires a
Social action.
Exceptional Success: The changeling has perfectly mastered this particular mask and need not
roll to assume it again later. The cost for the Contract still applies. She can purchase the
Alternate Identity Merit to reflect this mask, and if so, can shift at will and free of cost.
Beast: The Beast shines with primal magnetism. She distributes two extra dots over the mask's
Presence and Manipulation.
Fairest: If the Fairest copies a specific mortal, she automatically mimics his behavior too. She
can take actions that he wouldn't, possibly alerting his friends that something is wrong, but the
Storyteller warns her before she does.
Catch: The changeling changes her appearance to match that of an existing human and holds an
object belonging to him or her.
Temporary Lucidity ()
Showing an understanding that only a fellow survivor can, you temporarily increase your own or
another Lost's mental stability.
Cost: 2 Glamour
Dice Pool: Manipulation + Empathy + Wyrd vs. Resolve + Wyrd
Action: Instant and contested
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The changeling, absorbing her target's ailing, loses a dot of Clarity.
Failure: The target's Clarity is unaffected.
Success: The target gains two dots of Clarity for the duration of the scene. All Clarityrelated
effects are at the higher rating.
Exceptional Success: The target gains three dots of Clarity instead of two. Furthermore, he
receives +3 dice on any breaking point rolls made this scene.
Fairest: The Fairest's soothing presence extends the effect while she remains with the target, or
until the end of the day whichever comes first.
Ogre: An Ogre causes the opposite effect, striking her target and causing him to lose a dot of
Clarity, or two with an exceptional success.
Catch: The target faced a breaking point within the last twelve hours.

Four Dot Contracts

Armored Clarity ()
The Gentry do many things that mortals consider beyond the pale. Changelings have a similar
fortitude, allowing you to do what you need to survive.
Cost: 2 Glamour + 1 Willpower
Dice Pool: Resolve + Composure + Wyrd
Action: Instant
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The changeling gains a Condition (Storyteller's Choice) upon her next
Clarity roll, even if it was successful.
Failure: The changeling's Clarity receives no protection.
Success: For the next scene, the changeling takes any actions without suffering breaking points.
Instead, she rolls a single breaking point at the end of the scene based on the most lossinducing
action taken (see p. XX). This roll and any consequences are resolved normally. This does not
affect actions which would cost Clarity without a roll.
Exceptional Success: The changeling makes the breaking point roll at +3 dice.
Ogre: An Ogre gains the rote quality on her breaking point roll.
Wizened: A Wizened not only forestalls her breaking points, but seeks to gain. If she succeeds
in the breaking point roll, she gains a dot of Clarity.
Catch: The changeling suffered Clarity loss in the last day.
Ban: This Contract can be used only once per story.
Cheaters Gambit ()
Winning by cheating is preferable to losing fairly. Using a game to represent a battlefield, you
wreak havoc on the opposing forces. True to the nature of Faerie, your opponent need not be
aware that a game is afoot, though they might see the titled battlefield afterward and realize
magic is at play.
Cost: 2 Glamour
Dice Pool: Manipulation + Socialize + Wyrd vs. enemy's leader Composure + Socialize + Wyrd
Action: Instant and Contested
Duration: One turn
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The Contract works against the side the changeling supports, giving them the
Frightened Condition.
Failure: The gambit has no effect.
Success: By knocking over game pieces, deflating the ball, or playing with marked cards, the
changeling curses the opposing army. On the next turn, the opposing side suffers a 4 penalty to
all rolls as bad luck besieges it. The enemy leader knows that someone turned fate against his
troops.
Exceptional Success: The subject doesnt realize that a Contract was used, no matter how
skewed the battle becomes.
Beast: The Beast's troops gain the Steadfast Condition.
Fairest: The Fairest's troops gain the Inspired Condition.
Catch: The changeling has played this game with an individual who died within the past week.
Cloak of the Bears Massive Form ()
The character can physically transform into an animals shape. She chooses up to two animals
(between Sizes 1 and 7) when she purchases this Contract to transform into. Once chosen, animal
forms cannot be changed. After purchasing, the changeling may invest in an additional two dots
of this Contract to buy additional forms.
Cost: 2 Glamour
Dice Pool: None
Action: Instant
Duration: One Day
The changeling transforms into one of her chosen animals, and stays there for one full day,
though she can choose to return to her normal form at any time. In animal form, she takes on the
beasts Physical Attributes, its Size, Speed, and Health. She can move and sense and attack in
any way that the animal can. She gains some of the animals instinctual motor controls and she
can run, fly, and swim normally. While in animal form, the character can speak any language she
knows, as well as communicate with other animals sharing her form. She can also use her other
Contracts while in beast form.
Beast: The character can choose two additional animals when she purchases this Contract.
Ogre: The character can choose animals up to Size 12 to transform into.
Catch: The changeling is in the natural habitat of her chosen animal and is near enough to touch
at least one of the animals.
Elegant Protection ()
The changeling appears elegant and poised as weapons seem to swerve away from her,
deliberately avoiding dealing damage.
Cost: 2 Glamour
Dice Pool: Dexterity + Athletics + Wyrd
Action: Instant
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The character suffers a -2 penalty to her Defense for the rest of the scene.
Failure: The Contract fails to work.
Success: Any character attacking the changeling suffers her Wyrd as a penalty for the scene.
This is not Defense; it applies even if the changeling is completely unaware or denied her
Defense, and applies to firearms attacks.
Exceptional Success: Additionally, add her Wyrd to her Initiative and Speed for the scene.
Fairest: Fairest characters always seem to be moving with grace and can dance away from
danger or dodge blows without spilling her drink or wrinkling her clothes. The character also
only requires three successes to achieve an exceptional success on this Contract.
Ogre: In addition to the Defense bonus, any weapon successfully striking the Ogre suffers her
Wyrd as damage.
Catch: The character is fighting a duel against a sworn enemy.
Hidden Reality ()
The changeling can create or change one innocuous feature of her surroundings. As long as the
feature could reasonably exist before the changeling uses this Contract, she can make it a reality.
Cost: 3 Glamour
Dice Pool: Wits + Wyrd
Action: Instant
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The character fails to change her surrounding, and instead loses a point of
Willpower.
Failure: The Contract fails, and her surroundings stay the same.
Success: The character changes some feature of her surrounding that was not previously obvious
and so might have been present naturally. For example, she may create a hidden latch on a box to
allow her to open it, a wall outlet behind a table, or a window or door behind a curtain. In all
cases, the change must be reasonable and relatively minor in scope. A new door in a wall must
lead to the other side of the wall, and not to the outside. Anything she creates or changes must be
considered a part of an object, such as a lock on a door, a door in a room, or a window to a car.
All changes vanish after one scene or if no one is paying attention to it.
Exceptional Success: The changes last for 24 hours, or until the changeling chooses to dismiss
them.
Wizened: Wizened characters may create objects that could reasonably be found in a room or
building, as long as she cannot see into the room or building she is performing this Contract in.
She may find a set of keys on a nearby table, or a car parked in the garage.
Fairest: The character can choose to instead change the disposition of someone in her vicinity,
changing a guard from stalwart to gullible, or a politician from honest to corrupt. She can only
affect one person with this power at a time.
Catch: The changeling is using this power to escape a location where she has been confined
against her will.
Luna's Bedlam ()
You take the shards of dreams, nightmares, and lunacy that is Arcadia, and instill them in others.
Cost: 2 Glamour
Dice Pool: Presence + Empathy + Wyrd target's Resolve + Wyrd
Action: Instant and contested
Duration: One scene (if delayed, counting from the trigger)
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The changeling gains one of the Conditions listed below (Storyteller's
choice) for the remainder of the scene.
Failure: The target is unaffected.
Success: The changeling knows if the target is suffering from the Amnesia, Fugue, Lost,
Madness, or Obsession Condition.
She can also invoke one effect per success:
Instill one of the Conditions above in the target for the Duration of the Contract.
Increase the Duration of this Contract to one day. Conditions fade afterward.
Select one additional target. The changeling rolls the Contract again for free and, if successful,
her second target suffers the same effects as the first.
Delay the effect of this Contract until a specified trigger is met.
Exceptional Success: The target gains the Shaken Condition if he is a changeling, or the
Spooked Condition if he is a mortal. This lasts beyond the duration of this Contract, until
resolved.
Fairest: The Fairest excel at inciting passions. Add these Conditions to the ones listed above:
Inspired, Swooning, Wanton.
Ogre: The Ogre instills fear as well as lunacy. Add these Conditions to the ones listed above:
Bestial, Broken, Frightened.
Catch: The changeling herself suffers from one of the listed Conditions.
Stealing the Solid Reflection ()
Harking upon the power by which the Gentry create fetches, you steal a reflection and turn it into
a solid object.
Cost: 2 Glamour + 1 Willpower
Dice Pool: Strength + Larceny + Wyrd
Action: Instant
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The reflection shatters and the original object sustains a point of damage
(bypassing Hardness) as cracks erupt on it.
Failure: The reflection cannot be stolen.
Success: The changeling removes the image of an object from a reflective surface. The surface
must be clear enough to show some detail, and the object must fit through it. The stolen
reflection is mirrored, e.g. a car with the steering wheel on the 'wrong' side, or a book written in
mirror text. The stolen object has no supernatural properties. Neither the stolen object, nor the
original casts a reflection while this Contract lasts.
Exceptional Success: The stolen reflection remains solid until the sun next passes the horizon.
Elemental: The Elemental retrieves the reflection of a living being. The stolen reflection is
imperfectly made, with at least one mark of the supernatural. Its traits equal the original's, or the
changeling's Wyrd, whichever is lower (i.e. if the original has Strength 3 and the changeling
Wyrd 2, the reflection's Strength becomes 2).
Wizened: The reflection retains any mystical properties of the original. For example, the
Wizened can use this to steal a normally working goblin fruit.
Catch: The owner of the reflected object, is indebted to the changeling.
Tatterdemalions Workshop ()
The changeling is able to cobble together whatever pieces and spare parts she has lying around to
make just about anything she can imagine. This crafting occurs quickly and with the most
unlikely of tools and equipment. The finished product must be reasonable and the parts must be
physically capable of being used in this manner.
Cost: 4 Glamour
Dice Pool: Wits + Crafts + Wyrd
Action: Extended (1 minute per roll, the target number is variable)
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The changeling fails to make the device, breaks the component parts, and
nearly destroys her workspace, preventing her from using the space again for a full day.
Failure: The Contract fails, the device is not formed and the various parts are unaffected.
Success: The character creates a device from vaguely appropriate parts, such as a rocket
launcher out of a flare gun and a canister of compressed gas. The Storyteller sets the number of
successes required to create the item, which varies from 5 to 15 depending on the complexity of
the device and the quality of the available materials, and the device cannot be larger than Size
10.
The device functions for one scene as well as a normal device of the type being duplicated. After
which, the item falls to worn and unusable pieces.
Exceptional Success: The crafted item functions for the next 24 hours, and can be as large as
Size 15.
Wizened: Wizened achieve exceptional success on three successes instead of five.
Ogre: Ogre characters do not need to find pieces and parts that would reasonably fit together to
make the item in question, instead they simply pull and stretch any object into fitting their desire
and gain an additional die to each roll.
Catch: The Contract is used to craft an approximation of an object the changeling is personally
familiar with, and has used in the past month.
Five Dot Contracts
Animate Device ()
The changeling animates a device, allowing it to function on its own. Cars can drive themselves,
doors and cabinets open or close, bolts move, a gun can fire itself.
Cost: 2 Glamour
Dice Roll: Manipulation + Crafts + Wyrd
Action: Instant
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The device briefly malfunctions and cannot be used in any fashion for the
next scene.
Failure: The device remains still and unaffected.
Success: The object comes alive for a full scene, following a single simple command given to it
by the Changeling. A door closes and remains closed, a car drives away, or a gun shoots until it
runs out of bullets. Anyone attempting to change the action of the object must make a Strength +
Resolve roll and achieve at least as many successes as the changeling netted to activate the
Contract.
Devices cannot move in any way outside their normal range of motion. If a devices natural
movement would inflict damage, form a dice pool using the changelings Wyrd for Dexterity,
her Manipulation for the appropriate Skill, and the objects Size for its Strength. A changeling
can control any device she can see within 50 meters of her.
Exceptional Success: The object can remain permanently animated. The changeling may
purchase the construct as a one dot Retainer. If she does not, the enchantment expires in 24
hours. Either way she can change the objects commands without rolling or reactivating the
Contract.
Wizened: The changeling can cause an object to move outside its normal range of operation by
giving it a single instruction. The object moves as though it was wielded by the changeling and
can be used as weapons by the changeling.
Beast: The changeling can imbue a modicum of animal-like intelligence into the device,
allowing her to give the device multiple commands for it to follow for the scene.
Catch: This Contract is being invoked on a device the changeling has never encountered or
handled before, and is owned by a stranger.
Chrysalis ()
The Gentry are fluid, changing from story to story as befits them. You have a similar
adaptability, and can alter your body until it is no longer human.
Cost: 2 Glamour + 1 Willpower
Dice Pool: Stamina + Survival + Wyrd
Action: Instant
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: Stuck between forms, the changeling is a misshapen mass and suffers a -3
penalty on all rolls. This lasts until reversed, or successful transformation achieved.
Failure: The changeling remains unchanged.
Success: The changeling assumes the shape of an animal, or unmoving object, with normal
physical stats for its kind. She chooses an additional benefit per success, such as:
Claws add +1 lethal damage
Hard skin adds 2/1 armor
Animal gains +3 Speed and +2 Initiative
Object gains limited mobility (she rolls herself as a rock, or uses chair legs to walk)
Add or subtract one Size (this can be taken multiple times)
Other effects can be chosen with Storyteller approval
Exceptional Success: The changeling may purchase the form as an Alternate Identity (see p.
XX). If she does, she can adopt the form reflexively for a single point of Glamour. She changes
as if she achieved five successes.
Beast: The Beast selects one free benefit when assuming animal shape. He also gains the Giant
merit.
Wizened: The Wizened selects one free benefit when assuming object shape. He also gains the
four-dot version of the Iron Skin merit.
Catch: The changeling travels into the Hedge, and finds a representation of her chrysalis form.
Hedgewall ()
A massive castle of hedges, thorns and brambles forms around you.
Cost: 3 Glamour + 1 Willpower
Dice Pool: Intelligence + Crafts + Wyrd
Action: Extended (5 successes necessary; each roll represents 1 turn)
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The castle turns against the changeling and her allies, giving them the Lost
Condition. Dramatic failure in the Hedge also alerts the Huntsman, and instills the Hunted
Condition.
Failure: The fortification doesn't appear, or in the Hedge it erupts to give the changeling and
her allies the Lost Condition.
Success: Hedge walls form a castle around the changeling, sprawling out in a diameter of ten
yards per dot of Wyrd (though space constraints and the changeling's wishes can make it
smaller). The castle grants full concealment against ranged attacks (p. XX). The walls prevent
anyone from passing without a hacking tool, and have Durability 3, Structure 6. They can be
climbed, but any character touching the brambles suffers one lethal damage per turn. The
changeling determines the layout of the construct, but its passages must be wide enough for a
Size 4 character.
Exceptional Success: The changeling chooses one effect from Thorns and Brambles (see p. XX)
to add to the castle for free.
Elemental: The Elemental's Hedgewall lasts until the sun next passes the horizon.
Catch: The changeling plants a living sapling from the Hedge immediately before using this
Contract.
Ban: This Contract cannot be used inside a human building. The hedges form a single unbroken
wall.
Leaping Toward Nightfall ()
You call on Faerie's fluid time to send a person or object forward in time.
Cost: 4 Glamour + 1 Willpower
Dice Pool: Intelligence + Occult + Wyrd vs. Composure + Wyrd if contested
Action: Instant, or instant and contested
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The changeling slows herself, halving her Speed and Initiative (rounded
down).
Failure: The target is unaffected.
Success: The changeling sends an object up to Size 10, or any person or supernatural being
forward in time. She must touch her target, which instantly vanishes and reappears at the
predetermined time in the same location (if another object is occupying that spot, the target
appears next to it). No time passes for the target. People and supernatural beings can resist this
Contract. The changeling determines how far in the future she sends the target, to a maximum of
her Wyrd in days.
Exceptional Success: The changeling chooses whether her target reappears prepared for what
comes next (granting one free action), or dazed and confused (invoking the Stunned Tilt for one
turn).
Wizened: The Wizened's target remains suspended between present and future when
reappearing, granting him the Twilight Form Condition for one turn. He rolls Wits + Composure
to see the material world and prepare for what awaits there (granting him the highest Initiative
next turn).
Catch: The changeling uses this ability when the target is touching, or moving through, a
gateway into the Hedge.
Ban: Once invoked, this Contract cannot be ended prematurely.
Paralyzing Shudder ()
The changeling causes her victims body to freeze up and shudder in terror. Her victim is unable
to move, completely frozen in his terror.
Cost: 2 Glamour
Dice Pool: Presence + Intimidation + Wyrd vs. Resolve + Wyrd
Action: Contested; resistance is reflexive
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The target is unaffected and instead, the changeling takes a -2 penalty to all
Strength and Dexterity related dice rolls.
Failure: The target is unaffected by this Contract.
Success: The changeling must be able to see her victim, and he must be able to see her for this
Contract to take effect. The victim is overwhelmed by a terror of the changeling. He suffers from
the Insensate Tilt for the rest of the scene, and suffers from the Shaken Condition. This contract
creates a terror so strong that it constitutes a breaking point.
Exceptional Success: The victim is so captivated by his fear that he also suffers from the
Immobilized Tilt for the rest of the scene.
Darkling: Darkling characters gain a +3 bonus to activate this Contract.
Ogre: An Ogre character may add his Strength instead of Presence when activating this
Contract.
Catch: The victim is alone and the changeling is touching him.
Phantom Glory ()
The character is able to make herself completely incorporeal. In this state she is weightless and is
immune to all physical attacks and can pass through all physical barriers.
Cost: 3 Glamour
Dice Pool: Presence + Occult + Wyrd
Action: Instant
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The character does not only remain corporeal, but she becomes heavy and
slow. She suffers a -2 penalty to her Initiative and Defense.
Failure: The Contract fails and the character remains corporeal.
Success: The character turns intangible, and cannot touch anyone or be affected by any physical
attack for the rest of the scene. The character exists in a state of Twilight, much like a ghost, and
can attack or be attacked by ghosts or other ephemeral entities as though they were both solid.
Everything the character is wearing and handheld items change with her. Characters who can see
into Twilight may see the changeling, otherwise she is invisible to the naked eye.
Exceptional Success: Also, the character can pick up Size 1 objects which then turn intangible
as she holds them. When she lets go of the item, she can choose to leave it in the Twilight realm,
or return it to the material world.
Fairest: The character can choose to make one other person intangible instead of herself, by
touching them when activating the Contract. If unwilling, the subject can contest with Stamina +
Wyrd.
Elemental: The character can choose to change into an element. In elemental form, she can
attack as if her body was a 2 damage weapon. If she turns into an element that is non-solid, she
can still pass through barriers as though she were incorporeal, and is immune to physical attack.
If she is a solid element, she adds half her Wyrd (rounded down) to her Strength and Stamina,
but can take physical damage. She cannot interact with ghosts as an element.
Catch: The changeling carries no weapons and is wearing no armor. If she picks up or dons
either while using this catch, the Contract immediately ends.
Red Rage of Terrible Revenge ()
The changeling is filled with passion and fury as she turns rage into unparalleled strength and
immunity to physical harm.
Cost: 3 Glamour
Dice Pool: Strength + Survival + Wyrd
Action: Instant
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The characters fury takes over and she cannot direct her actions. She suffers
a -2 penalty to all rolls for the next scene.
Failure: The Contract fails to take effect.
Success: Each success adds one to the changelings Initiative, Strength (which increases Speed),
and 1/0 armor. Every turn, the character takes one lethal damage until she ends the power.
Exceptional Success: Additional successes are their own reward.
Ogre: Also add half the characters Wyrd (rounded up) to her Stamina. This adds additional
health boxes.
Beast: Also add three to the characters Initiative and 1 lethal damage to her hand to hand or
weapon attacks.
Catch: The character is using this Contract to gain justice for a loved one.
Thief of Reason ()
Invoking memories of horrors suffered in Arcadia, you erode another Lost's Clarity.
Cost: 2 Glamour + 1 Willpower.
Dice Pool: Presence + Subterfuge + Wyrd Composure
Action: Instant
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The changeling herself gains the Delusional Condition.
Failure: The target is unaffected.
Success: The rolled successes are subtracted from the target's Clarity. Clarityrelated effects are
at the new rating. The target suffers a further 2 dice penalty to Initiative and a 1 penalty to
Defense. He rolls a breaking point roll at his new Clarity, to determine if he gains a Condition of
Storyteller's choosing (though no further Clarity loss results). Any such Conditions are resolved
when the lunar month ends.
Exceptional Success: The target finds it impossible to interact with the physical world. The
Storyteller gains a number of dice equal to 10 target's new Clarity, to use as negative modifiers
on any dice rolls the target makes. This effect lasts until the dice are spent, or the lunar month
ends.
Beast: Finding her target's weak spot, the Beast instill the target with the Fugue Condition.
Darkling: The Darkling pays one Willpower to postpone the effect until a trigger of her choice
is met. If the trigger does not pass within a day, the effect is lost.
Catch: The subject made a statement doubting his own sanity in front of witnesses, within the
last hour.
Ban: Invoking this Contract, successfully or not, requires a breaking point roll at 3.
Tying the Knots of Fate ()
You rival the Gentry's mastery of fate, and can guide your target's future to a single point within
the next month.
Cost: 3 Glamour + 2 Willpower
Dice Pool: Presence + Subterfuge + Wyrd target's Resolve + Wyrd
Action: Extended. The target number is the targets Clarity or equivalent Integrity. Each roll
takes 10 minutes.
Duration: Until the lunar month ends, or the fate comes to pass (whichever comes first).
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The changeling curses herself, leading to a dramatic failure on a crucial roll
(Storyteller's choice) in the next day.
Failure: The target is unaffected.
Success: The changeling names an experience, which must be reasonably probable and not
overly specified, for her target. All rolls that leads to this fate (made by the target or other
characters) gain a number of bonus dice equal to the successes rolled, while rolls that obstruct
the fate suffer the same as penalty. This Contract only creates an experience, not the outcome
thereof.
A changeling may have this Contract pending a number of times equal to her Wyrd.
Exceptional Success: The target gains the Informed or Misinformed Condition (your choice).
Fairest: The Fairest gains +3 dice when invoking a positive fate. She herself gains the Inspired
Condition when furthering it.
Ogre: The Ogre gains +3 dice when invoking a negative fate. She herself gains the Steadfast
Condition when furthering it.
Catch: The changeling uses this Contract to bless or curse an infant.
Vision of Fortunes Favor ()
Sensing the winds of fate, you see your own immediate future.
Cost: 3 Glamour (paid when the scene ends) + 1 Willpower
Dice Pool:
Action: Reflexive
Duration: Instant
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: Reality and (false) visions bleed into each other, and the changeling gains the
Insensate Tilt and acts as if she rolled the lowest Initiative this scene.
Failure: You see nothing.
Success: The changeling sees the future. In game terms, the last turn is replayed and the
changeling may change her action. All other characters, except those who experienced a similar
vision, retake their original actions.
Example: Your character gets hit with an axe and takes deadly damage, prompting her to activate
this Contract. This time, she steps out of battle and into safety. Her would-be killer still swings
the axe (and misses), as he did not expect her to step back.
Exceptional Success: The changeling's vision was exceptionally clear and she gains 9 again on
any rolls the 'new' turn.
Wizened: Acting with impossible precision, the Wizened gains one surprise attack against any
viable target. She rolls Initiative as normal afterward.
Catch: A friend or ally betrayed the changeling in the last day.
Ban: This Contract can be used only once per story. If the changeling cannot pay the owed
Glamour cost after the scene ends, she suffers one Aggravated wound per unpaid Glamour. If a
changeling uses this Contract to prevent her death, she gains the Soul Shocked Condition.
Sanctity of Merits
While Merits represent things within the game and your character, theyre really an out-of-
character resource, a function of the character creation and advancement mechanics. These
Merits often represent things that can go away. Retainers can be killed. Mentors can get
impatient and stop dispensing wisdom. So while Merits may represent temporary facets of your
character, Merit points continue to exist. At the end of any chapter where your character has lost
Merits, you can replace them with another Merit. For example, your character has three-dot
Retainer, a loyal dog, and an eldritch horror eats that dog out in the woods. At the end of that
chapter, you may re-allocate those Retainer dots. You may choose to purchase Safe Place, to
reflect your characters choice to bunker down from the monster, and perhaps Direction Sense
(one dot) so your character is less likely to get lost in those woods in the future. When the
character leaves his Safe Place, you can replace those two dots with something else. When
replacing a Merit, consider what makes sense in the story. Pursue the new Merit during the
course of the chapter if possible, and make the new tie something less superficial than a dot or
two on a sheet. With Storyteller permission, you may cash in a Merit voluntarily and replace it
with Experiences. This should not be used as a way to purchase a Merit, take advantage of its
benefits, and then cash it out for something else. If a Merit has run its course and no longer
makes sense for your character, however, you may use those points elsewhere. Merits such as
Ambidextrous, Eidetic Memory and the various Fighting Style Merits reflect abilities and
knowledge that your character has and therefore shouldnt be cashed in or replaced. Then again,
if an Ambidextrous character loses his left hand....
Arcadian Body
Effect: Your characters transformation from human to changeling was more drastic than most.
Whether by your Keepers design, the rigors of Arcadia, or some combination thereof, one
Attribute in particular was made significantly more potent. She gains an additional dot in that
Attribute, and the maximum number of dots in that Attribute increase by one above the normal
maximum -- usually from five to six, unless she has an advanced level of Wyrd (p. XX) or a
bonus from her kith.
This Merit can only be taken once.
Arcadian Metabolism
Effect: Your character is particularly well-suited to time in Arcadia and the Hedge. Maybe he
was abducted at an early age and knows more of Arcadia than Earth, or he glutted himself on
rare goblin fruit for the entirety of this captivity. In any case, the duration and healing effects of
goblin fruit are doubled. A goblin fruit effect that lasts a scene now lasts for two scenes, an effect
that covers a single roll covers two rolls, and so on. Effects measured by anything other than
amount healed or duration do not change.
In the Hedge, natural healing is increased by a similar factor. Bashing heals at a point per minute,
lethal damage at one point a day, but aggravated damage continues to take a week to heal.
Drawback: A side effect of this affinity for Arcadia and its fruits is much slower healing time
outside of the Hedge. Bashing heals at one point an hour, lethal at point every week, aggravated
at a point every two weeks. Additionally, because of the subtle but unusual changes to body
chemistry, Medicine rolls incur a -2 penalty when used to help him.
If a changeling doesnt sup on goblin fruit or visit the Hedge for a week, he loses the Merits
benefits (but not the drawbacks) until he can jumpstart his metabolism with a meal of faerie fruit.
Brownies Boon
Effect: Like the shoemakers elves, your character completes mundane tasks with a casual
disregard for time. Any extended actions made when she isnt being watched are finished in half
the required time. Glamour may be spent to half the time again, for a total of 1/4 the normal
speed.
Exceptional success on any given roll can decrease the time for that individual roll of the
extended action to 1/8 the required time.
Court Goodwill to
Effect: Court Goodwill represents a changelings influence and respect in a court that isnt her
own. While Mantle is a changelings supernatural allegiance to a single, specific court, she may
only bear the Mantle of one court. Court Goodwill allows a changeling to have serious ties to as
many courts as are present in her life, in addition to the one she is magically sworn to. This isnt
to say Court Goodwill is a purely social construct, as few things in the lives of the Lost are. This
Merit covers both the mundane networking required of being a part of a large social group and
the fickle favor of whatever pla
ys patron to a specific court. Its in this way that a changeling of the White Rose Court can use
the benefits of the Red Rose Courts Mantle, the Red Rose Court is privy to the Blue Rose
Courts magics, vis-versa, and so on.
Each instance of Court Goodwill must be tied to a specific court, but the merit may be taken as
many times as there are courts available. For instance, a Lost may have Mantle: Ivory Court ,
Court Goodwill: Jade Court , Court Goodwill: Silver Court and Court Goodwill: Ruby Court
all on the same character sheet. A character may not take Court Goodwill in a court in which
she has dots in Mantle.
Outside the court in which she has a Mantle rating, each dot in Court Goodwill must be equal to
the level of the Mantle the changeling would like to access plus 2. Access to the abilities of Blue
Rose Court Mantle requires Court Goodwill: Blue Rose Court for any changeling without
Blue Rose Court Mantle. This means the effects of Mantle and are only attainable by
making a court the one to which you swear yourself.
Dots in Court Goodwill function like dots in the Allies Merit (see p. XX), except that attempts to
block another characters use of Allies, Contacts, Mentor, Retainer and Status fail automatically
when used against a character with even a single dot of Mantle in the same court. If Court
Goodwill is used to block a character with a Court Goodwill rating in the same court, the rating
of the blocker and blockee both drop by one until reparations can be made to the court in
question. This usually entails a gift of rare goblin fruit or an oath of some kind.
Finally, each court in which a character has Court Goodwill comes with a single dot of Mentor.
This character, which should be detailed by the player and storyteller together, is a changeling
that serves as translator of between the character and the court itself. On her own, a changeling
with one courts Mantle has about as much of a chance of understanding the magic of another
court as a student with a single semester of high school Spanish has of understanding the
untranslated works of Cervantes. Though this isnt specifically matter of language, it can be just
as difficult to understand the rituals, customs and magics of a changeling court.

Seasons Change
If a changeling wishes to join a new court instead of simply relying on its
goodwill, shedding the Mantle of one court and adopting the Mantle of another,
the rituals and requirements vary drastically between courts. She may have to
make amends to one shes left or suffer a dangerous ban for weeks to follow.
Joining the new court may require an offering of a Token or Goblin Fruit, or a
quest that proves her worth to her new peers.
Mechanically, this is represented by her dots in the existing Mantle being reduced
by half (rounded down) and transforming them into dots of Court Goodwill for
the court she left behind. Any dots in Court Goodwill that were associated her
new court are halved (rounded down) as well, and those become dots in the
adopted courts Mantle. A character with zero dots in Court Goodwill for the
court shes trying to join is going to have a hell of time at the lowest ranks. She
begins with a single dot of Mantle and a whole lot of skeptical looks.

Merit dots lost in this way are subject to the Sanctity of Merits (see, p. XX).
Dual Kith
Effect: Your characters kith is a unique combination of two different kiths. Whether shes a
flamesiren-windwing who takes the form of a brilliant phoenix, or an elemental who combines
airtouched and waterborn in a body of living mist, she benefits from the Blessings of both kiths.
If she identifies as one kith, both, or a new kith altogether, the benefits of the Merit do not
change.
Taking this Merit after character creation can be as dramatic or casual as desired. The addition of
a new kith can be triggered by a change in identity, ideals, goals, even a negative or traumatic
event. Its a meaningful change, but whether or not the change itself stems from a meaningful
source is entirely up to the player. The magic the Keepers use to bend body and mind is highly
unstable -- who can say what might spark that volatility anew?
When taking this Merit, choose one kith as your primary kith. When calculating your kith
advantage, your characters effective Wyrd has one fewer dot, to a minimum of one. The
secondary kiths Wyrd is considered two dots fewer, to a minimum of one as well.
Dull Beacon to
Effect: Your characters Mask is far less obtrusive when she drops it. Reduce her Wyrd by her
Dull Beacon dots when determining the distance at which she alerts Huntsmen and opens Hedge
gateways when dropping her Mask (see p. XX). If this would reduce her to zero Wyrd
effectively, she no longer opens gates and alerts the Huntsmen until her Wyrd increases.
Enchanting Performance -, Style
Prerequisites: Presence , Expression
A character with Enchanting Performance can touch upon whatever font makes all things fae so
captivating. He brings a little of that magical obsession from beyond the Hedge and puts it to
use. Whether he does so for cruelty or kindness depends on the changeling.
 Harpy: Your character knows how to aim an audience for maximum humiliation. At least, to
make a target perceive things that way. He can use Expression as Hard Leverage and adds her
Wyrd to the roll to do so.
Siren: When your character has successfully opened a Door using performance (Expression,
Craft) he may spend a Glamour to open another Door immediately.
Muse: Your character encourages a fearsome self-confidence with a performance unlike
anything her audience has ever seen. He may spend a Glamour to give the rote quality to his next
performance-related Expression roll. If successful, a target in the audience gains the Inspired
Condition (see p XX) for a Skill of the performers choice. If the roll is an exceptional success,
everyone viewing the performance gains the Inspired Condition for the same Skill as the target.
Fae Mount to
Effect: You have discovered, befriended and convinced a creature of the Hedge to serve as your
steed. It is statistically identical to a horse, with knowledge of the Hedge or its trods, and no
supernatural talent other than the ability to come when called. Either through a special song or
gesture, the mount will come to its master anywhere in the Hedge, except for the Hollow of a
changeling that prohibits it.
Additionally, each dot of this Merit allows the creature one of the following special abilities:
Manyleague: With a body of screaming wind or quicksilver, the steeds Speed is doubled and
it gains the Merits rating as a bonus to Initiative.
Chatterbox: Many creatures in the Hedge are more intelligent than their appearance would let
on. The steed can speak to and understand its owner clearly, and can relay simple messages in its
masters tongue to other changelings, though complex words and metaphor are beyond this
special ability.
Actormask: Like your changeling, the mount has a Mask. This allows the mount to leave the
Hedge in the same manner as a changeling, albeit for a limited time, and in a shape a great deal
more mundane. An armored spider mount might become a VW Beetle, a horse of steaming blood
might become a sporty red motorcycle. Any abilities it receives from this Merit still apply and
whatever form the Mask takes should bear that in mind. It may remain outside the Hedge for as
many hours as dots in this Merit, fading into nothing shortly thereafter. A Fae Mount that
disappears will reappear in the Hedge after a day and a night.
For each hour spent manifesting a Mask, the Fae Mount must remain in the Hedge for that many
days before it can leave again.
Armorshell: Plates of thick chitin or stone cover the beast. It gains 3/2 armor and provides
cover equal to half the Merits rating (rounded down) to anyone currently riding.
Burdenback: The mount in question is massive, with broad shoulders or a pearlescent coach
that grows from its haunches. The changelings mount can carry a number of individuals equal to
the number of dots in this Merit. It receives an additional two dots of Stamina.
Dreamspun: Some creatures in the Hedge exist only as long as theyre acknowledged. When
the mount dies, it returns to life with the next time a character gets a full nights rest, with no
knowledge of perishing. Add the dots in Fae Mount to the mounts Stealth.
 Thornbeast: Many fanged monsters hunt in the Hedge and your mount shares several traits
with these faerie predators. Add two dice to all attacks the mount makes, and these attacks cause
2 additional damage. This can represent everything from natural claws to grotesque metal
sawblades.
Hedgefoot: Many faerie creatures arent earthbound. They swing from trees, claw their way
up walls and even fly. Your characters mount is no different. It can either run across water as
fast it moves on land, move up buildings at three times normal speed, or fly once a scene at twice
its Speed for turns equal to the dots in this Merit.
Faerie Favor
Effect: The Gentry are bound by their promises to a greater degree than the Lost and, by
whatever method, your character has such a promise in possession. She is entitled to a favor by
one of the True Fae. The means by which such a favor was obtained could be anything from a
knowing a clever riddle to a dark deed done at the cost of another changelings freedom.
However it was earned, the favor is represented by a bauble, song, or phrase, and when broke,
sung, or uttered the True Fae in question will appear.
The favor can be many things: the capture of a rival the changeling has tracked to her Hollow, a
week of freedom from a Huntsmen on the changelings heels, safe passage to somewhere in the
Hedge or mortal world. For something more permanent, the dots in this merit can be exchanged
for dots in Merits appropriate to the power of the Gentry, per the Sanctity of Merits (see p. XX).
Drawback: Theres nothing about summoning an Other for aid that can be easily explained to
another changeling. Few Lost aware of such an interaction will conclude anything good has
happened, and words like loyalist and conspirator may become associated with your characters
name.
Fair Harvest ( or )
Effect: Your character favors a specific flavor of Glamour. Choose a specific emotion when
taking this Merit. Any harvesting rolls (see p. XX) to harvest that emotion enjoy the 8-again
quality. Harvesting any other emotion means harvesting rolls do not benefit from the 10-again
quality. At two dots, harvesting the favored emotion instead uses the rote quality, and ignore one
success rolled when harvesting other emotions.
Forever and a Day ()
Effect: Your character is even less affected by the ravages of time than other Lost. Double her
Wyrd for the purposes of determining her lifespan (see p. XX). This cannot take her effective
Wyrd beyond ten dots.
Faerie Healing
Effect: You can use the healing properties of Goblin Fruit on others, including those incapable
of eating faerie fruit. How you manage this is a matter of personal taste, but it always happens
the same way once its been decided. You might need to ingest the fruit yourselves and place a
sweet kiss on the brow of the wounded, or squeeze the pulp from the juice into something a
human being can imbibe. Only one such healing can be prepared ahead of time. Whatever the
method, the healing works the same way: one point of lethal damage, all bashing damage, or one
point of aggravated damage converted to lethal per fruit consumed.
Gentrified Bearing
Prerequisite: Wyrd
Effect: You were molded in the image of your Keeper, stole some essential spark of their fire, or
learned to emulate their otherness. Regardless of how you obtained this mixed blessing,
Huntsmen, hobs and even the Gentry themselves tend to mistake you for a Keeper -- if only for a
moment.
When dealing with hobs, any rolls to Intimidate add a characters Wyrd in dice and successful
Hard Leverage always opens to two Doors. While most hobs wont look too closely at a potential
Other, a wise changeling will show caution with her demands. Even a simpering, cowed hob
does not take kindly to being fooled.
Facing Huntsmen and the Gentry, this aura of authority serves to hide the Lost just long enough
for her to escape. So long as the True Fae dont get too close, touch, smell, or speak with a Lost,
she remains hidden in plain sight.
Unfortunately, a lurking Huntsman isnt likely to ignore the presence of a True Fae on earth,
regardless of how convincing it seems. They arent likely to recognize an imposter as easily as
their masters, but theyre far more likely to investigate. The changeling gains her Wyrd in dice to
convince a Huntsman of her status as a Keeper.
Even successful, the ruse is unlikely to fool the same Huntsman twice.
Harvest to
Effect: You are well-skilled in the art of hunting Glamour. Each dot of Harvest counts as an
equipment bonus when harvesting Glamour from a specific source. Harvest (emotion) makes it
easier to drink in the sorrow of a spurned lover, while Harvest (dreams) makes the raw,
unfiltered font of onerous Glamour a smorgasbord for enterprising Lost.
Additionally, a characters rating in Harvest can be used in place of an ability, so long as its in
direct pursuit of Glamour. This replacement can only happen once per story.
Hob Kin
Effect: You have established a kind of kinship with the vaguely-humanoid hobgoblins known as
hobs. It may be a matter of resemblance to a Keeper they fear, or something about your kith that
encourages this behavior, but they treat you with a respect generally unheard of by the Lost. It
isnt much like the respect of friends or peers, but they treat you less ruthlessly than they do
outsiders. For the purposes of opening Doors with Soft Leverage, impressions with hobs are
always treated excellent.
Additionally, if the character has a Hollow, she may take the enhancement Hob Alarm.
Hob Alarm (-): A group of somewhat friendly hobs have taken refuge in the characters Hollow.
They react poorly to any sign of intruders. While within her Hollow, a character cannot be
deniedher Defense due to surprise and adds her Hollow to the dice pools all actions during the
first turn of combat. Maintaining the presence of these hobs requires a frequent quid-pro-quo that
errs on the surprisingly honest side of hob deals.
Drawback: Have you smelled a hob?
Hollow to
Effect: While Safe Place (pg. XX) represents a mundane-but-secure lair outside the Hedge,
Hollow is your characters secret, private bit of real estate inside the Hedge. It may be something
as simple a closet door that opens into a quiet, hollowed-out tree, or as elaborate a knock that
opens any unlocked door into a lavish, gothic mansion. These locations can be as varied as the
Hedge itself.
These pockets of personal or inherited reality have been trimmed of any thorns that might cause
their owners trouble. With few exceptions (see below), these faerie safe houses are tied to a
single, consistent physical entrance into the Hedge, but being part of the Hedge means they dont
need to conform to available space. In any case, the Hollow belongs to your character or her
motley and has some innate protection from intrusion.
While a changeling is inside her Hollow, the Merits rating is subtracted from any attempts to
learn her personal information, as if she had the Anonymity merit at an equal rating. Attempts to
pursue or track her, both supernatural and mundane, are hindered by the same penalty. Should
she be discovered, the entrance to the Hollow can only be forced open by an entity whose Wyrd
exceeds the Merits rating. Even then, one of the Hollows owners (even if no one is present) can
resist intrusion with Resolve + Hollow versus the intruders Wyrd. A day and a night must pass
before the intruder can try again.
Each dot in Hollow can be used to buy one of the following enhancements:
Luxury Goods: The Hollow is filled with a variety of mundane supplies and Hedgespun treats
that allow a changeling to hold out for the long haul. Few modern conveniences work in the
Hedge, but its not uncommon to find crystalline televisions that play unaired, unrecorded
episodes of cancelled TV shows, or jukeboxes that play music only a Cleareyes can hear, or
iceboxes overfull with coke off-brands that never saw the light of day. Whatever the case, a
changeling can spend twice as much time in her Hollow before suffering a breaking point.
Shadow Garden: The Hollow has a patch of trembling soil, a deceased nightmares fertile
belly, or a Lewis Carroll rose garden of painted flowers. Any goblin fruit consumed in the
Hollow will appear in the garden an hour after the fruit is consumed. The resulting fruit provides
none of the benefits of a goblin fruit, but resembles the goblin fruit to all senses. Any hunger
sated by these shadow fruits returns in full force an hour after consumed. A week of staving off
hunger in this manner results in a breaking point.
Phantom Phone Booth: The Hollow has an ancient PacBell phone booth, mounted boar head,
or singing pool that allows the owner to make calls outside the Hedge. Any phone with a public
listing can be called without knowing the exact digits of the number, and attempts to trace the
call or read phone records show the call as coming from the recipients line. The phantom phone
booth has no number for incoming calls, though it will occasionally receive calls meant for lost,
or out of service numbers.
Route Zero: A length of road bisects the Hollow. It juts awkwardly from a wall, plunges down
a tunnel of impenetrable darkness, or disappears over a foggy bridge. Its beginning and end are
troublesome to determine. Traversing the lonely road in its entirety takes one hour, during which
a changeling cannot be contacted, seen, or interact with anyone who didnt begin the journey
with her. At the end, anyone who makes the journey ends where they began, and gains a point of
Willpower. This journey can only be taken once a day.
If purchased in two or more different Hollows, Route Zero begins in one and ends in another. All
owners must agree to this at the time of purchase, but once done it cannot be undone without
serious alterations to a Hollow.
- Size Matters: Without purchasing this enhancement, the Hollow is only big enough for two
changelings to sleep comfortably. With one purchase, a motley of five to six changelings has
enough room to exist without immediate cabin fever. The second purchase turns the Hollow into
a vast estate or small town, and members of a motley might not even see each other for the
duration of a stay.
- Escape Route: While there may be a single entrance into the Hollow, with this enhancement
theres a second, emergency egress out of it. Whether a Hollow is invaded, or a clever Huntsman
waits for a Lost at the entrance to her den, sometimes its important to be able to bug out. The
one-way exit is a secure place (determined ahead of time) the Merits rating in miles from the
entrance, and may only be used by the owner and her motley. At two dots, the Escape Route is
access reflexively from anywhere in the Hollow.
Hidden Entry: When all members of a motley are inside a Hollow, the entrance evaporates.
The difficult to be found increases by 2. As does the Wyrd requirement of forced entry. The
entrance reappears when one or more members of the motley depart. While the entrance is
visible, these bonuses do not apply.
Easy Access: The Hollow has no permanent entrance, and can be accessed by spending a
single Glamour. This usually takes the form of a particular whistle or knock, but it works on any
unlocked door. When a changeling exits her Hollow, it happens at the same location she entered.
Home Turf: Either the changeling has spent long enough in her Hollow that she knows its
every secret, or she simply resonates well with it. The changeling gains the Merits rating to
Initiative and Defense against any intruders that manage to make it into her Hollow.
Unlike most Merits, multiple characters can contribute dots to a single Hollow, combining their
points into something greater. An individual can purchase as many points in Hollow as she can
afford, but the Merits rating is never considered higher than five for the purpose of determining
effects.
Lethal Mien ()
Effect: Some element of the mien warped by Arcadia and the Hedge has left your character with
wicked nails, sharp teeth, or some other offensive trait. Whatever aspect of the appearance has
been weaponized, the changeling can inflict lethal damage innately. If something already gives
your character the capacity for lethal blows, this adds 1 to the weapon rating of that damage.
These claws, fangs, spurs, or whatever dangerous element this Merit takes the form of can be
turned on and off at will. This merit does not prevent the changeling from doing anything she
couldve done before.
Long of Days ()
Effect: Some portion of the Gentrys agelessness has rubbed off on you, and you not feel times
passage as a mortal might. Whether this is a side effect of a kith cleaved that too far from human,
part of an eon-long stay in Arcadia, or the result of an backfired oath, he will never suffer
infirmity due to age. However, without the ticking clock of mortality hammering in his ear, the
character has trouble understanding the flow of time. This can manifest in constant lateness, long
pauses in conversation, or an inability to grasp urgency outside truly dire situations. In some
Lost, this manifests immediately. In others, it waits until a specific age and either slows, or
ceases entirely.
With an already lengthy lifespan, a changeling with Long of Days begins each chapter with the
Informed Condition (see p. XX) for any single, reasonable topic of his choosing. This represents
a fuzzy grasp of yesteryears experiences. If this Condition is not resolved by the end of the
session, it goes away without resolution.
Many Mask ()
Prerequisites: Wyrd , Manipulation
Effect: A changelings is usually stuck with the same Mask they left the Hedge with. An
immutable combination of remembered human traits and the drastic anatomical changes of being
Lost. Some changelings develop control over the appearance of their Mask, either through
intense mental gymnastics or some quirk of seeming, kith, pledge or Contract.
For a Glamour, a character with Many Mask may make a change per dot of Wyrd to one of the
following: eye color, hair color, facial structural, skin tone, or remove any notable scars or
abnormal features. At Wyrd 5+ he may create an entirely new Mask for a Glamour, mostly
unbeholden to his existing features. While he can even change the sex of his Mask, height and
build remain immutably tied to the shape that lies beneath.
Market Sense ()
Effect: Understanding the value of a product is hard enough in the mortal world, but in the
Hedge relative worth is even more in question. How does one weigh the importance of a dozen
cherished memories against a music box that only plays near ghosts? Is the restoration of a best
friends loyalty worth forgetting the crimes of the Vermin King? If it werent enough that the
price of these things varies wildy from dealer to dealer, not every hobgoblin trades fairly. New
changelings in particular have to worry about being cheated by wily hob.
Your character is at old hand with hob merchants, and knows the cues and vagaries of the Goblin
Market well enough to understand when fair is fair. He can tell a fair deal on sight, and any
mundane attempts to make him believe otherwise fail. Any magical attempts at the same subtract
the your characters Wyrd.
Potent Kith ( to )
Effect: Your character manifests her kith in a more potent way than most of the Lost. Add your
Potent Kith dots to her Wyrd for determining the effects of her kith Blessing.
Rigid Mask ()
Prerequisite: Subterfuge
Effect: For you, the protection of the Mask extends far beyond the usual mortal camouflage.
Perhaps you can sense the subtle magic that turns your smile into your Masks smile, or there
isnt a very good connection between your true face and the one that lets you interact with
mankind. Unless you want them to, no one fooled by the Mask knows when youre lying or what
youre feeling. Mortals automatically fail roll to know when youre lying or what emotions
youre feeling, as do polygraphs and other lie-detecting devices. Other changelings, and beings
that can see through the Mask, still have to contend with your knowledge of those ticks and tells
that give a liar away. a suffer -2 from any roll to know youre lying, or what you may be
thinking.
Drawback: Intentionally dropping your characters Mask causes a level of lethal damage in
addition to the normal rules (see p. XX).
Hedgebeast Companion ( to )
Effect: Through friendship or circumstance, the changeling has earned the trust of a creature of
the Hedge. These hobgoblins are intelligent enough to converse, but generally dont stray too far
in behavior from the mundane animal they most resemble. This relationship is one of mutual
respect or obligation, but isnt assumed to be bound by pledge. While a pledge is possible, these
Hedge Beasts are cunning enough not to enter such a deal by accident.
The Hedge Beast starts with the stats of its closest animal counterpart. By default, it can speak
but not read, it has a Mask that allows it to follow the changeling into the mundane world, and it
can use trods with the same efficiency as one of the Lost. The supernatural benefits of the beast
are built by the following guidlines:
Wyrd 1, up to Size 2, Merits up to five points, two dots of Contracts.
Wyrd 2, up to Size 4, Merits up to seven points, three dots in Contracts.
Wyrd 3, up to Size 6, Merits up to ten points, four dots in Contracts.
Note: You can find example animals in the Chronicles of Darkness Rulebook, p. XX.
Pledges
Beware making deals with the fae.
Much of human understanding with the fae including changelings, Huntsmen, the
True Fae, and everything in between comes down to that platitude. And yet, note the
phrasing. Beware making deals is cautionary, not proscriptive. It isnt that people cant
bargain with the creatures from the Hedge, its just dangerous and usually unwise.
Pledges, though, are an integral part of life for changelings, for a simple reason: They are
attuned to the Wyrd, and the Wyrd takes statement of intent very seriously. How many
times a day does a person say I promise or I swear or so help me, but with no real
belief behind those words? The Wyrd refuses to accept casual use of such phrases, and
the fae are empowered to make such statements binding.
Changelings also make promises to one another, swearing oaths of loyalty, love, enmity,
or simply friendship. Such oaths are made using the same power that gives the Wyrd the
ability to seal statements of intent, but with very different purpose. An oath between
changelings is taken with free will and full consent. To do otherwise is grave insult.
Finally, the fae can make promises of service, favors, or magic to others. The benefit to
doing so is concealment a changeling performing services to others ingratiates herself
to the Wyrd, thus hiding effectively from Huntsmen (this is true in reverse, though; a
Huntsman who stoops to performing a service to a third party might be demeaning
himself, but hes also a much more effective hunter because hes harder to spot).
Breaking the terms of the service, likewise, doesnt tend to have world-shattering
consequences, but it does leave the oathbreaker exposed.

Sealing
The simplest form of a pledge, a sealing requires that a fae being see or hear someone
make a statement of intent. The intent doesnt have to be sincere, and the fae have been
taking advantage of promises made in haste or exaggeration since human beings first
started using language. A man who says to his son, I swear, next time you come home
late, Im kicking you out probably doesnt mean it but to the Wyrd, that doesnt
matter. A fae being can seal that promise, and the unfortunate father will be forced to
either make good on his word or suffer the consequences.
Any fae creature can seal a promise. Changelings generally do it to give themselves
leverage with human antagonists or cement a bargaining position. Huntsmen do it for
similar reasons, though their end goal might be to steal the hapless subject away for the
Gentry.
Creatures of the Wyrd (including changelings) are, for the most part, immune to the
effects of sealing. That is, other fae creatures can attempt to seal their words, but since
the fae know what to look for and can detect the slight fluctuations in the Wyrd needed to
seal a statement, they can undo the sealing as quickly as its done. A changeling can
allow her statement to be sealed; this is usually done in order to demonstrate that a
changeling has every intention of keeping her word on a minor matter. A serious
declaration of intent or honesty merits an oath (see below), but a promise of something
comparatively mundane (I promise, I wont leave until we dance) or a promise made if
time is a factor (Yes, truce, Im not going to hurt you, now get in here) can simply be
sealed.
Most Courts dont place any stigma on attempting to seal a statement, even if the other
party undoes it immediately. To changelings, attempt to seal a statement isnt so much an
attempt to bind the other party with magic as a tacit statement that the sealing party is
paying attention and expects the other changeling to keep her word. Likewise, undoing
the seal isnt necessarily a blatant declaration that the character will break her word, just
that she doesnt wish to be held to it magically.
Benefits
Sealing has very little benefit to the person making the statement. For the most part, the
subject is simply locked into his words, forced to follow through on what he has
promised or suffer the consequences. If the character follows through on what he has
promised, without complaint or attempt to wriggle out, he comes through the experience
wiser and fulfilled. Sealing provides no material or magical benefit, however.
For the character doing the sealing, the benefit is mainly in being able to hold something
over the subjects head. The sealer can release the effect at any time, unbinding the
promise, freeing the subject from his words.
Consequences
A sealing is simple, quick magic, and breaking it has an immediate, annoying effect.
Sometimes the oathbreaker feels tired or develops a sudden headache. Sometimes he
experiences a brief run of bad luck. Extreme effects might include nosebleeds or subtle
supernatural effects; the characters reflection is reversed for an hour, for instance, or
cream curdles in his presence.
The sealer can, however, increase the severity of the consequences by investing a bit
more magic into the process. By doing so, the subject might be forced to suffer minor
injuries or endure the sealers magic with no hope of resistance.
Systems
To seal a statement, the changeling needs to hear a subject make a statement of intent.
This includes any phrase that expresses a pledge, promise, or plan to undertake a course
of action. The statement doesnt have to be something that the subject could actually
complete, however.
The changeling cannot seal a statement unless she is present when the subject makes it. If
the changeling were to see a person type or write a statement, she could seal it. She
cannot, however, scroll through a social media feed and seal every statement of intent she
sees, nor can she seal a statement if she only sees or hears a recording.
To seal a statement, the player simply spends a point of Glamour. If the subject is another
changeling, she can undo the sealing by countering with a point of Glamour of her own.
Both parties are aware of what happened. If a players changeling allows her words to be
sealed, she takes a Beat.
The player can decide upon a penalty for breaking the seal when the seal is made, or
when it is broken. As stated under Consequences, the penalty is fairly minor. The player
can choose from:
Loss of one point of Willpower
One point of bashing damage
A -1 penalty to all rolls for one scene
A -2 penalty on a specific Skill for one scene
A -3 penalty for one specific roll
A minor supernatural effect (characters reflection faces the wrong way, character
causes milk to spoil, cats scratch or bite the character, etc.) for one scene
When creating a seal, the changeling can also strengthen it. Doing so requires that the
player spend a point of Willpower as well as a point of Glamour. If the character does
this, the player can levy a more stringent penalty for breaking the seal, including:
Loss of ability to regain Willpower for one day
Suffering one point of lethal damage
Suffering three points of bashing damage
Loss of ability to spend Willpower for one scene
A -2 penalty on all rolls for one scene
A -3 to all rolls with a specific Skill for one scene
A -5 to one specific roll
Use of one of the changelings Contracts on the target, activated when the seal is broken
(player rolls for the Contract and notes the successes; effect is applied when/if the subject
breaks the seal)
A seal is broken when the subject either attempts to fulfill the promise and fails or
becomes incapable of doing so. For example, someone saying Im going to kick his ass
would fail to fulfill this promise if he picks a fight with the other party and loses, or if the
other party were to die before the fight happens. If the subject had said, Im going to
kick his ass if he doesnt leave my sister alone, the subject is under no compunction to
start the fight if the other party does, in fact, stay away from the sister. If, however, the
other party dates the sister and the subject makes no attempt to fight the suitor, the seal is
broken and the consequences apply.
Sealing a Huntsman: A changeling can attempt to seal the statement of a Huntsman, but
doing so requires the player to spend a point of Glamour and roll Presence + Wyrd vs. the
Huntsmans Resolve + Wyrd.
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The Huntsman sees and notes the changeling, and can follow her. She
gains the Marked Condition.
Failure: The changeling fails to seal the Huntsmans words.
Success: The changeling seals the Huntsmans statement. Huntsmen, being closer to the
Wyrd than changelings or humans, are bound more strongly by their words. The
changeling can levy a heavier consequence, just as if she had strengthened the seal (see
above). The changeling takes the Marked Condition.
Exceptional Success: As above, and the changeling does not take the Marked Condition.

Sealing in Play
Changeling players can use sealing to bind characters to their word, but
without the effort required to make a bargain or an oath. Of course, the
benefits are commensurately small, but the subject of a sealing doesnt
necessarily know that the consequences are minor. If a character knows
that the changeling is a supernatural being, capable of impressive magical
feats, and understands that she is bound into a promise or else, the
changeling wields some considerable psychological power over the
subject. The Storyteller should consider this kind of power to add bonus
dice to Social Maneuvering attempts (probably through Hard Leverage,
see p. XX).
Changelings can seal each others words, and can gain Beats for allowing
their words to be sealed. A changeling cant gain more than one Beat per
chapter this way, however, and if the players are abusing the privilege
(OK, lets all go around the circle and promise to buy each other a burger
so we can all get a Beat), the Storyteller should probably disallow this
use of sealing. Better yet, the Storyteller might rule that the constant minor
fluctuations in the Wyrd attract Huntsmen, or that breaking such a
frivolous seal carries a much harsher penalty due to the insult to the Wyrd.

Oaths
An oath between two changelings is at once a commonplace and very special occurrence.
Oaths are a kind of currency to the Lost, because all of them understand that any
temporal reward money, tokens, property could become meaningless at any
moment. When everything falls apart, all a changeling has is her word, and to give that
away is not to be undertaken lightly. If two (or more) changelings are willing to exchange
oaths, they know and the Wyrd knows that they are serious about their feelings.
Oaths can only be sworn by, and to, changelings. Human beings and Huntsmen can make
bargains with the Lost, but these are defined by what the bargaining parties will do, not
what they feel. Oaths are sworn with heart, soul, and blood. Following an oath can be
observed by the action the swearer takes. The same is true for violating an oath.
Changelings have a wide variety of formal oaths, used for a number of different
situations. Common oaths include joining a Court (the changeling swears an oath before
another member of that Court, and receives that Courts Mantle); joining a motley
(motley oaths are infinitely varied, but usually include a pledge to do no harm to the other
members); forming or joining a freehold (a larger-scale version of a motley oath); and
declaring a duel (both changelings agree on the terms, weapons, and win conditions).
Swearing an oath binds changelings together. That binding is permanent though a
changeling can break an oath, doing so merely changes the parameters of the oath,
rather than erasing it. A changeling can leave a motley, but he cant take back the time he
spent with the other changelings or the oath he made. A changeling might leave his lover,
but he cant obviate the relationship. By making an oath, the character choose to define
himself, at least in part, by that oath.
Benefits
Swearing an oath has many potential benefits, but which ones the changeling enjoys
depends on the nature of the oath and the language employed. Oaths that bind multiple
changelings together, such as the oath a changeling swears when joining a motley, Court,
or freehold, usually grants magical effects or bolster a changelings relationship with the
Wyrd in some way. Oaths that bind two changelings together harmoniously, such as a
marriage vow or a pact of friendship, allow the sworn to bolster or support one another,
and, often, to find each other wherever the other might roam. Oaths that bind changelings
together in enmity, though, such as duel oaths, change both characters destinies in
sinister and fatalistic ways. The Wyrd, it seems, repays discord with discord, and
harmony with harmony.
Consequences
Violating an oath is a dangerous proposition, in large part because a changeling cannot
escape from an oath. An oath, once, sworn, defines her relationship with the other party
forever. As such, if a changeling swears a motley oath, then violates that oath and betrays
his motley, his relationship with them is former motley member and traitor. He can
never not have a relationship with them; their fates are entwined. The specific
consequences of violating an oath are usually laid out in the language of the oath itself,
but some overly optimistic changelings dont bother specifying what happens to an
oathbreaker. These unfortunate changelings suffer terribly; without the words of an oath
to direct its power, the Wyrd has free rein to punish the offender.
Specific consequences for violating an oath include disruption of magic (if the changeling
isnt going to honor his contracts, why should the Wyrd?), sickness, a temporary dip in
Clarity, or increased attention from Huntsmen. The larger problem, though, is that the
changelings status as an oathbreaker follows him. It is possible for an oathbreaker to be
forgiven, but this requires him to make recompense to all offended partiesincluding the
Wyrd itself.

New Condition: Oathbreaker (Persistent)

The changeling has violated an oath, and receives this Condition in
addition to any other effects breaking the oath carries. Other changelings
instinctively distrust the character. He suffers a -1 on all Social actions
with other changelings, and cannot use Glamour to seal their statements.
As a known liar, however, he is also immune to having his own statements
sealed.
Beat: Once per session, the player can choose to automatically
dramatically fail a Contract roll, or a Social action with another
changeling, and take a Beat. The choice must be made before rolling.
Resolution: The changeling undertakes a sincere attempt to make
restitution for his betrayal. This includes finding all other changelings
 involved in the oath and undertaking whatever task they assign. It also
includes receiving forgiveness from the Wyrd itself; this is sure to be the
focus of a story, and the particulars are up to the Storyteller.

Systems
Any number of changelings can swear an oath. Some oaths are closed (meaning that once
sworn, no new participants can be added), while others are open (meaning that new
changelings can swear the same oath and receive the same benefits).
All participants must speak the oath aloud (or write it out, if for whatever reason speech
is not an option), and seal it with a point of Glamour. Oaths also involve a physical
gesture; two changelings swearing an oath of camaraderie might cut their hands and
mingle the blood, while changelings swearing eternal love usually kiss. A changeling
joining a Court might clasp hands with a ranking member of that Court, while a
changeling joining a motley could embrace each of the other members in turn.
Once the oath is sworn, the benefits become available. The specific benefits to an oath
vary, but can be broken down into three rough categories: societal, personal, and hostile.
Societal oaths include oaths sworn when a changeling joins a motley, Court, or freehold.
The changeling gains the benefits of being part of that group. For a Court, this means that
character gains a dot of the Mantle Merit and is bound by whatever restrictions that Court
usually levies. For a freehold, the changeling becomes a recognized part of the local
supernatural landscape; the player receives a +1 to all rolls to navigate the Hedge. For a
motley, the changeling enters into a pact with his fellows. The nature of the pact varies
some motleys are made of bosom companions, some merely agree to come together when
an outside force threatens them all but the members can choose from a number of
game effects (or create a new one with the Storytellers approval):
Once per chapter, they can treat a Contract roll as a teamwork action (p. XX). All
participants must possess the Contract for this to work.
Members of the motley can meditate for one turn, and distribute their collective
Glamour evenly among the members (any leftover Glamour is consumed as a tithe to the
Wyrd).
Once per chapter, when representing the motley, a member can use the highest relevant
Social Skill possessed by any member and apply the effects of any Merit or kith blessing
present in the group. The character doesnt need the motleys permission when
representing the motleybut any consequences for that characters action come down
upon the motley as a whole.
Personal oaths are sworn between two changelings in support of one another; lovers,
blood brothers, friends, or protectors. Changelings that swear these oaths while
maintaining membership in a motley had best beware the Wyrd doesnt care if the
changeling must break one oath in service to another (and in fact, such situations seem to
come up regularly for the Lost).
Changelings bound by a personal oath gain a Beat whenever they suffer a setback or
inconvenience in the course of living up to the oath (maximum of once per chapter).
However, a changeling expressing the emotion that inspired the oath in some obvious and
effortful manner can regain all spent Willpower, just as if he had fulfilled his Virtue. In
addition, the oath-mates can choose one of the following effects (or create a new one with
Storyteller approval):
Once per chapter, one member can suffer an injury on behalf of the other. The
changeling doing so suffers all damage that his partner would have, and cannot reduce
this damage through armor, magic, or any other means.
One member can suffer a Condition or Tilt meant for the other. This has to be decided
when the Condition or Tilt is levied (if an attack blinds a character, that characters oath-
mate cant take the Blind Condition the next day), but the two changelings dont have to
be in the same place for this effect to happen.
Once per chapter, the changelings can choose to swap their Glamour or Willpower
pools. This doesnt affect their Willpower dots, merely the points.
Changelings bound by a personal oath can always find each other. If one is in the depths
of the Hedge, hiding in a new city, or even, some say, among the dead in the Underworld,
the other party can seek him out. Having the oath doesnt change the time required or the
trials endured to seek out the other member, but the oath allows unerring tracking.
Hostile oaths indicate undying enmity between two changelings literally, they can
never not be enemies once the oath is sworn. Hostile oaths usually dont last very long, as
the changelings swearing them often fight to the death shortly after doing so. Hostile
oaths dont carry much in the way of mechanical benefit, except that a changeling
involved in one gains a Beat when his enemy wounds or inconveniences him (once per
chapter). A changeling gains a point of Willpower during any scene in which he wounds
or inconveniences his enemy.
Bargains
Human tales of the fae are replete with accounts of faeries performing tasks for people
spinning straw into gold, crafting shoes or other goods, cleaning houses, cooking
fantastic meals, or otherwise using their supernatural acumen on behalf of humanity. The
humans in these tales sometimes have to repay the faeries kindness, and sometimes are
taken aback by the price.
In truth, though, changelings make bargains with people because doing so disguises
them. If a changeling has an agreed-upon function within human society, Huntsmen have
a much more difficult time finding her. Of course, she has to keep up her end of the
bargain and in order to reap the benefit of the bargain, that bargain must be ongoing.
Changelings make bargains with human beings for another reason, though, quite apart
from the increased ability to hide from the Huntsmen. Bargains make changelings feel
like they belong. Ripped away from their families, forced into servitude and escaping
through a nightmare of thorns, changelings are, as their sobriquet implies, Lost. A
bargain with people requires contact with people, and forces the changeling to rediscover
and interact with a world she thought forever taken from her.
In order to make a bargain with a person, the changeling has to reveal her true nature. She
doesnt have to be honest with the mortal about the particulars of her situation, but she
has to appear to the person without her Mask and propose the terms of the agreement.
She can promise anything she wants to the person, but in order to gain the benefits of the
bargain, she has to be capable of making good on her promise. Changelings should
therefore take care to bargain for services they have the Skills or Contracts to provide,
though its not unknown for a changeling to bargain with one person to provide a service
that another person she has bargained with is actually going to provide (changelings
should beware, though it just takes one misstep for the whole web to break).
Benefits
By making a bargain with a human being, the changeling gains a kind of camouflage with
respect to the Huntsmen. This protection extends beyond the Mask all changelings
have some degree of concealment, but the magic that makes human beings see them
without their fae features only extends so far. A bargain gives the changeling a place
among mortals, and tricks the Wyrd into assuming that the changeling should be there.
Huntsmen, therefore, see the changeling not necessarily as human, but as a natural part of
the landscape, a faerie feature that is and has always been. A bargain isnt foolproof, of
course Huntsmen and persistent and powerful, and have many ways to ferret out the
Lost.
Consequences
Breaking a bargain with a person doesnt carry a heavy consequence for the changeling in
question, at least in comparison to breaking an oath. The changeling simply loses the
benefits of the bargain, meaning that she is once again exposed to the Huntsmen. This is,
of course, a potentially fraught situation, depending on whos looking for the character at
the time.
Depending on the scope of the bargain in question, the changeling might also gain the
Notoriety Condition (p. XX).
The human participant in the bargain needs to live up to his end, as well, or suffer the
wrath of the Wyrd. The most common punishment for a human being failing to honor his
part in a bargain is being snatched away by a Huntsman. This isnt because of specific
wording in the bargain (most changelings wouldnt wish being taken by the Gentry on
their worst enemies, much less some hapless person who just forgot to set a pie on his
windowsill), but because of the nature of the bargain. Just as a kept bargain shields a
changeling from the Huntsmen, a broken one shines a harsh light on whoever would are
cheat the Wyrd.
Systems
Changelings cannot swear bargains with other changelings, and prefer to do so with
human beings. Magical beings unaffiliated with the Wyrd can agree to bargains, but
doing so sometimes has strange side effects. No matter the nature of the other party, the
changeling must appear to him without her Mask, and propose the bargain. Most
changelings observe human beings for days or weeks, discerning simple tasks that they
can perform in order to strike a bargain. The bargain is usually an ongoing task a
changeling might offer to clean the humans house once a week, or sew her a dress once a
month, or grant her pleasing dreams three nights a week.
Once per story, when the changeling devotes time and energy (at least once scene) to
fulfilling a bargain, the player takes a Beat. The main benefit for a changeling, though, is
that Huntsmen have a more difficult time tracking them down to the Huntsmens
sense, the changeling appears human. In game terms, for every active bargain that the
changeling enjoys, all hunting or investigation rolls to find her suffer a cumulative -1
penalty. This penalty has no upper limit (though of course, the changeling needs to be
careful not to overextend herself).
The subject agrees to provide something in return, but it doesnt have to be
commensurate with the service the changeling is providing (since the point of the
bargain, from the changelings perspective, isnt what the human can provide anyway).
Some changelings simply ask for money or valuables, while others ask for goods they
can sell or trade. Clever changelings word their bargains so that the subject has to provide
a seemingly innocuous service sometime in the future, and build up a bank of favors. The
game mechanics of such favors, if any, are up to the Storyteller, but an appropriate use
would mimic the effect of a one- to three-dot Merit, once per story.
GoblinPledges
GoblinPledgesareanadditionaltypeofpledgethatStorytellersmayuseintheirgames.Bytakingthis
Merit,charactersgainaconnectionwithspecificaspectsoftheWyrdinasimilar,thoughmuch
weakerversionoftheinnateconnectiontheOthershave.Changelingswiththisconnectionareable
tocraftpledgeswithaspectsoftheWyrddirectly,withoutneedinganotherbeingtoactaswitnessor
gobetweenasnormal.WhileneitherSeemingnotCourtspecific,certainaspectswillbemoreorless
attractivetodifferenttypesofChangelings,anditisnotunheardofformotleys,Courts,orevenentire
freeholdstohaveaconnectionwiththesameaspectoftheWyrd.
GoblinVow(to)
YourcharacterhastheabilitytocraftpledgeswithanaspectoftheWyrditself,negotiatingwithit
directlyasthoughitwasanindividual.Foreachdotshehasinthismerit,shehasaconnectionwith
onepurviewoftheWyrd.Thesepurviewsarespecificsubsetsoflargeraspects,similartothewaySkill
Specializationsareanarrowerfocusofabroaderskill.Timeistoobroadofanaspecttohavea
connectionwith,asisevening,buthighnoon,rushhour,thewitchinghour,andtheeleventh
hourareallacceptablynarrowaspects.Similarly,loveistoogeneralofapurview,butunrequited
love,jealouslove,brokenhearts,andtrueloveareappropriatepurviews.
Benefits
AsthecharacterismakingabargainwithanaspectoftheWyrditselfratherthanamortaloranother
changeling,thefavorgrantedbyaGoblinVowcanbemuchmoreflexiblethanfromotherpledges.
ThebenefitaskedformuststillmakesensegiventhepurviewoftheWyrdthecharacterisdealing
withhowever.Animalpurviewscouldgrantthesenses,reflexes,locomotionmethod,ordefensesof
thespecificanimalthecharacterhasaconnectionwith.MakingadealwithEarthwormsforexample
couldallowthecharactertosqueezethroughsmallcracks,digatanincreasedrateofspeed,give
themtheabilitytoseebydetectingvibrations,orevengranttheabilitytoconsumesoilas
sustenance.ThepurviewofRosescouldcoverachangelingslimbsintough,waxythorns,improve
theirclimbingability,surroundthemwithapleasantperfume,orallowthemtoremainuprightinthe
faceofaviolentwindstorm.Itcouldnotgranttheabilitytoseeinthedarkorbreathunderwater
however.UsingGoblinVowtomakeapledgewiththeWyrddoesnotcostanyGlamour,makingitan
attractivechoiceforchangelingswhoarelowonresourcesorhaverunoutofoptions.
Consequences
Justlikeasealingmadewithotherchangelings,acharacterwhobreaksapledgemadewithanaspect
oftheWyrdsuffersanimmediate,negativeeffect.Astheentitybeingdealtwithisthemagicitself,
ratherthansomeonechannelingatrickleofthatmagic,theconsequencesforbreakingaGoblinVow
aremoreseverethannormal.ThecompletelyinhumannatureoftheWyrdalsomeansthe
punishmentleviedforabrokenorunfilledpromiserarelymakesense.Forthisreason,many
changelingssticktotherelativesafetyofContractsandpledgesmadewithotherLost,ratherthan
bargainingwiththeWyrddirectly.
Systems
AchangelingwiththeGoblinVowMeritcancraftapledgewithanyaspectoftheWrydtheyare
connectedto,justasiftheyweremakingasealing(
seep
.XX).Inthiscasehowever,thecharacter
promisestotakeacourseofactioninexchangeforafavorgrantedbytheWyrd,andthenspendsa
pointofWillpowertosignaltheirsincerity.Theentitysealingthechangelingspromisemustbe
presenttowitnessthepromiseasnormal,butasthecharacterisdealingwithanaspectoftheWyrd,
onlyinextremecircumstancescouldthatprovetobedifficult.Achangelingwalkingalongacitystreet
wouldhavenoproblemmakingapledgewiththepurviewsofElectricLights,Cockroaches,orCement,
forexample,butgettingtheattentionofCandleFlamewhilestrugglingacrossasnowfieldinthe
midstofaragingblizzardwouldbemoredifficult.Notethatunlikeanormalsealing,playersdonot
takeaBeatwhentheyallowtheirpromisetobesealedbytheWyrd.
Whenmakingthepromise,theplayerstatesthebenefittheydesirefromthepurviewoftheWyrd
theyareconnectedto,thedurationoftimetheywishtoreceivetheboonfor,andthetasktheywill
performinreturnforthefavor.Askingforasmallerfavororgainingthebenefitforashortertime
allowsthechangelingtopromisealessdemandingtask,whileaskingforalargerfavororgainingthe
benefitforalongerdurationrequiresthemtopromiseaparticularlydangerousortaxingtask.
Minorfavorsrequirethechangelingtopromisetoperformanactionthatisrelativelyeasyto
accomplish.Thiscouldbefrequentlydoingsomethingthatrequirespracticallynotimeandeffort,or
performingaonetimeactionthattakesonlyalittletimetocompleteandinvolvesnoriskofharm.
Minortaskscanalmostalwaysbeperformedaspartofanormaldailyroutineanddontrequireany
changeinbehavior.Alwaysjumpingoveracertainpotholethatliesalongthewaytowork,placing
yourshoessothattheypointtowardsthedooraftertakingthemoff,ordeliveringapackageto
someoneinanotherpartoftownareallexamplesofminortasks.Thebenefitgrantedinexchangefor
thepromiseofminortasksinclude:
A+1bonustoallrolls
A+2bonustoallrollswithaspecificAttribute
A+3bonustoallrollswithaspecificSkill
GainanewMeritatonedot,orincreaseanexistingMeritbyonedot
GainanewonedotContract,orincreaseanexistingContractbyonedot
Medialfavorsrequirethechangelingtopromisetoperformanactionthatwilltakesomeeffortto
accomplish.Thiscouldbesomeregularandconstantactivitythatforcesthecharactertoexpenda
smallamountoftimeandresources,orasingletaskthatwillbedifficulttoachieveandmayresultin
physicalharm.Medialtasksoftenrequirechangestoacharactersdailyroutineandusuallyforce
themtoaltertheirbehaviorinsomesmallway.Providingawarmmealtoanyandallwhoaskitof
you,keepingthestreetyouliveonclearofgarbage,neverusinganelevator,oraccompanying
someoneonatripthroughrivalgangterritoryareappropriatetasks.Thebenefitgrantedinexchange
forapromiseofmedialtasksinclude:
A+2bonustoallrolls
A+3bonustoallrollswithaspecificAttribute
A+5bonustoallrollswithaspecificSkill
GainanewMeritattwodots,orincreaseanexistingMeritbytwodots
GainanewtwodotContract,orincreaseanexistingContractbytwodots
Majorfavorsrequirethechangelingtopromisetodosomethingthatcanonlybeachievedthrough
constanteffortandattention,orbyperformingaonetimeactionofextremedifficultyordanger.
Majortasksforcethecharactertocompletelyrearrangetheirlivestoaccommodatethepromised
actionandoftenrequireanoticeablechangeinbehavior.Caringforabedriddenfriend,making
nightlypatrolsaroundaneighborhoodknownforfrequentviolentcrimes,neversteppingona
shadowforanyreason,ortransportingsomethingacrossanoceanareexamplesofmajortasks.The
benefitgrantedinexchangeforapromiseofmajortasksinclude:
A+3bonustoallrolls
A+5bonustoallrollswithaspecificAttribute
A+7bonustoallrollswithaspecificSkill
GainanewMeritatthreedots,orincreaseanexistingMeritbythreedots
GainanewthreedotContract,orincreaseanexistingContractbythreedots
ThedurationofaGoblinVowsbenefitisnormallyonedayforaminorfavor,oneweekforamedial
favor,andonemonthforamajorfavor.Thisisalsothelengthoftimethechangelingmustperform
theirpromisedactionfor(ortheamountoftimetheyhaveinwhichtocompletetheironetime
action),aswellasthedurationofthesanctionsappliedbytheWyrdiftheybreaktheirpromise.Just
likeotherpledgestheWyrddoesnotdifferentiatebetweenacharacterchoosingtonotfollow
throughapromiseandbeingunableto;allthatmattersisthatthepromisewasnotkept.Ifa
changelingbreaksapledgemadewithanaspectoftheWyrd,thecharactergainstheOathbreaker
Condition,aswellassufferingapenaltyequaltotheleveloffavortheyreceived.Soaminorsanction
couldbea1penaltytoallrolls,amedialsanctioncouldbedecreasingaMeritbytwodots,anda
majorsanctioncouldbea5penaltytoallrollswithaspecificAttribute.Notethatthenatureofthe
sanctiondoesnothavetoberelatedtothenatureofthebenefitgranted;onlythelevelneedstobe
thesame.
Reducingthedurationofthebenefitallowsthechangelingtoincreasethelevelofthefavorwithout
increasingthedurationorofthepromisedaction,toreducetheamountoftimetheymustperform
theirpromisedactionfor,ortoreducethelevelofthesanctioniftheybreakthepledge.Increasing
theamountoftimethechangelingmustperformtheirpromisedactionforallowsthecharacterto
increasethedurationofthebenefit.Thetimestepsare:oneaction,onescene,oneday,oneweek,
onemonth,andoneseason.
Example: ShandraSilverscales,aWaterbornwhohastheGoblinVowMerit(Eels,MurkyWater,
andSewers)istrappedinthebathroomofanunfamiliarhouseafterameetingwitharivalcourtwent
sour.ShesoutofGlamourandcanhearthetreadofatleastthreepairsofheavybootsoutsidethe
door.Desperately,sheturnsonthetap,spendsapointofWillpower,andwhispersapromisetothe
waterswirlingdownthepipestothesewer:Floodthishousewithwatertoletmeescape,andIll
keepeverystormdrainandgutterIseeclearforthenextweek.HerplayertellstheStorytellershe
wantstouseControlElements ,athreedotContractthecharacterdoesnothave.Theplayerdecides
sheonlyneedstousetheContractforasinglescene,whichisthreestepsawayfromthenormal
durationofonemonth,allowinghertoreducethedurationofthepromisedtasktooneweek(one
step)andthelevelofthesanctiontominor(twosteps).Theplayergetsanexceptionalsuccesson
theirContractroll,waterfloodsthefirstfloorofthehouse,andShandra,nowinherelement,easily
escapes.Forthenextweekshedutifullyclearsawaythedebrisfromeverystormdrainandguttershe
comesacross.

The Hedge
Some people say that pain makes you stronger.
Anybody who said that has never really been hurt,
or theyre lying to themselves. Anybody who said
that has never walked the Hedge.

The Hedge is both a place and a path. Or more appropriately, a series of paths. A hub
of paths. If you walk the paths, you can find yourself somewhere wondrous,
somewhere terrifying, somewhere a little bit of both. If you stray from the path, you
find pain. Like every literal hedge, the Hedge is a place of thorns and brambles. But in
many cases, those thorns and brambles are figurative.
The Hedge is mostly a path between the human world, and Arcadia. The Hedge
eschews rules, both human and fae alike. In the Hedge, time and space are dramatic
devices at best, utterly warped at worse. Mass is a treat to be savored sometimes, but
not always. The Hedge has its own rules, and you enter and leave according to those
rules, or you find yourself trapped and shredded by the thorns.
Every one of the Lost traversed the Hedge at least once, on her escape from her
Keeper. The Hedge is of course a dangerous place, and doubly so for the Lost.
Relative proximity to Arcadia means a very real risk of capture, of a return to dread
captivity. That said, clever Lost find great function in the Hedge it can make for
relatively safe travel, it provides wondrous goblin fruits, and some even take haven in
little hollowed-out Hedge dwellings. Almost every one returns at some time or
another, some with alarming frequency. Also, humans can enter, under the right (or
wrong) circumstances. This almost always means the persons life is in grave danger.
Leaving is often a more complex proposition for humans, while paradoxically easier
for the Lost.

Metaphysics of the Hedge

Imagine a place built from the insecurities, fears, and wants of everyone nearby.
Imagine that as new people enter and leave, the place mutates and warps to
amalgamate new ideas with old. Picture strong ideas consuming weaker ideas, picture
existential dread consuming disquiet, and all-consuming lust devouring subtle
curiosity. Picture all of that, and then make those ideas solid, solid and physically
painful.
In the Hedge, jealousy doesnt sting, it pricks and snags your skin like an outturned
corner of sheet metal, like the one youd cut yourself on in your dads toolshed, the
one that made your mom rush you to the hospital over because she was worried you
had tetanus. Take a dark alleyway, and line it with thousands of that little metal spike,
and toss a few hundred on the ground, and youre starting to understand the Hedge.
Now mix those spikes with all the little nicks and cuts and bruises experienced by
everyone that wanders through that alley. The bits that hurt the most jut out the
furthest. The ones people will never get over, those block the path so you have to
climb over them or duck under them.
What hurts you will always come back to hurt you and your loved ones again. Thats
the Hedge.
Pain and the Hedge
Lets talk just a little about pain. Theres a rule in the Hedge: If something stops
hurting, the Hedge stops embodying it. Some read this rule to suggest that literally
everything in the Hedge causes pain. Thats completely false, and a simplified view of
the place. Itd be more appropriate to say that everything in the Hedge could hurt.
Lets explore an example. You know that boy in high school who you really wanted
to ask you out? It doesnt hurt when he finally musters the courage to ask you out. In
fact, you eagerly look forward to that day. You dream about it. You run circles,
practicing what youll say to him when he finally confesses his feelings for you. Then
he asks you, and your heart falls to your stomach. You cry a little the first time he
holds your hand. Its beautiful and perfect and you want nothing else. The Hedge can
be that. Dont you want that?
But what about afterward? How does it feel when your father threatens to disown you
for taking a boy home? How does it feel when he flirts with the guy who bullied you
in grade school? How does it feel when he gets drunk and calls out someone elses
name? How does it feel when you wake up one day and hes not there, and hes never
there again? It fucking hurts. It hurts more than any spike, any thorn, any car crash.
The Hedge can be that, too. What? You dont want that, too?
So, the Hedge isnt all spikes and whips and rust and blood. Some of it is smokey-
eyed come-hither looks. Some of it is the pie your mom made you before she died.
Some of it is the feel of silk, or the weight of gold in your hand. Some of it is the
childish wonder of magic made flesh, of sorcery and enchantments and quests and
dragons and eternal adventure. But some of it is spikes. All of it could hurt. And if it
starts hurting, it goes away once it stops hurting.
Much of the time, that hurt comes from facing the reality. Its empowering to don
yourself in mirror-finished platemail, charging into the cave to slay the dragon for
your beloved. Its the dragon your foster mother told you about growing up. It has
scales of brushed and polished platinum. It sits atop a pile of treasure, including but
not limited to the lost texts of the Library of Alexandria and the magical trident held
by the king of Atlantis. But at the end of that tunnel, theres a dragon, and its very
real, and its teeth are very deadly. Just because its beautiful and wondrous doesnt
mean it cant eat you alive. The Hedge can be beautiful, but make no mistake, it can
eat you alive.
Rules of the Hedge
In a direct, literal sense, the Hedge is thought and feeling given shape and life. Its
like one of those little plastic fish that curl and contort based on your body
temperature, but it responds to pain and trauma, or more importantly, the things which
could potentially cause pain and trauma. There arent a lot of hard rules in the Hedge.
But these few things are always true:
Its always easy to get lost in the Hedge.
The Hedge will never stay the same, unless reshaped masterfully.
If something stops hurting, the Hedge stops embodying it.
The Hedge loosely corresponds to a real-world analogue.
The technology and trappings of the human world are never reliable.
The Hedge is consistent from person to person. If I see a jagged spire of bone, you see
a jagged spire of bone. If that spire mutates into steel because your father died
impaled on a hay hook, I see that as well as you do even if I dont know why. But if
something is relevant to a given viewer, he knows. Even if he doesnt want to admit
it, or even if he doesnt remember the pain in question, he knows its his pain.
While in the Hedge, one can usually see hints and evidence of a human world
analogue. If she wanders the Hedge of Detroit, shell see hints of buildings, cars, and
factories even as theyre consumed and lost under brambles. Some of these objects
will even directly correspond to things on the other side. But more appropriately,
objects in the Hedge are iconic, essential examples of things that appear in local
dreamscapes and feelings. Things deeply ingrained in the human zeitgeist will have
direct references within the Hedge, but never the right size, shape, or location. In fact,
size is more likely to correspond to the concept of size that many people hold for the
object, than the objects actual size. For example, the Mona Lisa is quite a small
painting, but most people think its a large painting. In the Hedge, an example of the
Mona Lisa would be much larger than the real thing.
This is also to say, so long as the trappings of civilization exist, a changeling can be
relatively certain theyre still in space corresponding to civilization, and likewise with
wilderness. Places truly forgotten simply cease to exist. Places that feel like they take
too long to traverse, like the New York City streets, tend to feel longer in the Hedge.
But not everything in the Hedge is along a path. Many things remain off the path, in
the brambles. This means risking harm, if one wishes to travel through.
Time has a similar bend. Every little place, every path, every room, has a different
concept of time. In some places, it passes quickly. In some, it doesnt pass at all.
The Lost can enter the Hedge through any door in the human world. They must leave
through established entrances and exits, though. Humans can only enter and exit
through very specific rituals and entrances. Every door has a key, a method for
opening that particular path into the Hedge. Finding a key from the human world to
the Hedge is far from impossible. But most humans dont realize that a key is not a
two-way affair a door may have a separate ritual for returning. This usually means
dealing with the denizens of the Hedge, or often being lost forever.
Within the Hedge
The Hedge can be a very dangerous place for anyone. But for lost, its particularly
bad. The Hedge puts them closer to their keepers, and closer to enslavement. Time in
the Hedge erodes ones clarity. Just entering the Hedge is only a definitive concern for
the highest clarity changelings. However, remaining in the Hedge weather even the
strongest mind. Also, when in the Hedge, a changeling cannot hide her true
appearance. The mask simply ceases to work within the Hedge. The mask requires
human logic and the power of human minds to work. The Hedge does not abide by
these rules. In fact, if a human see is a changeling stepping through a gate to the
Hedge, he sees her true form. This has caused many humans to pursue changelings
into the Hedge. No amount of glamour or power will allow the mask to persist with in
the Hedge. This also means that Huntsman will have no trouble identifying a
changeling within the Hedge.
On the other hand, the hedge offers quick passageway between points in the human
world. As well, changelings are known to carve out a little safe places for themselves
in the Hedge.
Integrity in the Hedge
The hedge weathers ones clarity because it's a place that does not make sense. It does
not hold itself to consistent rules, and human thinking and logic simply do not exist
here. So, a changeling trying to maintain a grasp of normal reality cannot manage in
the hedge for long without beginning to question her understanding of the universe.
Maintaining the semblance of a normal human life is not possible in a place where the
rules of human existence do not apply.
Clarity erodes in accordance with the Clarity rules on p. XX.
This problem is not restricted to changelings alone, however. Humans also risk their
mental Integrity when traveling the hedge. Not only is the hedge a physically
dangerous place for them, with supernatural threats and thorns all around, it also
makes one question their very existence. The hedge is a place of pain, of suffering,
and these very pure human feelings are typically hidden behind a patina of civility
and rational thought. Not so in the hedge. In essence, people in the hedge see human
emotion in its rawest form, and nobody is really prepared to handle this.
Integrity erodes in accordance with the Integrity rules on p. XX.
Other supernatural creatures are not immune to the draw of the Hedge. Their
equivalent traits to integrity and clarity erode similarly. This is too complicated a
topic to deal with in this space, but if your chronicle has other supernatural characters
in it, and the traverse the hedge, Storyteller discretion should be used to determine
erosion of equivalent traits. Use Integrity and Clarity as a baseline characters with
more human systems should favor rules like Integrity, whereas more mystically-
inclined or inhuman systems should favor rules closer to Clarity.
Reshaping the Hedge
As noted, the Hedge is a psychoreactive place. The Hedge responds to thoughts and
feelings. Changelings, and those experienced with the hedge realize this fact, and can
manipulate the shape of the hedge accordingly. This means thinking the strong things
necessary, or feeling the strongest sensations necessary toward the thorns and
brambles. This of course is a dangerous proposition, as emotions that one forces upon
oneself are very real, despite being artificially inspired. A character wishing to
manipulate the hedge with pure, unadulterated rage must feel that rage, and let it
seethe through her. In a place of limited logic and reason, this is doubly dangerous.
Letting emotions rule one self can be the end of a changeling lost in the hedge.
This is not an ability limit it to changelings, however. Self-aware humans can quickly
come to realize the hedges malleable nature, and how it corresponds with their
feelings and thoughts.
Invoking Emotion: A character wishing to manipulate the hedge must draw and
emotion deep within himself. This does not require a dice roll if the emotion is
already being represented with a Condition. Otherwise, drawing upon such an
emotion requires a Composure + Empathy roll, with a penalty for weak or irrelevant
emotions, or extra dice for strong or contextually relevant emotions. Glamour can be
spent for additional dice on this roll, on a one-for-one basis. Essentially, your
character swallows the Glamour, absorbing it as raw emotion to fuel the feeling she
wishes to inspire within herself.
When making the dice roll, choose or craft a Condition to adopt.
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: As with failure, but the Condition becomes Persistent.
Failure: The Storyteller may pervert the Condition toward a negative aspect. Love
might become obsession. Make the Condition negative, and give -2 on relevant dice
pools related to the Condition.
Success: Your character gains the desired Condition. However, if its a purely
positive Condition, you do not gain a Beat when its resolved.
Exceptional Success: Your character gains the desired Condition.
With exceptional success, your character gains that Condition. With success, the
Storyteller can choose a similar Condition, but one reflecting a similar emotion. With
failure, the Storyteller chooses a magnified form of that Condition, doubling all
negative effects, or adding negative effects equal to a selective -2 penalty where there
might not have been. On a dramatic failure, not only does the Condition pervert
toward the negative, but it becomes Persistent.
Warping the Hedge: Manipulating the Hedge requires a roll, either Manipulation +
Empathy + Wyrd, or Dexterity + Crafts + Wyrd. The Dexterity + Crafts form requires
actual, physical manipulation of the space with hands, or with tools made from the
Hedge. As with the other roll, Glamour can be spent to add dice. This can be done
quickly and roughly as an instant action, or slowly over time as an extended action,
with each roll representing an hours work. And because changelings possess a Wyrd
rating, theyll always be superior to humans attempting to shape the Hedge.
As well, the Storyteller should apply additional dice or penalties depending on the
circumstances. As a rule of thumb, if the change would grant a dice bonus to other
actions, or cause damage, apply that modifier or damage rating as a penalty to the
warping dice pool. For example, if you wish to make a pitchfork that adds a +1
equipment modifier, and does 2 lethal damage, that would deliver a -3 penalty to the
roll. If the character has been near that point in the Hedge for a day or more, add a
die. After a week, add two. A month adds three, a year four, and two years or more
gives five additional dice.
Characters with the Hollow Merit working within their Hollow add their Merit dots to
the dice. Characters in another characters Hollow subtract that Hollow Merit from
their dice pool. That level of identity, of ownership makes stronger, more permanent
modifications easier, while resisting others manipulations.
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: Your character pushes against the Hedge, and it snaps back like a
vicious rubber band. It warps and grabs her with its thorns, causing 1 lethal damage
and holding her in place. For the purpose of the hold, this is considered cold iron.
Escaping capture requires a combined five successes on actions to break captivity,
such as Strength + Athletics or similar actions. Each roll causes 1 lethal damage to
your character, regardless of whether she or someone else was attempting to breatk
the hold. If any Huntsmen are in the area, they become immediately aware of her
location.
Failure: The change does not take place. Further attempts require a point of Glamour,
which prohibits most human characters from attempting in the same place, on the
same things.
Success: Successes go toward reshaping the Hedge, as noted below. Every day that
passes, one successs effect fades as the Hedge becomes something else again. Note
that with an instant action, the same object cannot be warped again by the same
changeling until it fades back into its original shape. Note that this means any
significant reshaping requires an extended action.
Exceptional Success: Not only do successes go toward reshaping the Hedge, but your
character makes a very rare permanent mark on the space. Her adjustments cannot be
undone, even by another reshaping the Hedge again. These spaces or things may be
destroyed, but never reshapen.
Successes can be used for the following adjustments to the Hedge. Note that affecting
1 Size is free and does not require successes. This is a very abstract system, both for
space, and because the Hedge is a largely abstract place. Storyteller discretion is
paramount. Always favor dramatic appropriateness.

Adding the Semblance of Sentience

Characters with a knack for changing the Hedge, those who have
invested at least 25 successes into crafting and changing their space
and who have spent at least a week in the Hedge can imbue spaces
with a bit of emotion, and thus a semblance of sentience. This doesnt
create true, living things, but instead creates simple autonomous
behaviors in otherwise inanimate objects. For example, a flower
imbued with a sense of rage might lash out at passers-by, or the same
flower imbued with lust might gently caress those walking through its
path. The character never truly knows what an object will do when
infusing a space with an emotion.
New Merit: Master Shaper (, , or )
Prerequisite: Empathy , Crafts
Effect: Your character can not only imbue a semblance of sentience
into an object or space in the Hedge, but can give it a spark of
intelligence and independent animation. By spending a Glamour (or
Willpower for a human character), she can infuse her reshaped, semi-
sentient creations with a Mental or Social Attribute. This Attribute has
one dot with the one-dot version of this Merit, two dots with the three-
dot version of this Merit, and three dots with the five-dot version of
this Merit. With a point of Willpower, she can also infuse a single Skill
into an item. A single purchase of the Merit applies to all Attributes
you can give Presence and Manipulation to an object with Master
Shaper for instance but each Attribute must be applied with a
separate warping action.
A thing with Mental and Social Attributes can react to stimuli, and can
achieve limited communication depending on which Attributes it has.
For example, a book with Intelligence but no Presence can impart
knowledge, but might have no discernible personality. The object is
still influenced greatly by the governing emotional Condition which
created it.
Objects with granted Skills can increase those Skills over time, with
practice, communication, and teaching. This typically takes at least a
year of active, part-time study per dot desired. So, for example, if a
 changeling wishes to teach a book Science at four dots, this would be a
ten year task (the first dot coming with the Merit immediately, then
two years, three, and four years).
CHART ME
Successes Adjustment
1 Affect +1 Size worth of the environment
2 Add an Environmental Tilt to a space
1 Change a minor physical property
2 Change a major physical property
1 Minor aesthetic modifications
2 Major aesthetic modifications
3 Making the space sensually indistinguishable from its previous form
1 Add or subtract 1 Size
1 Add or subtract 1 Durability
1 Add or subtract 2 Structure
1 Imbue with a semblance of sentience (see sidebar)
END CHART
Over time, the successes in a warping fade except in the case of an exceptional
success. This fading brings the object back to its previous state. Objects can be
reasonably moved, permitting the object could otherwise be moved. For example, a
knife crafted of the Hedges thorns could be carried elsewhere in the Hedge.
However, outside the Hedge, these objects decay rapidly. Instead of reverting to an
original form, they become desiccated waste. A shield made of a metal grate from the
Hedge might fall into a rusty, brittle grid when brought into the human world.
Characters can use a point of Glamour each day to delay this decay.
The Freeholds Hedge
Another way the Hedge can be reshaped on a semi-permanent basis is by freeholds.
The ruler of a freehold manipulates the nearby Hedge, which subtly twists and bends
to suit the freeholds identity. These are an amalgamation of the freeholds tale, and
the rulers own personality. These changes remain so long as the ruler remains in
power. Often, rulers use this as a sort of defense mechanism for the local Hedge. In
some cases, its served as an early warning system for those freehold members in
the Hedge, as they knew when their ruler was deposed and could avoid going back to
the freehold.
In game terms, a freehold ruler has access to a number of effective successes equal to
the number of freehold members with Mantle 5 for the purposes of reshaping the
Hedge with Tilts, physical properties, aesthetic properties, or minor sentience. These
pseudo-successes do not need to be spent on Size, as this phenomenon affects the
entirety of the space. She may reshape the Hedge beyond this point, but those changes
are temporary as any.

Travel in the Hedge

Of course, the Hedge is a dangerous place. Why would anyone want to go there? How
does travel occur? The reasons are as numerous as the visitors, but certain trends
emerge. Travel is dangerous, but can be made far less dangerous with a little
knowledge.
Why Changelings Delve
Changelings have many reasons to risk the Hedge. Here are a few of the most
common:
Icons: The Lost leaves a piece of themselves behind when escaping Arcadia, that
piece is lost in the Hedge. If she finds that Icon, she can help keep the Huntsmen
away for some time. However, with time, Icons fade back into Arcadia. See p. XX for
Icons, and see The Mark of the Hunt for the effects of a Huntsman finding an Icon, on
p. XX.
Hedge Duels: With fast, clever reshaping, the Lost can battle within the Hedge
using environments as weapons. See below for details.
Hollows: With time and reshaping, changelings can carve out their own little niches
of the Hedge. Many use these to safely grow goblin fruits or to avoid the rest of the
world for a time. This is represented with the Hollow Merit (p. XX).
Travel: Sometimes, a path between point A and point B in the human world is
faster in the Hedge. Sometimes, its simply less obtrusive. Or, if a changeling knows
the whereabouts of a Huntsman in the human world and wishes to pass by undetected,
the Hedge is an invaluable resource.
Goblin Fruits: Goblin fruits are a very palpable, very real benefit of the Hedge.
These strange foods have mystical effects, you can find more on p. XX.
Changing Seemings: When a changeling flees Arcadia, her method of escape
defines her Seeming. However, she can change this with a quest through the Hedge,
to the gate of her Keepers realm. This is a trip not taken lightly, but it happens
sometimes. This is particularly important to the rare changelings without Seemings, or
Loyalists (p. XX) who wish to redeem themselves and claim a Seeming.
Personal Reasons: The Lost may traverse the Hedge for any or no reason at all.
Motleys may simply wish for adventure. Some just wonder if they can. Some seek to
find escaping changelings, and aid their flight.
Dreams and Dream Bastions: Changelings travel through the Hedge to access
dreams. While this is a very common reason for visiting the Hedge, you can find more
thorough discussion of the topic on p. XX.
Why Humans Visit
Most of the time, humans accidentally visit the Hedge. They walk into a circle of
mushrooms and use a random word that happens to allow entrance. At 11:59pm, they
look into an ancient clay vase found at an antique store. They stumble upon an old
skeleton key when cleaning out their late grandfathers house. These things happen.
But sometimes, humans choose to visit the Hedge. This is often because they visited
once, managed to escape, and realized they could use the same method to return.
Curiosity: The Hedge is a strange and wondrous place, if dangerous. If you could
travel to another world, where nothing worked the way you expected, where you saw
monsters and fairies and stranger things, would you go? Enough people would say yes
to that question.
Knowledge: Some people in the Chronicles of Darkness know a little too much for
their own good. They know fairies exist. They know that eldritch rituals can take
them to their home. So, they pursue.
Blood: Some humans are tied by family to the fae. Some learn that their relatives
are fetches. Some find out their loved ones have been abducted by alien forces. These
people often find themselves in the Hedge.
These are just some of the reasons a person might end up in the Hedge.
Why Others Visit
Other creatures visit the Hedge. For example, curious, overconfident mages might
find the realm enticing. Vampires might relish the idea of another world where time
doesnt pass, so they dont have to drink blood. These are all rare, fringe cases, each
worthy of their own stories.
Entering the Hedge
Changelings can enter the Hedge in many, many places. Any opening, arch, doorway,
or even mirror or other reflective surface can serve as a gateway to the Hedge, if its
big enough for the traveler to pass through. A single point of Glamour and a touch
does the trick. For a number of turns equal to the changelings Wyrd, the gate will
stay open after she passes through. Once shes opened a given gateway, it closes but
still remains a gateway indefinitely. Other Lost do not need spend Glamour to open
that particular gateway in the future. Lost and fae creatures see that place as a
gateway, unmistakably.
Leaving the Hedge occurs by the same means. Simply find a gateway, and open it up.
Humans, however, have a harder time. They can use the following methods to enter
the Hedge.
Following Others: Lost leave gateways temporarily opened once they step through.
Humans can pass through behind them.
Keys: Legends of lost and haunted places, of fairy circles and other paths from this
world are often Keys, methods for opening gateways into the Hedge. One common,
popular legend is that of alien abduction.
Vice: Any time a human indulges her Vice (see p. XX) near a gateway, roll Wits +
Composure with a -5 penalty. With success, she sees the gateway for what it is, and
on the other side, she sees something that appeals perfectly to her Vice. If she crosses
through the gateway, it slams shut. Usually, but not always, the object of her desire
turns out to be an illusion. When it doesnt, the story goes much, much darker.
Other supernatural creatures can follow fae creatures into the Hedge, or use Keys to
access gateways. Vices do not trigger for the supernatural. Some rumors suggest
otherwise, but if true, its immensely rare.
Leaving the Hedge
Leaving the Hedge works the same way as entering. A changeling can open a door, or
find an active gateway. In dense areas, like urban spaces, she can find an active
gateway with an extended Intelligence + Investigation + Wyrd action. Normally, each
roll takes ten minutes. In less populated areas, it takes an hour per roll. In mostly
uninhabited wilderness, it takes a full day per roll. The action requires twelve
successes, minus her Clarity. A loss of Clarity warps her perspective, making
potential gateways look like nothing at all, or covered space.
Navigating the Hedge
Navigating the Hedge is always complicated, usually dangerous, and never boring. As
the paths change and warp, even relatively familiar paths are always something of an
adventure.
In your chronicles, navigating the Hedge is as easy or difficult as you see fit. If your
players use the Hedge to expedite travel, and you just want to move on with the story,
they can make it through, glossed over. If you want to make a random trip through the
Hedge the focus of a multi-story arc, you can do that as well.
Also, the time between points in the Hedge is malleable. When players leave the
Hedge, determine how long has passed. This should always be decided for dramatic
appropriateness, never as a punishment.
As a Storyteller, the Hedge is a perfect opportunity to try out experimental and
creative storytelling techniques. Do you have an utterly fucked-up soundtrack playlist
in mind? Heres your chance. Do you want to pull off an Alice in Wonderland style
surreal fantasy story? This is a great place for that. Do you want to tell a classic
American road trip story but twisted like Fear and Loathing: The Lost? Perfect, go
ahead and do that. This clearly shouldnt be every single Hedge travel scene, but it
can be a great way to break up tension and pacing. Do you feel like your players are
maybe progressing too quickly through a plot you havent finished planning out?
Great, use the Hedge for a monster of the week story to give yourself some time
and breathing room. Is everything always high drama to the point where youre
almost fretting Saturdays game session? Tell everyone their characters had better
wear their hiking boots. The Hedge works well as a setting, or even as a character.
But it functions best as a weird sort of multi-tool.
Navigation Systems: Navigating the Hedge doesnt have one particular dice pool, if
youre resorting to rolls. Most Hedge navigation should occur as an extended action,
with Wyrd determining the intervals. Dice pools should change to suit the shifting
circumstances every dice roll should be a slightly different scenario, and the
characters may meet those changing needs with different approaches which define the
Attributes and Skills used.
Characters with higher Wyrd travel much faster through the Hedge, as their
movement becomes more and more intuitive, and the Hedge bends to their particular
wants and needs. Traveling in groups, higher Wyrd characters help speed travel, but
lower Wyrd characters drag the trip down. So take the average, rounded up, of all
applicable Wyrd ratings. Humans are considered to have a Wyrd rating of a single dot
for this purpose.
The successes required depend on the rough real world distance. This paradoxically
can mean shorter distances take much longer particularly for low Wyrd characters
and longer distances can take substantially less time.
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Hedge Travel Times

 Wyrd Rating Travel Intervals
1-2 Six hours
3-4 Three hours
5 -6 One hour
7-8 Ten minutes
9-10 One minute
Real-World Distance Successes required
1 kilometer or less 3
1-5 kilometers 5
5-25 kilometers 8
25-100 kilometers 10
100-500 kilometers 12
500-1000 kilometers 15
1000+ kilometers, same continent 20
Different continent 25
Trods
Trods are the tamped down, sometimes even slightly paved sections of the Hedge.
Changelings, hobgoblins, and Gentry passing through manipulate the shape of the
Hedge to make a path from point A to point B, and thanks to the Glamour invested in
warping the Hedge, the path remains at least somewhat intact and reusable.
These paths speed travel through the Hedge. Anyone can use them, and thats both
beneficial and risky. Changelings pushing through these roads minimize travel time,
which means less time being threatened by fae monstrosities. On the other hand, these
roads attract the Gentry and the Huntsmen, which can make for inopportune
encounters.
Trods are rated 1-5. The lowest ratings represent tiny walking paths that move
through dense areas with little patchwork, incomplete trails. The highest represent
long-standing highways with clear and unambiguous markings. Add the trods rating
to each travelers effective Wyrd rating for determining travel times. However, every
failure in traveling a trod becomes a dramatic failure.
Additionally, Hollows work well along trods, and goblin fruits are often easily
cultivated along their roads. These facts lead to many freeholds securing a network of
trods. This is reflected by the Stable Trod Merit (p. XX).
Off the Path
Off the trods, characters must risk the Hedges proverbial thorns. Off of trods and
Hollows, the Hedge is at least a Rank 1 Extreme Environment (p. XX). In denser
areas, this can be greater, but is only rarely above Rank 3. This is all in addition to the
Clarity and Integrity losses. By moving slowly (half Speed during action scenes, or
double interval times during distance travel), characters may reduce the effective
Extreme Environment Rank by 1.
Hollows
Hollows are tiny safe places within the Hedge. They break the mold, offering respite
and sanctuary in a place where respite and sanctuary are not welcome. Any fae
creature can technically create a Hollow. This takes time and energy, as the character
must warp and bend the space with her Glamour.
Goblin Fruits
Goblin fruits grow along the paths and thorns of the Hedge. Theyre a common
currency among the fae, and very valuable resources for the Lost. Almost every
changeling consumes them at one time or another, most with some frequency. They
will not grow outside the Hedge (with very rare exceptions, such as with certain
Contracts), so daring the thorns is the only reliable way of procuring them. You can
find more about them on p. XX.
Hedge Duels
On occasion, the Lost find the need to duel for honor, for pride, for revenge, or for
any number of other reasons. Traditionally, these duels are held in the Hedge, as it
rapidly reshapes to provide advantage to the most creative changeling.
Hedge duels are serious affairs. While sometimes undertaken frivolously, the inherent
danger of the Hedge means that one would have to be either serious or foolhardy to
fight there. This doesnt always mean to the death, however, as most Hedge duels
have appointed witnesses, ready to break things up before death comes knocking.
Dueling in the Hedge uses the normal rules for fight scenes (p. XX), and for warping
the Hedge. Additionally, characters fighting in the Hedge can manipulate opponents,
warping their Clarity or Integrity.
Warping the Hedge: This uses the standard rules for warping the Hedge as an instant
action (p. XX). However, successes can also be added to the following effects:
Grappling an opponent takes two successes. The environment then uses a dice pool
equal to the changelings Wyrd as a grappling dice pool on successive turns.
A success can cause a single point of lethal damage.
Warping Clarity: Your character makes conscious effort to harm her opponents
perceptions and mental acuity. This can be done through a number of different ways,
but must be done while defending oneself. Some Lost whisper every dark truth in the
book. Some speak of their opponents Durances. Some simply lay out convincing
cases for abandonment, for suicide.
This uses the same basic rules for Social Maneuvering (p. XX), except the interval is
every turn. And instead of the normal Doors, a character has Clarity Doors equal to
her current Clarity dots, or her Resolve + Composure, whichever is lower. Once the
opponent has no more Doors, every successful roll removes a dot of Clarity. This
doesnt get the normal Clarity trigger roll, unless the victim spends a point of
Willpower and an instant action rebuffing the mental onslaught.
Needless to say, warping Clarity can be a Clarity violation in and of itself. At the end
of a scene, its considered a Clarity trigger at the lowest level of Clarity your
characters opponent sunk to during the scene, regardless of whether or not your
character directly made him achieve that level. In at least one known tale, two of the
Lost warped each other so far, so hard, that after their draw in the Hedge duel, they
both were lost forever to their fae selves.
Note that Hedge duels can technically take place within a Hollow, but dont tend to.
Because of the way Hollows are easy for their creators to manipulate, but harder for
others, this builds a massively unfair home turf advantage.
Claiming a New Seeming
Rarely, characters might wish to find a new Seeming. This happens most often with
the Lost who were released by their Keepers for whatever reasons. Some Lost decide
theyve changed over time, and wish their Seeming to reflect that. And while highly
dangerous, its a thing that can be done. Its very rare, many freeholds dont boast a
single member who knows someone who has changed his Seeming. Usually, this is a
friend of a friend of a friend type tale, because of the immense and completely
willful danger involved.
First, the would-be Seeming changer must find his Icon, and take it with him on a
quest through the Hedge. Essentially, he travels the very edge of Arcadia from
whence he escaped in the first place. He can goad the forces of Faerie, alerting them
to his presence. Then, he escapes. He uses a new method, one befitting of the desired
Seeming. And, he leaves a new part of himself behind, a new Icon. The old Icon
absorbs into his body.
If he makes it out after poking the single worst hornets nest in creation, he adopts the
new Seeming. This doesnt require hard rules; the danger is in the action, in goading
Arcadia. Even if it appears simple in some instances, there are always echoes, always
ramifications. The Gentry do not like to be teased.
Threats
Here are just some of the more common threats in the Hedge:
The Lost Among the Lost
The Lost living in the Hedge can certainly remain relatively well-adjusted. Most
dont. And those Hedge-dwelling Lost tend to have reasons to beguile or hurt others.
Some of the worst exist on an economy of Tokens of Reprieve (p. XX). Some act as
goblin fruit bandits. Some help run goblin markets. These Lost almost always
maintain Hollows, and this can be unfortunate for wary travelers.
The Gentry
The Gentry tend to visit the Hedge only as a hunting ground, or a path into the mortal
realms. The trods are never exactly bouncing with the True Fae, but they do walk the
paths sometimes. They can manipulate and warp the Hedge just like any other
creature, but only do so with temporary usage in mind. While the Gentry do tend
toward trods, they can pass through the thorns with no ill effects. They suffer no
physical or mental injury from the briars.
Hobgoblins
Things that left the mortal realm for the Hedge, or fae things which got lost or found
sanctuary in the Hedge become natives to the Hedge, hobgoblins.

Arcadia
Changeling: The Lost stories dont typically take place in Arcadia. Our stories focus
on what the Lost do once theyve escaped. Returning is functionally a death sentence
for most changelings. But there are a few reasons to tell tales within Arcadia. Here are
a few ideas about how you might use Arcadia:
Arcadia is a realm of kingdoms, of pockets. Every one of the True Fae has her own
little space, her own little realm carved out. Within that realm, her rules, her logic
applies. If she thinks gravity goes up, gravity goes up. This is not dissimilar to the
strangeness of the Hedge, but turned up to an exponential level.
In Arcadia, the True Fae are all but immortal. Since they make the rules, unless the
rules include the ability to die, they are all but unstoppable. Each has a weakness, a
ban, or some inherent limitation they cant overcome, however. Not that these
weaknesses are advertised or widely known.
Some Lost wish to take the fight to their Keepers. They refuse to be hunted forever.
This often ends badly, but sometimes can lead to powerful underdog stories. Usually,
this takes clever planning, and almost always means goading the Gentry from their
realms.
Some Lost wish to liberate others. This can make for an excellent heist story, albeit
a strange and dangerous one. This is doubly true if one member of a strong coupling,
such as lovers, family, or childhood friends becomes abducted.
Some Lost hear tempting tales of what Arcadia holds. Many of these stories involve
potential liberation, for example of weapons that can kill the True Fae.
In immensely rare cases, sometimes the Lost simply have a dark desire to test fate
and brave the worst times of their lives again.
Dreamwalking
Dreams are a vital and unavoidable part of life. The transformation wrought upon changelings in
Arcadia combined with the shredded remnants of their humanity means that when changelings
dream, they do so physically and lucidly. Changelings are just as much ephemeral creatures of
dreams as they are physical beings. While in the mortal world they are subject to the stories and
settings around them, but through dreams changelings have the power to control and play out any
story they wish. They may embody a character within the tale or act as an omnipotent god while
other characters they create play out the parts for their amusement.

Dream Bastions
Dreams are integral to the Hedges ecosystem. They literally grow among the thorns as dreamers
fall asleep in the physical world. These dream bastions are always roughly the size of the
dreamer and without the dreaming mind present, they wither away and dissolve into the glamour
that fuels the magic of the Hedge. On rare occasion pieces of a dream survives the dissolution
and become part of the Hedge itself.

Through the Looking-Glass

Dream Bastions are an individual dreamers first line of defense and have a rating of Resolve +
Wyrd and physically attacking it only destroys the bastion and wakes the dreamer. True Fae,
Huntsmen, and rare hobs may use magic to pass through the bastion into the dreamscape, but a
changeling is uniquely capable of entering by innate talent alone. A changeling spends a point of
Glamour and rolls Presence + Persuasion + Wyrd, penalized by a dreamers Bastion rating. In
doing so, she reaches out to the dreamers subconscious and persuades him shes a part of the
dream. A changeling doesnt need to roll against the bastion rating if she shares a pledge with the
dreamer or if it belongs to their fetch.

True Fae and the Huntsmen

When one of the True Fae or their Huntsmen enters the dreams of a mortal or
changeling it is an act of violation. There is no gentle persuasion to convince the
dreamers Bastion to let them pass but a deliberate assault. By spending a point of
Yearning, Huntsmen use a technique known as Dream Warping to maintain the
stability of the dream as they roll Strength + Brawl + Wyrd vs. the dreamer's
Bastion. Once within a dream the extent of their abilities match a changelings
own. In addition, if a Huntsman engages in oneiromachy with their host, they may
declare inflicting the Dream Poison Condition (pg. XX) as their intent in combat.
MOVE TO CONDITIONS

Dream Poison (Persistent)

Your character suffered a serious psychic attack. Her dreams are warped and twisted into an
environment that is hospitable to the Huntsmen and True Fae. While suffering from Dream
Poison she is more susceptible to the Huntsmen and is at -2 die penalty to all challenges against
them. Her dreams Intensity rolls become cumulative each night that this condition is suffered.
When the Intensity reaches the maximum of 10 the characters dreams begin leaving infected
remnants that survive the dreams dissolution and infect others that encounter them.
Possible Sources: A psychic assault by a Huntsman or True Fae, using an infected Bauble, or an
infected oneiroi entering the characters dream.
Resolution: The dreams Intensity is Scoured to 0.
Beats: The character surrenders to a Huntsmans declared goal or intent.
/MOVE TO CONDITIONS
The Gates of Horn and Ivory
Changelings are creatures of myth, legend, and dreams. They are beings forged in the tales of
Arcadia and as such there is no comfortable half step into dreams that mortals experience.
Dreams are a gateway into the Hedge and Changelings enter them physically. As physical beings
within the dream changelings have access to all normal attributes and skills, and Wyrd is added
to all derived attributes including defense, health, and initiative.
When a changeling falls asleep in the Hedge a Bastion grows up around them, protecting them
wherever they are. However, when a Changeling is in the mortal world they have a choice. They
may choose to dream, enter the Gate of Horn, and by doing so fade from the mortal world
entirely. Unensorcelled who witness the process gain the Shaken Condition (p. XX)
Alternatively, a Changeling may choose the Gate of Ivory and reject the opportunity to dream at
all. She sleeps and remains present in the mortal world but the sleep is not restful and she does
not regain any Willpower from it. Upon waking, the changeling returns to the Hedge or mortal
world where they originally fell asleep unless they leave via the Contract of Dreamsteps or some
other supernatural interference occurs.

Oneiromachy
When changelings physically engage in oneiromachy, or dream combat, mark damage on their
physical health track. However, when a character would normally be knocked unconscious or
killed they awaken. Upon leaving the dream, downgrade any physical damage the character has
taken: aggravated damage becomes lethal, lethal becomes bashing, and bashing damage dealt in
a dream causes no harm in the waking world.
Non-lucid dreamers who find their dreams under assault are at a distinct disadvantage. It's the
nature of dreams to move as slow as molasses when running from a nightmare and punches
thrown barely touch the foe. They can't use Environmental attacks, and any oneiromachy rolls
made do not have the 10-again quality. While damage is tracked as usual during the dream it
vanishes upon awakening and does not physically affect the dreamer. Non-lucid dreamers who
are defeated in oneiromachy do not regain a point of Willpower for the night's sleep. If they
successfully win the fight, however, they regain two points of Willpower.
Personal Attacks
A physical attack- swinging a fist or shooting a gun- is the most basic form of an attack even
within a dream. Resolve the attack roll like any normal combat. Determine damage by adding the
successes rolled to half the characters Wyrd rounded up, which serves as a weapon bonus.
Environmental Attacks
The second style of attack is an environmental attack using the dream itself as a weapon. Walls
may close in suffocatingly tight, lightning strikes out of a clear blue sky, or shadowy figures drag
a character down into black water. Roll Manipulation + Expression + Wyrd - Defense for the
attack and resolve as normal.

Magic in the Dream

The Wyrd is innately connected to the dream and changelings may use Contracts as easily within
it as without. Other supernatural abilities that affect the mind or the apparent surroundings of the
dream may be called upon while inside of it, though any power that relies on other supernatural
factors or realms being present such as Ghosts or the Shadow automatically fail. A nightmare
may feature a ghost, but it is merely the dreamers mental representation not a real ghost.
Dream Intensity
People dream every night though they rarely remember the experience. Very rarely a dream is so
vivid and intense that the dreamer remembers every detail. The dreamer rolls Wits + Resolve +
Wyrd for Intensity.
Dramatic Failure: The dreamer wakes unrested and without dreaming. She doesn't regain a
point of Willpower.
Failure: The dreamer does not remember the events of her dream upon waking.
Success: The dreamer remembers the dream upon waking, though details quickly fade and the
entire dream is forgotten after a few hours unless recorded or something reminds them of it later.
The Intensity of the dream may help or hinder various dreamwalking techniques.
Exceptional Success: The dream sticks with the dreamer in such detail that it is perfectly
remembered even years later. Bolstering and Scouring Intensity
Changelings may scour or bolster the Intensity of a dream by spending a point of glamour and
making a Manipulation + Occult + Wyrd roll. Successes are added or subtracted to the dreams
Intensity. An exceptional success when bolstering the Intensity results in the Too Solid Flesh tilt
while an exceptional success in scouring brings the Intensity to 0 immediately and the dreamer
awakens.

Too Solid Flesh

Environmental
Description: Dreams are all too real and what happens while in the dream
happens physically as well.
Effect: All participants in the dream gain the benefits of Lucid Dreaming and will
clearly remember what occurs regardless of the dreams total Intensity. Damage is
not downgraded upon transitioning from the dream to the waking world. Pieces of
the dream can survive the usual dissolution into glamour, and escape into the
Hedge as physical objects or hobgoblins known as Oneiroi when the dream ends.
Causing the Tilt: A changeling rolls an exceptional success when bolstering the
Intensity of a dream.
Ending the Tilt: The Tilt ends when the dream ends and the dreamer wakes or
dies.

Departing the Dream

The dreams Bastion acts as a barrier between the dream and the physical world no matter which
way the changeling is trying to go. It may not be visually present from within the dream but a
changeling attempting to return to the Hedge or a dreamer attempting to wake herself up early
must still pass through it. Roll Wits + Resolve + Wyrd - Bastion in order to leave the dream.

Types of Dreams
While dreams rarely have an obvious rhyme or reason to them, the Storyteller can
choose to use specific types of dreams that have an additional effect upon the
dreamer. Changelings consider these dreams quite significant when they occur
naturally and pay particular attention when they or a dreamer they are visiting has
one. If the changeling observes a dream without disrupting it, it affects her just as
if she were the dreamer.
Nightmares: Nightmares grow from very personal worries and fears, and evoke a
strong emotional response from the dreamer. The dreamer gains the Shaken
condition (pg. XX) pertaining to the subject of the nightmare.
Prophetic Dreams: Dreams are the domain of the Wyrd and it very offers
dreamers glimpses of fates plan and cryptic flickers of the future. The dreamer
never sees the entirety of what could happen but gains the Inspired Condition.
(pg. XX)
Recurring Dreams: Recurring dreams are a reflection of a characters mind
dwelling on a subject, sometimes subconsciously. It may be the stress of life,
personal interests, or supernatural influence, but if the dreamer isnt already
suffering the Obsession condition (pg. XX), they gain it pertaining to the subject
of the dream.
Wish Fulfillment: Dreams often reflect the dreamers deepest wishes. These are
can be played out literally or symbolically but they always leave the dreamer
feeling more refreshed and fulfilled than normal. Dreamers gain an extra point of
willpower from their rest.

Dream Riding
Dream riding is the gentlest form of dreamwalking as it focuses on learning from and taking
advantage of an existing dream rather than imposing changes on the fundamental nature of the
dreamscape. Changelings practice dream riding on themselves and their allies on a regular basis
in order to monitor them for evidence of outside influence as well as bolster their mental
defenses. Used against an enemy, dream riding techniques can be a valuable source of
intelligence.
Subtle changes that dont affect the narrative of a dream do not require a roll. A changeling may
will a chair into existence just to sit without any problem while creating a chair to wedge under a
doorknob can affect the narrative. These larger changes require a Wits + Empathy + Wyrd roll,
penalized by the dreams Intensity and any other penalties the changeling wishes to take. An
exceptional success disrupts the dream and changes the nature of the dream from an expression
of the dreamers subconscious to a reflection of the changeling's will. This prevents further
dream riding techniques from being used.

Analyze the Dream

By carefully observing the dream a changeling determines whether a dream is specific type or if
anything not native to the dream is present. Make an Intelligence + Occult + Intensity roll.
Prophetic dreams are particularly delicate and even subtle changes that dont require a roll
disrupt the Wyrds influence on the dream enough to turn it into a regular dream. With an
exceptional success a changeling locates any non-natives within the dreamscape. Careful
changelings will always analyze the dream before making any changes.

Convince the Dreamer

It is possible to plant subliminal messages in a dreamers mind. Roll Wits + Socialize + Wyrd -
Intensity, with each roll requiring a full nights work of carefully adjusting the dream. Each roll
applies to a specifically declared goal under the Social Maneuvering system (pg. XX) and a
success allows the changeling to open a door or add a door to the dreamers resistance.
Learn about the Dreamer
Dreams provide an unrestrained look into a dreamers soul and changeling may learn quite a bit
simply by observing and interpreting what they see. As long as no changes are made to the
narrative of the dream, a Wits + Empathy + Wyrd + Intensity roll may be made each night. With
a success, the changeling learns enough to improve their first impression two steps up on the
Social Maneuvering impression chart. Achieving an exceptional success also reveals the
dreamers aspirations, virtue, vice, Clarity, a Condition theyre suffering, or if any magic has
influenced their mind in the past month.

Dreamscaping
Dreamscaping is a much more involved process than dream riding as it imposes large sweeping
changes on the dream and allows changelings to craft new dreams out of glamour and creativity.
It is limited, however. A changeling cannot dreamscape her own dream and dream riding cannot
be used once a dream is changed or created by dreamscaping techniques. Changelings can begin
dreamscaping a few different ways- and all require infusing a point of glamour into the dream
and a successful Wits + Expression + Wyrd roll to craft the new dream.
The first method is to use an existing dream. Instead of dream riding- or if the changeling rolls
an exceptional success when making a minor change- the changeling begins dreamscaping
immediately. While this is the quickest method, the dream's Intensity remains and penalizes all
dreamscaping rolls as the dreamer's psyche fights any changes to its subconscious agenda.
The second method is to spend the glamour to scour the Intensity of the dream to 0, immediately
weave a new dream, and to raise the Intensity again. Its more demanding in terms of glamour-
the changeling spends at least three points of glamour if not more but it creates a natural
transition for the dreamer as one dream fades and another begins. The dreams Intensity does not
penalize further dreamscaping rolls.
Lastly, a changeling can find a fallow dream. This requires entering the dream bastion when it
first forms in the Hedge but before its fully developed and a dream begins naturally. The
dreamer rolls for Intensity as usual, and the changeling spends the glamour to make a
dreamscaping roll to use the natural Intensity to their own ends. Intensity does not penalize the
rolls, which makes it the most efficient method of dreamscaping, but its not always possible to
find a dream immediately when it begins.
Dreams are an essential part of keeping a mind healthy. Even when they arent remembered upon
waking, dreams are key to retaining long term memories, subconscious problem solving, and
healing from mental and physical stress, among other benefits. Dreamscaping allows changelings
to trigger these abilities by crafting one of the following types of dreams. Dreamers only benefit
from one dreamscaped dream a night, and some changelings theorize that only allowing a
dreamer to experience dreamscaped dreams would be actively harmful since it prevents their
natural dreams from occurring.
False Memory Dream
Memory is notoriously malleable. Eyewitnesses often disagree with each other when theyve
seen the exact same thing, and therapists have convinced patients of events that never actually
happened. Changelings take this a step further by inserting these memories directly into the
subconscious. Make a Dreamscaping roll vs. the dreamers Wits + Composure + Wyrd. On a
success the dreamer takes the False Memories Condition (pg. XX)
MOVE TO CONDITIONS

False Memories (Persistent)

The way you remember things doesnt match up with how they happened. You might remember
a son who didnt exist, your alcoholic father abusing you despite being raised an orphan, or never
getting married. You believe your memories to be true no matter what; even conclusive proof has
a hard time getting through to you. Being faced with proof that your memory is fake is a
breaking point for you at a level set by the Storyteller.
Possible Sources: Dreamscaping a False Memory Dream
Resolution: Face proof that your memory is false and succeed at the breaking point.
Beat: Your character trusts someone or takes a risky action based on his faked memories alone.
/MOVE TO CONDITIONS

Healing Sleep
A changeling can craft a dream thats particularly refreshing. Each success on a dreamscaping
roll counts as a full day of rest. If the changeling knows the dreamers Virtue or Vice from
previous encounters where Learn the Dreamer was successfully used, they also regain a point of
Willpower as if it were a Wish Fulfillment dream. On a dramatic success the night counts as
having two full days of rest and the dreamer regains all willpower if the changeling knows the
virtue or vice.

Nightmares
A changeling can create a dream to harm as easily as help someone. While some find the idea of
creating nightmares abhorrent and harmful to their clarity, others enjoy the power it gives them
and particularly enjoy tormenting their fetch. The nightmare is treated as a normal nightmare on
a successful dreamscaping roll, including applying the Shaken condition if the dream Intensity is
5 or more.

Psychotherapy
If Learn the Dreamer reveals that the dreamer is suffering from a Condition, a changeling may
use psychotherapy as a means of treating it. Instead of a typical dreamscaping roll, spend a point
of glamour and roll Intelligence + an appropriate skill to the Condition, + Wyrd. A character
suffering a Fugue state imposed by psychological trauma requires a medicine roll to create an
appropriate dream while helping someone who has False Memories may benefit from an
empathy roll to help them sort the truth from the lies. A successful roll grants the dreamer a +1
bonus to a single roll that attempts to resolve the condition. An exceptional success grants a
single +3 bonus to its resolution.

Recurring Dreams
Changelings may deliberately create a recurring dream for someone by Dreamscaping identical
dreams night after night. After creating the same dream three times in three nights and spending
a point of glamour with each to imprint it upon the dreamer, the victim's mind is sent into an
unnatural, obsessive spiral and the dream becomes a true Recurring Dream that will repeat again
and again even without the changeling's active influence.

Sleep Teaching
Sleep teaching allows the dreamer to learn on the subconscious level. A successful dreamscaping
roll provides a montage of information and the dreamer gains the Informed Condition (see p.
XX) for the topic.

Dreamweaving
Dreamweaving is the oneiromantic art of crafting, whether done in reality to create a dream, or
done in the dream to create an object in reality. It requires an Intelligence + Crafts + Wyrd roll.
Dreamwoven goods are popular goods at the Goblin Market, and many markets have merchants
who specialize in them.

Vessels
Dreamweaving a vessel allows changelings to store dreams in objects for later use, or to share a
particular dream without the difficulty of finding the targets bastion and dreamscaping it. An
changeling begins the process by finding a thematically appropriate vessel for the dream they
plan to make. A cute stuffed animal is appropriate for a stress relief dream while a nightmare
may be woven into a spiked bracelet. Since contact with a sleeping mind activates the Vessel,
clothing, jewelry, or stuffed animals are popular choices. Any dream that can be created by
dreamscaping, or a single oneiromachy attack can be woven, and any dreamer can experience the
dream, including its creator.
Creating the dream itself is a very similar process to dreamscaping a fallow dream. The
changeling primes the vessel with a point of glamour and makes a dreamweaving roll to create
the dream and infuse into the vessel. The Intensity of the dream is equal to the number of
successes rolled. If the dream is created for and used by someone the changeling has used Learn
the Dreamer on previously then the changeling's empathy is added to the Intensity.

Cobbling
Dreamweaving also allows changelings and hobs to create something physical from a dream
cobbled together of dreamstuff, and glamour. Dreams where the Too Solid Flesh tilt is used are
known for their tendency to allow oneiroi and baubles to survive dissolving into glamour when
the dream ends. A changeling can force this process in a limited fashion by infusing a dream
object with 10 - Intensity points of glamour and making a Dreamweaving roll.
Cobbling cannot create living creatures though it can produce a simulacrum. Attempting to
cobble a horse from a dream may succeed in pulling one from a dream though it is an
expressionless, lifeless horse more closely resembling a carousel horse or statue than a living
steed.
The bauble survives the dream for as many days as successes rolled. If the dream's Intensity
achieved an exceptional success, no glamour is required to keep the object but it still fades into
glamour after a short time like any other cobbled bauble. These creations are particularly
delicate. They appear hazy and imprecise, any equipment bonus the object's mortal analogue
would offer is three less than normal, and if taken outside the Hedge they dissolve into glamour.
Hedgespinning
Hedgespinning is the art of combining stories so that the resulting arc is greater than its parts.
The story begins as a dream, and the changeling takes a bit of it in the form of a dreamwoven
cobbled bauble to form the basis of the hedgespun they are creating. The story continues and
melds with something of physical reality. This may be a tear-stained love letter or the scale of a
slain dragon. Finally, the story arc reaches its conclusion with some intangible reagent that binds
it all together- true love's kiss or a cry of agony. A changeling binds all three elements of the
story together with glamour, will, and craftsmanship.
Hedgespun can be used to craft a wide array of fantastical creations including incredible
clothing, art, machines, and even weapons.
Dice Pool: Wits or Strength + Crafts + equipment
Action: Extended (successes necessary are equal to three times the token dots desired; each roll
is equal to one hour of crafting and each roll requires one point of Glamour spent into the
hedgespun.
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The character accidentally destroys one of the story elements they were
attempting to weave into the hedgespun object and must start over- gathering together a story arc
from the very beginning.
Failure: The story elements refuse to come together.
Success: The story elements are eased together through sewing, forging, carving, welding, or
any other manner of crafting and the Hedgespun object is complete.
Exceptional Success: The changeling's success in Dreamweaving becomes visibly apparent in
their mien as a dreamy aurora floats in their wake until the character makes another Crafts roll,
which is gains with a +3 bonus.

Oneiroi
Oneiroi is a catch-all term for hobs that are either native to or descended from dreams. Some live
entirely within dreams while others are born within a high Intensity dream before they are loosed
upon the Hedge. Many oneiroi are mysterious, with powers beyond those of the Lost. While
dreamwalkers work to document as many of these as possible, more spring into being from the
font of human creativity every night.

Baku
Oh Baku, devour my bad dream
These chimerical hobs originate in the Hedge around Japan though they- or hobs that serve a
similar function- can be found around the world today. Baku devour dreams. Their appearance
varies as they incorporate bits and pieces of the dreams that they eat into their forms. A dreamer
suffering from a nightmare sometimes calls out to the Baku for aid. This call is instinctive, born
of a true desire to be rid of the dream.
Attributes: Intelligence 2, Wits 3, Resolve 2, Strength 2, Dexterity 3, Stamina 2, Presence 4,
Manipulation 3, Composure 2
Skills: Athletics 1, Brawl 2, Empathy 3, Investigation 2, Occult 4
Willpower: 4
Initiative: 5
Defense: 4
Attacks: Claws or tusks (1 Lethal Damage, Dice Pool 6)
Size: 5
Health: 7
Special: Open Door: A Baku who answers a dreamer's call is not hindered by the dreams
bastion and has the ability to scour the Intensity of a dream. In exchange for this service, the
mortals dream remains open to the Baku. They are fair creatures, however. For every nightmare
they devour, they may devour one pleasant dream.

Cambions
Well hello my scrumptious little glamour- muffin.
Cambions are the children of an oneiroi and mortal. They are considered a dangerous
abomination no matter their age. They appear human but they do not breathe or have a pulse.
Cambions don't require food, oxygen, or blood to survive either but the feed off glamour
directly. In the mortal world they instinctively devour the glamour of everyone in the vicinity.
Mortals around them rarely have dreams at all and any they might have are dead things that
provide no glamour to the Hedge. Cambions are often incredibly social creatures simply in order
to be able to harvest enough glamour to survive. In the Hedge they are a force of incredible
destruction as they devour the glamour of the thorns as well as hobgoblins and oneiroi alike.
Attributes: Intelligence 3, Wits 2, Resolve 2, Strength 2, Dexterity 2, Stamina 2, Presence 3,
Manipulation 5, Composure 3
Skills: Academics 2, Athletics 2, Computers 1, Empathy 4, Expression 3, Larceny 1, Occult 1,
Persuasion 3, Science 1, Socialize 4, Streetwise 2
Willpower: 5
Initiative: 5
Defense: 4
Size: 5
Health: 7
Wyrd: 4
Special: Devour Glamour (Cambions devour glamour within a 5 yard radius and can steal a
point of glamour per success from fae creatures with a Manipulation + Empathy + Wyrd roll.)
Glamour Immunity (Contracts targeting them directly have no effect as the glamour that powers
them is simply absorbed.)
Demonic Child (Cambions cannot die of blood-loss, asphyxiation, starvation, or dehydration as
long as they hold glamour. Decapitation or immolation are the preferred methods of making sure
a Cambion is truly dead.)
Dream Mantis
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Like the flower mantis in the real world that it's named for, the dream mantis lures its prey in
with aggressive mimicry. It lives deep under ground and reaches out for several hundred yards
around its nest with vines that grow into false bastions. These largely appear as regular dream
bastions. Roll perception -5 to detect the trap. Changelings and incubi taken in by the deception
enter the false bastion through their usual methods. Instead of appearing in the dream as
intended, however, the victim has instead managed to walk directly into the mantis' stomach.
Size: Root System 30, False Bastions 5
Durability: 1
Structure: Root System 31, False Bastions 6
Special: Flora or fauna (Within a mantis' stomach the digestive juices act as an anesthetic, giving
-3 to all rolls. The moderate Poisoned Tilt is in effect as the changeling is slowly devoured.)

Incubus
I was born for this.
Oneiroi are incubi who are born of imagination, fears, and whimsy within a high Intensity dream
and survive the dissolution to escape into the Hedge. They are hobs though they retain a strong
tie to the dream. Born from a mortal mind, oneiroi can enter the mortal world and many try to
find their creator. Freddy Kreuger may have been an oneiroi, spawned in a Nightmare with the
ability to inflict the Too Solid Flesh tilt.
Special: Varied Form (Attributes, skills, appearance, and personality vary widely and are
determined by the dream that spawned them.)
Dreamwalker (Incubi always know where their creators Bastion is and may enter it at will. In
the mortal world, they can join creator's dreams with a touch as they sleep. As a native of the
dream they may use all dreamwalking abilities)

Sandmen
Your blood will feed the thorns if you take one step in my patch.
Sandmen are a species of Hob with an oneiroi progenitor who live among the thorns. They claim
territory as their own and have the ability to attract the dream bastions of young children to them.
Though they have no ability to enter the dream or manipulate the dreams within, they are vicious
defenders against any who would attempt to intrude on their charges dreams.
Attributes: Intelligence 2, Wits 2, Resolve 4, Strength 5, Dexterity 2, Stamina 3, Presence 2,
Manipulation 1, Composure 3
Skills: Athletics 1, Brawl 3, Crafts (Gardening) 3, Stealth 2, Survival 3
Willpower: 7
Initiative: 5
Defense: 3
Size: 6
Health: 9
Wyrd: 2
Contracts: Cloak of Elements (Sand) 3
Succubi
Dont you love me? Were perfect together.
These are the traditional seductresses of the dream. They are always incredibly beautiful, their
appearance tailored to the dreamers deepest desires.
When they find an appropriate victim they create a Wish Fulfillment dream. Instead of the
dreamer gaining the willpower, however, the succubus devours it. If the succubus is not
confronted and defeated, a succubus remains with a single victim until their willpower is
completely drained. Once their willpower is gone, the succubus begins to devour the dreamer's
life itself. These creatures are also one of the greater mysteries that changelings have not yet
solved. Succubi exist only within dreams, having never been seen leaving a bastion or living
within the Hedge.
Attributes: Intelligence 3, Wits 2, Resolve 2, Strength 2, Dexterity 2, Stamina 2, Presence 4,
Manipulation 5, Composure 3
Skills: Empathy 3, Expression 3, Intimidation 2, Occult 1, Persuasion 4, Socialize 4
Willpower: 4
Initiative: 5
Defense: 2
Attacks: Environmental Attacks (Dice Pool 11)
Size: 5
Health: 7
Wyrd: 3
Special: Venus' dreams (Once a dreamer's willpower is gone, a succubus' dreams cause point of
lethal damage each night until the dreamer dies. While under her influence victims cannot regain
Willpower except through fulfilling their vice, and damage done by a Succubus is resistant to all
magical forms of healing.)
The Huntsmen
You must be the call
The evil at night
Speaking words of grace
While spellwork delights.
Feel my desire, it burns like a fire.
Feel my desire, it burns like a fire.
-Austra, Spellwork
The Others dont feel in the same way that you or I do. As befits their station as the masters of a
realm of dream and emotion, the flame of sentiment which swells within the Gentry burns more
intensely than human imagination can comprehend. Love becomes obsession, kindness becomes
smothering.
Then there are the darker emotions. Hate, sadness, and envy all become terrible wounds on the
psyche of the Gentry. When this happens, Arcadia hurts, too. The wrath of a Fae lady can make
the heavens of Arcadia weep blood and its ground tear asunder. Everyone learns to fear those
moments, when psychic pain becomes physically manifest on the land. As above, so below, as
they say.
Few things cause as much grief to the Fae as the loss of one of their changeling playthings.
Imagine the loss of a lover, child, and favored possession, all wrapped into one. Thats what the
Fae experience when one of their favorites escapes beyond the Hedge. When that happens, the
Fae call on one of their most terrible weapons: the Huntsmen.
The Nature of the Huntsmen
To understand the Huntsmen, for they are hard to understand, you have to understand that their
natural state is one of oblivious rest. They are inanimate matter given form and intelligence by
dread rituals. And they hate it.
Think of a rubber band at rest on a table. If you could speak to the rubber band, it would likely
tell you that its very comfortable resting on the table, thank you, and that it doesnt want to be
stretched. Its natural state, what it wants to be and is if left alone, is flaccid and malleable. But
the rubber band is only useful when its stretched. You dont use rubber bands in their natural,
resting state. Were you to ask the rubber band whether it preferred to be stretched or at rest, it
would undoubtedly tell you that it wants to be back on the table, blissfully staring up at the
ceiling. Certainly, the rubber band would not want to crack and tear, stretched to creaking by the
terrible tensions pulling on it. It would protest.
It would probably be angry, too.
The Huntsmen are much like that rubber band. They are not born in any understandable sense of
the word. Rather, they are crafted out of the same building blocks which constitute Arcadia. The
form of the Huntsman is made by arranging the materials, whatever they end up being, in a circle
in the shadow of a burning tree. The Fae performs a ritual, breathing a bit of her essence into the
inert matter and speaks the name of one of the flitting spirits of the Hunt which inhabit Arcadia.
The ritual is a bargain struck between Fae and Huntsman: bring the Fae something which was
lost, most often a changeling, and the Huntsman can return to its natural state of non-existence;
rocky limbs become inert stone, stormy eyes return to the thunderheads which birthed them, and
the Spirit of the Hunt is released into the Arcadian ether.
Since the Huntsmen want to be at rest, this bargain is something which they fulfill with maniacal
purpose. It is important to understand that the Huntsmen do not want to be, and indeed, should
not be. They want to be invisible spirits, untethered to physical form. They want to be rocks and
rain and dreamstuff pulled from Arcadian clouds. The last thing they want to be are sentient,
physical beings. Their nature recoils at being pulled into strange, ambulatory shapes. The only
way to achieve the release they yearn for is to bring their quarry back to its owner.
This confrontation between nature and form creates an incredible anger in the hearts of the
Huntsmen. Each has its own personality and hunting techniques, but their anger is a unifying
thread no matter the specifics. Seeing matter squeezed into coherent shapes makes the Huntsmen
see red. Since our world is one of physical form, a Huntsman sent to retrieve a wayward
changeling spends a lot of time being very, very angry. How that anger is expressed varies.
Many lash out violently at anyone who crosses them. Others reserve that anger for their target,
keeping it inside until it becomes a tight knot at the heart of their beings. Regardless of its
expression, their fury at their imprisonment is what animates the Huntsmen.
This is not a bad thing where the Huntsmen are concerned. Their anger at the physical and
yearning for oblivion is how they channel their powers, which are dangerous and myriad. The
Huntsmen are, perhaps against expectations, not the deadliest of foes in terms of raw combat
potential. Rather, they are wily and cunning, able to take on any shape imaginable, at least
temporarily, and to prey upon the relationships which changelings rely upon to protect
themselves from danger.
It is this last which is most terrifying. Every changeling, on some level, knows that she might be
kidnapped and sent back, perhaps even that its likely. Changeling society is built on guarded
trust between those who escaped and lived to tell the tale. Under the best of circumstances,
wariness is the default stance under which changelings operate. Going back is unthinkable for
most.
The Huntsmen exploit this combination of fear and sense of self-preservation ruthlessly. A
Huntsmans most terrifying ability isnt its powers of disguise or nonpareil traps, but its bargains.
A Huntsman can offer a token of protection to a changeling in exchange for the receivers aid in
seeking out its quarry. This token is a get out of jail card for the changeling. When it is the
changelings turn to be sought outand every changelings turn comes somedaythe token
may be shown to the Huntsman tracking him down, whereupon the Huntsman takes it and lets
the changeling go on his way once. The Huntsman must then return to Arcadia empty-handed
except for the token.
The Huntsmen and Gentry understand that this is the way the game is played. They are bound by
rules of storytelling and language, as all fae creatures are. A Huntsman returning to Arcadia with
only a token of protection to show for it is not considered a failed hunt; such a Huntsman is
allowed to disperse into its constituent parts just as a successful hunt would allow, until
summoned once more. The reprieve is temporary for the Huntsmans quarry; indeed, the respite
in Arcadia and subsequent return to the mortal world is seen as part of a sporting hunt by
Arcadian society. A changeling who has exchanged a token for her freedom would do well to
pull up stakes and move quickly, for the Huntsmen always return.
The Ritual of the Hunt
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A Huntsmans First Days on Earth
When a Huntsman first arrives in our plane of existence on a hunt, it has very little knowledge of
how things work or what things are. There is no frame of reference for our physical laws, which
are very much linear and understandable. Whats worse is that even an experienced Huntsman,
one with several successful hunts under its belt, forgets what things are like on Earth when at rest
between hunts.
As one can imagine, this is a confusing and enraging state of affairs. Fortunately for the
Huntsmen (and unfortunately for mortals), they have a simple, brutal way of acclimating to their
surroundings: they kill.
It really is as simple as that. The first thing a Huntsman does upon crossing the Hedge is kill a
mortal. Any mortal will do, so long as he is scared in his final moment. The fear of death as it
rises in the eyes of that first victim acts as an educational vector for a Huntsman. It swallows the
emotional turmoil of the dying mortal and, in that moment of consumption, magically learns the
basics of what the world is like. A Huntsman wont know how nuclear fission works, even if it
kills a nuclear physicist; rather, it immediately knows basic information of a sort everyone
knows: how people dress, what sex is, whether a building is made of wood or brick, how to
drive.
This information is, of course, vital in the pursuit of the Huntsmens prey. The rules of the
material world are as strange to creatures of the fae as Arcadian rules are to mortals. Without the
knowledge granted by that first kill, a Huntsman is essentially useless, not least because their
powers of disguise simply dont work until they have a context for how things should look.
With this being the case, a Huntsman makes a kill as soon as possible once it crosses the Hedge.
Huntsmen arent stupid; they dont immediately grab someone off the street and gut her in plain
view of everyone. But they are pressed for time and vulnerable when they arrive, so they always
make the kill as soon as they are discretely able.
Knowing how the world works is like breathing deeply of chili fumes: it opens things up but its
hardly pleasant. If anything, the sudden comprehension of the physical world elicits even more
negative emotions within the breast of a Huntsman. They are, in this way, a mirror reflection of
the Fetch: where the Fetch sometimes falls in love with the world of flesh, the Huntsman is
repulsed by it, even as they acclimate to their surroundings.

Each Huntsman is Unique

It would be easy to read this shared motivation (get their quarry then get the hell
out of this weird place where humans live) as Huntsmen sharing the same dull,
robotic personality. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Every Huntsman is animated by the hot breath of the Fae who created it mixed
with a compelled spirit of the Hunt. The breath of the Fae lends a portion of the
 exhalers emotional state, while spirits of the Hunt are notoriously varied in
outlook.
So while the motivation is uniform, personality and approach are not. A
Huntsman may be impatient and cruel, aiming to get its prey and return to
Arcadia as soon as possible. Another might be capricious and fickle, toying with
its prey to derive maximum enjoyment before the return. The variety of
personalities is as limitless as the Arcadian landscape.

Almost Human
When a Huntsman is formed, it looks almost precisely like a human. Its flesh is warm to the
touch, whether its body was formed out of dirt, cobblestones, or any other inert Arcadian matter.
It breathes, or performs what passes for breathing, and bleeds.
The reasons for this are mysterious and varied. Primarily, the Huntsmen look like normal mortals
most of the time because it seems right and proper by the laws which govern Arcadia. Those
laws are tied to the ancient human art of storytelling, which dictate that nothing in a nightmare
elicits more fear than something which is almost, but not quite, human. So it is that the
Huntsmen, for all that they may appear human, are not quite human in form.
The legends of the Horned Man ahead of a pack of wild fae hounds during the Wild Hunt attest
to this fact. The Horned Man in his various appearances in Western European folklore is
undoubtedly a Huntsman. His appearance as a man with one telling, inhuman feature (his horns)
is typical of Huntsmen; each of them has one such feature which, no matter how adept their
shapeshifting, is monstrous or grotesque, marking them as utterly inhuman.
This feature varies wildly. The Horned Man had his massive horns. For others, it is a clawed
hand or a monstrous, dangling eye which doesnt fit into its socket. The forms these tells take are
limitless but always present. A sharp changeling can match reports of strange looking people in
her town to a known Huntsman and prepare accordingly; recognizing Leodegrance of Putress
tentacle stump of a leg prepares you for its preferred tactic of abducting and torturing a targets
family members, for example.
Despite this tell, its hard to be constantly vigilant against the Huntsmen. This is because they
are, more than any other fae creature, masters of disguise. Alongside the Huntsmens tokens of
reprieve, their mastery of disguise and traps is their most legendary skill.
A Huntsman has the ability to take on the form of anything. All that is required is for the
Huntsman to make physical contact with the person or object and a moments concentration.
There few limits to this power, which is what makes it so dangerous. The Huntsmen find mastery
of the physical form on our plane, even as they reject it.
The extent of this mastery cannot be overstated. Anything a Huntsman touches, it can transform
into. There are only two limits to this.

One, the transformation is of finite duration and costly. Each Huntsman has limited reserves of
power which it may use on the hunt. When those reserves are depleted, the Huntsmen is banished
back to Arcadia for a fortnight, whereupon the entire hunt begins anew. A transformation only
lasts for up to 24 hours, so it has to be chosen wisely.
 Second, the physical deformity which a Huntsman displays is present no matter what form it
takes. It may be more or less apparent, depending on the scale and type of the disguise, but it is
always present.This is in keeping with the nature of a sporting Hunt, allowing a smart changeling
a chance at getting away.

Its Not Always Horns

The physical tell of the Huntsmen is not always the physical crudity of something
like horns on a sports car. In fact, in strictly dramatic terms, thats pretty silly and
a surefire way to take players right out of the flow of a game. The tell can be
primarily sensory or thematic, as well. The importance is in its ability to be
noticed, as the rules of the Hunt dictate.
In the example of the Horned Man, perhaps there is a smell of goaty musk
lingering in the air when it turns into a revolver. If it turns into a painting, the
frame might be made of goats horn, with the painting portraying a medieval hunt
led by a monstrous, horned figure. All of these are noticeable for the wise
Changeling, but that wisdom is hard won.

The Hunt
Despite the lack of memory of the mortal world (discussed below), the Huntsmen are old
creatures, as befits their status as spiritual beings. The Spirits of the Hunt which animate their
physical forms are often as old as Arcadia itself, returning again and again at the behest of the
Arcadian Fae as new targets for retrieval are declared.
This can be difficult for changelings, limited as they are by their largely mortal minds, to
understand. How can a foe who is born anew with each visit to Earth maintain not only a
coherent personality over multiple manifestations but a consistent tactical approach? And to do it
over centuries or millennia is too much to comprehend. The answer lies in the Hunt.
The concept of the Hunt is simple: the Huntsmen go over the Hedge, into the mortal world, in
order to retrieve something for their Fae overlords. As a matter of practicality, this should be
straightforward. After all, the Fae want their baubles back and the Huntsmen dont enjoy their
time on Earth. Its best for the Huntsmen to capture their prey as quickly as possible.
In practice, however, a Hunt does not play out in this fashion. As with all matters in Faerie, a
Hunt is defined by the telling of tales. One of the strongestand oldeststories is that of
hunting as sport. This story, in all its myriad forms, turns the Hunt into a protracted give and take
between the Huntsmen and changeling, as well as giving continuity to the sometimes disjointed
existences of the Huntsmen.
Far back in the mists of mortal history, hunting became something more than simply a method of
getting food for your family or clan. Over millennia, the act of hunting became communal sport,
a way of proving ones worth to the social group and an outlet for entertainment. Food was still
part of it, of course, usually the primary component. But hunting became a ritual all its own, with
a particularly dangerous or wily beast being seen as a worthy adversary.
This can be seen even in modern times, when even those hunters who eschew sports hunting
speak in reverent tones of their communion with nature during a long and difficult hunting
expedition. These notions of what is engaging about the act of hunting trickled into Arcadia,
slowly at first but then in a rush, until even the basic ideas of what a fae Hunt should be changed.
For the Huntsmen, this means toying with their prey. Theres a give and take to a Hunt, a rhythm
which both Huntsmen and changeling fall into. More than one Huntsman has eased off the Hunt
at the last moment, turning a short, simple Hunt into something far more protracted and difficult.
This is by no means the case with all Huntsmen, but this is also where the Hunt gives shape to
the personalities of these fae creatures. Without the Hunt and the different approaches taken
when engaging with it, the Huntsmen are without purpose or character. The Hunt defines their
weapons and tactics, even their humor and language.
Indeed, the relationship becomes almost symbiotic when the changelings are considered.
Without the Huntsmen, the changeling courts become less necessary, the ties which bind
changelings to one another more diffuse. Changelings are still, at least partially, creatures of
Faerie; they need stories to define both themselves and their culture. The existence of the
Huntsmen and the fear which they provoke in changelings provide those stories.
This is where Approaches, those methods of defense against the Huntsmen which the Courts
create, are created. They arise out of tales, old and new, of the Huntsmen and their depredations.
By creating them, they allow for protection against the Huntsmen, yes, but they also risk enticing
their enemies, drawing them further into longer, more engaging Hunts. The conflict between
changeling and Huntsman, teetering back and forth between each pole, gives both sides meaning.
Its a truism which cannot be escaped, no matter how far the changelings run from Arcadia.
Huntsman Tactics
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The Stories We Tell
As creatures of Arcadia, the Huntsmen are bound and defined by the powers of storytelling. The
stories which changelings tell about the Huntsmen both reinforce and restrict their behavior. This
communal storytellingnot just about the Huntsmen but about all aspects of their post-Arcadia
existences forms the foundation for changeling courts. A Huntsman who is renowned for
dreamhunting will eventually find a court which defends heavily against that type of attack. This
requires the Huntsman to either get better at its preferred method of hunting or to attempt new
means of attack.
When a Huntsman chooses the former, going after a courts best defenses, its known as abiding
by the courts Approach (see p. XX). An Approach is a courts best defense against the
Huntsmen, forcing them to act on the courts turf. This is done by creating a background
narrative for changeling and Huntsmen, alike, wherein the Huntsmen serve as antagonists to the
changeling protagonists in an imaginary story. The changelings of a court can, essentially, try to
force a desired outcome by presenting it as an unfolding fairy tale.
The Huntsmen, of course, do not have to abide by a courts Approach. But it is advantageous for
them to do so. A Huntsman who abides by a courts Approach gains 1 point of Yearning (see
below); this is the only way in which Yearning may be replenished. As well, abiding by an
Approach makes for a more interesting Hunt. Despite all the desire to return to Arcadia, the
seething hearts of the Huntsmen cannot rest too easily. The laws of the Hunt which all abide by
drive them to take risks and convoluted paths to their quarry. The poles of the Huntsmen, the
desire to rest and hunt, seemingly so opposed, weld into dark complexity. They need to be the
villains of the story. The dreams of mortals and changelings alike demand this of them.
The Metaphysics of the Capture
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They Always Come Back
The Huntsmen are essentially eternal. While the lords and ladies of Arcadia try not to call upon
the same Huntsman repeatedly, out of respect for the Arcadian spirits which populate their realm,
each Huntsman knows, on some level, that it will return to the Hunt someday.
This is true whether they succeed or fail. The spirit of the Hunt which forms the core of a
Huntsmans being is always in the Arcadian ether, ready (if not always willing) to be bound to its
form by the secret rituals of the Fae. The quasi-sentient matter which finds something akin to joy
in the surcease of the Hunt might protest at being reformed, but it has little choice in the matter.
A Huntsman is always there to be called upon.
There is a difference, however, in what the time between Hunts is like depending on whether the
last mission was successfully discharged.
A successful Hunt leads to a straightforward enough existence. The spirit of the Hunt vacates its
physical form, returning to an invisible, flitting state. The breath which was donated by the Fae
Lord who performed the ritual returns to him in a rush, seemingly out of nowhere. Finally, the
matter which made up the Huntsmans physical body simply tumbles apart; earth falls to the
ground, flames flicker out, water trickles away, and air rises into intangibility. All of these
interlinking parts of a Huntsmans existence return to their natural state, their greatest wish
fulfilled.
An unsuccessful Hunt leads to an altogether less pleasant respite. If a Huntsmans reserves of
power are depleted, its form becomes defuse and slowly falls apart. This is fine if it happens in
Arcadia, but this is almost never the case. Rather, Arcadian spirit and matter are not meant to
exist on the mortal plane without magic binding them together into the form of a Huntsman.
When the magic fades, each part feels excruciating physical pain as it tumbles away from the
whole.
This takes on horrific physical manifestation. Flesh peels away and turns into whatever it was
created from, leaving bleeding leaves and rocks. The spirit animating the Huntsman howls as it
vacates the body, wracked by searing ectoplasmic wounds. The Fae Lord who created it feels
this physical pain from afar, burrowing deep into her flesh. Its a terrifying sight for those well-
acquainted with the supernatural, much less any unfortunate mortals who might be witness to
such a dissolution.
A Huntsman must exist in this separated state for a fortnight. During that time, the spirit slowly
heals its wounds, its breath is recaptured, and its body reformed. When it is fully healed and
created anew, it returns to its mission. During this break from the Hunt, the wise changeling
heads for a new town in the hopes of remaining free for another day, a week, a year. The break is
never long enough.
The Weapons of the Huntsmen
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Creating a Huntsman
Huntsmen are created just as any other character in a Changeling: The Lost chronicle. For a
baseline, create a character as you would normally, minus the addition of the changeling
template. Add 25 Experiences and 6 Yearning. From a story standpoint, each Huntsman should
be unique. The Huntsmen are meant to serve as the primary antagonists for a Changeling: The
Lost chronicle. Indeed, the Huntsmens natural ability to keep coming back after a defeat lends
the recurring villain quality to them at a very basic level.
When designing a Huntsman, bear in mind that theyre not meant to be bullies in a fight. Their
abilities are geared toward guile, traps, pursuit, and disguise. This doesnt mean that theyre
helpless, particularly once their Arcadian weapons come into play. It does mean that they should
be portrayed more as cunning than as muscular.
Huntsmen serve as capstone villains for a chronicle so well because they also reinforce many of
Changeling: The Losts themes. Changelings who are targeted by the Huntsmen feel even less
safe than otherwise, for good reason. The discomfort at their post-escape situations are more
acute and the clashing of fae and mortal more clear.
Because the introduction of the Huntsmen into a chronicle signals very strong thematic elements,
Storytellers should be careful when or even if they appear. Huntsmen are extremely compelling
villains, and the threat of their appearance should always be there, as trying to prepare for their
inevitable Hunts is part of what keeps changeling society together. Teasing out this threat, even
if its never actually followed through on, contributes great dramatic tension to a Changeling:
the Lost campaign. For all its power, however, the greatest dramatic tension is not in the act of
appearing. The actual appearance of a Huntsman is a much stronger, more overt thing and your
chronicle will shift accordingly. Once the Huntsmen show up, a chronicle naturally becomes
about the Hunt and surviving it intact.
Yearning
Yearning is the fuel which allows a Huntsman to perform its duties on the Hunt, an animating
fire burning inside its form. This isnt merely a metaphor; Huntsmen are quite truly given life
and mobility by Yearning.
This energy at the core of each Huntsman is created out of two pieces of Arcadian ephemera: the
breath of one of the Fae and the spiritual stuff (Arcadian material and spirit of the Hunt) which is
bound to its physical form during the ritual of making. Each of these pieces shares a desire for
something which it doesnt have, a very real yearning (hence the name) for something it doesnt
yet have.
In the case of the lifebreath of the Gentry who performs the ritual, the yearning is for the
changeling who got away. What role that changeling portrayed in Arcadia, whether it was as a
footrest or a lover, is irrelevant; only the want matters. For the Arcadian spirits, the desire is to
simply return to what they were before the ritual binding them was performed.
Yearning is rated on a scale of 1 to 10, with 6 being the average for most Huntsmen; the
Huntsman creation guildelines assume 6 as a baseline. Yearning is spent to activate a
Huntsmans powers, as detailed below.
Yearning cannot be replenished except by abiding by a Courts Approach (see p. XX). If a
Huntsman follows a local Courts Approach when interacting with a courtier, it gains 1
Yearning. Once it reaches 0, the Huntsman is banished back to Arcadia for a fortnight. Once the
fortnight has passed, the Huntsman is reconstituted and Yearning is replenished back to its
original rating.
It must be stressed that a Huntsman reaching 0 Yearning is a horrifying spectacle as the
banishment happens. Its constituent parts are driven from one another. The spirit of the Hunt
wails as it vacates the body, a rush of air is felt as the breath of the Fae is exhaled, and the false
flesh of its physical form turns into the Arcadian matter from which its formed. This constitutes
a Breaking Point for human and changeling characters.
Monstrosity
Each Huntsman has some form of monstrous deformity. This deformity is hard to hide, but its
also useful. It might be a bloated, grey hand which provides extra heft in a fight or eyes which
glow red in the dark but are piercingly hypnotic in the light.
A Huntsmans deformity gives it 8-again to a single Skill, chosen at the time of creation. The
skill/monstrosity pairing should make sense; goat legs should probably not give 8-again to Drive.
The monstrous feature is always present, no matter what form they take. If a Huntsman disguises
itself as a dog, its horns will still be present and suddenly very hard to cover up. Note that this
feature can be sensory or thematic, as detailed above. Dont be afraid to get very creative with
this, so long as its something which a changeling can reasonably use to tell hes being hunted.
Perhaps red eyes become a strange trick of the light when a Huntsman is present, turning street
lights into an ominous russet glare. The nose of a dog might lead to library shelves being
mysteriously packed with books on canines as a day of disguise as a local librarian wears on.
Disguise
The Huntsmen are masters of disguise, able to shift their physical forms into anything. This costs
1 Yearning and lasts for up to 24 hours; it can revert to its natural form reflexively. A
Huntsmans natural form is not detectable by any form of magic or Glamour.
In order to disguise itself as something else, all that is required is for a Huntsman to touch the
thing it wishes to look like once. A light brush is all which is required, though if the desired form
is living then it must be flesh to flesh contact (no touching someones shirt).
The Huntsman takes on the properties of whatever its disguised as, and maintains full
movement as well. So, a Huntsman taking the shape of a centurion statue gains the Durability of
stone, but is able to move and fight the way it can in its default shape. Game traits such as Size
and Physical Attributes may change, at Storyteller discretion.
Most Hunstmen cannot take a shape greater than Size 10. However, some rare Huntsmen are
rumored to take on larger forms, still.
Tokens of Reprieve
This ability is considered the most fearsome in a Huntsmans arsenal. It allows a bargain to be
struck with a changeling, one which grants the changeling protection from any Huntsman who
might visit her.
The bargain in question is simple, but always involves the betrayal of the Huntsmans quarry.
What that betrayal consists of can be nearly anything, from outing the targets location to driving
the Huntsman around to actually helping set up an ambush. Regardless, the changeling must
fulfill his part of the bargain before the Huntsman fulfills its.
Once the Huntsman has been aided, it spends 1 Yearning and conjures a small clay token
embossed with the strange language of Arcadia. From that point on, until the token is exchanged
for safety, the recipient of the token gains the Reprieved Condition.

The Ethics of Tokens

For the most part, Tokens of Reprieve are rarely spoken of. Possessing one by
definition means that a changeling has sold out one of her comrades. Thats an
ugly thing, but even uglier is that scant few changelings would do any differently
in the bargainers position. Every changeling knows this on some level and it eats
away at the quiet corners of changeling social life. The Huntsmen come for
everyone sooner or later.
As corrosive as the constant paranoia undergirding changeling society is, rumors
of Courts where the more powerful changelings collect the Tokens of the weaker
as a type of perverted currency are persistent. A changeling with multiple tokens
or even the ability to threaten others with the knowledge he could take them from
others is a powerful, dangerous thing. Thankfully, as precarious as changeling
existence can be, most have better hearts than this.

Marked (Condition)
When inflicted with the Marked condition, a changeling cannot hide from Huntsmen within 100
yards. Any Huntsmen within this radius instinctively knows where the Marked changeling is, no
matter how well hidden he is. The Marked changeling truly cannot hide with this condition,
though she may run far enough away that the Huntsman cannot find her; this requires both speed,
skill, and luck, three things which can prove to be in short supply in tough times.
Resolution: A changeling loses this condition in three circumstances. The first is if the
Huntsman who placed the mark touches the changeling. Touch includes both weapons and
clothing; since all which a Huntsman carries is made of the same dreamstuff, the distinction
between ephemeral weapons or clothing and the flesh of a Huntsman is fairly negligible.
The second is if the Hunter inflicting the condition is banished back to Arcadia. When this
happens the changeling feels a great weight lift from his shoulders as he gains breathing space
from the hunt.
The last is if the changeling gains the Reprieved condition, as detailed below. By accepting a
Token of Reprieve, she makes an implicit bargain that she is safe from the Huntsman charged
with finding her.
Reprieved (Condition)
A character with the Reprieved condition can ward off a Huntsman who is searching for her, but
only once. It does not impart any immunity or resistance to
the abilities of the Huntsmen. Rather, it is a mystical compact sealed by the presence of a token
of reprieve, granted by a Huntsman in exchange for the changelings aid.
When a Huntsman comes for a changeling who is Reprieved, she may show the token to her
tormentor. The Huntsman is bound to accept the token in lieu of the changeling, taking it back to
Arcadia and its fae master. This is considered a successful Hunt, for all intents and purposes,
though the Huntsman may certainly be resummoned later.
Resolution: Once the token is exchanged for a changelings freedom, the Condition is
considered resolved. The Condition is also resolved if the token is ever lost, for any reason.
Beat: n/a
Mark of the Hunt
The Huntsmen have the uncanny ability to unerringly follow their targets. This ability is subtle,
almost invisible, but is perhaps the most terrifying ability in a Huntsmans arsenal. The only
requirement is that the Huntsman have a changelings Icon in its possession.
By concentrating on the Icon in question and spending 1 point of Yearning, the changeling in
question gains the Marked condition. This lasts until the Huntsman either touches the
changeling, is banished back to Arcadia, or the changeling gains the Reprieved condition by
offering a token to her hunter.
Ties Which Bind
Changelings have a natural born ability to escape from all bonds. This is regarded by changelings
as an immutable law, part of the bedrock of their lore and interactions: changelings cannot be
caught, so dont try.
The Huntsmen have a way of circumventing this supposedly ironclad law of the cosmos,
however. By spending 1 point of Yearning, a Huntsman may conjure bonds of dreams similar to
the Arcadian elements they are made from. These bonds may take different formsshackles,
rope, handcuffs, chainsbut the effect is that a changeling captured in these Arcadian fetters
cannot escape. This is a byproduct of both the ritual which forms a Huntsman and the nature of
Yearning: the weight of Arcadian tradition and the inner need to make changelings feel as
restrained as they do allows the Huntsmen great powers of restraint.
The physical restraints created by this power last until the next sunrise, whereupon they dissolve
into nothingness.
Dreamhunter
As native creatures of dream and consummate masters of the byways of the slumbering psyche,
the Huntsmen have native powers over dreams.
Any Huntsmen may use Oneiromancy, substituting Yearning for any Glamour expenditures
listed in the rules. See pgs XX for Oneiromancy.
The Wild Hunt
This dread power replicates the tales told of the terrible and fae Wild Hunt, a legend which
haunted the globe in various forms for millennia.
The ritual of the Wild Hunt takes place only on a new moon. After speaking words of power
unintelligible to human ears, the Huntsman spends 2 points of Yearning, which makes this a
serious expenditure of its reserves of power. Upon this expenditure, two ghostly Arcadian
mastiffs appear out of thin air. The size of small wolves, the hounds glow with a baleful green
light and serve as both tracker and predator at the behest of their master.
So long as the new moon hangs invisibly in the night sky, the hounds remain in the mortal world.
At sunrise, they disappear, returning to the Arcadian kennels from whence they came.
Hounds of the Hunt
Attributes: Intelligence 1, Wits 4, Resolve 4, Strength 4, Dexterity 3, Stamina 3, Presence 4,
Manipulation 1, Composure 3
Skills: Athletics 5 (Running), Brawl 3, Stealth 2, Intimidation 4, Survival 5 (Tracking)
Willpower: 7
Initiative: 6
Defense: 3
Speed: 12
Size: 5
Attacks: Bite (3 Lethal Damage, Dice Pool 9)
Health: 8
Special: Tireless (Automatically succeeds on tests involving exhaustion or tiredness.)
Baying of the Hunter (Spend 1 Willpower as the Hounds bay in unison. It is heard everywhere
within a two mile radius. Anyone who hears it must make a successful Willpower test or cower
in fear for 10 minutes.)
Pack Mentality (When within 50 feet of their Huntsman master, the Huntsman may utilize the
Hounds senses as if they were its own, seeing what they see, smelling what they smell, etc.)
Baleful Glare (Spend 1 Willpower and meet the gaze of a target. The target is held transfixed,
unable to do anything, until the Hounds gaze is broken.)
Any bite a Hound makes also initiates a grapple (see p. XX).
Healing
Every Huntsman has Health equal to his current Size + Stamina. It takes bashing and lethal
damage as any other character, but may benefit from the Durability of its current form. Arcadian
weapons and iron weapons cause aggravated damage to Hunstmen. At any time, a Huntsman
may reflexively spend one Yearning to heal all bashing and lethal damage. Aggravated damage
requires one Yearning per point of damage, and a full day to heal. For this reason, a Huntsman is
likely to adopt a larger form after suffering aggravated damage.
Sample Huntsmen
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Appendix One: The FaeTouched
HumaninteractionswithFaerietendtoendpoorlyforthehuman.HumanswhoentertheHedge
rarelyreturn,andthosewhoseeafaecreaturestruemienarestrickenwithmadnessandfear.
Yet,withintheranksofhumanityareafewwhohaveexperiencedtherealmofFaerieandhave
returnedfromthatplacedifferent,butnotchangedastheLostare.Thesepeoplearereferredto
asfaetouchedfortheycarryapieceoftheWyrdinsidethem.
Faetouchedarenotjustpeoplewhohappentoseeachangelingsmien,orseepasttheglamor
placedonafetch.Theyaremuchmorethanthat.Everysingleoneofthemhasbeeninsidethe
Hedge,andafewhaveevenbeentotheouteredgesofArcadia.Howhumansbecome
faetouchedvariesbyperson,butallfollowacommonthreadtheyoncemadeapromisewith
someonewhoisnowachangeling.Thepromisewasnotsomethingsmall,likeapromiseto
walkthedogorcallinthemorning.Instead,itwassomethingbig,likethepromiseamother
makestoherchildtoalwaysbethereforhim,thepromisebetweensisterstoneverlietoone
another,orthepromisebetweenbestfriendstonametheirfirstbornchildrenaftereachother.
Whateverthepromiseandwhateverthecircumstances,oneofthememberswastakenandthe
promisewasleftunfulfilled,yetremembered.
Unfulfilledpromisesbetweenhumansarecommonthedifferenceisintheintention.Theperson
leftbehindkeepsherpromise.Thefriendhaschildrenandherfirstchildisnamedafterher
longlostbestfriend.Themothersomehowknowsthefetchreplacingherchildisnotreal,and
nevergivesuphopeoffindingherrealson.Thelovernevertakesanother,knowingthather
trueloveisstillouttheresomewhere.Thesepeoplenevergaveuphope,nevergaveupontheir
promises,andremainedtrue.Thekeptpromiseforgesalinkbetweenhumanandchangeling
thechangelingbolsteredinherresolvetoescapeherbonds,thehumandrawninexplicably
towardsFaerieandherpromisedcounterpart.

Becoming FaeTouched
Justbecausesomeonehasapromisetoachangelingdoesntmakeherautomaticallya
faetouchedhuman.Instead,shehastoentertheHedgeandmakeitoutagain,aliveand
uncapturedwhichisnosmallfeat.GettingintotheHedgeisnotdifficultandneitherisit
accidental.ThesepeoplearedrawntoFaerie,seekingitoutsubconsciouslyastheyperform
theirdailylives.Someresisttheunrealizeddesireandarecapableoflivingtheirlivesinpeace,
yetastheyearsgoby,thepullbecomesstrongeruntileventually,eventhemostresistantgive
in.ThisisespeciallytrueifthepersontheyhavetheirpromisetoisstilltrappedinArcadia.For
others,thepullisinescapablefromthestart,anditrulestheirlives.
Amotherfollowsleadafterleadlookingforherrealchild.Shepromisedhimthatshedalways
bethereforhim.Sheuseseverythingatherdisposal,followingtheoldstraythreadsofhis
passing.Herdeterminationleadsherconstantlytotheplaceshelastsawhim,hisschool.She
spendshereveningscouringthearea,lookingforanyevidencethatsomethinghappenedhere,
thoughitsbeenmonths,evenyears.Onefatefulday,sheseesapartialscrapofashoelace.
Itshisshoelace,shescertainofit.Sheseesanotherscrapofclothfurtherinthedistanceand
sherunstoit,passingbeneaththeoverhangingarchofanoldoakbranch.Herenvironment
abruptlychangesandsheissurroundedbybramblesonallsides.Infrontofherisanarrowfoot
path,andsheknowsdeepinherheartthathersonliesattheendofthetrail.
Awomancomeshometofindanuncommonlymessyhouse.Herwifeisinthekitchen,
preparingdinner.Everythingaboutthesituationscreamstoherthatsomethingiswrong.She
seesaspotofbloodonthefloorandassheinspectsit,sheseesapieceofabrokenfingernail
coloredthesameasherwifes.Shelooksatherwifeshandbutnoneofthenailsarebroken.
Shemakesupanexcuseandleavesthehousequickly,unabletoreturntowhateverisinthere.
Herwifeisgone,butshehadpromisedherthatshewouldalwaysfightfortheirrighttobe
together.Thefrontgardenistornup,andshewondershowshedidntnoticeearlier.Shefollows
thepathofsmalldetailsoutofplaceuntilshereachesaclearing.Sheseestwopathsthatlook
exactlythesame,butherheartpointsherleftandshedoesnothesitatebeforesteppingoffin
thatdirection.
Hisoldersisterisamonster.Ormaybethemonsterisnthissisteratall.Heisntsurehowit
happened,butheknowsthatonedayshecamehomefromcollegeandshewasamonster.He
cantreallyseethesticksandmudthatmadeherup,buthecanfeelthemwhenhetouches
her,andhecansmellthedirtaroundher.NoonebelieveshimandtellshimtogowatchT.V.or
readabookandleaveheralone.Hetakeswalkstoalloftheplacestheyusedtogotogether
beforeshemovedout.Theyhadpromisedeachotherthattheydalwaysgohereonceayearto
catchup.Hefeelsasenseofherthere,andletshismindwanderashesitsforhoursbefore
beingcalledhomebyhismother.Oneday,hegetslostonthewayhome.Heknowsthese
footpathslikethebackofhishand,butsomehowheisturnedaround.Thenjustasquicklyas
heislost,hefindstherightpathandstartsdownitbetweenallthethornyvinesthatseemto
reachoutforhim.
Sheishisbestfriend,butshehasntcalledindays.Theyusedtotalkeverynight,andshewont
returnhistexts.Hegoeslookingforher,butsheisnthomeandnoneofherotherfriendsknow
whereshemighthavegone.Nonote,noword,andmoredistressingisthefactthatherhouse
lookssonormal,likesheisjustintheotherroom.Herphoneandkeyslayonthetablebeside
thedoor,justlikealways.Hestartsaskingaround,andnoonehasseenorheardfromher.He
evencallsherparents,andtheysayshecalledthemyesterday.Hecantbelieveittheyhad
promisedeachotherthattheydneverkeepsecretssohekeepslooking.Then,hefinds
someonethatmayknowsomeone.Hemakesacallandsetsupameeting.Thismanknows
wheresheis,hesaysthepathishardandlong,butshesbeenkidnapped.Themancanthelp,
buthecanpointhimintherightdirection.Hejusthastogooutthebackdoorandfollowthe
littlefootpathheseesthere.
OnceintheHedge,thefateofthepersonissealed.Sheisnowfaetoucheddespitewhatelse
happens.AsshepassesthroughwhatevergatewaybroughtherintotheHedge,shegainsa
connectiontoFaerieandisabletodrawuponit.Usually,shehasnoideawhatishappening,or
thatshehasanycontroloverherenvironment.ThisdoesntstoptheHedgefromrespondingto
herdesiresandchangingaccordingly.MostfaetouchedareintheHedgetofindtheirmissing
lovedone.PathsopenbeforeheranddirectherdeeperintoFaeriefollowinghertenuous
connectiontothelastplaceFaerieknewthechangelingwasheld.Ifleftunchecked,the
faetouchedcanwalkallthewaytothechangelingwhosharesherpromise.Yet,ifsheventures
toodeepintoFaerie,sheislikelytoneverreturn.
Escaping the Hedge
AfaetouchedisfreetomoveabouttheHedgeasshewishes,butfindingherwayoutisa
differentmatterentirely.MosthumanswhoentertheHedgethiswaydosowithasingular
purpose.Ifshestraysfromthatpurpose,orleavesthetrail,sheislikelytogethopelesslylost.If
shestayshercourse,sheisdrawnincreasinglyclosertoFaerieandtheTrueFaewhocaptured
herfriend.Shehasafewoptionsforreturningtotherealworld,butallcomewiththeirown
risks.
AsthefaetouchedenterstheHedge,herchangelingcounterpartispresentedwithan
opportunityforescape.MaybehisKeeperisdistracted,thefinalpartofhisplansisrealizedin
thatmoment,orhesuddenlygainsthestrengthofwillhehadbeenpreviouslylacking.Atthis
moment,thechangelingisfacedwithadecisiontoleave,andifhetakesit,heissetonhispath
ofescape.ThepathsopenedwithintheHedgetothefaetouchedleadhertocrosspathswith
thechangeling,givingherachancetoassisthiminhisescape.Ifallgoeswell,theirpaths
intersectsomewheredeepintheHedgeandtheyhelpeachotherescapeintothemortalworld.
Thingsrarelygowell.Moreoftenthannot,theirpathsdonotcross.Somethingstopsthe
changelingfromescapingFaerie.Maybeheisthwartedinhisescape,ordiesintheattempt.
Commonly,despitetheimpetuousherpresencelends,thechangelingsimplychoosestoremain
incaptivity,unabletosolidifyhiswilltoescapeatthattime.Inrarecases,thechangelinghas
alreadyescaped,andthefaetouchedissimplyfollowingadeadtrailtohisformerTrueFae
captor.Inthesecases,shemayendupfollowingherpathtoFaerie,onlytogetcaptured
herself.
Afewstoriesrelatethatwhenafaetouchedandherchangelingspathsintersected,theywere
fartooclosetoFaerie,andthechangelingsescapehadnotyetbeencompletelydecided.In
onestory,thefaetouchedbargainsforthelifeofthechangeling.Shesomehowpullsonan
ancientContractandforcestheGentrytoreleasethemboth.Anotherstoryhasthechangeling
usethefaetouchedasasteppingstone,passinghertotheGentrytoensurehisownescape.
Moregrimstoriestellthatwhenthefaetouchedarrivesatherdestination,thechangelingsTrue
Faecaptorcollectsthembothandreturnsthemtotheirbindings.
Sometimes,thefaetouchednevermakesitfarwithintheHedge,butinsteadgetsdistracted
fromherpath.Shemayencounteragoblinorhobgoblinwhoenticesherawayandmakesher
forgethergoal.ShemaysimplygetoverwhelmedbytheWyrdandtheHedgeandlosesightof
whyshecame.ShespendssolongintheHedgethatshecannotimagineleaving.Whenthis
happens,heronlyhopeisthatachangelingcomesacrossher,aseventuallyherpresenceis
noticedbyoneGentryoranotherandsheistaken.
ChangelingsintheHedgewhoseeafaetouchedknowthatherchancesofescapeareslim.
Whilenoonewantstodepriveafellowchangelingofanyadvantagehemighthavetobreak
freeofhisbondsinFaerie,helpingthehumanisamuchmoreimmediateconcern.Ofcourse,
theyarealsoconcernedwiththeincredibleboonofhavingafaetouchedoweherlifetothe
changeling.
Anunlikelythoughentirelypossiblewayforthefaetouchedtoreturntothenormalworld
istosimplywalkout.Thisusuallyonlyhappensafterthefaetouchedhasstrayedfromher
originalpathandbeginswishingforawayout.Ifsheissomehowunhinderedoruntouched,her
attachmenttoFaerieslowlyleadsheronanewpathoutoftheHedge.Onlythemost
strongwilledandluckyfaetouchedescapetheHedgethisway.
Whenthefaetouchedfinallyescapes,sheisforeverchanged,muchlikeachangeling.Sheis
nottrulyachangeling,sinceshewasnevercapturedandhasnoKith.Shedoeshavea
Seeming,gainedinmuchthesamemannerasanormalchangelings.Sometimes,shetakeson
theSeemingofachangelingwhohelpedherescape.Sheisnolongercompletelyhuman,yet
sheismuchmoreconnectedtohumansocietythanherchangelingcounterparts.Sheretains
herconnectiontoFaerieintheformoftheWyrd,thoughshedoesnottrulyunderstandit.

Escape!
Beforebringingnewfaetouchedcharactersintoagame,orstartinganewgameforthatmatter,
tryrunningoneononesessionswithplayerstoallowthemtoexperiencetheircharactersfirst
forayintotheHedge.Thishelpstheplayerdecidewhatkindofpromiseshemade,howshe
enteredtheHedgeandwhatherSeemingmeanstoher.ItalsohelpshersetAspirationsforher
character,aswellasgetafeelingforhowfarthecharacterwillgotofulfillherpromises.
Playersshouldmakeherfullfaetouchedcharacter,butignoresherfaetouchedtemplatefor
thefirstpartofthesession.Sheisanormalhumanatfirst,anddoesntgainherfaetouched
templateuntilsheenterstheHedge.Atthatpoint,shegainshertemplate,exceptherSeeming,
aswellanyMeritswiththeprerequisitesoffaetouchedandafullGlamourpool.
ThispresentsagoodopportunitytopresentkeychangelingNPCsandsettingelementsdirectly
intoacharactersbackgroundandmakethemimportanttothefaetouched.Workwiththe
playertocraftanescapestorythatmakesenseforthetypesofstoriesshewantstoseein
gameplay,aswellashercharactersSeeming.

Call of the Wyrd

ThefaetouchedweresurroundedbyandinfusedwithGlamourwhentheyenteredtheHedge.
Eachformsatinyconnectiontothispower,andwieldsitwhileshesthereusingittocleara
paththroughthebramblesandleadhertoherchangeling.Thoughsheisnotchangedtothe
samedegreeasachangeling,sheundergoesaforgingprocessthatleavesherwitha
permanentconnection.ShehasaWyrdandshecanutilizeGlamourinmuchthesamewayas
achangelingcan,thoughsheisnotaspowerfulasachangeling.
ThisconnectiontotheWyrdistwofold.Itstrengthensthebondbetweenthefaetouchedand
thechangelingshesharesapromisewith,anditimbuesherwithamodicumoffaepower.The
bondbetweenchangelingandfaetouchedisdangerous,asitcontinuestopullatthe
faetouchedbeckoninghertoreturntotheHedgeandseekoutthechangeling.Notonlythat,
butthelinkgivesheranawarenessofthechangelingsheneverhadbefore.Shecansensehis
livelihoodandhispain,andsheoftenexperiencesvisionsofhimwhilehe'sinArcadia.
TheconnectiontotheWyrdthatgivesthefaetouchedherpowercanalsobedangeroustoher.
OnherfirsttripintotheHedge,theyWyrdfilledherandgaveherpowerinwhatfeltlikea
hopelesssituation.TheGlamouroftheplaceenteredhereasilyandchangedher.Inthereal
world,Glamourishardtocomeby,andherpoweroverrealityisregulatedtowhatever
Contractsshecanlearn.WhensheescapedtheHedge,shewasleftwithafractionofthefae
magicshepreviouslyhadatherdisposalandhasnounderstandingofwhattodowithit.While
shedoeshaveaGlamourpoolshecanaccess,thefaetoucheddoesnotinherentlyunderstand
howtoharvestmorethisisaskillshehastobetaught.Whatsworse,isthatthefaetouched
findstheinexplicabledrawtotheHedgethatbroughthertothispointdidnotgoawayaftershe
lefttheHedge,insteadithasonlygrownstronger.
ThefaetouchedfeelalongingtoreturntotheHedge,tosoakupalltheGlamourshecan,and
toutilizethatpower.TheWyrdpullsather,beckoninghertoreturntoFaerieandcontinueher
searchforherfriend,andtobecomeonewiththefae.Whereachangelinghasthegrounding
experienceofhavingbeencapturedandforcedtoendurewhatfeltlikealifetimeofservitudein
thepresenceofallthatpower,afaetouchedhasonlytheexperienceoflongingandseeking.
ThisisnottosaythatsheisunawareofthedangersofFaerie,assheislikelytohavemether
ownchallengeswhileintheHedge.Instead,herexperiencesandsubsequentchangesarenot
asdrasticmeaningthedrawoftheWyrdcantakeastrongerholdwithinher.Noamountof
explainingorunderstandingcanabatethedesire,onlyastrongforceofwillkeepsherfrom
leapingbackintothebramblesateverychance.
Withguidanceandassistance,afaetouchedcanlearntoharvestGlamourfromhumansand
utilizeherpowerinacontrolledmanner.Thosewhodonotcontrolthemselves,findthedraw
intotheHedgeeventuallytakesthemthere.Itsneverthesameasthefirsttime,andthe
faetouchedismuchmorelikelytogetlostortakenifshereturnsunsupervised.

FaeTouched in Changeling Society

Changelingsrepresentarealworldconnectionafaetouchedhumanhaswithwhatever
happenedtoherwhileshewasintheHedge.Sheisstillveryhuman,andlittleaboutherlife
beforetheHedgehaschanged.Whereachangelinghashisentirelifestrippedoutfromunder
himhishomeandlovedoneslosttoafetchandtimedilatedinweirdwaysthe
faetouchedreturntoaworldexactlyassheleftit.Herfamilyisstillthere,herhomejusttheway
sheleftit.Herjobmayhavemissedherforafewdays,butotherwiseeverythingsheonceknew
isstillinplace.Shecouldeasilyreturntoherlifewithnoonethewiser,exceptforthe
faetouched.
Knowingthatdoesntmakeiteasytodo.Shehasgainedinsightintoafantasticaland
dangerousworldoutsideherown.ShehasaSeemingandaconnectiontoasocietyof
supernaturalcreatures.Sheknowsnowthatthepersonshehadkeptherpromisetohasbeen
captured,andsheseesthefetchforwhatitis.Forher,everythinghaschanged,andwhileon
thesurfaceeverythinglooksnormal,sherealizesnothingeverreallywas.
Manyfaetouchedfinditdifficulttogobacktotheirnormallives,fewpeoplewillinglyinsert
themselvesintoasituationtheyknowtobefalse.Somereactpoorlytotheknowledgethat
someonesheknowshasbeenreplacedbyafetchandattemptstooutitstruenatureorevenkill
it.Thefaetouchedisregardedwithfearandmisunderstandingbyhumansassumingshehas
sufferedsomekindofpsychoticbreak.Toacertainextent,shehas,butnotinawaynormal
peoplecanunderstand.Afewreturntotheirlives,livingalongsideafetchbidinghertimeuntil
shecanbeginhersearchagain.
Somewanttobeclosetochangelingsociety,hopingthattheLostarethekeytofindingtheone
sheyearnstofind.Ifshewasluckyandreunitedwithherpromisesharingchangeling,thenshe
wantstostayconnected.Othersfearthechangelingsandonlywantinteractionsifshebelieves
theywillleadOntopofallthatisherconstantunbreakabledesiretoreturntotheHedgeandto
regainthepowershehadthere,ortosearchonceagainforthepersonshehaslost.
Thefaetouchedpresentauniqueparadoxtochangelings.Thesepeoplewerenevertakenbya
TrueFaeanddonotknowthehorrorsofaDurance,yettheyhavebeenexposedenoughtosee
pasttheMask.Thefaetouchedhavetheabilitytodosomethingthechangelingcanneverdo
returntoherpreviouslifeyetmanyrefusetodosocompletely.Changelingsalsohaveahard
timeunderstandingandempathizingwithafaetouchedsdesiretoreturntotheHedge.Despite
thesestarkdifferences,thefaetouchedisalsoacomrade,someonewhosurvivedthedangers
ofFaerieandhasbeenchangedbecauseofit.Shemayhaveevenbeenthecatalystfora
changelingsescape.Sheissomeonewhoisdrivenbydevotionandsomeonewhocanbe
trusted.
Bytheverynatureofbeingfaetouched,shehasprovenawillingnesstokeepimportant
promises.Notonlythat,butshehasshownthewillandstrengthittakestoseebeyondthelies
spreadbytheTrueFaeinanefforttokeepthosepromises.Ifafaetouchedwasnothingmore
thanthat,herpresencewouldbeacomforttothechangeling,yetshehasmuchmorevalue.
Sherepresentsanintermediarybetweenthechangelingandthemortalworld.Hedoesnothave
tohidehistruenaturefromherandshecanhelphimrelatetohumans.Shehasan
understandingofhisfaeconcerns,evenifshedoesnotshareinallofthem,andshecanassist
inendeavorsbothinandoutoftheHedge.
Whileachangelingislikelytowantafaetouchedaround,hedoesntnecessarilybelieveshe
shouldbeexposedtotheentiretyofthefreeholdandthesocietytheyhavebuilt.Most
changelingsprefertokeepthefaetouchedatadistance,contactingthemonlyintimesofneed
orwant.Thefaetouchedwantstheopposite.Shewantstobeconnectedtothepeoplethat
understandallherconflictingemotionsmorethanshewantstobearoundnormalpeople.She
wantstobeinvolvedandtocontinuetoassistherlovedonedespitehisbestintentionsforher.
Therelationshipsbetweenthefaetouchedandchangelingsareascomplexandvariedasthe
peoplecomposingthem.Forsomechangelings,thefaetouchedarenothingmorethanpeople
withsomeextraknowledgeandforotherstheyarefriendsandconfidants.Somechangelings
findrelatingtothefaetouchedeasierthanrelatingtonormalhumans,andprefertheircompany
overanyoneelses.SomeresentthemandtheirrapidescapefromthehorrorsofFaerie,and
wantnothingtodowiththem.Somesimplyseethemasonemoretool,someonetheycanuse
togainanadvantage.Andaluckyfewchangelingsfindalovedoneinthefaetouched,
someonetheybelievedtobelosttothemforever.

Within the Freehold

Acitywithawellestablishedfreeholdisboundtohaveafewfaetouchedwithinitsscopeof
influence.Howthechangelingsdealwiththosefaetouchedisdeterminedbywhichcourtsmake
upthefreehold.Mostcourtsprefertoextendaidandassistancetothefaetouchedwithout
formallyacceptingthemintothefreehold.Instead,individualmembersofthefreeholdtakeon
eachfaetouchedalmostasanallyorvassal,helpinghermasterherWyrdwhilekeepingher
confidences.Certaincourtsassociatedwiththeemotionofprotectionorlovemayfreelyaccept
thefaetouchedintotheirliveswithoutquestion.Evenifafaetouchedisnotconsideredafull
memberofthefreehold,sheisoftenextendedprotectionandaidwhensheneedsit.
Changelingsviewhavingafaetouchedaroundasaboontothefreehold.Sheislikelytobea
calmingpresenceinanotherwisetumultuousenvironment.Sheispartiallyfae,butdoesnot
suffertheissuesofconstantlybeinghuntedbyaTrueFaemasterwhomissesher.Her
connectionstothemortalworldsetherapartfromthechangelings,andmakeheravaluable
ally.Thosewhogainacceptanceintothefreeholdfindthemselvesinthemiddleofpolitical
intrigueandcourtlygossip.Herfavorisnotnecessarilysoughtsomuchasbought,andher
connectionsareexploitedbyanyboldenoughtotry.

The Courts
Faetouchedwhohavespentagreatdealoftimearoundchangelingstendtogetmore
embroiledintheirconcerns.Assuch,simplybeingarecognizedmemberofthefreeholdisnot
enoughtoprotectthemagainsttheHuntsmen.Instead,afaetouchedisaskedtopledgeherself
toacourtwithinthefreeholdtoboostitsBulwarkagainsttheTrueFae.
AfaetouchedcanenterintoanOathtojoinacourt,butfewchangelingstreatherasafull
member.Sheoftenremainsinthelowestranksofthecourt,simplyallowingherOathtobeall
thatsheneedstogaintheminimumprotectionofthefreehold.Sheisallowedtoparticipatein
ritualsandsymbolism,butrarelygainsatitleorMantleabovethelowestlevels.

Oath Keepers
Keepingapromiseisimportanttobothchangelingsandthefaetouched.Forchangelings,trust
andkeepingtheirwordisextremelyimportant,especiallyamongotherslikethem.Forthe
faetouched,keepingapromiseisamatterofintegrityandpersonalhonor,nomatterwhothat
promiseisto.Fewfaetouchedeverbreaktheirwordwhengiven,andtheytakeeventhemost
simpleagreementveryserious.Ifafaetouchedforsakesanoath,sheisneverforgivenbyher
fellows,evenifsheisabletoredeemherselfintheeyesoftheWyrdandchangelingsociety.A
changelingwhobreaksherwordisevenworse.Everyfaetouchedknowsthattheonlyreason
sheisconnectedtotheWyrdisbecauseofsomeoneshelovestrappedinArcadia,andthe
sharedpromisetheyhavebetweenthem.Herhopeistoonedayfreeherfriendandbe
reunited,andthestrengthofherwordistheonlythingthatcontinuestogiveherhopethatshe
cannotlosethatconnection.Ifherlovedoneweretolosethatpromise,orworsegobackonthe
agreementtheymadesolongago,whatwouldbecomeoftheirconnection?Itgoeswithout
sayingthatsuchanideaishorrifyingtomostfaetouchedandfewcontemplatethatlineof
thinkingforverylong.
SomefaetouchedhonethecontroltheyhaveovertheWyrdtoseekoutoathsandpromises,
monitoringwhooweswhatandwhomighthavebrokentheirvows.Ifshefindssomeonewho
hasbrokenapromise,especiallytoahumanorfaetouched,shetakesituponherselftopunish
theoathbreaker.Somefreeholdsemploysuchfaetouchedtomonitorminorpledgesbetween
lessermembersofthecourtsandreportmisconducttothecourtmonarchs.Otherssimplywork
ontheirown,takingpunishmentsintotheirownhands,evenifsuchactionwouldbeilladvised.
Outsiders
Somefaetouchedfindchangelingfreeholdsandcourtshardtounderstandandfollow.The
faetouchedunderstandpromisesalltoowell,andsomearereluctanttoeverpromiseanything
toachangelingwithoutadireneed.Pledgesandoathsaretoogravetoenterinto,andthe
frequencyinwhichchangelingsusetheWyrdtosealdealscanbedauntingtosomeoneso
sensitive.SucharesponsecancausetheLosttoshunthefaetouched,unabletounderstand
whysherefusestopledgeherwordtothemsofreely.
Inthesecases,thefaetouchedbandtogetherontheoutskirtsofchangelingsociety,makingup
theirownlessersocietybasedonunspokenwordsandmutualunderstanding.Thefaetouched
tendtogravitatetowardsoneanotherinmuchthesamewaytheygravitatetowardsthe
Hedgethoughnooutwardappearancesbetraytheirnature.Thesefaetouchedprefereach
otherscompanyoverthatofotherhumans,andtheyviewchangelingsasvapidand
selfabsorbed.Theyseeksolaceineachotherandshyawayfromchangelingsociety.They
holdnoillwilltowardschangelingsanddealoneononewiththemincertaincircumstances,but
otherwiseremainseparatefromthefreeholdandcourts.

Those Who Do Not Know

NotallfaetouchedescapetheHedgeintothehandsoftheLost.Thosethatfighttofree
themselvesmaynotevenrealizethatsuchathingasthechangelingsexist.Evenwhen
presentedwithchangelingsociety,theyhaveahardtimeacceptingtheLostasanyparthuman.
TheyviewchangelingsasanythingelsefromtheHedge,dangerousandnottobetrusted.
Thesefaetouchedbandtogetherforprotection,andshunchangelingsociety.Suchabrazen
disregardfortheirfellowsleavesabadimpressiononchangelingsandcausesquiteabitof
strifebetweenthegroups.

Key Smiths
WhenafaetouchediscompletelyovertakenbyherdesiretoreturntotheHedge,sheturns
volatileanddangeroustobothherselfandchangelings.Givingintodesiresisnotapsychotic
break.Shelooksandactsnormalbut,likeanaddictoutofcontrolshewilldoirrationaland
dangerousthingstogetherfix.Somegiveineasilytothisdesire,whereothersmightbedriven
torashactionthroughimpatience.Whateverthecause,thefaetouchedmakeaconscious
decisiontoentertheHedgenomatterthecost.Maybesheisoverwhelmedbythedreamsof
herlovedoneandisboundanddeterminedtoseekhimout,maybesheisstarvedofGlamour
andbelievesshecanfindmorethere,andmaybesheisjustdrawntothepowerofFaerieand
nolongerhasthewillpowertoresisttheurgetogo.
Thesefaetouchedgravitatetowardsoneanother,somehowunconsciouslydrawntothosemost
likelytoassistthemintheirgoals.SomechangelingsspeculatethattheWyrddrawsthem
together,itspullonthemheightenedwhentheycongregateingroups.Theybandtogetherwith
asimilarmissionfindawaybackintotheHedge.Thechangelingscallthesebandsof
faetouchedKeySmiths,fortheyseekoutgatekeys.
Faetouchedknowtheycannotopenandentergatesontheirown,notwithoutsomekindof
gatekeyorchangelingtoletthemin.Somegroupsspendtheirtimesearchingoutnatural
Hedgegatesandthekeysassociatedwiththem.Theymapeveryplacetheyseesomeone
enterorleavetheHedgeandtheypumpthechangelingsforinformationaboutkeys.Sometimes
thegroupspetitionchangelingsforassistance,hopingtotradefavorsforentranceintothe
Hedge.
Moreimpatientgroupsdontwanttowaittomapoutgatesorhopeforchangelingassistance.
Instead,theyseetheclearestroutetopoweristosimplyopenagateandwalkin.Theonlyway
todothisthough,istobeachangeling,orhaveonedoitforthem.Thesegroupsactoutin
terribleways.Sometimestheytakeoverchangelingholdingsorkidnappeopleclosetothe
changelingdemandingentranceintotheHedgeinreturnforwhatevertheytook.Other,more
severegroupshuntdownandcaptureachangelingandforcehimtoopenagateforthem.
Usually,theyneedentranceandexitpathways,sohostagesituationsdonotresolveuntil
theyvefinishedtheirmissionintotheHedge.

The Hunted
Innormalcircumstances,afaetoucheddoesnothavetoworryaboutbeinghuntedand
returnedtoArcadia.ShewasneverinthekeepingoftheGentry,andtheyhavenoideasheis
anythingotherthananormalmortal.Sheismorehumanthansheisfae,unaffectedbyafae
MeinandhasnoMask.TheTrueFaedonotpurposefullysendtheirHuntsmenaftera
faetouched,andshemaygoherwholeexistencewithoutencounteringone,ifsheslucky.
Despitethis,shedoeshaveaSeemingandaWyrdnomatterhowmutedandappearsfae
tothesenseofthosewhodwellinFaerie.Forthisreason,shemaygainthewrongattentionif
sheisnotcareful.
Everynowandthen,thefaetoucheddoessomethingtogaintheattentionoftheGentryortheir
Huntsmen.Maybeshesjustinthewrongplaceatthewrongtime.Thishappensmostoften
sincethefaetouchedfindithardtosteerclearofFaerieandtendtofindthemselvesembroiled
inconflictsevenwhentheyarenttryingto.Maybeshespendstoomuchtimewithaparticularly
irksomechangeling.Ormaybe,shesbeeninandoutoftheHedgeunscathedonetoomany
times.
Nomatterwhatcauseshertogetnoticed,onceithappens,shecantshaketheirinterest.Some
faetouchedfindthemselveshuntedasrelentlesslyasanychangelinghavingcaughttheeyeof
acuriousTrueFae.Thebestcasescenarioisthatsheisconsideredanannoyanceandslated
fordeath,theworstcasescenariobeingthattheTrueFaeiscuriousaboutherandwanther
broughtinforinvestigation.
SometimessheonlygainsthenoticeofaHuntsman,butinmanycases,thiscouldbeworse.A
Huntsmanmaydismissherasaregularhumanandattempttocasuallykillherifshegetsinthe
way,orsimplydecidetokillhertogetatthechangelingitishunting.Itmaydecideshesa
usefultool,maybeshecanleadittothechangelings,orbeusedasadramaticelementifthe
Huntsmankidnapsher.Itmayofferherabargain,somethingshedesperatelywantstosellout
herfriends.Ofcourse,takingsuchabargainwouldmakeheratraitor,butdenyingitmayget
herkilled.
Faetouchedrarelyknowwhentheyveattractedtheattentionofafaecreatureuntilitstoolate.
Changelingscautionfaetouchedtobewarysincetherulesthatgoverntheinteractions
betweenHuntsmenandchangelingsdonotapplytothefaetouched.Havingahunted
faetouchedaroundcanbealiability,butfewchangelingswouldabandonsomeonetowhatever
fatetheTrueFaehaveplannedforthem.Usually,suchapredicamentencouragesthefreehold
toincreasetheirsecurityandbringthefaetouchedmoretightlyintotheirsociety.

The Loyal
Themostimportantthingtoafaetouchedisfindinghermissinglovedone,itiswhatdrivesher
andoftenpreoccupiesher.ThelifesheleadsonEarthisoneofpensivewaitinghopingthatone
dayshecanbereunitedwithhim.Shedoeswhatshecantoassistchangelingsinthehopes
thatsomeonewoulddothesameforhim.ShefollowsthechangelingsintotheHedgeinhopes
thattheymayfindachancetorescuehim.And,ifofferedachancetorescueorsavehim,she
wouldabandonallelsetodoso.
Sometimes,thisfierceloyaltyworksagainstthefaetouchedinwaysshewouldneverexpect.If
aTrueFaediscoverssuchaweaknessintheranksofthechangelingsociety,itwastesnotime
seizingitasanopportunity.Thefaetouchediscourtedanddeceived,promisedachanceto
freeherlovedone,orjusttoseehimonceagaininreturnforinformationoranoutrightbetrayal.
Huntsmanmakedealswiththefaetouchedtotradeinformationbitsoftruthaboutwhereher
changelingisbeingkeptinexchangeforinformationaboutthechangelingsinthenearby
freehold.
Somefaetouchedhavealesshearteningstory.DuringherfirstvoyageintotheHedge,she
followedapaththatleadherdeepintotheheartofaGentrysdomain.Within,shefoundthe
personshehadkeptherpromiseto.Shetriedtofreehim,butwascaughtbyhisTrueFae
master.ThroughwhateverarcanecontractsguidethisGentrysaction,sheissparedforthe
timebeing.Itproposesadeal,ifshereturnstoEarthandcollectsanyoneotherchangelingand
bringshimbacktoit,itwillletherlovedonego.SheshakesonitandcomesbacktoEarth.
Shessoelatedthatsheasawaytofreehimthatshecantrecognizeshenevermadeadeal
forherownlifeandfreedom.

Using Loyal FaeTouched

Faetouchedwithmotivationtocaptureachangelingrarelyhasthemeanstodoso.Sheis
reluctanttoapproachotherfaetouched,sincetheymaytrytotalkheroutofkeepingherdealor
hurthertopreventherfromenactinganyplans.Shemaypairwithaloyalistchangelingwhois
muchmorecapable.Achangelingandafaetouchedworkingtogetherismoredangerousthan
alonechangeling.
Faetouchedworkingagainstchangelingsocietycanbeextremelydisruptivesincetheyareso
wellknownfortheirhonestyandloyalty,sousethemwithcaution.
Stories
Faetouchedhaveaplaceinchangelingstoriesasbothalliesandantagonists.Faetouched
mayplayalargepartinachangelingslife,posingaconstantsourceofstrifeandconflict,oran
amazingsourceofaidandinformation.Changelingsarecertaintorunintoatleastone
faetouchedinherlifeandmayberesponsibleforhelpingoneoutoftheHedgeatacritical
moment.
The Promise Collector
Stevieisafaetouchedmemberofthefreehold.Shesabitofalegendinherownright.Some
saysheshoweduponedayoutoftheHedgeandwentstraightawaytothecourtstopledge
herselftothefreehold.Nooneknowsifshewasnewlychangedorifshehadsomehowtraveled
tothefreehold,butshesbeenafixtureeversince.Shedoesntbelongtoacourt,andshe
wieldsverylittleinfluenceoverthechangelings,yetsheaccordsagreatdealofrespect.
Everyoneseemstohavesomekindofdealwithher,evenifitssomethingassimpleasapolite
agreementtoleaveeachotheralone.ShesnotoriousforrequestingSealingsonallofher
agreements,nomatterhowlargeorsmall.
ThecharactershavemetStevieatleastonce,buttheydonthaveanydealswithher.So,when
shegoesmissing,theydontreallythinkanythingofit.Rumorscropupthatshesdisappeared
intotheHedge,butnooneseemstoknowwhereshesgone.Dayslater,everyoneinthecourt
isstruckbyterriblenightmaresandphantompains.SomethinghashappenedtoStevie,andthe
Wyrdhassomehowconnectedeveryoneinthefreeholdtoherpainthroughherpledgesto
them.Almosteveryoneinthefreeholdisnearlydebilitatedbythepain.Thecharactersmust
racetorescueSteviebeforesomethingworsehappenstoher,andthroughherbondstherest
ofthefreehold.

Dark Dreams
Anewlyescapedchangeling,Pedro,hastakenshelterwithinthefreehold.Hecomplainsof
terriblenightmareseachnight.HeisbeingchaseddownintheHedgebyfoulcreaturesmade
upofthebrambles.Eachmorningheawakensinsweats.Atfirst,everyonebelievesheis
experiencingtraumafromhisrecentescape,butasthenightmaresgetmoreintenseeachnight,
hestartsseekingassistance.
ThecharactersarerequestedtohelpPedroquiethisdreams.Thefirstnight,theyenterhis
dreamsindreamformsimplyridingthedreamwatchingwhathappens.Thefirsthalfofthe
dreamismundaneandnormal,butatsomepointinthenightthedreamstakeastarkturn
completelydissolvingfromPedrosdreamscapeintoanevenmoretwistedanddarkversionof
theHedge.Astheywatch,amanischasedontoPedrospathbyhobgoblins.Themanbegs
Pedrotohelphim,butPedroseemscompletelydistressedbythemanspresenceandtriesto
fendhimoff,butcannot.Whenthedreamends,Pedroexplainsthatthedreamisthesame
everynight.Herevealsthatherecognizestheman,theywerebestfriendsbeforehewastaken.
Pedrosayshesfeltastrangeconnectiontohimeversincehewastaken,anditsonlygotten
strongersincehesescaped.Infact,itwasthememoryofthismanthatgavehimthestrengthto
freehimself.
PedroisboundtoafaetouchedhumanwhoenteredtheHedgeonthesamedaythathe
escaped.Pedrofoundhisownwayout,butthefaetouchedwastrappedthere.Throughtheir
bond,PedrowitnessesthemansstrugglethroughtheHedgeeachnightwhiledreaming.The
onlywaytotrulyhelpthemanistoentertheHedgeandhelpPedrofindhimandbringhimback
out.
Playing a FaeTouched
Thefaetouchedhaveanimportantplacewithinchangelingsociety.Theportrayalof
faetouchedmembersofthefreeholdismorethansimplyplayingthelackeyorfollowingorders.
FaetouchedhaveaconnectiontotheWyrdandarecomplexindividuals,sometimesmoreso
thanachangelingmaybe.Thedecisiontoplayafaetouchedcharacterinachangeling
campaignshouldbediscussednotonlywiththeStoryteller,butalsowiththeotherplayers.The
playersshouldconsiderhowtheirowncharactersviewandinteractwiththefaetouched,and
whoifany,thefaetouchedisboundto.Afaetouchedcharactersstorycanservetobringa
cohesiveelementtoanotherwisedisparategroup.
CreatingaFaeTouched
AcharacterbecomesfaetouchedwhensheenterstheHedgeinsearchofsomeonesheshares
apromisewith.Atthattime,sheisinvestedwiththeGlamourofFaerieandtakesalittlepieceof
itwithherwhensheleaves.
Tocreateafaetouchedcharacter,usethesameguidelinesforcreatingahumanfoundinThe
GodMachineChroniclep.150.Afterwards,makethefollowingmodificationstothecharacter.
BesuretolookatthefaetouchedMeritspresentedlaterinthischapter.
Note,thefaetouchedsharemanytraitswithchangelings,buttheyarenotchangelings.Some
changelingtraitsarecompletelyuniquetochangelings.Ifanadvantageortraitisnotlisted
below,donotassumefaetouchedcharactersgainit.

Add FaeTouched Traits

Seeming: ThefaetouchedgainsaSeemingandallofitsbonusesanddrawbacks.The
SeemingisbasedonhowthecharacterescapedtheHedge,andusuallyreflectstheSeeming
ofwhateverchangelingmighthavehelpedheroutoftheHedge.Ifsheescapedonherown,
thenthedecisiontoleaveforgedherSeeming.ThefaetouchedSeemingdoesnotactually
conferaMientothecharacter,butinsteaddictatesherpersonalityandwhichContractsshe
gravitatestowards.
Wyrd: WyrdreflectsthesmallamountofFaeriethatthecharactercanchannelintotheworld.
FaetouchedcharactershaveaneffectiveWyrdofzero,thoughsheiscapableofutilizingsome
ofitsbenefits.
Contracts: SelecttwodotsofContractsfromContractsthataretiedtoyourcharacters
Seeming.TheseContractscannotbehigherthanaonedotrating.
AdvantagesofBeingFaeTouched
Glamour: FaetouchedcharacterscanutilizeGlamourmuchlikechangelingscan.Shecan
bankupto10GlamourinsideherandspendonepointofGlamoureachround.Shecanonly
harvestGlamourbypullingfrompeoplesemotions,orHedgebounty,assheisnormally
incapableofenteringotherpeoplesdreams.Unlikechangelings,Glamourcanbeharvested
fromafaetouched.Whenthishappens,shelosesGlamourfromherownpooltothe
changelingwhoharvestedfromher.
Pledges: FaetouchedcharactersarecapableofusingtheirWyrdtowitnessSealings.Sheis
stillsubjecttoSealingsfromchangelingcharacters,andshecannotattempttouseSealingson
changelingsorotherfaecreatures.Additionally,changelingscanforgeOathswithfaetouched
characterscarryingthebenefitsanddrawbacksassociatedwiththese.Faetouchedcharacters
cannotinitiateOathswithanyoneotherthanachangeling,includingotherfaetouched
characters.IfachangelingcreatesaBargainwithafaetouchedcharacter,shedoesnotgain
thebenefitofadditionalcoverageshewouldwithanormalhuman.
Oneiromancy:Faetouchedcharacterscannotengageinoneiromancyontheirown.Theydo
notsharethechangelingsinnateabilitytowalkintodreamsintheHedge,norcantheyentera
sleepersdreamsthroughtouch.But,somedohavelatenttalentstoenterandaffectdreams
representedasMerits.

Contracts
FaetouchedcanlearnanduseanyContracts,includingCourtContracts,withafewrestrictions.
FaetouchedmustbetaughtnewContractsbyachangeling,andcannotlearnthemonher
own.ShefollowsthesamerestrictionsforCourtContractsasanormalchangeling.
FaetoucheddonotinherentlygainaccesstotheSeemingbonusesonaContractbasedon
herownSeeming.ShemustspendexperiencestolearntheSeemingbonus,anditmustbe
taughttoherbyachangeling.
FaetouchedcharacterscannotlearnanyotherContractSeemingbonusesotherthanthe
onesforherownSeeming.
FaetouchedcharactersdonotunderstandenoughaboutthenatureofFaerietoenactcatches
onContracts.
FaetouchedcharacterscannotuseContractsthatrequirehertodropherMaskorrevealher
Mein,asshedoesnothaveonetoshow.

Drawbacks
Beingfaetouchedcarriesitsowndangersanddrawbacksuniquelyseparatefromchangelings.
ArcadianDreams: UntilthechangelingshesharesherpromisewithissafelyoutofArcadia,
thefaetouchedisplaguedwithdreamsandvisionsofhim.Shealwayshasanawarenessof
himinthebackofhermind.IfsheisintheHedge,shehasageneralknowledgeofwhat
directiontotraveltoreachhim.Shecanfeelhispaininaveryrealway,asthoughitwereher
own.Onceperstory,atStorytellerdiscretion,thefaetouchedcharactersuffersfromoneof
theseissues.Eithersheispresentedwithasituationthatisapoignantreminderofoneofher
dreams,whichcauseshertolosefocus,orsheisovercomewithasuddenandfiercepainthat
makesithardforhertofunction.Ineithercaseshesuffersa2penaltytoallrollsunlessshe
spendsseveralminutesrestingandrecuperating.
HedgeAddiction: ThefaetouchedcharacterisdrawntotheHedge.Ifsheispresentedwithan
opportunitytoentertheHedge,herplayermustsucceedonaWillpowerrolltoresistthe
temptationtoenter.Thisrollsuffersacumulative1penaltyforeachprevioustimethecharacter
hasenteredtheHedge.
SusceptibletoMadness:HertimeintheHedgehasleftthecharactersomewhatdisturbed.All
faetouchedcharacterssufferfromtheMadnessCondition.IfsheenterstheHedgeafter
resolvingtheCondition,sheimmediatelyregainstheCondition.
ShortenedLifespan:Thefaetouchedlivealifefatedtoburnbrightandhotforashortamountof
time.HerexperiencesintheHedgehavetiedhertotheWyrd,butshehasnotreallybeadapted
toholdanduseGlamourthewayachangelinghas.Thistakesitstollonthecharacter,reducing
hernormallifespanbyaseveraldecades.Mostfaetoucheddonotlivemuchpasttheir
twentiethyearafterfirstenteringtheHedge.

FaeTouched Merits
ThefollowingsetofMeritsisdesignedforfaetouchedcharacters.Changelingsandnormal
humansshouldnotpurchasetheseMeritswithoutdiscussionandapprovalfromtheStoryteller.
DreamShaper()
Youarenotonlycapableofdirectingyourowndreamsandcontrollingtheircontents,youhave
amodicumofcontroloverhowintenseyourdreamsare.
Prerequisites:Faetouched,LucidDreamerMerit
Effect:ThecharactermaymakearolltoBolsterorScourherowndreamsintensitybyspending
apointofGlamour.TheplayerrollsManipulation+Occult.Exceptionalsuccessescannotcause
theTooSolidFleshTilt.Ifthecharacterhappenstobeinanotherpersonsdream,shecanadd
herOccultdotsasabonustoanotherdreamersrolltoBolsterorScourthedream.
DreamWalker()
Youareapowerfuldreamerandarecapableofnotonlydirectingyourowndreams,but
enteringintoanothersdreams.
Prerequisites:Faetouched,LucidDreamerMerit
Effect:Thecharactermayaccompanyachangelingintoadream.Shemustremainincontact
withthechangelingastheyenter,andshemustspendapointofGlamourandsucceedonher
ownPresence+Persuasionroll,penalizedbythedreamersBastionrating.Shegainsabonus
tothisrollequaltothenumberofnetsuccessesthechangelinggainedtojointhedream.When
thefaetouchedentersthedream,shedoesnotgoinphysicalform.IfsheisintheHedge,her
physicalformremainsontheoutsideoftheBastionintheHedgeandshegainsadreamform
duringthedream.
Whileinadream,thecharacterisabletoassistthechangelingusingtheTeamworkrules.Any
timethechangelingmakesarolltoinfluencethedream,nomatterifsheisdreamriding,
dreamscapingordreamweaving.IfthecharacteralsohastheDreamShaperMerit,shecan
makeherownrollstoBolsterorScouradreamsintensitywithoutthechangeling.
ExtremelyExpressive()
Yourcharacterhasalwaysbeenmoreexpressivethanthepeoplearoundhim,andhistimein
theHedgehasgivenhimadeeperunderstandingofhisownemotions.Withthis,hisemotions
areparticularlynourishingtothefaecreatureswhofeedonsuchthings.
Prerequisites:Nonchangeling
Effect:WhenharvestingGlamourfromyourcharacterthroughheremotions,achangelinggains
twoGlamourpersuccessinsteadofone.
FaeMein()
YouwereintheHedgeforalongtimewhilesearching,andwhenyourtimeofescapecame,
youactuallydrewuponthesameforcesthatachangelingdoestoensureyourfreedom.Your
Seeminghasimpressedtraitsontoyourperson,maybeyouhaveabestialbearing,partofyou
hasformedintoanelement,oryoushinewithanetherealbeauty.YouhaveaMaskwhich
coversthis,butjustlikeachangeling,youcanrevealit.
Prerequisites:Faetouched
Effect:ThecharactercanpurchaseanduseContractsthatrequirehertorevealherfaeMein.
ThecharactercandropherMaskinthesamewayachangelingcanwiththesubsequent
drawbacksandbenefits.
FindtheOathBreaker()
Yourdevotiontoyourownpromisemakesyousensitivetothestatusofotherpeoplesvows.
Youcantellifsomeonehasbrokentheirword,evenifitissomethingassimpleasaverbal
promise.
Prerequisites:Faetouched,SenseVowsMerit
Effect:ThecharactercountsasachangelingforthepurposesoftheOathbreakerCondition.
Additionally,ifthecharacterinteractswithhertargetforatleastaminute,shecantakemeasure
ofthedepthofhisdishonesty.HerplayerrollsWits+Empathytodetermineifthetargethas
brokenanypromisesintherecentpast.Ifthepromisewassomethingsimplewithouttheweight
oftheWyrdforgingitintoapledge,thecharactersensesthetargethasbrokenapromisewithin
thelast24hourspersuccess.IfthepromisewasapledgeaSealing,Oath,orBargain
shecandetermineifthepledgewasbrokenuptoaweekpersuccesspriortohersensing.She
knowsingeneralwhattheoathwasandhowitwasbroken.
HedgeDelver()
YourcharactersdesiretoreturntotheHedgeistemperedbyherunderstandingofthedangers
surroundingtheworldofFaerie.Sheexercisesgreatcautionwhengiventhechancetoenter
theHedge,ensuringshehaschangelingcompanionsandeveryoneiswellprepared.
Prerequisites:Faetouched,Survival
Effect:WheneverthecharacterenterstheHedgewithachangeling,sheisabletoaddherdots
inSurvivaltothechangelingsdicepoolstonavigateintheHedge.Additionally,shemayadd
herdotsinSurvivaltoallherownnoncombatrollswithintheHedge.
OathBound()
YourconnectiontotheWyrdisdeeplyempathic.Whenyougiveyourword,yougiveawaya
partofyourselfwithitandyoutakealittlepieceofsomeonewhogivesyoutheirword.
Prerequisites:Faetouched
Effect:Thecharacterisabletosensethewellbeingofanyoneshesharesapledgewith,and
hecansenseher.Aslongasthepledgeisvalid,andneitherpartyhasbrokenit,thepledged
characterscansenseeachothershealth.Ifoneofthemtakesdamage,theotherimmediately
knowshowmuchandwhatkind,thoughshehasnoideawhatcausedit.Shecanignorethe
incominginformationforascenebyspendingapointofWillpower,butisunabletoprevent
herselffromsendingoutinformation.Thepledgemustbebetweenthecharacterandher
subject,itisnotenoughforhertohaveSealedanoathasathirdparty.
OathKeeper()
TheWyrdhasbolsteredyourcharactersdesiretokeepherpromisebeyondherownstrengthof
will.Sheisespeciallydevotedtokeepingherwordeveninthefaceofduressoroutside
influences.
Prerequisites:Faetouched,Resolve
Effect:Thecharactergainsa+3bonustorollstocontestoraddsanadditional2toresistany
typeofinfluenceorpowersupernaturalorotherwisethatwouldmakeherbreakherword,
eitherfromaSealingoranOathshehassworn.
PromiseofDebt()
Oneofyoufellonhardtimes,andtheotherwastheretoassist.Nowadebtliesbetweenyou
andyouaimtoensureitisresolved.Thedebtisnotnecessarilymonetary,thoughthatisthe
mostcommon,itmayinsteadbeaservicedebtorinrarecasesalifedebt.Whateverthe
circumstances,youaredriventoalwayspayyourdebtsandensureyouarerepaidinkind.
Prerequisites:Faetouched
Effect:Wheneverthecharacterisattemptingtoresolveadebt,eitherasthepayeeorthe
debtor,shegainsabonusequaltoherResolvetoallrollsmadetotrackdown,follow,orfind
theoppositeparty.Evenifhertargetdoesnotwanttobefound,thefaetouchedsWyrddirects
heronthecorrectpath,evenifnoothermeanswouldwork.Iftheagreementofdebtispartofa
pledge,suchasaSealingoraBargain,thecharactermayadditionallyaddherResolvetoresist
attemptstoturnherawayfromherpursuitofherdebtresolution.
PromiseofLove()
Youpromisedtoalwayslovehim,youwouldneverleavehimforanother.Whenhe
disappeared,youknewimmediatelythathisfetchwaswrongsomehowandyouwentinsearch
ofhim.Yourdevotiondrivesyou,anditsupportsyou.
Prerequisites:Faetouched
Effect:ThecharactermayaddherdotsinResolveasabonustoeitherherresistancetoorrolls
tocontestactionstomanipulateheremotionsthroughcoercion,seductionorintimidation.
PromiseofLoyalty()
Youwoulddoanythingforhim,andheanythingforyou.Youhavenosecretsfromoneanother,
andyoucouldneverlietohim.Whenheforgotsimpletruthsaboutyourrelationship,youknew
somethingwaswrong.Youneverquestionedyourfriendinsteadyouwentsearchingfor
answersandfoundhewasmissing.Youvaluehonestyandloyaltyaboveallelseanditshows
ineverythingyoudo.
Prerequisites:Faetouched
Effect:Thecharacteriseasytogetalongwithandpeopletendtolikeher.Wheneverthe
characterusesSocialManeuvering,shealwaysreducesthenumberofdoorssheneedsto
accomplishhergoalbyone.Additionally,whenevershefailsarolltoopenadoor,shemay
immediatelyrerollthatattempt,butitaddsanadditionaldoorshemustopentocompleteher
goal.
PromiseofProtection()
Youtoldheryouwouldalwaysbethereforherandmakesureshewassafe.Youdidnteven
knowshehadbeentakenwhenyoustartedlookingforher,yourprotectivenatureguidingyou.
Youknowdeepdownthateveryoneisvulnerableandneedsalittleprotection.
Prerequisite:Faetouched
Effect:Wheneverthecharacterisinasituationinwhichsheisprotectingsomeoneotherthan
herself,shecansetherInitiativetoactbeforeallopponentsintheround.Additionally,shedoes
notsufferthecumulative1penaltytoherDefensefrommultipleattackseachround.
PromisedtoProvide()
Youpromisedhimtherewouldalwaysberoominyourhomeforhim,nomatterwhenhe
neededit.Youkeptaguestroomalwaysavailable,evenwhenyoucouldbarelyaffordatwo
roomapartment.Youkeephisthingsinthere,justthewayhelikesit.Youprideyourselfonyour
hospitality,andtheWyrdhasstrengthenedyourresolvetoensureyoualwayshaveanopen
homeandhearth.
Prerequisite:Faetouched
Effect:Thecharactercanoffersomebenefitsandprotectiontothoseunderherhospitality.
Wheneverthecharacteroffershospitalitytosomeone,shemayspendapointofGlamourto
enforcethehospitalitywithherWyrd.Forthenexteighthours,anyoneattemptingtobreakthe
charactershospitalitymustspendaWillpowerpointandsucceedonaComposureroll.Anyone
attemptingtoattackorharmsomeoneunderthecharactershospitalitysuffersapenaltyonrolls
equaltoherComposure.Additionally,anyonewhostayswithinthecharactershospitalityforthe
fulleighthoursregainsapointofWillpower.
PromisedtoService()
Youragreementwasspecific.Maybeyouagreedtonameyourchildafteryoursister,oryou
promisedherthatyouwouldtakeherchildreninasyourownifsheeverdied.Nomatterwhat
theagreement,afteryoulosttouchyoustayedtruetoyourwordandfollowedthrough.Years
later,youweredrawntotheHedgenotevenrealizingwhatyouwerelookingfor.Youneed
somethingtodowithyourself,somethingtogiveyourlifedirectionandpurpose.
Prerequisite:Faetouched
Effect:WheneverthecharacterispartofaTeamworkaction,sheaddsdoublethebonusshe
normallywouldasasecondaryactorandaddsherResolveasabonustoherrollasaprimary
actor.
PunishtheOathBreaker()
Youtakeyourownpromiseveryseriously,andtheideathatsomeoneelsemightnotoffends
youtoyourcore.YourownconnectiontotheWyrdrespondsviolentlyinthefaceofthosewho
donotkeeptheirword.
Prerequisites:Faetouched,FindtheOathBreakerMerit
Effect:ThecharacterdoesnothavetospendGlamourtoactivateContractsthatspecifically
targettheoathbreakernegatively.Forexample,shedoesnotgainthefreeactivationfora
ContractthatincreasesherownStrength,evenifsheintendstoattacktheoathbreaker,butshe
canactivateaContracttodecreasehisDefenseorinflictaTilt.AnyContractsthataffecta
groupofpeopleortheenvironmentdonotbenefitfromthiscostreduction.Inaddition,the
charactergainsabonusequaltoherComposuretoresistanysupernaturaleffecttheoath
breakerusestotargether.
SenseVows()
YourconnectiontoboththeWyrdandyourowndedicationtoyourpromisesallowyoutosense
whentheWyrdhasbeeninvokedtosealapromise.
Prerequisites:Faetouched
Effect:ByspendingapointofGlamourwhileinteractingwithsomeone,thecharactercan
determineifthatpersonhasmadeanypromisesthroughSealings,Oaths,orBargains.She
cannottelltheexactdetailsofthepromise,thoughsheknowswhatkindofpledgethecharacter
isswornto,andthegeneralideaofwhatshehaspromised.

Fetches
When the Fae steal human beings from their cribs, or pull them into the Hedge as they
walk alone down certain alleyways, they leave something behind. The being the thing
they leave behind looks identical to the person that they stole, and, if the person was
older than a child, can function in the abducted humans life with little difficulty. But that
thing that the Fae leave behind isnt human and isnt fae. It is something in between, a
creature made of detritus and Glamour called the fetch.

Building the Fetch

Almost every changeling has a fetch. When a Huntsman captures a person to sell or
deliver to the Gentry, it rips away part of the victims shadow and uses it form the fetch.
That isnt enough raw material, though, and so Huntsman use whatever is handy
household materials, plants, garbage, even the victims clothes to make the fetch.
From the time that the fetch begins its charade, its personality develops in much the same
way a humans would in response to its environment. Just as a human beings personality
and proclivities depend in large part upon genetics, however, a fetchs personality
receives a great deal of influence from its heritage.
The player and the Storyteller should work together to determine the circumstances under
which the human was abducted, and thus the circumstances under which the fetch was
formed. The player begins this process by answering five questions regarding the
characters human life and abduction.
Five Questions
Where was the character abducted? Where was the character when she was taken?
What is the last thing she remembers? The circumstances surrounding her abduction help
to determine what kind of situation the fetch encounters when it resumes the changelings
life. Was the character in the middle of a birthday party for an ex-lover, feeling bitter and
petulant? Did she step away from a business meeting to take a phone call? Was she
wandering alone at night, unable to sleep? Her last moments of freedom shape the fetchs
first thoughts upon being born.
Who knows or suspects the truth? Did or does anyone suspect that the fetch is not
really who it seems? Maybe someone witnessed the abduction, but didnt quite know
what he was seeing. He saw a woman walking down the sidewalk at night, and then great
hands reach out, grab her, and yank her intonothing. Moments later, there she was,
resuming her walk, but with an air of detached calm rather than exhausted stress.
Someone who suspects the truth about the fetch might make a good ally for the
changeling, once she returns from Faerie.
What is the fetch made of? Huntsmen whip up a fetch in moments, using whatever is
handy. They use a tiny piece of their targets soul, sometimes a few drops of her blood,
and convenient detritus. Fetches might wind up created out of manmade material
(garbage, clothes, objects from a victims home); natural material (leaves, sticks, dirt);
living or once-living material (the victims pets, animals plucked from the surrounding
area); or fae-stuff that the Huntsman has with it. A fetchs components dont necessarily
affect its traits, but they probably affect its personality. A fetch made of the clothes of the
person its impersonating might be better able to carry off the charade in superficial
ways, but incapable of real empathy (it is, in effect, an empty suit). A fetch made from
fae-stuff might show more of an affinity for faerie magic and the Hedge, while one made
from dead animals might become feral and impulsive over time.
How is the fetch flawed? No fetch is a perfect recreation of the person it is meant to
replace. The player should consider how her characters fetch is flawed. How might it
give itself away? What small but basic facet of humanity has it never quite mastered?
What detail about the characters life does it continually forget or get wrong? Some
fetches become murderers, monsters completely without remorse or humanity, but more
often, fetches are just off somehow. They can relate to people, up to a point, but have
strange blind spots. Of course, some fetches are flawed in more physical ways; a fetch
might have a fist-sized hole in the small of its back, stuffed with dead leaves. Another
might have its creators initials branded on its collarbone. Deciding how the fetch is
flawed will help the Storyteller to portray this character when the time comes.
Did the changeling see the fetch? Does the character know she has a fetch? Not every
changeling does. The Lost tend to find out about these simulacra when they emerge from
the Hedge and find someone else living their lives, but some changelings have to watch
as the Huntsman who collected them crafts the fetch. In some ways, this is beneficial
the changeling has an idea of what to expect when she returns home, and the knowledge
that someone is masquerading as her can provide strong motivation to escape. On the
other hand, knowing that something else is living her life can muddle a changelings
focus when she pushes her way back through the Thorns. Changelings that know about
their fetches tend to want to destroy them as soon as possiblewhich can make for a
confusing realization if the fetch in question has done a reasonable job of living the
characters life.
Fetch Traits
The Storyteller doesnt have to develop traits for a fetch, and should only do so if the
fetch is going to play a prominent role in the story and interact mechanically with the
characters. If the fetch is an afterthought, a note in a characters backstory, or is going to
enter the conflict chiefly through influence from afar, traits arent necessarily required. If,
however, the changeling decides that shes going to track down her fetch and kill it (a
not-uncommon reaction to learning that a fae-created duplicate has taken over ones life),
its helpful to have some idea of the fetchs capabilities.
A fetch is created in much the same way as a Changeling character (see Chapter Three
for details). The allocation of the fetchs dots, while numerically the same as the
changeling, demands some consideration.
One possibility is to distribute the fetchs Attribute dots in the same way as the
changelings. The fetch was fashioned as an exact duplicate of the changeling, after all,
so it makes sense that their basic capabilities would match. Likewise, if the changeling
possesses Merits that reflect innate capability (such as Ambidextrous), then the fetch
should as well. Skills and Merits that develop over time, however, are unique to the fetch
and should be decided based on how the fetch has spent its life. If the fetch replaced a
person after she was already an adult, though, the Skills and Merits might match much
more closely. Indeed, differences at this stage might provide the changeling a way to
track when she was taken if the changeling has the Iron Stamina Merit and the fetch
does not, people close to the character might remember that she suddenly lost her high
pain threshold after she got lost in the woods that summer.
Another way of looking at this, though, is that when the changeling returns to the mortal
world, the fetch immediately realizes it and develops some sense of itself. This might
cause it to gain knowledge of Skills it wouldnt otherwise possess. For instance, a
Playmate changeling, forced in Arcadia to be a toy for a spoiled Fae child, has become an
expert tracker through endless games of hide and seek. The changeling escapes and flees
through the Hedge to the mortal world. His fetch awakens one morning knowing that
something is different and that he is in danger. He cant shake the feeling that something
is hunting him down, and that he might escape if he can hide from it. The fetch therefore
might unconsciously develop dots in the Stealth Skill (or, if he feels that his best chance
of living involves finding and killing his hunter, the Survival Skill).
The Storyteller might choose to decide the fetchs game traits, or allow the player to do
so. Either way has its advantages. If the Storyteller does it, the player truly does not know
what to expect from her characters imposter, and this should heighten the suspense when
the inevitable confrontation occurs (it is also probably more expedient for the Storyteller
to handle this aspect of character creation, which might be a factor depending on how
often and for how long the troupe meets). If the player does it, she has the ability to show
the Storyteller exactly what she expects from the fetch/changeling dynamic, which is
helpful for the chronicle as a whole. One way of compromising in this instance might be
for the player to allocate the dots as usual, but for the Storyteller to spend a certain
number of Experiences on the fetch to reflect its years in the mortal world.
Finally, consider Virtue and Vice. These traits represent a way to highlight the
differences or similarities between the fetch and the changeling. If the Virtue and Vice
are identical, that doesnt mean that the characters express them the same way. A
changeling with the Vice of Cruel might be a feared slave-driver in Arcadia, while her
fetch back on Earth is just likes to making cutting remarks.
If the Virtue and Vice are different, this might be a simple matter of differing experiences
shaping the characters, but these traits might also develop in an odd mirror-image to one
another. For instance, the changeling mentioned above has the Vice of Cruel born of
desperation if she doesnt inflict violence, she receives it. Her fetch, then, might have
Fair as a Virtue. Shes unpleasant and vicious, but he has a sense of equality.
Character Creation in Brief
The first four steps of character creation proceed as described on p. XX of this book, with
regards to the number of dots that fetches have to distribute. How those dots are allocated
is discussed in the previous section.
Step Five (adding the supernatural template) varies a bit:
Fetches do not have access to Contracts or Pledges.
Fetches do not have seemings (and thus kiths).
Fetches cannot gain status in any of the Courts. It is possible, however unlikely, for a
fetch that is aware of its nature to gain the Court Goodwill Merit, but as fetches are not
changelings it is not possible for them to have dots in Mantle. A fetch might (again, as a
remote possibility) come to think of himself or even be regarded as a member of a given
Court, but in game terms, the best he could hope for is a high Court Goodwill rating.
Given that all changelings see fetches as reminders of the lives that were stolen from
them, though, it would take a very specific circumstance for a fetch to be even grudgingly
accepted into changeling society.
Fetches begin with one dot of Wyrd just as changelings do. The Wyrd rating of a fetch
always matches the Wyrd rating of the changeling it impersonates, though, so if the
player trades Merit dots for Wyrd, or raises Wyrd with Experiences in play, the fetch
reaps this benefit without expenditure.
Fetches have Integrity, like mortals, rather than Clarity. They therefore derive none of
the benefits that changelings do from having a high Clarity rating, but they also do not
risk Integrity for the kinds of acts that cause a changeling to risk Clarity.
Fetches automatically gain the Attuned to the Wyrd Echo. The player (or Storyteller)
selects one additional Echo per dot of Wyrd that the fetch possesses. During play, if the
changelings Wyrd rating increases, the fetch gains an additional Echo as well as a dot of
Wyrd.
Magic of the Fetch
Fetches are unable to call upon Contracts; the magic that powers them just doesnt apply
to fetches. Likewise, fetches cannot seal pledges, or forge oaths or bargains (though they
are not immune from having their own words sealed; see p. XX). They are, however, able
to use their fae heritage to their advantage. Fetches can call upon powers called Echoes.
Echoes, as the name implies, as powers based upon the fetchs relationship with his
changeling counterpart. That is, the fetch is nothing but secondary to the changeling, a
placeholder, a stopgap to prevent other humans from discovering and thwarting the Fae.
Most Echoes only function in the presence of changelings, and some only function on the
changeling that the fetch impersonates. Others play on effects similar to echoes
shadows, reflections, and other residue.
All fetches begin play with the Attuned to the Wyrd Echo, and gain additional Echoes as
their Wyrd rating increases.
Echoes can only be acquired by fetches with the required Wyrd rating. These are noted
after the name of the power (Shadow Step (Wyrd 3), for instance).
Echoes
Attuned to the Wyrd (automatic): All fetches can recognize changelings for what
they are, even before the changeling to whom they are attuned returns to the mortal
world. Fetches see changelings miens as well as their mortal guises, in much the same
way that other changelings do. In addition, fetches can sense changelings coming before
they see them. This sensation is general; the fetch cannot differentiate between
changelings, but can tell when a changeling is in the same general area (within a 50 foot
radius). The exception, of course, is the changeling that the fetch is impersonating. The
fetch can immediately tell if that changeling is within this distance. This attunement
means that changelings cannot surprise a fetch (see p. XX).
 Call the Huntsmen (Wyrd 5): The fetch can send up a beacon to any nearby
Huntsmen, usually as a last resort. Since only powerful fetches have this ability,
Huntsman generally respond to this summons quickly.
Death of Glamour (Wyrd 4): The fetch becomes a sinkhole for Glamour, creating a
small zone in which no Contracts are honored and no fae magic can function. Spend 10
points of Glamour and roll Resolve + Wyrd (obviously, this Echo takes several turns to
enact due to the Glamour expenditure). If the roll succeeds, no Contracts function within
a 50-foot radius and all beings that can hold Glamour (including the fetch himself) lose
one point per turn. This Echo lasts for one turn per success.
Enter the Hedge (Wyrd 1): The fetch can enter the Hedge the same ways that a
changeling can (see p. XX).
Heart of Wax (Wyrd 1): Made of Glamour and inanimate matter, the fetch feels no
pain. The fetch ignores wound penalties. By spending a point of Glamour, she can shed
the effect of a Tilt causing physical impairment for the scene.
Mimic Contract (Wyrd 2): On the following turn, the fetch can use any Contract that
its changeling counterpart possesses. The fetch must have interacted with the changeling
at least once, face to face, to use this Echo. This costs one point of Glamour, or the cost
of the Contract, whichever is greater.
Normalcy (Wyrd 1): This Echo is permanent and never needs to be activated, although
the fetch can turn it off if he so desires. The fetch is completely undetectable by fae
magic. As far as the perceptive magic of the Fae and changelings are concerned, the fetch
is simply a human being. The fetch must turn this power off to use other Echoes other
than Attuned to the Wyrd.
Shadow Boxing (Wyrd 2): Fighting ones fetch is like fighting ones shadow you
cant surprise it. The fetch can predict his changelings next move with disturbing
precision. Spend one point of Glamour for the fetch. For the remainder of the scene, the
changeling receives no Defense against the fetch (though Armor is unaffected).
Shadow Step (Wyrd 3): The fetch can draw shadows to teleport limited distances. The
fetch must find a shadow large enough to step or fall into, and the Storyteller spends a
point of Glamour. The fetch disappears into the shadow and reappears from any shadow
of comparable size within 100 yards. The fetch can use this power to escape from a
pursuer, circumvent a locked door, or gain a tactical advantage over an opponent
(appearing behind her, for instance). The teleportation normally requires an instant
action, but if the Storyteller spends 3 points of Glamour, this action is reflexive. The fetch
does not have to see where he is going, but if he cannot see his destination he gains no
protection from unfavorable circumstances there.
Summon Shard (Wyrd 1): In the modern world, the fetch is always armed. By
touching a pane of glass, the fetch can summon a mirror-like blade. This requires the
expenditure of one point of Glamour. The blade inflicts 1L, or 2L if the fetch pulled it
from a mirror. The blade fades at the end of the scene.

Storytelling the Fetch

The role that the fetch plays in the chronicle depends on the Storyteller and the players,
of course. That said, the fetch is well-suited to highlight a few of Changelings themes,
and can make for stories unique to this game.
The fetch is fashioned out of a piece of a human being. Specifically, the Fae use a piece
of the persons shadow, but this is an obvious metaphor for the souland to the Fae,
metaphor is as good as truth. The fetch, therefore, is put into the role of imposter without
any choice in the matter and usually with no idea of his position. It isnt until a
changeling escapes from Arcadia and arrives, breathless and bloodied from a harrowing
run through the Hedge, that a fetch realizes that he is different.
What form does that realization take? One fetch sits bolt upright one night, sheet soaked
with sweat, in the middle of a panic attack so intense he can barely breathe. Another
might find herself standing in a crowded square one day, tears running down her face,
because she suddenly cannot remember her name or where she lives. Yet another fetch
walks out of class at the college he attends only to be grabbed by the lapels and slammed
against the wall by a man that his friends dont get a good look atbut after the assailant
runs away, the fetch is so terrified he can hardly stand, because the face of his attacker
was identical to his own.
Fetches are not necessarily evil twins to Changeling characters. Remember that many
believed themselves to be human until shown otherwise by their counterparts. As such,
they can be anything that a human being can be cruel, hateful, petty, but also loving,
kind and selfless. Are the more prone to sociopathy because they lack true souls, or do
they mimic human morality because they are meant to blend in? Is killing a fetch really
murder, from an ethical standpoint (what it means from a Clarity standpoint is discussed
anon)? These are questions that your troupe can confront, if you wish to tell a story about
the fetch.
A related question is: How does the fetch react when she realizes she isnt human?
Finding out that she is a copy of a person, inserted into that persons life to cover up a
kidnapping, is a traumatic event. Of course, since the fetch is a Storyteller-controlled
character, how a given fetch responds is subservient to the needs of the chronicle, and
should be informed by the player and how he sees the relationship with the fetch
progressing. One player might be interested in hunting down and killing her characters
fetch, no matter what. It might be interesting, then, for that fetch to try to continue living
the changelings life, dutifully doing what it was made to do, until the changeling forces
its hand by becoming violent. Another players character might be terrified to confront
his fetch because that represents an attempt to retake his old life, and for whatever reason,
he feels unready or unworthy to do that. This fetch might be more confident, ruthless, and
opportunistic, forcing the player to make some tough and firm decisions in order to
resolve the story.
Making the fetch a straight-out monster is, of course, always a possibility. Fetches arent
human, and learning the fact might propel the fetch headfirst into inhumanity. It might
becomes violent, bloodthirsty, abusive, sociopathic, or just numb. If it knows that the
changeling is around, it might attempt to ruin the changelings life in any number of
terrible ways. It might even try to attract the attention of a Huntsman (after all, if the
changeling is taken back to Arcadia, the fetch gets its life back!).
Conflicts inherent Changeling are discussed in Chapter Seven, but below are some
conflicts and stories specific to the fetch and its role in the chronicle.
The Fetch as Adversary
Once the fetch realizes what he is and that the changeling exists, he might well be
incensed. As long as the changeling is around, he knows that he is a fake, a mannequin
made to dupe the relatives of the changeling. But while the changeling has been gone,
hes been doing all the work, and hes been doing it quite well, thanks anyway. Why
should the changeling get to show up and take it all away just because he actually
happens to be the genuine person?
This kind of attitude doesnt have to stem from bitterness or fear, though it certainly can.
As mentioned earlier, the fetch might have a spouse and children, and whether he can feel
genuine love or not, he certainly isnt going to give up his family without a fight.
The fetch can be a violent adversary to a changeling. The two can spend their days
sparring, attacking whatever the other holds dear, while at night they enter their shared
dream and battle there.
The fetch can also be a rival. The fetch and the changeling might both be part of the local
changeling court, to whatever degree. What if the reigning monarch decrees that fetches
cannot be killed, but must agree to give up their stolen lives and return to their
changelings shadow? The fetch then needs to be convinced to submit to this fate, or
beaten down and degraded to the point that he agrees. The battles between changeling
and fetch then arent literal, physical battles, but political and emotional games of wit and
endurance.
The Fetch as Other Half
Some changelings believe that they can merged with their fetches. The fetch can, it is
said, step back into the changelings shadow and give up its stolen life. This is akin to
death for the fetch, of course, but the fetchs memories of its life as a human being
transfer to the changeling. In that moment, the changeling becomes whole again, casts a
shadow and regains the entirety of his soul. Hes still a changeling, yes nothings
going to take that away from him but hes human, as well.
Its beautiful idea, but is it true? Enough changeling believe it that the idea persists, for
whatever thats worth.
If merging with the fetch is possible it probably requires an extraordinary set of
circumstances. Perhaps as part of creating the fetch, the Fae had to build a clause into the
Contract that enabled what was sundered to become whole again. This clause might
involve beating the fetch in a certain type of combat, or it might require that the fetch
knowingly and willingly agree to the merger. Perhaps the changeling can complete this
merger if he drags the fetch back into the Hedge and keeps him prisoner there for a
certain amount of timebut of course that fetch will probably scream for help until hes
hoarse, and in the Hedge, who knows what might answer?
The Fetch as a Question of Humanity
Strictly speaking, changelings dont have to feel bad about killing fetches. Not only are
they manifestly not human, they are creations of the Gentry. They are living reminders of
what a changeling has lost, and of the ongoing power that the Gentry wield over the
world. Destroying a fetch is not like killing being, not in any moral or literal sense.
It is possible for a fetch to adopt humanity, in way. If a fetch displays human traits, treats
other people with respect and empathy (both of which can be learned), then in what
meaningful way does it differ from humanity? One changeling might say it doesnt, and
try to come to some kind of resolution. Maybe the changeling helps the fetch adopt a new
identity, or maybe the changeling, altered by her time in Arcadia, moves on, letting her
fetch have the life the Gentry took from her.
Another changeling might claim that aping humanity is irrelevant. The fetch is an
automaton, a living (or at least animate) lie of the Gentry, and destruction is perfectly
justified.
Both changelings are right. Both positions are defensible. Both have the potential for
powerful stories, especially if the changeling makes her decision but then has to deal with
other Lost who know better.
The Fetch as a Hard Lesson
The changeling cannot recover what she has lost. That is, perhaps, the harshest use of the
fetch in a Changeling story, but it is potentially a very powerful one. A changeling might
escape Arcadia, fight her way back through the Hedge, emerge bloodied and victorious in
a place she recognizes, track down her fetch, kills or assimilate it, and expect to have
won. She hasnt. She cannot reclaim the time that the Gentry took from her, nor can
she obviate her Durance. The best she can do is heal and move on.
That can mean any number of things for a changeling, but confronting the fetch is
perhaps the best way for a character to symbolically confront the version of her that the
Gentry took. She can look on what she might have become, had she not been kidnapped,
and decide where to go from there. She might decide to destroy the fetch and reclaim her
life. She might come to terms with the fetch, allowing it to keep her old life and going
forth to forge a new one. She might take a much bitterer road destroy the fetch, but
remain apart from her old life. The underlying point is that the fetch represents the
answer to a hard question: What does the changeling do about her pre-Durance life?

Resolution
When a changeling finally confronts her fetch, what is the outcome? How does this story
end? The player and thus the character has some options.
Kill the Fetch
The obvious answer is violence. As discussed, the changeling has every reason to want to
destroy the fetch. This is probably the simplest resolution for a fetch-centered story in
Changeling: The Lost, but that doesnt mean its wrong or cant be satisfying. Killing
the fetch might be cathartic, or it might grant the changeling a strong insight into what it
means to be humanand how much of her own humanity she might have lost.
From a game mechanics perspective, this result is much like any other fatal combat. The
fetch falls apart into its constituent parts, the changeling might lose Clarity, and the story
moves on. The death of a fetch might be accompanied by a blast of Glamour as the magic
holding it together is freed, or it might simply collapse into a bloodless heap. The
changeling might refresh all Willpower or Glamour as a feeling of victory comes over
her, or she might feel oddly empty (after all, a piece of her soul was used to make this
thing and she just smashed it). In any case, the Storyteller should resist the temptation to
make this scene just a simple combat. The fetch might be defiant and evil, sure, but what
if the fetch is honestly confused as to why the changeling is attacking? What if the fetch
begs to live? Can the changeling still pull the proverbial trigger?
Forgive the Fetch
The changeling might decide to accept the fetch for what it is an attempt to copy the
human being that the changeling was. If the fetch is still trying to behave in a humane
(and human) fashion, then the changeling might well decide to forgive the fetchs
impersonation. After all, the fetch really didnt have a lot of say in the matter.
This kind of resolution should probably take the form of an intense scene between the
changeling and the fetch. If the rest of the motely is there, thats fine, but dont let more
talkative players steal thunder from the character in question. The changeling needs to
come to some kind of closure with the fetch, and that involves figuring out the practical
ramifications of live and let live. Put another way, if the changeling and the fetch are,
in many ways, the same person, who gets to keep the house? Is one of them going to
leave town? Are they going to try and share the life (this is probably destined to become a
train wreck and therefore a great source of drama)?
Beyond the temporal considerations, though, they should come to some kind of resolution
on the time the changeling spent in her Durance. What did she miss? If she had children,
the fetch can fill her in on the milestones and important events that happened during her
absence. If the fetch has been performing the changelings job, shell need to know about
new faces at the offices and any promotions (or demotions) that happened while she was
away. It might be better to walk away from some facets of this life and start fresh, but
might the fetch not see that as unfair?
Reclaim the Fetch
Fetches are made, in part, of a piece of a persons soul. Suppose that the changeling
wants her soul back?
If a character wants to merge with her fetch, she needs to understand it. She needs to find
where it was created and, if possible, learn how. She needs to figure out what it was made
from detritus in the Hedge? The abducted persons clothes? The skin and bones of an
unfortunate animal? Whatever the Gentry had in its pockets at the time?
The changeling needs to understand what the fetch has been through, but also needs to
come to terms with it herself. She needs to reconnect with the people in her life and be
honest with at least one of them about where shes been (which probably means
confessing that shes been gone at all). She needs to forgive the fetch as described in the
previous section, but then reclaim the piece of her soul from it. Does that mean actually
cutting open the fetch and removing it? Thats a simplistic, but visceral, way to respresent
the act. The changeling could also physically connect with the fetch a kiss, an
embrace, or just a hand held to the fetchs heart.
What happens to the changeling if she reclaims this piece of her soul? Any mechanical
benefits are up to the Storyteller, but the experience should be transcendent. The
character has accomplished something that few of the Lost ever bother to try, and that
should carry some kind of reward. Maybe the changeling gains Clarity, or becomes
invisible to the Huntsmen for a given period of time. Maybe she can teach her method to
other changelings. After all, what would it mean if fetches learn that they arent
necessarily doomed false people? What would it mean if changelings learned they could
take back so much of what the Gentry stole?