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"Well first of all they're not my Faerie. They very defiantly belong to themselves, and would not take at all kindly to the idea that they belong to a human. They don't exactly hold us in high regard. Except sometimes as pets. Secondly, they're not at all what you'd expect. They're an old people, savage and majestic. They are also proud, arrogant, and downright vicious. They delight in duels, vendettas and general slaughter, and most of the time no one within shouting distance of their senses should have anything to do with them. However, since I am also proud, arrogant and dangerous to know, we've always got on like a house on fire. People have mostly forgotten the old stories and legends that gave birth to the Faerie. Down the years people have censored and prettified and generally Disneyfied the hell out of them. Those versions are here too. In fact, there are areas where you can't move for the precious little fluttering things. They are not areas I care to frequent, especially when I'm sober. The Faerie are the real thing; old, brutal and desperately honourable. They keep to themselves, mostly, and everybody else is very happy to leave it that way."
- Shadows Fall
- Simon R. Green
Credo quia absurdum est - I believe it because it is absurd
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A collection of articles written by Peri Vale, Sluagh Courtesan and gossip Columnist to the Dreaming!! Whilst many of these excerpts appeared in periodicals for the London courts of House Fionna, others were intended only for the private annals of the Seven Sisters Motley.
Changelings
The Title page and None Frames related menu. (this page basically)
Traits
The usual collection of Arts and Skills etc. Currently has just the one Art, Ebullition. Based on the link between the watery depths and Emotions.
Chimera
With so many Knockers the amount of non-sentient Chimera was always going to be high and along with the Chimerical creatures peculiar to London, this contains the Magnus Opus of the Cities Crafters. Included are the Cracks between who haunt every large city, London’s Smog Chimera, The Wyld Hunt and the Four legendary Treasures of the Tuatha de Danu. Also there are lesser chimerical items such as the Empathic Armour, The Doineann Siúlóir Masques and more.
Organisations
As well as being a friend to the nobles and the lowborn, Peri has a respected insight into the political organisations and groups that vie for power or survival in London. Here are detailed the major players in London's Civil war as well as a Host of Redcap gangs and a treaties on the Hob Goblins.
Characters
A who's who of London Changelings (For my TT Setting) and a few of the Gallain they interact with. This page has 29 JPEG's and might take a few moments to load. It also links to the page for Londons Nobles and the lesser players.
London
London, the City of Gates is a fascinating collection of myth and History. As a setting for the supernatural it is unmatched anywhere in the world. Mexico still ranks as the murder capitol of the world while New Orleans attracts the modern Gothic authors to set their Vampire novels in her heart and Edinburgh is currently the loudest of the thousand and one cities claiming to be the most haunted in the world, but only London can boasts such a wealth of supernatural denizens and mysteries. I would be lying if I denied the fact that most of my inspiration for setting my Changeling Chronicle in London was Neil Gaimen's NEVERWHERE series. All Hail the Father of Changeling: the Dreaming and may J. K. Rowling rot in hell.
Sources
Nursery Rhymes, fairy tales, Myths and legends mixed with lies and madness for a pot porri of Changeling Source material.
Sleep
An article on the realities of sleep, the strange habits of the mind and the way the mundane world shapes the Glamourous Dreaming. [Coming soon]
Tylwyth Teg
The Welsh courts and a new Unseelie House to Challenge the Gwydion in their homeland. Also includes the lamentable story of the ap Annis Trolls of Snowdonia.
Greece
Expanding on the details on the Greek Fae as given in Kithbook Satyr [Coming soon]
Hybrids
Can Changelings still breed like they did when they were True Fae? If so, then are Hybrids possible? They are in the Spikeyverse and this is the detailed history and explanation to the most troublesome discover since the return of the Sidhe.
Houses
An examination of the houses and where they fall as archetypes. [Coming soon]
Kithbook Asura
More a supplement in the vein of Inanimae or Denizens of the Dreaming than a true Kithbook. Describing the Changeling and Dream reaces of India, from the Naraka and Acheri to the Indian breeds of Inanimae.
Kithbook Cait-Sith
The fairy cat's of the British Isles may have made alliances with a certain breed of Bastet but in truth the Ceilican are not Fae and the Cait-Sith owe no allegiance to Gaia. In the Spikeyverse the canon Ceilican have split between my alternative Ceilican breed solely for Werewolf: the Apocalypse, and the Cait-Sith are exclusively a Changeling Kith.
Kithbook Fir-Bholg
The Fir-Bholg are the brothers of the Tuatha de Danu for both are descended from the Sons of Nemed. Here an alternative to the canon Adhene are presented, with the Fir-Bholg as a Changeling Kith rather than servants of their mortal enemies.
Kithbook Naraka
Expanded background to the Adhene, and an alternative Kith form for those who don’t use the Week of Nightmares or who run a Historical setting.
Kithbook Nevers
A diminutive Kith that masquerade as harmless Chimera, the Nevers rule their kingdoms from Fairy bowers under the very noses of the mortals.
Wierd West
A series of Articles by Chris Bern, AKA Swordsman, mixing the Weird West of Deadlands with Changeling the Dreaming.