Changelings are humanoid creatures with discolored, slimy skin, hollow eyes, and a round mouth with many teeth. They can appear human, but their true nature is revealed in their reflection.
While changelings can look like anyone, they do have a true form. Their natural look can be scary to some due to their lack of detail and distinctive features. Their skin tone is always pale, either white or light gray, and they tend to have slender bodies with limbs slightly longer in proportion to other humanoids.
The true form of a changeling is a bit paler than a typical human with slightly elongated limbs. Their eyes are colorless and ringed by black as pictured in the artwork above by Julia Zhuravleva. They have no body hair, but the hair on their head can be platinum, white, or silver.
Most changelings don't know they're changelings.
Though they may always feel somewhat different or removed from human life, most changelings are too young to understand who they truly are.
Changelings born from two changeling parents are born in their natural form: pale, slender, with colorless eyes and white hair.
A common way that a changeling could identify itself is through displaying unusual behaviour when it thinks it is alone, such as jumping about, dancing or playing an instrument – though this last example is found only within Irish and Scottish legend.
Changeling Reproduction
If a changeling with the Racial Emulation feat matches its subtype to that of a partner, a child resulting from the union will always be of that humanoid subtype. If a changeling in a female form conceives a child, she loses the ability to change her gender until after the child is born.
Languages: You can speak, read, and write Common and two other languages of your choice.
A changeling can make it LOOK like they have sharper teeth or claws, but this doesn't actually give them natural weapons; it's a deception. Essentially, it is a form of disguise self, NOT alter self.
Changelings have red blood like a majority of the other races. Bleeding around others may alert many that the Changeling is not of the same race (should the blood color vary). For this reason, a Changeling will usually choose to take the form of a race with red blood.
The surest way to tell if you have a Changeling on your hands is by observing the temperament of the human in question. Changelings are constantly unhappy, unfriendly, and mean. They may be very cold and aloof, and may even recoil from human touch. Changeling babies' appetites are never satiated.
Changelings don't inherently recognize each other. If they don't want to be recognized then when they do something suspicious it would be an insight check against the changelings deception, which the changeling has advantage on. A changeling could have expertise in insight from divergent persona.
The Gift of Water is the blessing of the Waterborn. The changelings blessed with it can spend one point of Glamour to allow the changeling to breathe underwater and swim at a terrific rate (equal to twice the character's Speed rating) for the rest of the scene.
Though a changeling can appear as nearly any medium-sized humanoid, their natural appearance is that of a featureless humanoid, with pale skin and a face nearly bereft of characteristics. Their noses are short, their ears are small and flat against their skulls, and their head shapes tend towards smooth and ovoid.
By RAW changelings revert when they DIE but not when they are unconscious (it would be hard to maintain a long term masquerade if you revert when you sleep!).
Changelings can look like anyone at any given time, but all changelings have a true form. The true form of a changeling is usually a pastel color, ranging from light pinks, purples, greens, yellows, and blues, even greys.
Changelings have prodigious appetites and will eat all that is set before them. The changeling has teeth and claws and does not take the breast like a human infant, but eats food from the larder.
Changelings were fairies who had been left in place of a human child or baby who had been stolen by the fairies. The child was taken for one of three reasons; to act as a servant, for the fairies to receive the love of a human child, or for malice/revenge.
Changelings are typically born with female anatomy, but some prefer to maintain male primary and secondary sex characteristics once in control of this ability.
Changelings don't need to sleep. Instead, they meditate deeply, remaining semiconscious, for 4 hours a day. (The Common word for such meditation is “trance.”) After resting in this way, you gain the same benefit that a human does from 8 hours of sleep. Languages.
The short version is that a Changeling can shapeshift to a form that can produce sperm to impregnate someone, and can shapeshift to a form with a uterus and eggs to get pregnant, but a pregnant Changeling cannot shapechange to a form without a uterus without ending the pregnancy.
The Traveler is the patron of all those who welcome change, in body and in philosophy. Its worshipers include changelings, shifters, doppelgangers, and lycanthropes, who see it as the greatest of gods, but only doppelgangers and lycanthropes routinely revere it.
Will a legless changeling regrow both legs when it copies someone? I say no. The changeling can change their coloration, hair length, sex, height, and weight, but they can't change their number, arrangement, or function of their limbs, because nothing in the feature says they can or even hints at it.
Age. Changelings mature slightly faster than humans but share a similar lifespan—typically a century or less. While a changeling can transform to conceal their age, the effects of aging affect them similarly to humans.
17. As a playable race, changelings have the following abilities: Shapechanger: Using an action they can change their appearance and voice at will, even adapting their size between small and medium in some cases.