Description. A changeling is typically identifiable via a number of traits, which vary from culture to culture. In Irish legend, a fairy child may appear sickly and will not grow in size like a normal child, and may have notable physical characteristics such as a beard or long teeth.
Changelings born from two changeling parents are born in their natural form: pale, slender, with colorless eyes and white hair.
changeling, in European folklore, a deformed or imbecilic offspring of fairies or elves substituted by them surreptitiously for a human infant. According to legend, the abducted human children are given to the devil or used to strengthen fairy stock.
Obviously, a changeling's appearance can change at any moment, but they do have a true form. Their true skin is usually grey or pale white, and their facial features are blank slates to an unnerving degree. They're typically thin and gaunt, and their hair is usually silvery with an occasional green or pink tint.
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.
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.
Halflings are a rare species that occurs when a faerie fraternizes with a human. These hybrids possess limited fae powers and have high attraction to and from the supernatural.
They have large colorless eyes circled by thick black rings. Their hair color is most commonly a light shade of silver followed by platinum and blonde. In rarer cases, their hair can be pale shades of green, pink, and blue. Similar to elves, changelings lack body and facial hair.
Unlike doppelgangers, which are entirely genderless, a changeling does have a default gender that manifests in adolescence, but each changeling can adapt his or her form to be of either gender, hermaphroditic (both genders simultaneously), or entirely genderless.
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.
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.
Within this description there are variants of changelings that show subtle differences. Some have opalescence in their skin (as if it contains various colors instead of just being white) and their eyes can be completely black.
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.
Changeling Traits
Age: Changelings reach adulthood at the age of 16. Their fey heritage allows them to live much longer than humans, up to 200 years.
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.
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.
A mate to a changeling can be of any race; there are several examples of changelings being mated to humans, other changeling breeds and even Psy.
Changelings have an interesting relationship with gender as a concept, which is probably part of the reason a lot of the art doesn't find it necessary to distinguish the males with facial hair. As they're changelings though, they can have any kind of hair they want.
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.
As for being tattooed, changelings can definitely be tattooed, and they can just as easily erase the tattoo with a moment's thought.
Although they're not affected by sunlight at all, a Changeling's most common weakness are Gaggletacks (horseshoes made of pure iron), which reveals a changeling's true nature through physical contact of anywhere on the body.
It's not widely known, but one of the few ways one may determine that a person is, in fact, a changeling has to do with their hands. Changelings generally do not have the skill to replicate "life lines," and sometimes even fingerprints.
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Sometimes changelings are old, nasty fairies who revel in the sorrow they cause; or fairies with prodigious appetites for human food or mortal breast milk. Sometimes the changelings are fairies so old and worn out that their kinfolk have left them behind, happy to be rid of them in exchange for a plump human child.
Fairies reproduce much like most humans do. After a gestation period of about 90 days, usually a single offspring, but rarely twins or triplets, will be born.