Size. In their natural forms, changelings average between 5 and 6 feet in height, with a slender build. Your size is Medium.
In their natural forms, changelings average between 5 to 6 feet in height, with a slender build.
The only other limitation is you cannot change your size category: as a Medium creature you cannot become a Large or Small creature - you can become a dwarf, you cannot become a gnome. Well, you can but you'll be much bigger. It's just appearance that changes not your race.
Lifespan. Changelings reach maturity slightly faster than humans and live as long as humans do, typically about 100 years.
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.
Are they biologically asexual and just choose their current sex with shapeshifting? Yes. What's been stated in the past is that changelings set their sex with shapeshifting.
A changeling can't make the wings at all. If they had wings, like from a class feature or something, then they could look like an Aaracokra with wings because they will have those limbs at that point.
Changelings born from two changeling parents are born in their natural form: pale, slender, with colorless eyes and white hair.
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 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.
As for being tattooed, changelings can definitely be tattooed, and they can just as easily erase the tattoo with a moment's thought.
Superhuman Durability - Can only be killed by fire, and can still be apparently stunned by blunt force, such as when a Mother Changeling was when hunter struck her in the face with a brick.
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.
Most often, the mother begins to carry twins, and one of the twins is a changeling. There are extremely rare cases of being born alone, or as part of triplets. In the rarest of cases, the other twin is a hag.
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 have the unique ability to transform their body to look however they want, provided they keep the same arrangement of limbs they already possess. It is very rare to actually see a changeling in it's 'true' appearance. Even when disguised, changelings can instinctively recognize each other.
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 typically have large eyes with narrow pupils, ranging in color from white, to yellow, to black. Hair colors are similar: Light grey, platinum blonde, shades of silver, all the way to the darkest hair color being a light brown.
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.
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.
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.
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.
While changelings can shift forms into a humanoid of similar size, there are restrictions so as not to allow a changeling to "break" every social encounter they come across. Changelings cannot alter themselves enough to change physical sizes (i.e, changing from Medium to Small, etc).
If the changeling has lost a limb, the limb is missing in every form they take. If they haven't lost a limb, every form they take has all the limbs the changeling normally has.
Changelings are largely equine in appearance but possess insect-like characteristics. Originally, they had black carapace-like coats, webbed manes and tails, blue reflection-less eyes (unlike their queen's), fangs, bent horns, jagged ears, insect-like wings, and holes in their legs.