Changelings primarily use stealth and shapeshifting as their main weapons, blending in and mimicking others, but depending on the lore (like Paradise Station), they can also manifest biological weapons such as armblades, cryo stings, or synthesize toxic chemicals, while in Dungeons & Dragons, they often employ magic items or psionic abilities like psychic blades to enhance their innate deception and combat prowess.
Changelings, for example, can use fey weapons and magic items with racially specific fey powers as if they were fey. Likewise, bane against fey weapons deal bonus damage to changelings.
Changelings have the magical ability to change their appearance with no more than a thought. Although similar in effect to a disguise self spell, this is no illusion but a small physical transformation of their bodies, so their clothing and possessions are unaffected.
The Archive of Disease in Childhood notes that the changeling is ``characterized by unresponsiveness, resistance to physical affection, obstreperousness, inability to express emotion, and unexplained crying and physical changes such as rigidity and deformity. Some are unable to speak.''
Changelings in their normal form have bluish-grey skin, with sharp fangs and horns. While in their human form is whatever they wish to look like as a human. Changeling is sometimes considered the deformed faeries by humanity.
Among the diseases or disabilities with symptoms that match the description of changelings in various legends are spina bifida, cystic fibrosis, PKU, progeria, Down syndrome, homocystinuria, Williams syndrome, Hurler syndrome, Hunter syndrome, autism spectrum disorder, Prader-Willi Syndrome, and cerebral palsy.
Absolutely. The whole changeling thing that they were vulnerable to "cold iron" (cold iron and regular iron are two completely separate things) was something from an entirety separate game system based on also on some traditional Celtic lore.)
A changeling eats the same food as humans, but possess a stronger fortitude and are able to eat rotten food or raw meat (though most prefer not to).
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.
Due to their unique biology Changelings do not have active fertile cycles. Instead, a Changeling actually makes a conscious decision to begin a fertile cycle that lasts for two days, but repeats the cycle every fifteen days.
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. Alignment: Changelings can be of any alignment, and have no tendencies based solely on race, despite the biased perception of others.
Appearance. In their true form, or their form "at rest", changelings have pale skin, colorless eyes that can be completely white or completely black, and white or silver-white hair.
Powers & Abilities
In their human forms, the Changelings also appear to be immune to the effect of sunlight just like Stalklings, thus making them the perfect spies for the Gumm-Gumms. Some of them, like Stricklander and Nomura, are accomplished warriors.
In Changeling: The Dreaming, Changelings as well as True Fae are weak to cold iron, in the mechanics of the game, cold iron does "aggravated" damage to Changelings and True Fae, meaning it cannot be healed with any supernatural means or accelerated healing powers.
Languages:Changelings speak Common, which allows them to move easily among humans and members of all other races. They often learn as many other languages as they can to facilitate a multitude of disguises.
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.
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.
Never, ever accept a gift from a Fey.
And never, ever verbally say thank you for a gift. It implies that the receiver owes them something, like a food, your firstborn, or a favor (no matter how deranged).
The newborn 5-5-5 rule is a postpartum guideline for new mothers to focus on healing and bonding in the first 15 days home, dividing rest into 5 days in bed, followed by 5 days on the bed, and then 5 days near the bed, encouraging minimal chores, visitors, and activity to prioritize recovery from childbirth and establishing the new family unit, drawing on traditional postpartum rest practices.
However, most Psy do have a metallic stink.
The official explanation from the comics is that the holes were burned through Chrysalis by Celestia, and that was passed down to the rest of the Changelings. Attack so devastating it cursed her entire lineage.
No. An alicorn is a pony with the traits of all three tribes. Changelings are a different species, aka not ponies.
Because of their +2 Charisma bonus, the best classes for changelings are Bard, Rogue, Paladin, Wizard, and Sorcerer.
Characteristics of Changelings:
One is that they possess some sort of shapeshifting power, which was not uncommon amongst fairies, which allows them to mimic the appearance of the human child they replaced or woman.
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.