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Changeling Applications

This page is a supplement to the main Character Creation page, designed specifically to help with Changeling and other fae-related applications. If you are looking to app in as a Fae-Touched, Enchanted Mortal or Ensorcelled, please use the questions below; you have unique considerations which vanilla mortals don't need to worry about!

If you are looking to app in as a Fetch, please see the Fetches/Applications page. Given the nature of Fetches, players should expect that any PC Fetches WILL, eventually, be killed. Staff will not stop Changeling players from performing Fetch PKs.

See the Changeling/Minor_Templates page for our definitions of the non-Changeling templates associated with the sphere. In essence, you are a human if you are not a Changeling. You may be a traumatized human, but you are human, and use Integrity, not Clarity.

Backgrounds

The following questions must be answered in your +bg during CG for you to be allowed out into the world. Changelings, you have a lot more work to do than mortals will.

Mortal Life

Answer both the 'Mortal Life' questions and the questions specific to your template below. You may mix/match and combine orders, write it up as a story or just answer them in bullet points. Staff is peachykeen as long as the data is there.

• What is your character's mortal name? Is there a reason behind it?
• Where/when were you born?
• How was your childhood/young adulthood? What were you like?
• What is your profession? How do you feel about it? If you are apping in to work for another player, please include this here.
• If you aren't a local to the Tamarack Falls/Fort Brunsett area, where are you staying right now?

If your answer is "a hotel" you are probably in Fort Brunsett, though Tamarack Falls does have a tiny bed and breakfast, and many cabins to rent out in the woods.

• Do you have any family or close friends in the area?
• Why are you here now? This may relate to the question above.
• What are your hobbies? What do you do for fun?

Taxidermist by day, gamer geek by night?

• Do you have any enemies? Anyone who would actively do Bad Things to you? Why? And...how do you feel about this?
• BEFORE you got involved with the world of faerie, did you have any brushes with magic/the supernatural? What happened? How do you feel about this?

Ensorcelled Mortals

• How long have you been ensorcelled?
• Who ensorcelled you?

Bear in mind, once you are ensorcelled, it is highly unlikely that Changelings will ever allow you to remain unpledged. Even if you beg for a pledge which closes your eyes to the fae world, no more ensorcellment, you will still need to be bound to secrecy.

• How do you feel about Changelings in general and your pledgemate specifically?

Do you like it? Resent it? Fear it? Etc. Things like that.

If you want to be ensorcelled to an NPC as part of your background, your NPC must have a name and at least a sketchy description of what s/he's like. The goal on staff's part is to phase people into being pledged to actual players, but we know that isn't always optimal.

Enchanted Mortals

• How were you enchanted? When? Were you kidnapped? Did you make an agreement you really regret?
• Who was your Keeper going to be? What was the realm like (if it isn't a staff-generated Keeper)?
• How did you escape? Were you on your own or did somebody help?
• What do you remember of it?

Your memories of Arcadia will be very vague, and it's entirely possible you won't know what it was/will just remember it as a twisted nightmare or a really, really bad drug trip.

• How do you feel about Changelings in general and your ability to see them?

Fae-Touched Mortals

• How were you Taken?
• How long did you stay in Arcadia?
• Who was your Keeper? What were they like?
• What was your Durance like?
• How did you escape?
• What do you remember of it?

Your memories will be very, very vague, if you remember much at all. The Hedge scours most away.

• How do you feel about Changelings?

Changelings

• What is your new name, now that you are a Changeling? Did you manage to be one of the lucky few and keep your old?
• How were you Taken?
• How long did you stay in Arcadia?
• Who was your Keeper? What were they like?
• What was your Durance like? How did it shape you into the Seeming/Kith you have today?
• How did you escape?
• What do you remember of it? You are unlikely to recall overmuch about it until you are reaching Wyrd 6+. Flashes and glimpses and nightmare images.
• What has your life been like since your escape?
• Do you have a Fetch? If yes, what are your intentions toward it?
• Whether or not you have a Fetch, do you have valid ID? Are you a legal citizen? If not, how do you compensate for that?
• Are you connected to any other PCs? Were they in your Durance/are they relatives/are you apping into a motley, etc.
• Are you in a Court? If yes, which, and why? What do you do for your Court?
• Do you have an Entitlement? If yes, which, why, and what did you do to earn the privilege?
• Are you in the Freehold? It has only been advertising for new members since 2016, since it is very new.

Joining IC Groups

You do not need the permission of existing members to join Courts, or Entitlements. If you're not sure about anything, ask! Check their wiki pages to see if any concepts are on their group wish lists for new players to play.

If an Entitlement page is empty, be sure to check in game with the +census command (+help census), because players are the ones who have to add themselves to the wiki pages, and sometimes, they forget!