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Changelings

Changelings are the offspring of hags and their lovers taken through magic or madness. Dropped off on doorsteps of prospective foster parents, changelings are raised by strangers. Typically tall, slender, dark haired, and attractive, changelings otherwise resemble their fathers’ race. They are always female, and their mismatched colored eyes and abnormally pale skin hint at their true heritage. At puberty, changelings receive “the call,” a hypnotic spiritual voice that beckons them to travel and discover their true origins. Changelings who ignore this call choose their own destiny; those who heed it discover their “mother” and may come into great power by transforming into hags themselves.

Physical Description

Changelings can resemble any of the races that their hag mothers trick into coupling, including dwarves, gnomes, orcs, and goblins, but humans are most common. Regardless of their father's race, changelings always appear slim and exceptionally pale for their ancestry, and they are often — but not always — also distinguished by having striking pale eyes. On occasion, Changelings are known to disproportionately possess heterochromia. Changelings also normally possess an aura of oddness that often prevents them being fully accepted into their birth-father's society.

Many Changelings find themselves on the road looking for a sense of belonging

Society

Changelings are often completely alone, and rarely meet other Changelings unless they heed The Call, meeting other prospective Hags during their descent into witchcraft. Due to this, Changelings lack a unified society, though Changelings as individuals tend to be distrustful of strangers and self-sufficient, on account of the frequent abuse they suffer from other racial societies due to their heritage. This abuse can often become a self-fulfilling prophecy, in the sense that a Changeling is unlikely to follow in her mother's steps at all, if they're accepted by the community which they're born into.

Relations

Changelings grow up in the society of their fathers and this shapes much of their character: despite their monstrous mother, they have no predisposition towards evil. Unfortunately, her innate otherness often marks a changeling as an innate outcast, as a result of which they often relate easiest with other mixed heritage outsiders, especially half-elves. Those who are embraced by their adopted society, however, find it easiest to ignore the sinister Call of their progenitor.

Some Changelings deliberately leverage their esoteric reputation to become anything from a traveling witch to a local wise woman

Table: Changeling Ages

Adulthood Intuitive Self-Taught Trained Middle-Aged Old Venerable Maximum Age
15 years +1d4 years (16-19 years) +1d6 years (16-21 years) +2d6 years (17-27 years) 35 years 53 years 70 years 70 + 2d20 years

Table: Random Height and Weight

Base Height Height Modifier Base Weight Weight Modifier
5 ft. 2 in. +2d4 in. (5 ft. 4 in. - 5 ft. 10 in.) 85 lbs. +2d4 * 5 lbs. (95-125 lbs.)

Standard Racial Traits

Mother's Heritage

A Changeling receives one additional racial trait, chosen from the following list, which is determined by the Hag type of the Changeling's mother: