Changeling

Changelings can shift their forms with a thought. Many changelings use this gift as a form of artistic and emotional expression. It’s also an invaluable tool for grifters, spies, and others who wish to deceive. This leads many people to treat changelings with suspicion. Wherever humans live, changelings reside also; the question is whether their presence is known.
Changelings are born to one of two paths. A few are raised in stable communities where changelings are true to their nature and deal openly with the people around them. Most changelings; however, are abandoned or orphaned, raised by other races, who find their way in the world without ever knowing another like themselves.
In their true form, changelings are pale, with colorless eyes and silver-white hair. It is rare to see a changeling in that form, for a typical changeling changes their shape the way others might change clothes. A casual shape; one created on the spur of the moment, with no depth or history, is called a mask. A mask can be used to express a mood or to serve a specific purpose and then might never be used again. However, many changelings develop identities that have more depth. They build an identity over time, crafting a persona with a history and beliefs. This focused identity helps a changeling pinpoint a particular skill or emotion. A changeling adventurer might have personas for many situations, including negotiation, investigation, and combat.
Personas can be shared by multiple changelings; there might be three healers in a community, but whoever is on duty will adopt the persona of Tek, the kindly old medic. Personas can even be passed down through a family, allowing a younger changeling to take advantage of contacts established by the persona’s previous users.
Changelings have no definite sex or gender, and are able to change between them as easily as changing any other features.

Changeling Traits

Ability Score Increase

You have 2 points to increase your Dexterity or Charisma scores. You have 1 point to increase any ability score.

Age

Changelings mature slightly faster than humans but share a similar lifespan—typically a century or less. While a changeling can transform to somewhat conceal their age, the effects of aging affect them similarly to humans.

Alignment

Changelings tend toward pragmatic neutrality, and few changelings embrace evil.

Size

Changelings are roughly the same size as humans and elves. Your size is Medium.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Shapechanger

As an action, you can change your appearance and your voice. You determine the specifics of the changes, including your coloration, hair length, and sex. You can also adjust your height and weight, but not so much that your size changes. You can make yourself appear as a member of another race, though none of your game statistics change. You can’t duplicate the appearance of a creature you’ve never seen, and you must adopt a form that has the same basic arrangement of limbs that you have. Your clothing and equipment aren’t changed by this trait.
You stay in the new form until you use an action to revert to your true form or until you die.

Changeling Instincts

You gain proficiency with two of the following skills of your choice: Deception, Insight, Intimidation, and Persuasion. You have advantage on any Deception or Persuasion checks to keep your changeling nature a secret.

Languages

You can speak, read, and write two additional languages of your choice.