Changeling

Tales of children stolen away and replaced by monsters exist across countless cultures— but the true monsters are the hag mothers of these strange children. After the hag seduces, uses, and disposes of their father, the changeling child is usually abandoned in their father’s community to be raised among them. Such a child faces no end of challenges, often beginning life as an orphaned outsider.

Basic Information

Anatomy

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 mismatched, differently colored eyes. Changelings also normally possess an aura of oddness that often prevents them from being fully accepted into their birth-father's society.

• Low-Light Vision 
• Darkvision 

Genetic Ancestor(s)

• Hag

Scientific Name

Homo Cronus Dynum

Geographic Distribution

• Gradus

Related Ethnicities

• Aniari

Ancestry Feats

1st Level

• Hag's Sight
• Slag May

5th Level

• Mist Child

9th Level

• Accursed Claws

13th Level

• Hag Magic

Changeling - Heritage

TRAITVERSATILEUNCOMMONCHANGELING

Description Your mother was a hag. Your heterochromatic eyes are the most obvious signifier of this parentage, but you likely also have a slighter build, paler skin, and darker hair than most members of your other parent’s ancestry.
Applications You gain the changeling trait. You also gain low-light vision, or you gain darkvision if your ancestry already has low-light vision. You can select from changeling feats and feats from your other parent’s ancestry whenever you gain an ancestry feat.