{"name":"Changeling","description":"Long ago there was a woman named Jes, and she had one hundred children. Her rivals conspired against her and swore to kill her children. Jes begged the Sovereigns for help, but their only answer was the wind and rain. In the depths of her despair, a lonely traveler took her hand. \u201cI will protect your children if they follow my path. Let them wander the world. They may be shunned and feared, but they will never be destroyed.\u201d Jes agreed, and the traveler gave her his cloak. When she draped it over her children, their old faces melted away and they could be whoever they wanted to be. And so it remains. Though the children are shunned by all, the gift of the Traveler protects them still.\r\n\u2014Chance, changeling priest\r\n\r\nChangelings can shift their forms with a thought. Many changelings use this gift as a form of artistic and emotional expression. It\u2019s also an invaluable tool for grifters, spies, and others who wish to deceive. This leads many people to treat changelings with suspicion.\r\n\r\nA Hidden People\r\nWherever humans live, changelings reside also; the question is whether their presence is known.\r\n\r\nChangelings are born to one of three paths. A few are raised in stable communities where changelings are true to their nature and deal openly with the people around them. Some are orphans, raised by other races, who find their way in the world without ever knowing another like themselves. Others are part of nomadic changeling clans spread across the Five Nations, families who keep their true nature hidden from the single-skins. Some clans maintain safe havens in major cities and communities, but most prefer to wander the unpredictable path of the god known as the Traveler.\r\n\r\nIn creating a changeling adventurer, consider the character\u2019s relationships with people around them. Does the character conceal their true changeling nature? Do they embrace it? Do they have connections to other changelings or are they alone and in search of companions?\r\n\r\nMasks and Personas\r\nIn 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 \u2014 one created on the spur of the moment, with no depth or history \u2014 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.\r\n\r\nPersonas 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\u2019s previous users.\r\n\r\nChangeling Names\r\nA changeling might use a different name for each mask and persona and adopt new names as easily as they change faces. The true name of a changeling tends to be simple and monosyllabic; however, there are often accents to a changeling\u2019s name that are expressed through shapeshifting, something single-skins will likely miss. So, two changelings might have the name Jin, but one is Jin-with-vivid-blue-eyes and one is Jin-with-golden-nails.\r\n\r\nChangelings have a fluid relationship with gender, seeing it as one characteristic to change among many.\r\n\r\nChangeling Names: Aunn, Bin, Cas, Dox, Fie, Hars, Jin, Lam, Mas, Nix, Ot, Paik, Ruz, Sim, Toox, Vil, Yug\r\n\r\nAbility Score Increase\r\nYour Charisma score increases by 2. In addition, one other ability score of your choice increases by 1.\r\n\r\nAge\r\nChangelings mature slightly faster than humans but share a similar lifespan\u2014typically a century or less. While a changeling can transform to conceal their age, the effects of aging affect them similarly to humans.\r\n\r\nAlignment\r\nChangelings tend toward pragmatic neutrality, and few changelings embrace evil.","creaturetype":"","size":"Your size is Medium. To set your height and weight randomly, start with rolling a size modifier:  Size modifier = 2d4  Height = 5 feet + 1 inch + your size modifier in inches  Weight in pounds = 115 + (2d4 \u00d7 your size modifier)","speed":"Your base walking speed is 30 feet.","traits":"Your changeling character has the following traits.\r\nShapechanger\r\nAs 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\u2019t duplicate the appearance of a creature you\u2019ve never seen, and you must adopt a form that has the same basic arrangement of limbs that you have. Your clothing and equipment aren\u2019t changed by this trait.\r\n\r\nYou stay in the new form until you use an action to revert to your true form or until you die.\r\n\r\nChangeling Instincts\r\nYou gain proficiency with two of the following skills of your choice: Deception, Insight, Intimidation, and Persuasion.\r\n\r\nLanguages\r\nYou can speak, read, and write Common and two other languages of your choice.","imageid":"","source":"Eberron: Rising from the Last War, pg. 17","vintage":"0","tags":"","isShared":"on","templateId":"17212","blockId":"1564455","world":"eacd35fd-b571-42b8-b4cb-3660b9d87b27","folder":"39995"}