Changeling - Players Guide.pdf

Seemings:
• Youngling nanehi are dark-eyed waifs with ready
smiles and endearing personalities. They have an impish
streak that their innocent demeanors cannot entirely conceal.
• Braves of the nanehi are often indistinguishable in
appearance from their mortal kin, although they often wear
pieces of traditional clothing or jewelry in combination with
modern dress. They are inveterate travelers, frequenting the
powwow circuits and craft fairs where they display their skills
in song, dance or crafts.
• Elders of the nanehi are more sedentary, though they
too will travel when necessary. They frequently maintain
relations with elders from their mortal tribes, and are often
found urging their mortal kin to resist assimilation and loss of
their cultural identity. They tend to make themselves look
even older than their years when doing so will impress others
with their age and wisdom.
Lifestyles:
Nanehi usually maintain permanent dwellings near their
mortal kin, but also travel from place to place, participating
in cultural events and trading stories and customs with other
members of the Nunnehi Nations. A very few live in cities,
but spend a lot of time in wild places such as wilderness areas
or national parks.
Affinity:
Fae
Birthrights:
• Shape the Body — Nanehi have the ability to alter
their size and appearance, changing their stature from very
small (two feet or less) to normal human size, enhancing or
lowering their Appearance by 1, or making themselves look
younger or older than their actual age.
• Voice of Beauty — Nanehi are gifted performers and
excel at singing, dancing, storytelling or music-making. All
nanehi add one die to all rolls involving performances. In
addition, one automatic success is gained if the performance
features traditional songs, dances or stories.
Frailties:
• Face in the Water — The inherent vanity of nanehi
makes them susceptible to flattery, giving them a + 1 difficulty
to resistance rolls versus Manipulation-based skills. In
addition, nanehi suffer -1 dice to all their rolls when their
Outlook
• Canotili — They may be better hunters than we,
but we can sing better songs of the hunt.
• Inuas — We enjoy meeting these cousins at
festivals, for their songs and stories are very different from
ours.
• Kachinas — They too are keepers of the traditions.
They should not envy our greater skill at
performance, but rejoice that we are helping keep all
native customs alive.
• May-may-gway-shi — Offer them fish, and they
will sing and dance for you for hours. Thankfully, they
have not forgotten the old ways.
• Numuzo'ho — They have powerful Medicine,
but we do not want to approach them when they are
angry or upset.
• Pu'gwis — How can they stand to be so hideous?
They must have offended all the spirits to be cursed with
such a foul form!
• Rock Giants — Beware of their hunger and their
tempers. Learning their songs and stories sometimes
carries too big a price.
• Surems — Their stories are told in whispers, and
you must have good ears to hear their wisdom.
• Tunghat -- They are proud of their animal
mastery, but it would be far better if they could control
themselves.
• Water Babies — There must be some kernel of
truth behind their reputation for stealing children. They
are not to be trusted.
• Yunwi Amai'yine'hi — They share our forests
and rivers, but unlike us, they are not so able to adapt to
the changes around them. We must help them if we can.
• Yunwi Tsundsi - Like us, they enjoy mortal
company and they cherish the children. For that, they
deserve a song of praise.
appearance is adversely affected (i.e., if they are covered with
mud or suffer some facial disfigurement) or insulted.
Quote:
"I have a new song that 1 learned at the Kituwah
Festival in North Carolina. Let me sing it for you, and then
you can tell me one of your stories. 1 have plenty of time."