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The following errata is for The Autumn People. This information was dropped from the text due to a printer error. Webcraft The force of conformity and stasis is the force of the Weaver. Lacking empathy for creativity, the forces of the Weaver bind reality in her lifeless dehumanizing web. When using this power, the character must roll Intelligence + Science. Weave Web The caster can make a substance stronger. He has focused his attention so thoroughly upon the substance that its mundanity is enhanced. For each success, the substance will either inflict an additional Health Level (if it can be brandished as a weapon) or gain an extra Health Level (if it cannot). The duration is one session. "Crushing mundanity" takes on a whole new meaning. Overwhelming Wincing The caster becomes painfully dull, and can cause one target nearby to lose one Health Level from wincing and an overwhelming headache. For each additional success, the caster can affect one additional target. This is particularly effective in board room meetings. Warp Will The caster's activity is puts those around them through a purgatory of boredom. For each success, the caster reduces the temporary Willpower or Glamour of each person around him by one. This may be used once per session. Wend Your Way The caster overcomplicates any one process so much that others cannot figure out precisely what he is doing. Anyone who studies what the individual is doing becomes so easily distracted by more fascinating things (like trees and rocks) increases his difficulty of each roll by one for each success on the Tedium (up to a maximum of +3). For instance, this can affect Tracking and Investigation rolls. Cry "Woof" The caster will summon a Weaver spirit. The entity level of power of the spirit depends on the number of success attained. For more details on Weaver spirits, see Werewolf: The Apocalypse, Second Edition or Mage: The Ascension, Second Edition. Examples include Paradox Spirits of the Mind Sphere, Pattern Spiders and Nexus Crawlers. This is extremely dangerous, and shows the inherently destructive nature of following stasis.
The Kithain share the world with a host of other supernatural creatures they call Prodigals, "lost children" who have forgotten their faerie heritage. One notable race of prodigals are the Garou, werewolves who use their wisdom to protect the world. <strong>Changeling</strong>s who deal with the Changing Breed point out that some faerie myths are quite similar to those of their lost brethren. For instance, troubadors who tell tales about the sundering of the Dreaming from the world describe all of reality as a vast Tapestry. The Tapestry was once beautiful and elaborate. It would have had no pattern at all if all the threads were the same, so the fabric once had a beautiful design, delicately balancing bright embroidery against subtle backgrounds. Bright strands stretched through dull cloth; thick homespun yarn intertwined with slender silvery thread. Then the Dreaming was sundered from the world, and patches of cloth were torn from the Tapestry. People changed, the world grew, and the Tapestry was ripped apart in the process. Many of the brightest, "frivolous" patterns were rent from the fabric, destroying the pattern of all things, and more "reasonable" designs were sown in their place. The truest and most beautiful threads were lost. The Tapestry had to be fixed, so there were people in the world who recklessly tried to mend it. They still continue their work, patching the holes as quickly as they can and using the cheapest thread they can afford. Humankind has rewoven the Tapestry, but since they cannot remember what it once looked like, the colorful cloth is now a lifeless gray patchwork. The weavers of the Tapestry have obscured the pattern, making it harder to see the beauty that was once there. The Autumn People and the Dauntain work with the weav- Powers of the Aurumn People Though they have no inherent "powers" which allow them to affect Kithain, other than causing them to gain temporary Banality, some Autumn People are so mundane that they can actually afflict harm on the fae. This is known among Kithain as Berating Oration and is described below. Berating Oration Autumn People are so enraptured by their dull and lifeless world that they can actually inflict pain on people who are attuned to creativity and energy. When engaged in The Weaver and the Tapestry ers by dyeing the cloth, tearing out old patches, and weaving in patterns of their own choosing. The Tapestry is still here, but it isn't the same. The werewolves have a similar myth about the death of spirituality. Galliard storytellers speak of three spiritual forces guiding all things: the Weaver, the Wyrm and the Wyld. The Weaver is the force of stasis and conformity; the Wyld is the force of creation and energy; the Wyrm is the source of corruption and destruction. The three forces were balanced until the Weaver went insane and tried to bind the other two into her lifeless web. The Wyrm responded by striking out at all of creation to stop the Weaver from growing too strong. As they fought, the Wyld began to die, and spirituality began to fade from the world. The webs of the Weaver grow strong as cold Reason and technology become more prevalent; the wilderness of the Wyld is driven out, and communion with the spirit world becomes harder as the world dies. Although changelings don't believe in the Weaver, they're still familiar with its handiwork: Banality. The two world views aren't the same, but they're close enough for the changelings and the Changing Breed to understand one another. The Garou try to heal the world by striking out at the Wyrm and preventing its corruption from spreading. The changelings instead try to overcome the "weavers" by bringing magic and imagination to the world, spreading what the Garou call the force of the Wyld. Garou and Kithain see the world in different ways, but according to the storytellers, they are merely fighting on different fronts of the same battle. The stories are different, but both myths are interpretations of the same truth. prolonged confrontations with Kithain, they can actually harm them with "illusory" emotional damage. If a changeling chooses to heal these wounds with Glamour, the effect will still be noticeable. If a mortal has a Banality of 9, she can inflict chimerical damage on a changeling through by declaiming a Berating Oration. For the duration of one scene, the Autumn Person must either: a) carry out a senselessly mundane course of action with the assistance of a changeling, ("Yes, let's burn these old toys. I don't know why I kept them.") b) critique the lifestyle of the changeling, ("Why are you dressed that way! Do you think it's Halloween?"), or c) confide the painful details of her life.
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Fairytale Introduction Contents Cha
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Code of Honor: (l point Merit) You
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Vengeance: (2 point Flaw) You have
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nightclub). You may spend Willpower
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Surreal Quality: (2 point Flaw) Tho
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Faerie Eternity: (2 point Merit) Af
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swore, or a promise or bargain you
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Greedy Glamour: (5 point Flaw) Your
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to intervene in a case, you can inf
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all situations. In some circumstanc
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knowledge of the formal rules of gi
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wide range of animal and technologi
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• • Practiced: Forest bow hunte
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• • Practiced: You can do small
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• • • • Expert: You can dig
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Possessed by: Occultists, Scholars,
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Possessed by: Mystery Buffs, Detect
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New Legacies The following new Lega
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Pishogue No matter what your curren
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Ragamuffin The opposite of the Fop,
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In reading the following pages, you
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Their appreciation for the practica
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Outlook While boggans generally lik
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Uhuru The African word Uhuru, meani
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Boggans Seelie Eshu: Every tribe ne
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they alone, who can fashion new pie
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Boggans Seelie Nockers: Right, dis
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Animal Affinities Every pooka has a
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Boggans Seelie Pooka: Silly fools w
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(Don't ever listen to the sidhe's l
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Redcaps and the Escheat • The Rig
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Sure, we're fun to look at, if you
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that a "world pulse" beats below th
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Seelie Base as they may seem, a sat
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Come in, come in! And for heaven's
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Organization With a far more organi
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To be a sluagh is to be alternately
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Organization Once upon a time, an e
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Perhaps strong arms and sharp blade
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the true nobility of the Kithain. D
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Boggans Seelie Trolls: Worthy of ou
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Dreaming) became changelings. The E
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sworn to by noble friends who have
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The earliest tribes to inhabit the
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Southwest ... With goodness and bea
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The Kwakiutl lived on Vancouver Isl
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or which suits her temperament. Suc
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Vision: Anytime you complete a pers
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The Algonquin tribes told stories a
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The yunwi tsundsi ("little people")
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Canotili (sometimes known as canoti
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Known to many of the tribes of the
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The native tribes of the Southwest
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The surems are small of stature, bu
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Elusive and androgynous, water babi
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