Changeling

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Changelings are a humanoid race who are distantly descended from doppelgangers, sharing their shapeshifting capabilities. Because of this, many use their abilities as spies and assassins, which, in turn, has led many people to mistrust them.

Physical Description

While changelings can shapeshift, they do have a true form. Their skin tone is pale, a white or light gray, with slender bodies and proportionally longer limbs to most humanoids. Their eyes are large and colorless, rimmed by a dark rings. Their hair colors can range, but are generally a light shade and whitened.

All changelings are naturally genderfluid as they can assume all forms.

Personality

Despite being unassuming, changelings can have strong opinions and varying morals depending on their makeup and where they grew up.

Changelings are commonly viewed as tricksters and con artists, sometimes even thieves and assassins. In reality though, changelings are just as good or bad as any other person. Some changelings work hard on removing this stigma, but others can't help but give in to what others see them as.

Changelings are generally soft-spoken and do not draw attention to themselves. They appreciate the finer things in life, but try to avoid direct confrontation.

Changelings have a natural curiosity the cultures of other races and many strike out as adventurers to learn as much as they can.

Society

Changelings live among other races, mostly living in the shadows. They are commonly found in large cities where many use their talents as entertainers, government agents, or adventurers, but also for criminal reasons as well.

Some live in stable communities where they are open about their identities, but others live in communities where they keep their true identity hidden.

Origin

No-one is quite certain the origin of changelings but a few theories do exist:

1. With a world full of so many different social species, changelings are a natural evolution born out of an urge to blend in and survive. Those that did not exhibit a proper control of their own muscular & organ structure quickly died out and those that showed great skill at the technique found themselves in ideal conditions to keep growing. This theory exists amongst many scholars unhappy with other potential theories assuming that changelings were just the outcome of a magical deal of some sort.
2. Some historians believe that the changeling race was a magical accident caused by an ancient wizard, lich, or other powerful entity. This master being is theorized to have created the first changelings out of a need for spies, servants, or a perfect, enlightened race of humanoids to rule over the world.
3. A less kind theory on the origin of changelings is that they are the result of forced crossbreeding between humanoids and dopplegangers as an experiment. Whether true or no, it has attached a negative stigma to changelings in some regions, particularly Pteris. The slur "double-face" has grown out of associations to this theory, and its utterance is a fast way to make an enemy of a changeling.

Culture

Language

livsveileder - Changeling word for Life Guide or their version of parents.