This is only enough information from the books to help you make a character, and a few of the more common rules to save the STs the grief of saying the same thing over and over again. I *HIGHLY* recommend you buy the Changeling second editon for a better understanding of the game. This is not in depth at all. Your welcome to make a character and try it out. If you find you like it, buy the book and learn more.

Step Two: Select Abilities
Prioritize the three catagories - Physical, Social, Mental.
All start with one point automatically unless otherwise is stated. (7/5/3)

Step Three: Select Attributes
Prioritize the three catagories - Talents, Skills, Knowledges. (13/9/5)

Step Four: Select Advantages
Choose Backgrounds (5), Arts (3), and Realms (5)

Step Five: Finishing Touches
Record your Tempers (Glamour, Willpower, and Banailty) as specified by your Seeming.
Record Kith and House flaws and advantages/birthrights.
Choose Merits and Flaws (7 pts. max for flaws).
Spend Freebie Points (15) and any extra Flaw points.

House Ailil: Masters of Politics and intrigue, This House is known for it's pride.

Boon: -1 difficulty to all Manipulation rolls. Never botch Subterfuge or Politics.

Flaw: They cannot admit they are wrong at almost any cost, and must make a willpower roll difficulty 8 to do so. Afterwards, they are +1 difficulty on all Social rolls until they regain their confidance.

House Balor: Ruthless and Militant, These sidhe who call Formori kin are determined to rise to power.

Boon:Balor take no extra penalties for being in contact or wounded with cold iron. It can still kill their fae soul though.

Flaw: Due to their formori kinship, they all have some disturbing handicap that cannot be fixed by any means.

House Dougal: Practical and Straightforward, House Dougal is known for it's skill with machinery and knowledge of metalwork.

Boon: With their strong will, they can turn temporary glamour into temporay willpower, up to however much their permanent willpower is. This must be done during some taxing excertion, and only once a story (week).

Flaw: All members of this house have some physical handicap they strive to compensate for.

House Eiluned: Mysterious and Wise, House Eiluned is known for it's knowledge of the stars and understanding of glamour.

Boon: All cantrips automatically have one success.

Flaw: Eiluned are attracted to secrets and conspiracies, and as such, are not easily trusted. They must spend a point of willpower to not meddle, and all Social rolls are +1 difficulty.

House Fiona: Adventurous and unpredictable, House Fiona is known for it's passion.

Boon: So great is their courage, they fear nothing for themselves - only for those they love.

Flaw: They will never be satisfied, but will always seek danger and the forbidden.

House Gwydion: Noble and conservative, House Gwydion is known for it's wise and fair rulers.

Boon: With a successful perception + kenning roll, a Gwydion can tell if someone is telling the truth, though Eiluned seem to be immune to this.

Flaw: Their rightious rage is easily envoked. If insulted, dishonored, or wounded (either physically or chimerically) they will fly into a beserker rage during which they ignore all health level penalties until incapacitated.

House Leanhaun: Alluring, graceful, and seductive; Few know the House Leanhaun secret, and they work hard to keep it that way.

Boon:Extra dot in Charisma; all seduction rolls are -1 difficulty and cannot be botched.

Flaw:If Leanhaun does not engage in Rhapsody once a week, they age one year for each week they fail to do so.

House Laim: Brooding and dark, House Laim is known for it's advocacy and guardianship of humanity and its deeply held moral and ethical ideals.

Boon: Difficulty to affect mortals with cantrips or enchantment is -1.

Flaw: Because of their close ties with human, Laim start out with +1 permanent banality, and are concidered Oathbreakers.

House Scatherac: Fierce, silent and deadly are the warriors of House Scatherac

Boon: +1 die to all Brawl and Melee actions, and -1 difficulty to stealth

Flaw: When they enter battle, they will not leave until all have been defeated. Must make a willpower roll difficulty 7 with 3 successes to retreat.

Special Note: House Scartherac do not suffer banality's curse as do most Sidhe. They stayed behind during the interrigum and took on the Changeling Way same as the commoners, and as such reincarnate same as them.
Members of this house are +2 difficulty on all Social interactions with sidhe of all houses except Fiona and Laim.

• Boggan: Quiet, conservative folk who like to involve themselves in other's affairs. They typically appear short and plump with bushy eyebrows and large hands.


• Affinity: Actor
• Birthrights:
  Craftwork: Never botch craftwork, and if unobserved can complete any task involving simple physical labor in a third the normal time.
  Social Dynamics: Successful Perception + Empathy or Subterfuge roll can help them puzzles out the rumors and gossips of a group.
• Fraility:
  Call of the Needy: When confronted by someone in need, they must make a willpower roll difficulty 8 to aviod helping them.
• Eshu: Wanderers, vagabonds, and story tellers, they spend much of their time on the road, spreading the stories of the fae. Though they hail from all races and cultures, most have dark complexions and bright eyes with tall and narrow features.


• Affinity: Scene
• Birthrights:
  Spirit Pathways: Thye will always get where they need to go, but their path will not always be the most direct. It will be the most interesting route possible, filled with adventure and danger.
  Talecraft: Never botch Performance or Empathy rolls.
• Frailities:
  Recklessness: Confidant in their abilities, they can't resist a challenge, quest, or gamble.
• Nocker: These dark and brooding creatures are widely known for their smithing and craftmanship. They have pale skin with red swirls, large eyebrows, and white hair. They dress with style, and always talk in curses.


• Affinity: Prop
• Birthrights:
  Forge Chimera: Can create simple, non-sentient chimera. See an ST for details - or buy the smeggin book!
  Fix-It: Can fix nearly any mechanical device with a successful Intelligence + Crafts roll, or Intimidation. Yes, they can stare at and scare a machine into working.
• Frailities:
  Flaws: Why are nockers so cynical? There all perfectionists, but everything they make will have some flaw to it.
• Pooka: Tricksters and rapscallions to the last, these shapeshifters never pass up the oppertunity to play a prank. They usually dress to suit their animalistic tastes, and have some of those features, such as tails or ears.


• Affinity: Nature
• Birthrights:
  Shapechanging: All pooka thave animal which they have an affinity for. They can turn into and change back to that animal when no one is looking, though changleing back costs 1 glamour point.
  Confidant: With their inate charm - once per conversation they can roll Perception + Empathy or Subterfuge to make someone spill their guts. Difficulty is equal to victim's willpower.
• Frailities:
  Lies: Pooka must always confuse the truth and make it harder to understand. Some lie, exaggertae, riddle, talk in questions or secret languages. Must make willpower roll difficulty 8 to talk straight.
• Redcap: Brave but brutal bullies infamous for their rapacity... and for the peculair nature of their sustance. They have grey or pale purple colored skin, and usually many pirceings and tatooes.


• Affinity: Nature
• Birthrights:
  Dark Appetite: They can eat anything they can get their teeth on.. literally. Base damage for bite is Strength +2, difficulty 5. Costs 1 glamour point to eat limbs or tough materials like steel, wood, ect.
  Bully Browbeat: They can intimidate anything, even chimerical objects.
• Frailities:
  Bad Attitude: Their attitude scares people, and thus they are +2 difficulty to all social rolls other than browbeating.
• Satyr: Through driven by their passions, these changelings possess an inner wisdom. They tend to have a rugged look to them, usually well toned bodies, furry goat-like legs, and horns.


• Affinity: Fae
• Birthrights:
  Gift of Pan: When satyrs play or sing, everyone who fails a willpower difficulty 7 roll is swept away with passion and desire.
  Physical Prowess: All Satyr start with an addtional point of Stamina.
• Frailities:
  Passion's Curse: Their subject to mood swings, and all willpower rolls are +2 difficulty.
• Sidhe: Beautiful and terrible, sidhe are the ruling kith of the fae. They hve pointed ears, and are incediablly gorgeous.


• Affinity: None - They have not spent enough time on earth to aquire one.
• Birthrights:
  Awe and Beauty: Plus two dots in apperance, All social rolls (especially empathy or imtimidation) at -2 difficulty, attackers must make willpower roll of 6 for the average Sidhe, but can be as high as 8 or 9 for Sidhe higher stationed. This only effects kithian or enchanted, unless the Wyrd is envoked.
  Noble Bearing: Any cantrip made directly on them for the purpose of making them look foolish or undignified fails. They can not botch Etiquette rolls.
• Frailities:
  Banality's Curse: They gain banality at twice the rate others do. Each single temporary point of banality is two for them.
• Sluagh: The whisperers in the night, these arcane changelings concern themselves with learning dark secrets. Sluagh tend to be very pale, sometimes even sickly looking. They usually smell strangely or have no teeth.


• Affinity: Prop
• Birthrights:
  Squirm: Sluagh can distort, dislocate, and shift their mass and bones. Requires a few minutes, difficulty varies by degree of imprisionment. Cannot be used with cold iron, or when unenchanted watch.
  Sharpened Senses: Perception rolls -2 difficulty to as low as 3. Can see through Illusionary magics with a sucessful Perception + Alertness check, difficulty 7. Sluagh cannot botch Stealth or Alertness rolls.
• Frailities:
  Curse of Silence: They cannot speak above a whisper, and are +2 difficulty to all social rolls.
• Troll: Huge and terribly strong, trolls are known nearly as much for their hoor and steadfastness as their strength. Amazingly tall, horned, and blue skinned - they are titans.


• Affinity: Fae
• Birthrights:
  Titan's Power: Wilders get +1 bruised health level and strength dot. Grumps +2, but also +_1 difficulty on dexterity rolls. Does not function in the presence of unenchanted..
  Stubbornness: Nothing can distract a troll from his duty. +2 dice to willpower checks. Trolls cannot botch Athletics or Altertness rolls..
• Frailities:
  Bond of Duty: Their word and honor is their stength, and should they fail to keep their word or break an oath they loose their Titan's Strength bithright until they've redeamed themselves. However, if he is lied to, he must make a willpower roll of 8 to avoid becoming violent.