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Fae-changeling dynamics in different ttrpgs (with my OCs as an example) :D

Thanks for asking!

I'm not sure which three characters you mean, so I'll talk about all of them in brief :D

❗It gets kinda dark❗

Also English is my second language, so I apologise for any mistakes... And messed up punctuation.

So, these two. Winnie (left) and Journey (right). My DnD OCs. They come from a setting where from time to time a powerful goddess of storm arises and wanders the world, changing it drastically. The Storm has already came during these guys childhoods, and now it apparently is starting again, and everyone is anxious, since this shouldn't happen so often.

Anyways, Winnie, my fairy boy, who got kicked out from his home plane, Arcadia, by the previous Storm and to this day hasn't found a way back. He was raised in several orphanages, where he wasn't very well liked, for his fae nature made him pretty free-spirited and emotional, which bewildered other folk, who grew up with "being emotional = being inconvenient = bad" mindset. Usual stuff. So Winnie found a somewhat acceptable way of expressing himself in music. He is a Creation college bard. For now Winnie is travelling with a group of adventurers in search for Storm deity, and maybe he'll ask her to bring him back home. Or maybe he'll figure that this group has become his home and Winnie has no point in leaving... Who knows ;)

Journey is my changeling, who lived in a forest. During the Storm Journey found a girl laying in ravine motionlessly and, out of sheer curiosity about humans, Journey assumed her form. That girl was an heiress to a noble family, so after the Storm ended, a search for her was announced. They've never found the original girl, but they found Journey in her form and assumed that she was actually the one they were searching for — just without some of her memories from some head injury which occurred during the Storm. So Journey grew up as an aristocrat with a very good education, taking special interest in alchemy and becoming an Artificer Alchemist. However, growing up Journey finally understood what had happened that day. She felt immense guilt about stealing the life that didn't belong to her, even if it was no fault of hers. One day she accidentally revealed herself to be a changeling to her adoptive parents and fled in shame... Which is really sad, because her parents really didn't mind. Of course they'll grieve the fate of their biological daughter, but through this years Journey has become their kid. And now Journey has run away :(

Guess this group of adventurers will have to figure themselves out quite a bit...

Next we have my Selkie menace from Changeling: the Dreaming. I'll refer to him by his fae name: Foka. It's actually a name of Greek origin meaning "seal", Slavic people have used it as well (actually, many names Slavic people use nowadays are of Greek origin :D)

Foka was growing up as a completely normal boy in the port city in the northern Russia, until his grandmother gave him her Selkie coat before passing away, thus forcing Foka to undergo Chrysalis as a Selkie. And Foka absolutely hates this. He doesn't want to do anything with the magical insanity changelings have to deal with, he doesn't want to save the world from Banality, he just wants to live in peace. At the same time, Foka knows that there is no going back for him. Something in his soul is now repelled by the idea of going back to his boring, banal life. Besides, what he has now is an inheritance from his grandmother of sorts. And Foka loves her. For now he is still struggling with his changeling life, but deep down he knows he'll come to accept it soon.

Foka was actually based on leopard seal, which I find a perfect mixture of cute and terrifying, so he is kinda a menace. Unseelie Grump in a young body, with little attachments to both his old and new life and yet with vague longing for both of them. He is willing to help fellow changelings when he can, but don't expect him to be nice about it. Don't expect him to be nice about anything, really.

And now, finally, my old picture with human-ish mien of my CtL OC. That neck is killing me... Anyways, this is Cut and he is an Gristlegrinder Ogre.

Despite Ogre's reputation about being tall, muscular and terrifying, Cut is actually pretty slim for an Ogre, because his Keeper (that creepy flesh blob) didn't give Cut enough food. Which led to Cut's unhealthy relationship with food. Cut also has a frailty "must drink alcohol instead of water". Alcohol doesn't make him drunk, he's immune to it, but it is expensive and reminds him of his family in awful ways... So that sucks too :/

Cut is getting through his problems, though. He is really appreciative of what he has already and works for his future to be even better. He is a proud member of Summer Court. He works in different places (currently at McDonald's 😭), saving money to go to the uni and get a bachelor degree in mechanical engineering. He has a small, but close friend group with other changelings. His fetch is in another country (Cut got out from Arcadia not in the place from where he left) and doesn't bother him. So yeah, Cut is getting his life together. My precious dude. Hardworking, slightly edgy (he's a CtL OC, that's kinda the point anyways) and a sort of goofy big brother for local newbie changelings.

So yeah, that's pretty much all the main things about these guys! Thanks again for asking :]

Fae-changeling dynamics in different ttrpgs (with my OCs as an example) :D

I've been sooooooo artblocked lately, it's awful. So I drew my ttrpg OCs from all over the place in fancy (or not) outfits referenced from Pinterest

And then I proceeded to forget to post it. Yay.

Short overview of folk here, from left to right:

- Claude from Wraith: the Oblivion. He led quite a miserable life and ended up in the Legion of Paupers, but not before spending some time as a thrall. He had only recently caught some semblance of a break. Yeah.

- Ruben, son of Aphrodite from Scion: becoming as gods ttrpg. He is pretty grim, despite his looks and heritage, but not without a reason.

- Sharla, my Promethean: the Created girlie. Made by her creator to serve as a protector, she still fulfills her role – just in another group of people.

- Adlar, King of Summer in my Changeling: the Lost freehold. He hasn't actually been to Arcadia, but because he is a son of mortal woman and banished Gentry (so-called Charlatan) (a fact Adlar abhors and hides to the best of his ability) he is still technically a Changeling stuck in this whole changeling business

- Arcuvol, my good drow™ from DnD, because whenever I see some sort of evil faction I have to make a non-evil OC for it. (I'm never showing my Warhammer OCs to the world... Okay, they are still kinda evil when they should be). I was trying to make my own setting with DnD mechanics, but it's kinda dead now, so I don't know what to say.

Played a DnD one-shot with PJO lore. One day I'll run such game on Scion 2e system, but for now, here is my PC. Son of Aphrodite (yeah, he dressed up like he isn't), or more specifically, son of Aphrodite Areia, Todd. He spent like half of the game magically charmed by sirens and that sucked for him, but he had also visited aquapark for the first time in his life, so it kinda evens out, eheh. Don't worry, Todd, one day you'll find your true love, just chill for now 😌

In wake of DnD 2024 I remembered about my DnD OCs.

I watched some videos on new species. I like changes to aasimar a lot (my faves), but I'm sad about drow's immense lore reduction (my second faves). I get why it was done and how it can improve the game, but I also feel like it makes some aspects of it more boring and doesn't help new dms and players with distinguishing all the elves. Mixed feelings on drow, in short. Nothing new, I guess :'D

About characters in the picture: these are Arcuvol (drow lady) and Garxia (tiefling gentleman). They are from an original setting, but general lore of their species here is pretty much the same as in classic 5e: one is a cruel matriarchy serving evil goddess and another consists of lone misfits who are generally not so well liked.

Arcuvol is a bit twisted take on Disney princesses (druid of circle of the shepherd) and Garxia is an assassin rogue who weirdly hasn't assassinated anyone. Yet. He was a warlock using his powers to protect some tiefling kids before his patron died, and now they are on their own again. They are managing, though. Arcuvol and her younger brother are helping a lot.

These guys are kinda secluded from outside world, vibing in some mountains and really hoping that a bunch if adventures won't come and disturb their peaceful life.

(The adventures would come. And these two will become antagonists for plot reasons. But yeah. On their own they are pretty chill. They bring me so much joy. You can't imagine.)

Another messy sketch under the cut

Oh, and here is Arcuvol's brother, Kullintel. I must warn you, both picture and design are pretty old by now :'D