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[[File:Concordia 3219.jpg|frame|The world is not what it seems to be.]]
{{quote|''A Storytelling Game of Modern Fantasy.''}}
The tabletop roleplaying game ''Changeling'' was the [[Lighter and Softer]] aspect of the [[Old World of Darkness]], [[Genre Shift|and had a lot less angst and death.]] [[True Art Is Angsty|That got it a lot of derision from players]] of the other [[Old World of Darkness|World of Darkness]] game lines. '''''Changeling: The Dreaming''''' borrowed heavily from Neil Gaiman's ''[[The Sandman]]'' and ''[[Neverwhere]]''.
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** [[Good Is Not Nice]] / [[Affably Evil]]: Related, even if a character is played as a good Seelie or an evil Unseelie, this isn't to say that they're going to be automatically everyone's best friend or a repellent foe, respectively. For example, a Seelie Redcap is depicted in that splat as a foul-tempered [[Bully Hunter]] that has problems making friends, while a very dark take on [[The Casanova]] is presented as a very personable Unseelie Satyr in that splat.
* [[Depending on the Artist]]: The illustrations of the Kithain goes all over the place. In the earlier editions, redcaps were generally shown to have flat teeth (presumably because that kind of bite is more unsettling) though shown to have [[More Teeth Than the Osmond Family|shark-type teeth.]] Female trolls got this a lot; they were almost always simply drawn as blue women who were slightly taller than average and not espicially strong-looking, in spite of the fact [[Amazonian Beauty|that trolls are muscular]] and [[Statuesque Stunner|no shorter than eight feet tall.]]
* [[Demonic Possession]]: The Sidhe ripped the souls out of mortals to get bodies on earth. also the Adhene can do a more temporally version of it to interact with the mortal world
* [[Deus Angst Machina]]—Rarer in this game line than the others.
** Because moping will kill you.
* [[Dream Land]]: The dreaming were every thought, flight of fancy, or dream a human ever have is located there
* [[The Eeyore]]: The sluagh.
* [[The End of the World as We Know It]]—Endless Winter. In some of earlier text, the redcaps were actively trying to encourage it, though their Kithbook dropped this notion; the redcap narrator views it as an inevitable thing and doesn't see the point of doing anything one way or the other.
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* [[The Fair Folk]]: Less so than in the sequel game, though there are examples. Unseelie Redcaps are often vicious, all-devouring monsters, and the sidhe of both Courts literally ripped out people's souls so they could obtain host bodies when they returned from Arcadia.
* [[Fairy Companion]]: Most of the player characters. Becomes pretty literal in crossover games, or from an in-universe perspective of another supernatural splat that happens to be an ally or friend of a changeling.
* [[Fairy Sexy]]: The Sidhe are considred very beautiful even getting two free dots of appearance at character creation, they are also know for their various Romantic trysts. in commoner circles the satys are literarily the dreams of passions
* [[Fantasy-Forbidding Father]]: A typical villain.
* [[The Gadfly]]: Nockers.
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