Cliff Relph

This Weird Fruit Showed up One Day

Every time a new food appears, people want to eat it. When Goblin Fruit started
appearing outside the hedge, by the weekend you could find them down at the
market. Strange seasonal fruits, only $0.99 a pound! It looks like an apple, but it
tastes just like a meat pie my grandma used to make!

While Hedge fruit doesn’t normally work on humans, how they tasted was
completely a different story. Cheap, delicious, quickly replenishing… people
tried it enmass. Instagram had discussions about what kind they’d mix in with
their yogurt.

Little did people know, all they had to do to get some was to head down to their
local hedge gate. It didn’t matter which ones, as long as it had foliage nearby, you
had a reasonable chance of walking away with a handful of these miracle fruit.

Only problem was… have you ever had a song stuck in your head that you
couldn’t get rid of? Try that, but with food. Good luck trying to describe a fruit
that tastes like your first kiss. I wonder when they’ll have it in stock again
 @ME
I only had my Twiper account for 6 months when someone finally tweeted me.

It seemed pretty innocent. ‘@PressXToLove Open the door. 04:17, 11-28-19’ from @StepOnThrough. That’s hardly even
a tweet. Not that I’m an expert, clearly.

I didn’t even think much of it at first. Its profile picture was just a red door. It looked like any door. Every door. Just… this
one was red. Nothing so special about that… right?

So I put it out of my mind. Or, tried to anyway. I’d eat some Shreddies… ‘Open the Door’. I went to check my Fadebook…
‘Open the door’. Getting a call from a CRA Scammer… ‘Open the door’. I couldn’t get it out of my head.

Who is behind it? I was the only one they had tweeted, so far as I could see. Who would make an account like that? Ugh.
I guess this is why they say ‘Never read the comments’.

What door was I supposed to find? And where? I reverse-searched the up, and it couldn’t find anything on it.

A couple hours went by before I noticed the postal code ‘V6B 1C7’, right there in their profile. I knew the area, it was right
by Gastown, but I didn’t remember any like this door there.

I passed by Gastown on my way home from work. I still couldn’t find the door. Probably spent an hour just pacing up and
down the street looking for it too.

I went home tired, and feeling pretty stupid. I collapsed on my bed face down and slept for hours.

I woke up when I heard the moths bouncing off the window. Three moths, larger than I had ever seen. It was a little cold
for them… I should’ve thought of about it. I wasn’t thinking.

I dragged myself out of bed on autopilot. There weren’t any busses running this time of night so I took a cab. I would’ve
put on a warmer hoodie if I was thinking.

And there the door was. I’d been down this street, 3 or 4 times yesterday, and I know it wasn’t here before. It was just
there, jutting out of the brick wall. I put my hand on the knob and gave it a turn. It barely even budged.

I grumbled and leaned against it, and slid down to the cold cement. I blew $20 on a cab for this?

I headed over to a coffee place a few streets away. I checked the time on my way. I still had 42 minutes.

There I waited, in the middle of the night, with some particularly shitty coffee and literally no idea why I was still here,
shivering.

It wasn’t long until I returned to the door. I tried the knob again… it still didn’t budge. So, I’m not sure what this is about.
My coffee’s cold, and I’m just typing this to warm up my hands while I wait.

Wish me luck?
CREDITS SPECIAL THANKS
Author: Cliff Relph
Developer: Cliff Relph Gordon: Thank you for your advice, and coming
Editor: Cliff Relph over at 2 in the morning to make weird art. This
Word Ninja: Gordon Relph would have been a lot harder without your help

Artist: Cliff Relph, Additional Artwork: ‘Arch Nigel, Dana, Steph, Scott and Anna for playing
Fetch’ by aryaplusnine through the Chronicle, and giving me much
‘Magical Girl’ by Joyee Ouyang needed feedback with my experiments.

Dan, Amanda, Kaera, and David for reading over

my stuff!

Megan, Sam and Roman for showing it could be

done

Joyee for being a magical girl

The Voice From Beyond for ghostwriting!

And members of the Chronicles of Darkness

discord group who read over my stubs! Particularly
IceCraftMon. Give me your name.

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4 Things Get Wyrder

 TABLE OF CONTENTS
Casey Phillips 24
Derek Twinning – The Splinter 25
Credits 4
Branching Out - 26
Special Thanks 4
Table of Contents 5
CHAPTER 3:
Theme: A Growing Change 7
GENTRIFICATION
29
Mood: Encroaching Wonder and Doom 7 The Sheden 29
What’s in This Book? 8 Copper - Best Friend Forever 30
CHAPTER 1: THE GREAT The Bound 31
CHANGE 9 The Big Bad BoneDog 31
Wyrd as an Ecosystem 10 The Banished 32
Effects of a Changing World 11 The Darkwater Prince 32
End Game 12
Bargaining: 12
Titles 13 NOTHING DANGEROUS 34
Wild Titles 13 Paths to Apotheosis: 35
Broken Titles 14 Up and Down the Ladder 36
title shards 15 CHAPTER 4: WYRDER
How to make 15 WORLD 38
Earning a title shard 16 Bridge Burners 38
Emile Lynne 16 Locke Away 39
The Ravaged 40
CHAPTER 2: FETCHES 19
Arch Fetches 20 Barry 40
Ol’ Bark-Brow 20 Kithergarten 41
Boro 21 The Black Cat Lounge 41
Tatters 21 The Kitheater 42
The Shadowbound 22 Come-See 43
Edward and Evan 22
Fetch-Spawn 23

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6 Things Get Wyrder
 But you wished for a better world!
Things Get Wyrder is a setting expansion
for Changeling: The Lost 2nd Edition. This story
begins when a True Fae comes to The Human
World and rips out their title and shatters it,
freeing a massive amount of Wyrd energy.
Releasing so much fae magic at once strengthened
The Human World’s connection to The Wyrd, and
now two worlds are beginning to cross, with some
hedge denizens becoming brave enough to venture
outside the edges of the hedge.
Now that the World is growing Wyrder,
remember that you can too. If strength is
overcoming things, you’ve already come so far. If
there is magic around, do you not deserve its
reward?
THEME: A GROWING
CHANGE
Arcadia is a place of endless wonder and
magic. It might not have been such a bad place if
you weren’t stolen and caged there. There… you
broke down doors with just a touch, jumped over
fields of warring knights, and bathed in fire to stop
the dragon all to save the princess. You had power.
Here? …well, it may not be all that easy, but at least
you’re free.
You’ve built a home, and you’ve safe now.
You’re connected, and the world has started to
make sense again. Maybe everything was taken from
you once, but now are now whole enough, and
have a home in the world you were once robbed
from. You can grow. You can change, and you can
get powerful. What you didn’t count on was the
Human World changing. This place is your home,
and now someone’s left the window open and now
there’s Wyrd getting everywhere. Just as you have
once changed, so now is the world. And it might be
hard to admit, but there’s some nice things that
come with the world becoming Wyrder.
MOOD: ENCROACHING
WONDER AND DOOM
This book is about a slowly encroaching
disaster that people do not know how to handle.
Arcadia was brutal… but beautiful, and now the
Human World is slowly filling with its magic. There
used to be a strong divide between Humans and
The Fae, but now the worlds are crossing more,
making new opportunities present themselves. Is it
better for the world to become more magical? After
all, doesn’t this benefit most Changelings? Is this
something that needs to be stopped right now? Or
does this come at a cost that we’re not prepared to
pay? And if it can be stopped, how does an
individual take on a task that monumental?
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Also, can we get rich off this?
(Psssst. We’re doing Climate Change, the
Changeling.)
WHAT’S IN THIS BOOK?
Great Change and beautiful monsters. Gifts,
and life and energy… Magic. Power.
Opportunity. The greatest reward. New
monsters and friends, new places to visit, and
strength even for the shadows. Even a regular
ol’ human can find something that’ll make
them special.
- Chapter One: The Great Change is our setting
section. After a True Fae breaks their title in the
Human World, it releases a lot of Wyrd energy,
bringing on a great change, which in some ways is
beautiful, but will have huge consequences for
everyone. First, we look at the many creatures that
benefit from The Human World being changed
and speculate who is behind it. We then explore
using The Wyrd as an Ecosystem, and how its
hierarchy is affected by change. We learn more
about Titles, how they exist as on Wild Titles when
unclaimed, and introduce all new Broken Titles,
sure to complicate your stories. This section ends
with title shards, a brand-new system that puts magic
in the hands of some who shouldn’t have it. This
section is full of wonderful ways to make your
world more magical… and how it complicates
things.
- Chapter Three: Gentrification Many have secretly
wondered how to become a Gentry. Ha ha ha. Of
course, that wouldn’t be here, right? No… this
discusses the current state of True Fae and examine
how former True Fae, The Banished, are spending
their time. You’ll meet The Sheden, True Fae
unfortunate to break their vow, and are burning
away all their titles. The Bound are appearing, True
Fae that are tethered to a single Title that seem to
even escape Death. Finally, for particularly
ambitious Changelings… never mind. You could
turn back, but you won’t.
- Chapter Four: A Wyrder World is full of brand-
new creatures, hobs, and places in the hedge to
visit. We rediscover Bridge Burners, who are going
through their own personal nightmare, and
encounter new antagonists in The Ravaged, mortals
who have become harvested too much by
Changelings and have become warped by the
experience. We discover Kithergartens, spots in the
Hedge transformed by Changelings who have shed
their kith, and a new Hob pest that would love a
taste of your kiths(the fresher the better). Finally,
come see the Come-See, seemingly helpful Hobs
that trick humans into opening Hedge Gates and
walking in.

- Chapter Two: Creature Feature: The Fetch The

World becoming Wyrd affects many things, and
now Fetches are getting additional designs. Here
you’ll find Arch Fetches, massive wooden creatures
that have ripped away their humanity, and
embraced their fae nature. Boro are new creatures,
woven together from the shadows of dying fetches.
There are Splinters, fetches who have tied their
shadow to multiple fetch bodies, and Branching
Out, a freehold-like group made by and for fetches.
Finally, there’s an update for Fetch-Spawn, the
impossible children of Fetches.

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 Wish and you shall receive
THE GREAT CHANGE
It all started when a True Fae did the
unthinkable: They shattered their own title. A title is
something that True Fae conquers kingdoms for… it’s
what makes them so powerful! And to pull one out
and break it goes against everything known about
them. To do that… right out in the open? In the
Human World? It’s almost incomprehensible. But
what drove the True Fae to do that? Well, there’s a
few theories, and I think you know the usual suspects.
If the regular world was toxic to The Others, why
not change the world until it no longer was? Picture
yourself as one of The Others: A long long time ago,
True Fae found a strange land. This strange land had
the most magnificent creatures and was even bigger
than their real home! So they moved in.
So what if it had rules? You know what? Having
some rules is pretty fun. Then you can be and do
whatever you want! And eventually you get to make
the rules!
But the problem with Arcadia is that there’s a lot
of assholes living there. And they’re running the same
scam you are. You can rewrite anything around you…
but so can everyone else. Fights between each other
are stalemates, and unless you can get one of them to
break the rules, you need new games. Games with
creatures a little more vulnerable. And if a Keeper has
a beautiful new toy? Why, you can make an even
better one after a short little visit.
What if you ever get bored? Why, all you have to
do was go to the edge of the land, and then a bit
further, to the place that hurts if you stay too long and
come back with someone to make into the most
beautiful phoenix, one that and that will sing better
than the Half-Harp woman that other True Fae had.
Isn’t this fun! The Human World is already beautiful,
that’s why we take things from it already.
So if we colonized one world, why not explore
another? If we’re already able to find such jewels in
the dust with the glimpse of time we’re allotted here,
imagine what we could see if we had double the time?
No more constant burn of ‘reality’ telling us that you
don’t belong. We’re just curious explorers! And we’ve
already come all this way!
Some say it’s because of The Banished, who
wanted to be home so badly that they made home
come to them. Perhaps one is fulfilling its end of a
bargain with the Wyrd itself; in exchange for
strengthening The Wyrd’s hold on the world, their
exile from Arcadia is lifted, and they can return home.
What’s a better story than a Banished who’s returned
to their Royal Position?
Charleton are former True Fae that have been
sealed into the human world. Forever locked out of
‘Heaven’, one decides this world isn’t living up to it’s
true potential and is bringing about The Great
Change to make things better.
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 There was a rumour of a Changeling who was wasn’t their only Title? After all, who would give up
found worthy of a Title, and when they claimed it, all that power without something better than love in
they were trapped in Arcadia separated from their return?
love. Wanting both their love and their Title, they There’s no shortage of fae entities that benefit
stole away to The Human world, crushing the title in from the world becoming Wyrder, which makes it
the moment of their reunion. Back with their love, even harder to discover the true source.
they left all that power to do as it pleased. Perhaps that
WYRD AS AN ECOSYSTEM
“Grimwort once sat in The Dark Swamp, until the most brilliant light hovered before him. No frog had a
tongue as mighty as me! And soon the bright light came inside, thrashing, crying not to eat it. I didn’t understand
words yet. And then suddenly I did! And I wanted more. Grimwart big enough to eat a Briar Wolf now! I ’m
proud! Grimwort’s story echoes! If more Briar Wolves come, I shall eat them by the pack!”
–Grimwort, Hob, Last Recorded Words

There are four Terms you’ll need to be familiar with:

The Wyrd is the force that governs all fae magic. Wyrd is a creature’s connection to The Wyrd. Glamour is its smallest
form of energy of The Wyrd, and Fae Magic refers to all magic related to The Wyrd.

Changelings are very familiar with the hierarchy of

fae; at the top are The Others, and then way
waaaaaay waaaaaaay down the list are Changelings.
But as a Changeling’s Wyrd strengthens the
hierarchy starts to bend. True Fae are still at the
top, but something’s moving up the list, and it
keeps defeating things that try to stop them.
Changeling Society is about supporting new
Changelings, and once they have enough support,
they grow. Things naturally grow stronger… until
they’re destroyed, and when it does it releases all
that Wyrd energy they’ve accumulated. Sometimes

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it’s claimed, sometimes it just sits there, and everything gets a little wyrder, but everyone knows
sometimes it goes where the Wyrd needs it to. In what the cost is.
each case, it’s either changing itself, changing the
place it is, or changing the person who finally Being Wyrd ain’t so bad --
claims it. Effects of a Changing World
The Wyrd is a force that flows into things,
but it’s also an energy that spreads out, changing
For most chronicles, you might want to
what it connects with. When someone gets taken
start with a scene to establish what normal is
through the hedge, thorns tear holes in their souls
supposed to feel like. You may even call this Stage
and Glamour and Wyrd pour in. The Wyrd is so
0. Once your starting event happens, you enter
strong in Arcadia that it radiates out like a sun, and
stage 1. The Wyrd is getting stronger, gates are
The Hedge, almost as tied to the Wyrd, normally
staying open, and strange things are slowly creeping
absorbs all that energy that comes out. The
in. A once light touch on the Human World slowly
Humans in the Human World are usually ‘safe’, in
starts to feel like a grip. And as your players
that The Wyrd still touches all things, but the force
successfully combat the forces causing it, lower the
is not as strong there.
ranking, but if they fail (or unthinkably… make it
If The Wyrd’s connection to the Human Wyrder by choice) increase the ranking. There are
World grows stronger, say by massive influx of Fae near endless ways to personalise the growth of The
energy being released that rebalances it, The Wyrd in your game, and should you come up with
Human World’s hierarchy starts to bend too. The one, add it where appropriate.
Human World starts to change, resembling more
and more the paths through the hedge you know so
well. Changelings, and all the other fortunate
creatures bound to the Wyrd benefit greatly when

STAGES OF WYRD TAKEOVER

Stage Effect
1 It starts with Hedge Gates remaining open longer. Normally not a problem, but
the longer the stay open, the more fae creatures start getting curious about
scouting out the Human World
2 Hobgoblins start bargaining with humans to be able to stay in the Human world.
Changelings start having an easier time harvesting (adding +2 to their harvest
rolls). Even while closed, Goblin fruit starts growing outside hedge gates in the
Human world, though not mature nor magical enough to affect humans.
Consequently, Changelings have far fewer problems finding hedge fruit, adding 2
to rolls to find them near hedge gates.
3 The Wyrd is now gripping the Human World. Most people have started to sleep for
9 hours a night now. Contracts activated in the human world get a bonus of 1.
There are places where the Mask is low for Changelings, revealing the fae
creatures if they move into it. Once per scene, the glamour cost of your kith
blessing is reduced by 1.
4 Changelings have difficulty in hardening their mask which now costs an extra
glamour. Fetches start getting glimpses through their masks when they look in a
mirror. Double the effectiveness of every Goblin Fruit eaten. True Fae can now
spend twice as much time in The Human World.
5 It may be from an unfortunate turn of phrase, but now regular Humans can
sometimes get caught in pledges with each other. Glamour has started to appear,
and hedge thorns start to creep in through open hedge gates, holding some
doors open.

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END GAME
Towards the end of the Chronicle, if things
continue to worsen the Human World really starts
feeling like The Hedge. There’s less boundaries,
and hobs and most other things are free to come
and go as they please. This territory should be
reserved for your end of Chronicle, because at that
point no one has regular lives anymore, and it’s
now a very different chronicle than what you
started with. This is a huge shift in your story
requiring further world building to continue.
Should a player be interested, this is a excellent
place for players to play with becoming Gentry
themselves.

BARGAINING:

“I know, I know! I said I wouldn’t bargain with a Human, that I don’t like being tied down, I
know I need my space. I still don’t like being around other people! But… it’s getting weird out there.
I can hear his bells in the wind, and that crack of a whip… well… being tied down a little is better
than being roped back.”
Comet, Fairest Broadback

In return for an oath to help a human, Changelings accept them more like they belong there, all for the
make Bargains to hide safely in The Human World. cost of a bond with a human.
Huntsmen lose their trail, and the world starts to

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 When you first get back from Arcadia, one
of the hardest things to do is be vulnerable again.
You were helpless, and these monsters turned you
into something you don’t recognize. To complete
the Bargain, Changelings must appear without a
mask, and that level of vulnerability can be painful.
Would they have believed a friend who said they
were also part wolf? Probably not. Being that
vulnerable with someone again after Arcadia feels
dangerous, even with someone that you’ve known
since fifth grade. The Winter court may hide, and
The Summer Court may Cuss, but each
Changeling still has nightmares of being dragged
back again. It’s hard to let down your guard after
being ripped apart for a Keeper’s amusement.
Revealing oneself to gain the bargain is an
act of vulnerability that takes great courage. It’s also
a necessary step to keep safe. With the World
becoming Wyrder, it’s more common that you’ll
have interactions with Fae Creatures. Having a
Bargain with a human tricks the world into
believing you belong there, making efforts by The
Others much harder to locate you as you blend in.
Getting to that level of trust again is for the
Changeling’s benefit, even if it feels painful to get
there.
Bargaining with a hob is still a rare
occurrence. Most hobs spend as little time in The
Human World as possible, sticking to The Hedge
out of practicality. But there’s opportunity in a new
place that accommodates them. If a Hob makes a
bargain with a Human, the world accepts them as a
guest that can stay. The lighter oaths can easily
double the time they can stay, with greater binding
oaths allowing them to stay much longer. A bargain
to stay permanently would have quite the cost.
TITLES
At their core, Titles are power, and that’s
why they’re so desired. Titles are one of the most
concentrated forms of The Wyrd. It’s unknown
how many exist but a True Fae may travel Arcadia
for years and years, trying to find the perfect one.
Should an individual wish to claim an empty title
after discovering it, they must be found worthy by
the title. Not every creature is suited for each
title; an individual bent on a path of violence
would be found unworthy by the title of The Great
Architect. Should one be found wanting, the title
refuses an oath to take it, instead choosing to
remain Wild.
Titles must be selective; an oath is an oath,
and as long as The True Fae upholds their vow, the
title is bound, even if they stop being worthy. In
some ways, a Title is a body that a True Fae can
step into. All a True Fae has to do is follow the
oath they’ve sworn to the title, and in return they
control near limitless power.
In the Faerie Courts, every title is a status
symbol, and the more you have the nobler you are.
Most True Fae want as many titles as possible partly
to expand their already substantial might… but also
to flaunt! An endless game of one-upmanship. But
really, every title past the first is just icing on the
cake; without one they are practically a commoner
if you think about it. …should they even be allowed
to stay in Arcadia?
WILD TITLES
A Wild Title is a title formerly held by a
True Fae that sits and waits to be picked up by its
next owner. Like all things, Wild Titles change over
time. Did cavemen tell stories about old women
that lure children to a candy house? No. But they
did tell stories of Mysterious Strangers offering food
and being taken away. Some stories stay in the past,
while others change with the times. Is it growth? Is
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it divergence? Or is it just evolving like it always
has?
But the longer a title stays unclaimed, the
longer it has to change. The Title’s name might
drift, like when The Red Eyed Stranger shifted
while it rested, awakening as The Red Eyed Devil.
The title’s duties fluctuate as well, repairing itself in
the way it was abandoned in the first place. The
Beast of The Woods after being defeated, returns
and is now twice as big as before, calling itself The
Beast from Beyond The Woods. Even in defeat can
you improve.
Titles are bundles of fae energy, after all,
and the longer one sits idle, the more time it has to
transform the things around it. When the Title of
The Golden King went wild, it reshaped the Hedge
around it into an ornate throne room, and the
hobs around became faithful servants. Though,
some even start frightening Hobs away; When Lady
Luck’s title kept on destroying the Hobs that came
to claim it, local hobs used it to prove how fearless
they were by getting as close as they could without
being destroyed.
Many brave Changelings have attempted to
claim one, but it’s rare to hear a story of their
success. Should they gain one, the end condition is
that they become An Other, forever drawn to their
kingdom in Arcadia to rule for as long as they hold
their title. The Human World will now burn them,
signalling their fate as a monster from a strange
land.
BROKEN TITLES
Titles are particularly dense forms of
energy, which is why The Others get so powerful
when they have one. Broken Titles are the decaying
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masses that seep Wyrd Energy into the world
around them. Oaths and fae magic roil and burn,
radiating Wyrd like a roaring campfire. It’s pure,
raw fae magic bleeding out. And fae magic is magic
of change! It reshapes all it touches, becoming
something new. Lost are intimately familiar with
this energy; it’s the same energy that once
transformed them.
Things can be changed many times, but
Changelings and other creatures of the Wyrd have
a great deal of resistance to it, having already been
transformed. Exposing most non-fae things to such
raw glamour, however, is as dangerous as it is
effective in transforming it.
Being near Broken titles comes with its
own advantages; It’s very easy to collect glamour
from Broken Titles. As they spit and spew The
Wyrd around them, it grows and ripens goblin fruit
nearby, and creates tokens as its magic flows into
discarded objects in the hedge. Goblin Markets
settle nearby to ensure an easy and dependable
access to glamour.
They are dense forms of energy, and it
takes many years for the title to completely break
down. Show caution when near; it’s not quite dead
and will whisper to anyone who gets too close, and
few will resist the opportunity.
Story Hooks: When the Freehold found a Wild
Title laying unprotected in the Hedge, their bravest
Smith came with her hammer and drove an iron
railroad spike into its heart. When a True Fae
swore an oath upon its title yet still broke its word,
its title paid an ultimate cost. When the True Fae
sat in the Human world, until it’s arms and face
and heart burned away, so too did its title.
 -FORBIDDEN INFORMATION: WEARING A BROKEN TITLE-
Research has determined that Broken titles can still be claimed without a vow.

Should an individual approach a broken title they may claim it for themselves. This is highly
dangerous; Because the title is still broken, any creature who has claims it will be intimately
exposed to its seeping Wyrd energy. In Whole Titles, this energy is contained, orderly, and
controllable, but Broken titles are chaotic and roiling, and being bonded with one starts
transforming its owner.

These creatures gain access to the Dread Power: Miracle. While invoking the title’s power, they
can do incredible acts in service of completing an aspiration. Once completed, they will
permanently burn out an aspiration. This process may be slowed; any burned out aspirations may
be replaced with other Titles they collect, as well as with anything else as significantly magical.
Should all three aspirations be burned out, the Title will absorb the owner to help repair itself.

TITLE SHARDS

Just like Titles, title shards grant power to
the creatures that possess them. titles shards are
fragments of a formally complete Title that have
broken free after the Title’s shattering, becoming
something new, yet familiar. A title shard can be
claimed (sometimes unknowingly) by anyone
performing an act that the title shard finds worthy.
Systems: So long as the title shard owner is fulfilling
its duty, they may activate a contract without paying
its glamour cost once per scene. This includes any
contracts that the character is not familiar with, so
long as it’s within the duty of the title. In the case
of title shard owners who are unaware they possess
them, these contract activations can be automatic
and can activate in a moment of need, and without
the owner’s knowledge. The perfect contract always
seems to activate as if fate intended it to be so. An
owner may force an activation by spending a
Willpower. Each shard possessed by a human or
Changeling gives a bonus of 1 for each roll
involving the character’s Wyrd. Should a human be
holding a title shard, treat them as if they have Wyrd
1.
With a world that has magic hanging just
out of reach for most, a title shard will make an
individual mighty, though not royalty. Their effects
are powerful, with limitations. Charming your
landlord to forgive your rent this month? That’s
doable for the lady with the silver tongue. But
stopping a speeding car? Best of luck.
True Fae are true nobility, right? Anything
less is common. To True Fae seeing a shard, it’s like
showing up with a ripped handkerchief and acting
like it’s a royal gown. title shards do not denote
nobility anymore, and as such, use lower case in
their names. It’s no longer a title, after all.
Compared to what they have, it is a farce, not even
a novelty worthy of collecting.
title shards are rather flexible in who picks
them up, they like to be used, and will jump as
soon as someone suitable enough comes near, even
to those who aren’t quite ready for the
responsibility. And unlike Titles, title shards do not
need a vow with someone to attach to them.
HOW TO MAKE A TITLE SHARD
title shards have three components: the name, the
duty, and the domain.

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Their names are short and direct, often
exactly summing up what they do. As title shards are
not noble positions, title shards are written only
using lower case. Their duties reflect their name;
The night stalker will make its owner virtually
invisible at night should they be stalking
something, deer or… other things. In return for
being the silent guardian, Chelsea found that she
could effortlessly break up any fight in her school,
so long as she stopped speaking there.
Earning a TITLE SHARD
Their names are short and direct, often
exactly summing up what they do. As title shards are
not noble positions, title shards are written only
using lower case. Their duties reflect their name;
The night stalker will make its owner virtually
invisible at night should they be stalking
something, deer or… other things. In return for
being the silent guardian, Chelsea found that she
could effortlessly break up any fight in her school,
so long as she stopped speaking there.
Many shards have Everywhere as their
Domain, meaning no matter where they are, they
have access to powers of their shard. But some come
with a requisite. Some shards may only be used in
specific place. the bancho prince was a menace on the
mean streets of Ueno, but at home and in the
church, he was the perfect preacher’s son. Some
might only function when close to the object they
were once embedded in. When the rising pianist
played the old, abandoned piano in the closed
down school, the people on the street couldn’t help
themselves, and danced until the sun rose.
EMILE LYNNE
shard
Name: the little magician
Duty: Bring magic to the kingdom
Domain: Everywhere
Background: Female Magicians never get the love
they deserve. Even though Emile Lynne could pick
handcuffs in half the time it took others, no one in
Montreal would go to her shows. As fate would
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have it, after she gained the little magician shard
things really turned around. People would flock to
her shows, buzzing about tricks so impossible, that
it must be magic. Now she sells out The Corona
Theatre four nights a week, and everyone wants to
see the impossible.
Description: Emile knows her style and now that
she has the funds, she can dress like the
professional she always believed she was. Intricate
and fantastical patterns paired with magic hands.
Most clothes are made for taller folks, and now she
can finally have something nice that she doesn’t
have to pin into place. She might fool most but
having been through hard times herself she’s got a
soft spot for a sad story.
Story Hooks: Emile is beginning to attract a very
large audience. All that positive attention has
started to bring a more magically familiar audience.
If she keeps getting popular, she’s going to find an
audience member that wants to bring her home.
Name: Emile Lynne
Mental Attributes: Intelligence 3, Wits 3, Resolve
4
Physical Attributes: Strength 2, Dex 4, Stamina 2
Social Attributes: Presence 4, Manipulation 4,
Composure 3
Mental Skills: Occult 1, Crafts 3
Physical Skills: Athletics (Throwing Knives) 2,
Stealth 4, Larceny (Sleight of hand) 4
Social Skills: Expression (Magic) 4, Animal Ken 2,
Intimidation 4
Merits: Unseen Sense, Taste, Sleight of Hand
Wyrd: ‘1’
Shard: the little magician
Willpower: 7
Virtue: Practice makes Perfect
Vice: Finally, some Recognition!
Aspiration: Have the biggest show in Montreal
Initiative: 7
Defense: 4
Speed: 13
Size: 10
Health: 14
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 HELLO THERE, IT’S ME, DEREK TWINNING, FOUNDER OF GREENEDGE RECYCLING.

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IF YOU ARE TRASH AT DEALING WITH YOUR TRASH

WE’LL BE YOUR RECYCLING SOLUTION

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 ‘The best thing about Fetches is that there’s no one way to make a fetch. True fae can make them out of
practically anything around; the person’s clothes, old robin eggs, silver tongues, and chewing gum. The most
important part is the scrap of shadow taken, excuse me, donated from the abductee; without that, what’s going
to pilot the thing?’
Sylvie Books, Fetch Enthusiast

their family, they’ll use this Wyrd new power to stop

WHAT ARE YOU
MADE OF?
One of the creatures most affected by the
increasing Wyrd is the creature meant to look most
like us -- The Fetch. Before now, they could live
blissfully unaware lives for years and years,
completely blind to their true nature. Now that there
is a stronger connection to The Wyrd, more Fae
things happen, leading more fetches to discover what
they really are. Catching glimpses of a weird creature
in the mirror or discovering this beautiful green
energy in an alleyway and following it, leading to
them finding out their true nature.
How does one handle evidence that they are a
monster?
Not well, most of the time. Some might feel
invincible when they survive an accident that would
have killed anyone else. Others deny and squash the
growing desire to grab onto the nearest door handle
and wish ‘Let me in’. Some don’t know what’s going
on, but if anyone tries to come between them and
them.
As a being made of a scrap of someone’s
shadow bound in whatever a True Fae has at hand,
Fetches have always been a diverse lot.
Unpredictable too. There’s always something
different about them, like a Xerox copy. And that
difference can catch most Changelings off guard.
There’s always at least a sliver of difference, some
part that did not get carried over, ready to reveal
itself, good or bad, that can flip any situation on its
head.
Perhaps the fetches that have it the roughest are
the ones that weren’t given much care when they
were created. If a True Fae left a hastily constructed
fetch, either not being carved right, or having too
many knots in the wood, this growing Wyrd would
not only show their misconstruction, but emphasize
it! Once mostly normal fetches suddenly grow big
brutish fists it can’t close, and bark like skin that
peels off fresh every night. Discovering you’re a
copy, and not even a good one at that, can make
anyone feel like a monster.

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 transformed, and he’s already over three meters tall.
ARCH FETCHES Several tokens are crammed into his blocky wood
chest, which jostle with big movements. In one
An Arch Fetch is a Fetch that has shed its hole, a pair of small bird fae have nested, coming
humanity and has completely embraced it’s fae and going as they please.
nature. After tearing itself free from its flesh prison,
revealing the sticks and strings and shadow it was
Storyteller Hints: Having spent most of his time
crafted from, its original purpose has been shed
looking for Icons, Ol’ Bone-Brow has quite the
completely. Now something else, it begins its next
selection. Should someone need an Icon, chances
cycle: Growth. Just like the tree its wood came
are he’s seen it, or has collected it already. One icon
from, the fetch grows taller and broader; its limbs
for three is the general rate, after all. Unfortunately,
stretch and lengthen, growing thicker to support its
he has a small bird infestation, and he isn’t carrying
bulkier form. The largest Arch Fetch found so far
as many icons as some gaps have been nested in.
towers at 3 meters tall.
This growth leaves gaps in its wooden flesh,
which it uses to store Icons it discovers in the
hedge, which is where most Changelings encounter
them. These Icons are often far more safe with an
Arch Fetch, as the Arch Fetch uses the Icon’s
ambient energy to help fuel it’s growth while it
shelters it.
Fetches are built for a very specific purpose,
and most of that has now been torn away.
Consequently, should a Human see an Arch Fetch
in the Human World, because it has ripped away
it’s humanity and Mask, the human will see its true
nature.
What are they growing into, and what are
they becoming? Even Arch Fetches don’t know.

Systems: Arch Fetches have no mask. They can

have both Echoes and Dread Powers. Additional
Dread Powers and Echoes can be purchased for 4
Experiences.

OL’ BARK-BROW

Background: It’s been so long that Ol’ Bone-Brow

barely remembers being hunted by the Freehold.
One day he was human, and the next he was
looking at himself, and himself was going to kill
Name: Ol’ Bark-Brow
him. But a promise to stay away kept him alive. No
money, no food, no husband, all taken in one Mental Attributes: Intelligence 4, Wits 2, Resolve
night. It was hard, until one day, he gave up what 5
little life he had left, and stepped into the hedge Physical Attributes: Strength 7, Dex 2, Stamina 6
one final time. Social Attributes: Presence 4, Manipulation 3,
Composure 5
Description: Ol’ Bone Brow towers over most
changelings. It’s been nine months since he’s Mental Skills: Occult 4, Investigation 4, Crafts 3

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Physical Skills: Survival 6, Stealth 4, Brawl 3
Social Skills: Animal Ken 2, Intimidation 4
Merits: Hobkin (Twitters) (*), Hollow (****),
Dread Powers: Home Ground, Unbreakable,
Chameleon Horror
Echoes: Mimic Contract (Shield) (***)
Wyrd: 6
Glamour/per Turn: 20/6
Willpower: 10
Needle: Patience
Thread: Growth
Aspiration: If I’m not them, who am I?
Initiative: 7
Defense: 4
Speed: 13
Size: 10
Health: 14
New Echoes: Mimic Contract _______ (***)
The fetch has grown strange and weird and have
embraced their magical nature. They may select a
regalia at purchase and mimic any contract from
that regalia. It may not use its loophole.
BORO
A scrap of someone’s shadow has never
been enough by itself to make a fetch. It’s been
bound into a woven cage of sticks, filled with the
bones of an unlucky cat, a heart of gold, and
whatever else The Keeper had on hand. But the
scrap of shadow, that human essence, is the soul of
the creature, the reason it moves and breathes and
lives. And if you crack open a fetch, as many have,
inside you’ll find a scrap of shadow clinging to life.
A Boro is a collection of these scraps of
shadows, saved in their most vulnerable moments.
Snatched from the jaws of death, the scrap joins a
patchwork cloak of soul scraps, who have all been
saved from a similar fate.
Most Boro live by a very simple creed; if a
shadow is about to be snuffed, and they can save it,
they will. There’s always more space on the
patchwork. But in between adding shadow scraps,
most Boro simply try to survive, and figure out what
or who they are now.
Systems: Most Boro are sensitive to bright lights
and take 1 bashing every minute while standing in
it. However, powers that would take control of it,
such in the case of Dominate, do not work as those
powers can only focus on one mind at a time and it
is made of many. Spending a Glamour, the Boro
can become pure shadows, which lets it slip easily
through any open holes and tiny passages. Being a
composite creature, it has additional resistance to
contracts that work on learning an individual’s
specific details. Learning their strongest desire may
only find the strongest desire amongst the complete
creature, or only bring up the most relevant one.
TATTERS
Background: In the great Fetch Purge of Winnipeg,
the Freehold of The Dark Water collected all the
Fetches in the city one summer’s eve. One by one,
they were broken, and left on the muddy shores the
city was named after. As the water rocked the
wooden shells of the fetches together, their shadows
intertwined, and before the sun rose again, 32
Shadows became bundled up together, unsure of
what to do next.
Description: Tatters’ skin is a patchwork of
shadows; Being made of shadow, they avoid direct
contact with bright lights, and it makes them
disappear until it is removed. They cover most of
themselves in a ripped old trench coat and
discarded jeans. They are scrounging on the edge of
society, no longer able to go back to any of its 32
lives
Storyteller Hints: Tatters didn’t mean any harm
the night they were rounded up and destroyed. And
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now that the Freehold is after them again, they the human’s shadow, the human gains access to
need time to recover and figure out exactly what Echoes, and The Shadow has a body that keeps it
they are. alive.
The pair now share a Wyrd score, equal to
Name: Tatters what the fetch’s was when it was pulled free of its
Mental Attributes: Intelligence 4, Wits 4, Resolve body. It is now separate enough from the
4 Changeling that it has developed its own Wyrd
Physical Attributes: Strength 4, Dex 4, Stamina 4 connection, which can be fostered by the pair and
Social Attributes: Presence 4, Manipulation 4, grow on its own.
Composure 4 With the bond, the two can now speak
with each other as long as there is shadow.
Additional Echoes can be purchased with 4
Mental Skills: Academics 4, Occult 4, Investigation
Experiences. Every third purchase of Wyrd
4
increases the connection and fills up the next
Physical Skills: Survival 4, Stealth 4, Drive 4, highest Integrity score with Shadow.
Weaponry 4
Social Skills: Animal Ken 4, Intimidation 4,
System: In exchange for being bound to the
Subterfuge 4, Socialize 4
human, the Shadow now lives in the player’s
Merits: Multilingual (Canadian French, Michif,
Integrity track in the bottom slot. Should the
English), Many-Mind (***)
person’s morality drop to its final dot, the Shadow
Echoes: Shadow Boxing, Shadow Step gains control of the human until such time its
Wyrd: 4 Integrity rises again.
Glamour/per Turn: 13/4
Willpower: 8 Inspirations: Venom (Marvel Comics), Shikamaru
Needle: Cooperation (Naruto), The Darkness (Top Cow), Inque (Batman
Thread: Consensus Beyond)
Aspiration: Find out Who or what are ‘We’
Initiative: 8 EDWARD AND EVAN
Defense: 4
Speed: 13
Size: 5
Health: 9

New Merit: Many-Mind (***)

Effect: You’ve knocked on their mind’s door, but
there’s already 13 people inside. Effects to read this
character’s motivations, aspirations, or personal
information through magical means has a -3
penalty. This extends to powers that would dictate
their actions, such as Dominate. By spending a point
of Willpower, they may also automatically succeed
on any defensive roll against a mind/soul affecting
power.

THE SHADOWBOUND
The Shadowbound are humans who have
become bonded with a scarp of a shadow from a
dying fetch. In exchange for the scrap living inside

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Background: Edward and Evan were always the
closest brothers. The good-hearted ones that
pranked and joked to make people’s days better.
When one day his brother changed, Edward didn’t
mind, and loved him even when the world seemed
to hate him. No matter how tough things got, they
had each other, even though sometimes it felt like
it was just them against the world. When Edward
found Evan busted open one night, he swore he’d
do anything to save him. Now the two are truly
inseparable, and they’ll work together to find out
who tried to kill him.
Description: Edward has wear on his hands from
hard days work, and struggle to achieve, and yet an
air of mischief and hope hangs around him,
literally and figuratively. In his shadow, Evan waits,
ready to prank like they’ve always done, stretching
from Edward’s shadow, to do new tricks they
couldn’t even do before.
Storyteller Hints: Edward and Evan are on a
mission, and the trail is going cold. Their good-
natured pranks have gotten them kicked out of
most magical establishments in Toronto, but they
still have a few to go. If they don’t find Evan’s
killer, how long until they come for Edward?
Name: Edward and Evan
Mental Attributes: Intelligence 3, Wits 3, Resolve
4 original. This bundle of sticks and shadow, broken
Physical Attributes: Strength 2, Dex 3, Stamina 4
Social Attributes: Presence 4, Manipulation 4,
Composure 2
Mental Skills: Occult 2, Medicine 2
Physical Skills: Stealth (Pranks) 3, Athletics 2,
Brawl (Scrapp’n) 2
Social Skills: Subterfuge (It was him!) 3, Empathy 3
Merits:
Echoes: Shadow Boxing, Shadow Step, Consume
the Dark
Wyrd: 2
Glamour/per Turn: 11/2
Willpower: 8
Needle: Turn it up
Thread: Life of the Party
Aspiration: To catch our/our brother’s killer
Initiative: 8
Defense: 3
Speed: 10
Size: 5
Health: 9
New Echo: Consume the Night (Wyrd 2): By
spending a turn concentrating and spending a
willpower, the user may draw all shadows in an area
into themselves to refill their glamour pool. This
will remove all shadows from the area for a day,
leaving the area looking eerie, and strange.
FETCH-SPAWN
“Me and my wife, we love her. She’s our little miracle.
The Doctor thought she was unfaithful, but I know it’s
because love is so deep that it didn’t even matter that we
were both girls. 10 fingers, and 10 toes, and the biggest
smile… her hand still doesn’t even fill mine. This isn’t her.
She didn’t do this. I’m going to find her, she’ll tell me it
was an accident. I’ll tell her it’s okay. I’ll take her. I’m
the only one she’s got now.”
Fetch-spawn are impossible. A fetch is just a
recreation of a person, with a scrap of shadow at its
core to fuel it. But fetches aren’t really… real.
They’re meant to imitate life, not make it. But
somehow, they can feel love just as much as the
dreams and stolen lives, even this creature can feel
a love deep enough to overcome the impossible.
This love allows for the existence of… pure evil.
Fetch-spawn are not human. They are not
Fae. Half their DNA is sawdust. They are paper jam
photocopies of life. They should not exist. They
have no connection to the Wyrd, in fact The Fae
world recoils, burning at their touch. These ‘sweet’
little children skip over blood splattered floors, with
big happy smiles and zero fear. For them, is it a
game? Do they know what feelings are? Do they
care? Those are not smiles you’ll see on happy
people. Descended from logs rolled into someone’s
life, these monsters have enigmatic goals (and
sometimes none at all), and a growing body count.
Both worlds reject it; It’s life that should
not be… but made of < 75% human. They do as
they please, and the world ignores it enough to let
them succeed! That last 25% must really be
something, eh? Their touch can render Tokens
inert and drain Glamour from Changelings. They
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cannot be affected by contracts and are usually
forgotten by humans they have no connection with.
Having no soul, and no moral centre, they do not
have degeneration rolls.
Most leave with an impression that
something’s wrong with the child. In conversation,
they’re often darkly pragmatic, logically cutting
down situations into uncomfortable pieces. With
big wide eyes, they robotically dissect arguments,
telling the ‘truth’ that they really know.
In Game terms, fetch-spawn:
- Do not have Integrity Ratings
- Deletes The Wyrd on contact. If a Fetch-spawn
touches a changeling, they lose two glamour a
round for as long as they touch. If a Fetch-spawn
touches a token, it ceases to function until re-
energised by spending time in the hedge. At the
CASEY PHILLIPS
“No-no, Ms. Phillips– Casey’s been great! I tried to help
her with her homework, and… this is going to sound a
little weird, when we were going over biology, it's like she
knew more than I do! Smart cookie! If she just worked on
her social skills a little, there’s no telling how far she’ll go,
but right now, when she speaks to me it’s like she’s
looking right through me.”
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storyteller’s discretion, prolonged contact with
Fetch-spawn can have serious effects, including
dissolving one’s Kith.
- Add three successes to each Stealth roll they make
- Cannot be bound, just like a Changeling, except
for them there is no cost.
- Do not have the Empathy Skill. All Empathy rolls
are reduced to a chance die.
- Do not have Wyrd ratings nor Glamour pools
- Cannot learn Echoes, Contracts, Tokens, or any
other forms of fae magic
- Cannot be targeted by Contracts or tokens, as the
Wyrd ignores them.
- Do not dream, cannot be dream ridden, or enter
someone else's dream.
- Cannot enter into pledges
- Iron has no additional effect
Background: Casey is going to be the best. Her
parents said she was perfect. They will be right. She
will ace every test, she will finish every race, and she
will learn everything. Valedictorian. Prom Queen.
Prom King. Play Lead. Varsity Runner. The other
girls don’t like her. Why shouldn’t they? She’s
perfect. It doesn’t matter. Each will fall in line, even
if they need to be pushed.
Description: Casey’s perfect. Perfect hair, perfect
skin, perfect fingers, toes, and teeth. Perfect
attendance, perfect scores, and by every measure,
DEREK TWINNING –
elite. If only she had a personality. She is direct THE SPLINTER
with what she wants and cuts off conversation if it
doesn’t lead to her goals. Her attire opposes her
personality; beautiful frilly dresses, without a dark
smudge anywhere.

Storyteller Hints: Casey’s reach for perfection is

often hindered by her inability to work with others.
But she will be perfect and have everything she’ll
ever want. So what if everyone else up for Student
Council is more popular? That doesn’t have to be a
problem forever.

Name: Casey Phillips

Mental Attributes: Intelligence 5, Wits 3, Resolve
4
Physical Attributes: Strength 3, Dex 3, Stamina 5
Social Attributes: Presence 2, Manipulation 1,
Composure 4

Mental Skills: Academics 3, Science 3 (Biology),

Physical Skills: Brawl 2 (Bars), Stealth 3
(Schools), Weaponry 2 (Knives)
Social Skills: Subterfuge 4, Persuasion 2,
Intimidation 3
Merits: Rigid Mask, Eye for the Strange,
Indomitable, Tolerance for Biology, Just a Vessel
Willpower: 8
Needle: Practicality
Thread: Perfection
Aspiration: To be the best there ever was
Initiative: 6
Defense: 3
Speed: 11
Size: 5
Health: 10
New Merit: Just a Vessel (**)
Effect: This body is just a vessel, and this one is a
pure one. Fetch-Spawn are immune to disease and
cannot get otherwise sick. Wounds do not bring
them pain. Some may choose to stop ageing
entirely. By spending a point of Willpower, they
may also shed any physical tilt.
Background: Derek was always told he had real
potential. The problem was he could rarely focus
on just one task. It’s called Attention Deficit
Disorder, and while the medication helped,
sometimes it felt like the world wasn’t made for
someone like him. When The Perfectionist found
him, he sympathised, and brought him to a perfect
new world.
Sometimes it takes a while to make a real
good Fetch. The right hair, the right eye colour, the
right smile, right down to the freckles. After 200
attempts, Derek was perfect. And returned so
quickly, no one would miss him!
Until one day the world felt different… and
the fetch that remained knew that there was
something different about him too. He soon
opened a Hedge gate, and he explored, until he
found another him, and another… and another.
But none of them moved, or breathed, they were all
just laying there among the thorns. Some shorter,

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some rounder, some with blue eyes, and some
brown.
Just like him, how sad. Derek snipped a
little of his shadow, and then there were two. Then
four. Each one an extension from the first.
Inspirations: Invasion of The Body Snatchers, The
Faculty, Jasmine (Angel), Agent Smith from (The
Matrix)
Description: Derek Twinning is a well-cut
businessperson, charming, friendly, attractive; you’d
understand why a True Fae would want them. The
rest of him are variations on the theme. Some
taller, some shorter. They run most of his business,
after receiving commands from Derek Prime, all of
them working towards a common goal.
Storytelling Hints: Derek isn’t complete; he wants
to find all the other copies of himself and is more
than willing to explore his options in finding them.
Who else can you trust but yourself? His new
business, GreenEdge says it will dispose of
anything, no mess! And their contract bid was so
low, the city had to take them up on it. But how do
they keep it so low? Well, you don’t have to pay
your workers if you are your workers. And truck
that waste out of town? Why do that, when you can
open a hedge gate in your facility and just dump the
garbage in? That’s probably going to upset another
intricate ecosystem.
Mental Attributes: Intelligence 4, Wits 3, Resolve
4 ‘They meet up on Tuesdays and Fridays, weird
Physical Attributes: Strength 2, Dex 3, Stamina 5
Social Attributes: Presence 4, Manipulation 5,
Composure 3
Mental Skills: Academics 4 (Business), Occult 2
Physical Skills: Survival 4, Stealth 3, Brawl 2
Social Skills: Intimidation 4, Subterfuge 4,
Persuasion 3
Mental Skills: Investigation 3
Physical Skills: Brawl (Grappling) 3, Stealth 2,
Survival 3,
Social Skills:
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Merits: Etiquette (****), Fame - Environmentalism
(**), Resources (*******)
Echoes: Enter the Hedge, Summon Shard, The
Splintering
Wyrd: 4
Glamour/per Turn: 9/4
Willpower: 7
Needle: Greed
Thread: Top Dog
Aspiration: To make the world a better place and
get rich doing it.
Initiative: 6
Defense: 3
Speed: 10
Size: 5
Health: 9
New Echo: The Splintering (Wyrd 3)
Should a fetch find another copy of themselves, or
a fetch that’s missing its scrap of shadow, The Fetch
can tether itself to this additional vessel. Now it too
can be an extension of the first, becoming the
likeness of its new owner.
BRANCHING OUT - THE
FETCH FREEHOLD
“I’m still me right? These are my hands, no one else’s. I
used them to hold my boy. That was me, I did that…
right?”
crew. When I came in, they all looked at me at
the same time. That was weird. Some of them are
really scared, man! I didn’t even think they felt
things. But some of them, this isn’t new to them.
They’ve known for years. And after some time
there, they calm down, and they don’t look so
scared. All I know for sure though… is they have
terrible Sandwiches.”
Alloe, Wizened Plant
You wake up one day knowing who you are, and by
the end of it, you have evidence that you are also
something else. You may not know what you are,
but you’re still you, right? You remember flunking
that test, and getting tongue tied when someone
asked you to dance, that nursery rhyme you hum to
your kid when they cry. Suddenly, you’re lost in a
role that is and isn’t you, having a life that is yours,
but is also borrowed. Are you alive, or are just a
shadow wearing a shell? Having discovered their
true nature, these fetches did the most human
thing they could: They reached out and connected
with each other. Branching Out is a group of fetches
that have formed their own version of a freehold
after being confronted with their Other nature.
They created structure, making a new family, and a
new home.
It’s cathartic to know that others are going
through the same stuff you’re just stepping into,
and that you’re not the only weirdo to exist. And
when the person that looks like you comes to
‘reclaim’ themselves, they at least can go to the
Group for protection.
When the weak and worn-down Fetches
became healed by the growing magic around them,
the benefits of being ‘a monster’ became tangible
when tensions rose. Some want to go down the
natural path to see where this goes, and others just
need some time to make this new world make
sense. No matter their criss-crossed journeys, they’re
linked together now, and Branching Out is looking
to come to a city near you.
Description: As a support group for Fetches, was
once of a loose connection of Fetches that have
been weaved together. The Wyrd affords them with
enough respect that it has allowed them an Oath;
All it asks is to help each other out of trouble.
Being fetches, they are in a unique place to know
exactly how to advertise to get new members: ‘Not
feeling yourself? Do you feel like you’ve been
walking a mile in someone else’s shoes? Is someone
running around in a mask that looks like you?’
Story Hooks: Are they being sincere? The Summer
King doesn’t think so. There’s no way she’d let this
bunch infest his city. No doubt there’s a Fetch in
there, ready to become a REAL monster, right? Go
in there and find out what real monsters they truly
are!
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 Do you feel like you’re in a life that doesn’t quite feel yours?
Are you not sure who you really are when you look at yourself the mirror?
Do you sometimes feel someone is out there, ready to take everything away from you?

We here at Branching Out understand the confusing feelings that come with major
changes in your life. If you’ve felt like someone is around without having seen them,
or you’ve seen odd things after opening a door, or if you think you’re seeing double,
please come join us at Branching Out.

We’re here for each other.

 You know what you’re looking for. Keep reading.
There are three terms you’ll need to be familiar with:
True Fae are entities that hold a Title. The Others are another term for True Fae. A Keeper is a True Fae that steals
humans and takes humans to Arcadia.
THE GENTRY
Do you ever want something so badly that
everything seems to throw itself into your path of
getting it? That’s what it’s like to be a True Fae in
The Human world. A True Fae can spend a few
hours here and be fine, all the while burning away
at the edges of their mantle. The more time they
spend there, the more things get in their way as
reality pushes back on their presence. They’re
foreign, abnormal, and need to go. But as long as
the Human World fascinates the True Fae, they
will continue to come. The Human World’s best
quality is that it creates an endless supply of little
creatures that one can take home and do anything
with. Truthfully, True Fae aren’t afraid to come,
they just can’t stay.
Their major problem is that this world
hates them. As if that’s something they can’t
change! If it’s a rule they can’t break yet, why not
bend it? If they only have an hour, why not get two?
Spending time here is a luxury they want to afford,
and while many Others never leave Arcadia, the
ones that do usually bring someone back. And If
they have more time in The Human World, that’s
all the more time to explore, and discover… just like
they did when they arrived in Arcadia.
THE SHEDEN
As the consequence of breaking a vow with
the Wyrd, the Sheden is a decaying shell of a True
Fae. One by one, each Title of the True are being
painfully burned away, releasing the Sheden’s
accumulated Wyrd energy into the world around it.
The Sheden will continue to travel further and
further from Arcadia, leaving Wyrd in its wake as it
approaches the edge of the hedge to complete its
exile. The Sheden makes this process easier on itself
by making deals: In exchange for teaching
Changelings contracts, The Sheden breaks off a
title quickly and painlessly, immersing the nearby
world with Wyrd.
On the release of the final title, The
Sheden finds a hedge gate and emerges into the
human world. Stripped of their powers and roles
from their titles, and completing their penance,
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The True Fae emerges fresh and new into the
human world as whatever it was when it first
entered Arcadia.
A brave Changeling might seek one of the
sites where a Sheden has lost one of its titles. Being
immersed in the Wyrd energy provides a great
means to strengthen their connection. It is a rare
event, but one full of opportunity. Many
Changelings can’t help but want to approach such
creatures, if not for the opportunities, but for the
satisfaction of seeing an Other be punished, to
remind everyone that even The Others have to
answer to The Wyrd.
COPPER - BEST FRIEND
FOREVER
Background: Copper was the Truest Friend, a
Changeling that would fight and bleed for his
friends. They lived, and survived, and thrived, and
grew powerful together. But when his motley was
suddenly taken from him, he swore he’d find a way
to never let it happen again. The once small
grasshopper grew and gReW, aNd FouNd NeW
fRiEnDS TO PRoTECT, ANd THEY WOULD BE
SAFE FOREVER.
Until one wasn’t.
Copper now descends from Arcadia,
returning home, each title burning away from him
with every step. The weight of his actions hangs
around him. It’s not hard to find him now, as
glamour erupts from him, lighting the hedge for
kilometers.
Description: Copper was human once, until his
keeper turned him into a grasshopper that no one
listened to. As he returns from Arcadia, he is slowly
turning back to the person he once was; his thick
carapace has retreated, turning exoskeleton back to
skin and bone. No longer the fifteen-foot-tall
insectoid who collected friends, he’s returning to
the human he once was. Despite all this, has not
given up hope he can return to right the wrongs
he’s made, even though he doesn’t know what
awaits him on the other side.
Storyteller Hints: Copper is always looking for
friends. Even if their time together will be short.
Should you walk with him, he’ll teach you a secret
contract his best friend once showed him. Be quick,
he won’t be around forever.
Name: Copper
Mental Attributes: Intelligence 2, Wits 3, Resolve
5
Physical Attributes: Strength 7, Dex 5, Stamina 6
Social Attributes: Presence 2, Manipulation 2,
Composure 5
Mental Skills: Investigation (Secrets) 4, Medicine 3,
Crafts (Gifts) 2
Physical Skills: Athletics 4, Survival 6, Stealth 6
Social Skills: Animal Ken 3, Empathy 4, Persuasion
(Sorry!) 1
Merits: Common Sense (***), Encyclopaedic
Knowledge - Contracts (****), Sympathetic (**)
Contracts:
Wyrd: 9 → 8
Glamour/per Turn: 26/8
Willpower: 10
Needle: Hope
Thread: Friends Together
Aspiration: Return Home
Initiative: 8 THE BIG BAD BONEDOG
Defense: 3
Speed: 20
Size: 8
Health: 14

THE BOUND

“I was born to play this part! It’s got

everything! Mystery, anger, and love! I love
loving things!”
Xtylxn%6m, True Fae

Sometimes a True Fae gets so immersed in

a role, it’s not a part anymore, it’s who they are. Do
they have other titles? You wouldn’t know, you’ve
only seen them as the Red Eyed Beast that wants
you to live in his castle.
Something has happened to these True
Fae; there’s no division between the Entity of The
True Fae, and the Title that it eternally holds.
During the process, all of its other titles have pulled
away, and now it’s no longer a realm traveling
entity that’s wedged into roles for power, it IS its
own Title.
So tightly wound into this role is the True
Fae that should they be slain, they will revive itself
as long as the title survives. But until it is revived,
its title will sit, reconstituting it. And for
Changelings, that is the perfect time to strike.
Locked True Fae are rather divisive to
other True Fae; on one hand, letting yourself go so
far that there’s no barrier between themselves and
the role? How tragically beautiful! What courage!
So rare does one dedicate themselves to a role so
completely! But… that’s it? After this one, no more
shows? No more parts? What a poor, crippled
creature.
This situation inspires great caution as well;
Should another True Fae somehow win the title, do
they become locked into it as well? Will they feel all
other titles burn away from them as they claim it,
never to gain another? The strange nature of these
True Fae has given The Others pause, especially
True Fae that have yet to hold a title.
Background: It’s the main event! Everyone else is a
curtain jerker. He’s held this title for years, and
years, and no pencil-neck dweeb will beat him for
it! The main event is a battle, and battles need
opponents, and the crowd can only stand the same
old match, over and over. Anyone he finds who has
a smidge of potential and a handful of charisma,
The Big Bad BoneDog takes them to The Squared
Circle. What will you do when The Big Bad
BoneDog buries you?
Description: This hulk of a creature stands over
two and a half metres tall and looks as broad as he
is big. The Ultimate Universal Supreme
Championship Belt gleams around his thick waist.
Thick corded arms, scarred with fights and
experience and winning are ready to grapple and lay
out anyone he gets a hold of. Those pythons got to
be over 32 inches! His thick Bone mask adorns his
head, perfect for headbutting.
Storyteller Hints: You’ve got a Title? You’ve got a
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himself to put into his collection. Not to use, but to
add to his other trophies. If you think you’re the
baddest, wait until the Big Dog goes wild on you!
Cause ain’t no one going to stop The Big Bad
BoneDog, you dig?
Name: Big Bad BoneDog
Regalia: Shield
Wyrd: 6
‘Seeming’: Ogre
Aspiration: One Million Fights
Mental Attributes: Intelligence 3, Wits 4, Resolve
6
Physical Attributes: Strength 5, Dex 5, Stamina 6
Social Attributes: Presence 4, Manipulation 3,
Composure 6
Mental Skills: Medicine 2, Investigation 2
Physical Skills: Brawl 6 (Wrassl’n), Survival 3
Social Skills: Intimidation (Let’s Fight!) 4,
Intimidation 3, Expression 4, Persuasion 3
THE BANISHED
“When Tobias was revealed to be a former one of
Them, the freehold mobilized. Me, Iron Lion,
Espelda, and Bron drudged through the Hedge,
following his trail. He was fast, and quick, but so
were we. But then an hour went by, then it
turned to night, then sunset came, and Iron Lion
pulled away. Espelda was the last to leave. Three
days later, I finally cornered him! I shouted
‘CHARGE!’ and ran in. Anyway, that’s when I
got out my Mace and started POWND’N.”
Xebi, Broadback, Hedge Ghost
The Banished are former True Fae who
have been exiled from Arcadia, and now live in the
hedge. Banished after a disagreement with the
Courts of Arcadia, The Banished try to play a new
game: find their way back home. And if it was a set
of rules that got them banished in the first place,
then those same rules will get them back home. All
they need to get the right angle.
As the Wyrd starts to inch further into The
Human World, it becomes a place far more
accommodating to The Banished. Compared to the
near limitlessness of Arcadia, The Hedge is
hollower and emptier and… it just doesn’t respect
them like it should. And Humans, despite being
terribly simple creatures, can be far more
entertaining than subjugating yet another Briar
Wolf.
Banished are as varied as Changelings can
be; Some are massive twenty meter tall beasts with
forty two legs that walk around eyelessly, knocking
the hedge down around them. Others might appear
like any other Courtless Changeling in the
Freehold, sweet and innocent just like other freshly
escaped. Because of this, it is hard to tell if
something is one of The Banished, particularly
because it’s a gray area in that they are just not True
Fae anymore. There might be some sort of mark or
brand to tell, because after all, can someone really
come back after being a True Fae?
Banished cannot hold Court Mantles nor
can use Court Contracts. As True Fae have not
made deals with them, they remain Changelings
only. However, Banished often have access to
Contracts that look similar, like an icy cold
presence that mirrors the contracts of Winter.
Banished often have wide collections of Tokens
brought with them from Arcadia, which often
includes any Huntsmen hearts they are keeping.
There is often a tell about them from their former
nobility; some of that magic never fully leaves. Like
when Dallas, the Shooting Star finally hit The
Human World, the golden trail never seemed to
leave him.
Systems: Banished cannot have Court Good Will,
or Seasonal Contracts. They have not made
contracts with these seasons but may have contracts
that look strikingly similar. Otherwise, Banished
can look like practically anything, but often enough
look like Changelings.
THE DARKWATER PRINCE
Background: The freehold of Codsong warn of
going out on moonless nights, The Darkwater
Prince sails up the shores of St. Johns looking for a
steal. In fact, if he could touch the land, he’d take
all of its treasures, but since his exile he’s a creature
between worlds, and waiting to drink and steal and
barter until he hooks a way back home.
Description: No one’s been able to see his face, Mental Skills: Occult 2, Science (Astronomy) 3,
only a fish like smile hangs out under his shark Politics 2
nose. Treasures he’s stolen hang like pearls among Physical Skills: Survival 4, Drive (Ships) 4,
the fishnets that bind his skin. He’s snarky, and Weaponry 4
brash and cutthroat…. But friendly in his own way. Social Skills: Intimidation 4, Subterfuge 4, Socialize
Silver tongues don’t sink ships. He will cast his nets (Care for a Drink?) 3
into the murky deeps, to find the way back home, Merits: Rigid Mask, Hedge Brawler (**)
and return to his kingdom. Contracts: Know the Competition, Unravel the
Tapestry, The Royal Court
Storyteller Hints: The Darkwater Prince can cast a Wyrd: 5
net, but there are many places it can’t reach. In Frailty: Cannot Step on Land (Major), Cannot turn
return for getting something for him, he’ll let you down a Drink (Minor)
pick out something special from the detritus of the Glamour/per Turn: 9/4
deep. Willpower: 8
Needle: All is mine
Name: The Darkwater Prince Thread: Flatter Me
‘Seeming’: Darkling Aspiration: Finally put foot on Land
Mental Attributes: Intelligence 3, Wits 4, Resolve Initiative: 8
5 Defense: 4
Physical Attributes: Strength 2, Dex 4, Stamina 4 Speed: 11
Social Attributes: Presence 2, Manipulation 4, Size: 5
Composure 3
Health: 9

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GENTRIFICATION - Keep reading… you’re so close now…

Author’s Note: I’d like to personally thank The Voice from Beyond, formally of the Spring Court, for writing this section.
May their firsthand knowledge serve you well in your endeavours.

One day, you’re just an ordinary human,
and then you’re gone. You return with all this
magic, much stronger than when you were taken,
but now you can’t even do a fraction of what you
could do in Arcadia. Once you’ve unchained the
sun in the sky to turn day into night, darkening a
single alleyway just isn’t as satisfying.
Some Changelings might deny it, but why
not embrace it?
If you were just a little stronger, or smarter,
or braver, maybe you wouldn’t have been taken.
And if you have more power now, maybe you’ll be
safe. And you can protect others too! Yes! Wyrd is
power. If you have the most, then you could save
everyone. And if you had the power of one of Them,
hell, finally some equal footing! You’d never do
what they’ve done if you had that power. I’d say…
Gentrification’s a brave choice to become who you
always deserved to be.
But you have to want it. One doesn’t go up
in Wyrd without reaching for it! Greatness
demands dedication, and persistence! And…
sacrifice! And many, even family, will try to stand in
your way, especially if they find out what you’re up
to, because let’s get something clear: They may love
you, they may be your best friend, and you’ve saved
their lives more times than you can count, and they
are going to try to stop you.
You may have to give up everything to
become more than you were before. And as you
increase your Wyrd, you get to become more like
one of Us. The hedge will shift around you as you
move through it, your dreams swallow up other’s
when you enter, and even your mask will barely
contain your greatness. Soon you’re tethered to
bans and banes; But these are simple rules that
you’ll grow to love! Power comes at a price, but this
is way cheaper than being taken again, am I right?
You’ve always had the temptation, haven't
you? We’re connected to The Wyrd already. We
know what it does now, and what we could really
do in Arcadia. There are parts of your life that were
so hard before, remember them? And now you can
solve so much with just a contract and a promise.
Life can be so much better for all of you if you
learned to embrace this gift inside of you!!
This might be controversial, but I figure
that when we were made in Arcadia… see True Fae
have to turn us into one of them, just to make the
magic work. And then they dim us down. And just
before this, there’s this moment right after our
creation, and we’re filled with The Wyrd, and it
changes us. In that moment, before they pull out all - Obtaining a Title and Invoking its power
our light, we are just as strong as Them. And you In the Truest sense, this makes you an Other. But
can get there, all you have to do is get your light finding a wild title and fulfilling the requirements
back. to take is a journey unto itself. For some titles, any
Most Fae creatures will accumulate power Changeling will be simply unworthy. But once
over time anyway, or as opportunities present you’ve overcome that obstacle, and found the right
themselves. Once, I approached the decaying husk title, winning it, and invoking its power is the
of one of Them in The Hedge, and just… breathed moment you become a True Fae.
it in. Sometimes it’s a reward from The Wyrd itself,
and sometimes it’s a simple exchange of power with
- Being near a True Fae while it dies
another Fae creature. I personally recommend
finding a nexus of Wyrd energy, and taking it into On the rare occasion that a True Fae meets its
yourself, just like a deep breath. untimely end, everyone near it is bathed in Wyrd
energy. As this creature decomposes, its energy
The most important thing I can say is that
spreads around. Being up close, and stepping into
there is something about being An Other… either
the corpse, and taking it into oneself is a ticket to
our stronger connection to The Wyrd, maybe the
becoming more than what you were before. All you
way we have to think while holding a title or being
need now, is to gain a title to join the Courts.
exposed to that much Glamour that makes all who
become a True Fae think differently. Once you got
it, there’s no going back. It’s called growth. - Truth and Consequences
Sometimes there is work that The Wyrd needs
done. A sufficient reward for doing a great deed no
PATHS TO APOTHEOSIS: doubt includes a stronger connection to it, and
sometimes a spot amongst the pantheon. In that
Here are four paths to Gentrification. You might moment, after great cost, all one has to do is ask for
encounter other paths in your future, but three of their heart’s guilty wish.
these are my favourites. Let the first three guide you

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-The Last Piece
I do not recommend this. It’s self destruction if you
ask me. This last path is about removing Weakness.
Just like when we were brought to Arcadia, and we
too had ourselves ripped away, only to be filled with
magic. Most of you remains, but now something
else. This path is about replacing the remaining
pieces of yourself. When that Last Piece goes is
when you become one of Us again, but, are you
even you anymore?
UP AND DOWN THE
LADDER
All good things must come to an end. Just
like the True Fae that’ve become banished from
Arcadia, and the burning fate of The Sheden, a
True Fae’s place in Arcadia is not a permanent one.
Having all that power and all that domain, only to
lose it all, and become… common? For a creature of
Nobility, that cannot do.
Every time you reach for power, you’re only
becoming more beautiful. And the beings that have
been the most beautiful will always fight to get it
back. And never be ashamed of it! You may have
your worst day and lose all your titles and be forced
to leave Arcadia. But even you can overcome this.
You can return to your kingdom. You can live,
grow stronger and wiser, and get back home. You
can get everything you ever wanted… again!
But as there are former Changelings
amongst The True Fae, there must also be
Changelings who have climbed the ladder and
fallen back down. Having all this power, and losing
it? Don’t you think those are the ones that would
fight the hardest to get it back?
 Want to save the world?
That got your attention, didn’t it? Well, that’s what we’re going to do.

Let me introduce you to

Enviro-Moth!

We found this AMAZING fissure, and out of it were these B-E-A-U-TIFUL little caterpillars.

So… we bought the building.

We set up a lab around it.

We sampled them

We grew them

Friend, you’re going to love this. These little buddies, they eat Styrofoam. One of the few things out there that
can reliably eat, consume, and digest this stuff. In about 3 months, just a handful of these guys can reduce 50
cubic meters of Styrofoam into nothing. And after that, take a look. They get into their cocoons and then 2
months later… we get these beautiful moths. Now isn’t that the most beautiful green you’ve ever seen?

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 A wyrder World
BRIDGE BURNERS
“We tried your way before, and now it’s
time for me to make some hard decisions.”
Bridge Burners are Changelings that fight
to keep the divide between Arcadia and The
Human World. Protecting the world has always
been the goal; but burning down hedge gates, and
vanquishing hobs only goes so far. And now that
The Wyrd is strengthening in the Human World,
this was the worst-case scenario that Bridge Burners
saw coming.
They were right all along, weren’t they?
They sacrificed and fought to stop this. They put
blood and iron to the test, and stabbed iron
wrought spikes into Fae-Touched wrists. They
burned Hedge gates by the block and hunted
Seventh Sons of Seventh sons so they could… you
don’t want to know. When hope is lost, many will
flee, and yet Bridge Burners stand and fight.
There’s the price of things… but there’s also the
cost.
Isn’t everyone a bridge-burner now?
Regardless of whether they started before the
incident, a Bridge-Burner is someone who will
make the real sacrifices necessary to ensure the
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future. When one destroyed a city’s gate of bone, it
may make it impossible for True Fae to enter the
city’s dreams, but it also makes it impossible for
people to get a good night’s rest. There is a cost for
normalcy, and they’re the ones that make sure it
gets paid. Making a deal to give seven children
every seventh year to save the world? That’s an easy
decision for a Bridge Burner.
But how do you fight this? The Wyrd is a
force of reciprocity. Doing the correct thing at the
correct time gets something, and everything comes
at a cost. If things can’t get better, what is the cost
of unchange? How many people does that cost?
Bridge burners don’t mind, just as long as enough
survive.
Storyteller Hints: Bridge Burners are anti-heroes,
similar to John Locke from Lost, Sarah Connor
from Terminator 2, Light Yagami from Death
Note, The Operative from Serenity, and The
Punisher. They’re people who will do something
wrong to make something ‘right’. Their means are
brutal, but something good really needs to start
happening and this is the most direct path there.
They work as foils to the player characters, who
might agree with the cause, but not the price, and
challenge them to know where they stand.
Maddie Moon went to The Darkest Mine to meet
with Iron. In order to gain the contracts of Iron,
Maddie would have to destroy her touchstone.
When a massive hedge gate was built under an
orphanage which threatened to swallow up the
whole house, Aslan the Great gave them a five-
minute warning before he lit the match. When
Whispersilk supercharged The Babel’s Curse
Contract to make the whole city silent, it may have
warded off The Others, but the city is pulling itself
apart at the seams!
LOCKE AWAY
Background: Arcadia took everyone from Locke.
When his motley was taken again, he reshaped all
his grief into a weapon that can fight back against
the others. The Quiet, a powerful token will help
return the balance the world once had. The Human
World will be saved, but the Wyrd always has a
price, and he’ll go block to block making sure it
gets paid.
Description: Locke is an older gentleman, with
dark clothes and a fencer’s form, who often chooses
to wear no face at all. Autumn ivy drapes down his
shoulder to the ground, dragging with every step.
The Quiet, a mixture between a key and a rapier
sits ready in his hand, still humming with energy
since its last invocation.
Storyteller Hints: Locke is using The Quiet to
destroy hedge gates in an area and making them
impossible to open for a year and a day. All it
requires is Locke to stab a human in the heart with
it, enacting a great curse. For a year and a day, no
more hedge gates can be opened in that area, and
that person will be affected by Riding the Falling
Leaves contract, and unable to turn it off.
Name: Locke Away
Seeming: Fairest
Kith: Mirrorskin
Mental Attributes: Intelligence 2, Wits 3, Resolve
4
Physical Attributes: Strength 2, Dex 4, Stamina 3
Social Attributes: Presence 4, Manipulation 3,
Composure 4
Mental Skills: Occult 5, Investigation 2
Physical Skills: Brawl 3 (Bars), Stealth 1
(Backdoors), Weaponry 5 (Keys)
Social Skills: Socialize 2, Intimidation 3, Persuasion
3
Merits: Autumn 5, Noblesse Oblige, Hedge Duelist
(***), Cloak of Leaves (**), The Quiet (Rapier) (****)
Contracts: Riding the Falling Leaves, Red Revenge,
Sorcerer’s Rebuke
Wyrd: 4
Glamour/per Turn: 13/4
Willpower: 8
Needle: Come and See as I Do
Thread: Revenge for the Fallen
Aspiration: Separate the Worlds Forever
Initiative: 8
Defense: 3
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Speed: 11
Size: 5
Health: 8
THE RAVAGED
“One moment, I was doing great. The stock market is up,
doubled what I made this year, and I’m just hoofing it
outside when this kid, this kid just standing in the
doorway, playing his Gameboy and watching his Tiktoks.
I just give this kid one little shove, just a touch really, and
then he’s crying, and I need to get going now he’s outta
the way. And this lady, reddest eyes I’ve ever seen, just as
I open the door grabs me by the arm like I weigh nothing.
Says I should get home, I look sick, and I feel great! I feel
fine! I feel… like all the wind has been sucked out of sails.
Now she shows up, every couple days, comes to check up
on me. Only one that has! She says she hopes I’ll get
better, but I can hear it in her voice, she doesn’t think I
will. Most days I just wait until she comes again.”
-Maxwell Goldstock
Those who interact with The Ravaged feel
their emotions deaden the longer they stay in their
presence. A sunny conversation suddenly feels like
reading remote control instructions. It’s not long
before everyone in their presence becomes tired,
and lethargic, with all their energy leaving toward
the void.
The truth is that if the Ravaged consume
enough, they’ll be whole again. The depth of which
is vast; it could take nearly a hundred glamour to
fix some ravaged, and that’s far more than a single
changeling can hold. But how much glamour and
energy that would take is speculative at best, as it’s
hard to tell how deep the void has been made. But
once they drink in enough, they return to normal,
becoming Fae-touched through the experience and
tethered to the Changeling that last reaped them.
Inspirations: Emotional Vampires (What We Do
In The Shadows), Gluttony (Full Metal) Alchemist
BARRY

Many a Changeling in a moment of

desperation have Reaped a human. You can’t beat
the price: It’s a quick carve of emotions pulled free
in just a touch, and you’re on your way. The feeling
of it? It feels great! Then it feels complicated. And
sometimes… everything is… calm. They’re calm too.
Lethargic. Empty. Hollow.
The Ravaged are humans that have been
Reaped so much that they’ve become black holes
for energy.
Most people need time to recover from a
reaping to let their emotions back into their limbs.
A sudden laugh, or a healthy cry, suddenly it all
comes back. Then, with a touch, it’s all gone again.
They don’t even notice the change. It’s dangerous
to harvest too much, because Reap after Reap after
Reap leaves a plot barren, and it’s only a matter of
time until something new gets planted in the field.
It’s hunger. It’s absence. It’s a void of
glamour… and it seeks to consumes it. Glamour
wicks to them. Their presence pulls the very
glamour from contracts; tokens nearby stop
working, drained as well. And while Changelings
may have some defence due to their Wyrd,
creatures without it such as Fae-Touched can feel “Don’t worry about it, I barely felt a thing…”
their glamour and energy being pulled from them.

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Background: Barry always had the worst luck, but
his unflinching optimism kept him going. Car
won’t start? Time to run. Broken pipe? Time to
learn how to plumb. Every problem was a challenge
he could overcome, but… Hard Mode comes with
the most challenges. His relentless optimism was a
popular flavour at the freehold… until the latest
harvest. Now no one can find him…
Description: Barry looks a bit older than he really
is. A lifetime of unexpected accidents has left many
scars over his hands and arms from the odd
fire/knife/elevator accident. A dry worn smile still
promotes the hope he once held, but his dark dead
eyes reveal what light he had before is gone for
now.
Storyteller Hints: Barry is a walking black hole of
glamour, which shuffles towards where the most
energy is. That usually puts him in the same areas
of Changelings, who are also there to harvest it.
Barry is also drawn to most Changelings, as
Changelings contain far more glamour than the
average human.
KITHERGARTEN
“I swear I can hear a song… with my name in
it?”
Paper Machette, Kithless Elemental
Barring being taken again, or sacrificing
oneself for a freehold, Changelings can live very
long lives, and that’s an awful long time to figure
out who you are and who you want to be. A
Changeling’s first kith is normally given to them by
their Keeper, but after they escape and they make
new lives for themselves, a changeling might find
that their kith is no longer who they are.
When a human is taken, their soul is raked
across the Hedge’s thorns, and is patched with
Wyrd and Glamour. A Kith is just one of the pieces
of energy that fills those holes, and when someone
releases their Kith and casts it away, that energy
remains, transforming the Hedge around it into a
Kithergarten.
A Kithergarten is shaped by the type of kith
that was left there. A Nightsinger Kith might
transform the hedge around it into a stage of a
night club, with a spotlight hanging above it, urging
for someone to come and sing. A Helldiver Kith
might shape the area into a broken silver cage with
a collar awaiting its new owner.
Kithergartens offer opportunities; Claiming
a kith at a Kithergarten allows a Changeling to
change dynamically and by choice. But at worst,
everyone knows that kiths make excellent trade at
the Goblin Market, and maybe they can catch this
one for later.
Who knows what it will look like once the
new kith settles in?
THE BLACK CAT LOUNGE
Background: When Matches Melody swore they’d
never sing again after their wife died, they pulled
free their kith and all the love they felt for her, and
dropped it in the hedge. The next night, The Black
Cat Lounge appeared, lending out a lonely song
that still lingers in the air.
Description: Red carpet, black stage, one spotlight
and one live mic. Anyone can come to try to sing,
but only the worthy with love to share can claim the
kith for their own.
Storytelling Hints: Kithergartens are excellent
opportunities for Changelings to change their kiths.
They can be a mystery that needs solving but come
with a clear prize for the Changelings that they can
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use for bartering, if they can discover the way to eyes, and usually have about two tails. They’re
claim it. incredibly hard to trap, as the bait that would get
them to come close usually isn’t available. They
often can be found near Kithergarten, with the
THE KITHEATER scent of the Kith drawing them there.

Storyteller Hints: Kitheater can talk and have

traveled far and wide in the hedge. In exchange for
a taste of your kith, he can tell you some info, but
the dangerous information will cost you even more.

Mental Attributes: Intelligence 2, Wits 4, Resolve

2
Physical Attributes: Strength 1, Dex 3, Stamina 4
Social Attributes: Presence 1, Manipulation 1,
Composure 3

Mental Skills: Investigation 2, Occult 2

Physical Skills: Survival 5, Stealth 5
Social Skills: Animal Ken 5
‘What does it taste like? It tastes like… like
eating someone’s purpose!’ Merits: Directional Sense (*)
Wyrd: 1
Background: Kiths are energy, and Kitheater love Glamour/per Turn: 10/1
the taste of this one in particular. It attracts these Dread Powers: Fairy Swarm, Jump Scare,
vermin from all across the hedge. Small rat sized Immortal, Know Soul
creatures that are as determined as they are hungry. Willpower: 5
Of course, they’ll dine on practically any remains,
Needle: For a Taste
but it’s particularly drawn to Kiths.
Thread: More than a taste
Aspiration: I can smell the kith right over here
Whether they’re store bought, or home
Initiative: 8
grown, any kith will satisfy the mouse. They’re not
Defense: 3
particularly dangerous creatures, but with a nose for
Kith energy, these hobs can track any kith with just Speed: 10
the scent. They know many areas of The Hedge like Size: 1
the back of their paw, and if you’re looking for Health: 5
some information, for a taste of your Kith they can
bring you to any place in the hedge they’ve already
been. NEW CONDITION: UNKITHED
Kitheater have access to the kith abilities of There’s nothing wrong with having no kith but
each kith it is currently digesting. It grows having one and then losing one is a different
additional tails, with each one representing a Kith it experience. Powers once at your fingertips are no
has eaten, and digested. A single Kith sustains the longer there, but the world seems to keep thinking
creature for a year and a day. of you the same way. You thought it would be safe
to go without one for a little while, but now the
Description: Kitheater are small mouse sized World wants to remind you of what you gave up.
creatures that can fit comfortably into most Situations now seem to appear that would be a lot
pockets. They have sharp teeth, and dark brown easier to solve if you still had access to your kith;

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The former Fiery Knight of Summer no longer has
the Flames to melt the ice that is keeping the
freehold frozen. Why is there this much Ice in the
middle Summer?
Possible Sources: Kitheaters having a taste,
Removing your own kith in the hedge, Deal gone
wrong in The Goblin Market
Resolution: Gaining another Kith, or The Kith
returns with time.
ankle. Despite its tiny size, it’ll do just about
anything it can to bring someone nearby, ready to
promise them sights they’ve never seen before. They
often work in pairs, working together to ‘help’ the
person into the hedge.
Storytelling Hints: These are magnets for danger,
and more of a consequence for the world becoming
Wyrder. The wrong person can always find
something wonderful when it hangs out near the
local hedge gate that needs fumigating.

Mental Attributes: Intelligence 2, Wits 3, Resolve

COME-SEE 3
Physical Attributes: Strength 1, Dex 4, Stamina 2
Social Attributes: Presence 3, Manipulation 3,
Composure 2

Mental Skills: Occult 2

Physical Skills: Survival 3, Weaponry 2 (Forks)
Social Skills: Socialize 3, Persuasion 3

Merits: Hedge Gate Sense (*)

“It’s so beautiful there! But only someone real special can get in, know what
Wyrd: 2
I’m saying? All you have to do is solve this little riddle thing…” Glamour/per Turn: 11/2
Dread Powers: Much Depends on Dinner, The
Background: This diminutive Fae looks innocent Path Not Taken, Snare
but they’re probably one of the most dangerous to Willpower: 5
the uninformed. These small human shaped Needle: Helpful
creatures, which barely come up to your ankle, Thread: Bring a Friend
hang out at Hedge gates, and trick humans into Aspiration: Do twice as good as I did yesterday
opening them. It usually starts off with a promise to Initiative: 6
see something even more amazing, making a game Defense: 2
to solve and giving hints to find the way in. Once
Speed: 10
inside, the human is trapped, and the Come-See
Size: 2
awaits the next one to follow.
Health: 4
Description: Look down, look waaaaay down, and
you’ll see this tiny person, no taller than an

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