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Changeling Courts
Storyteller Wed Jul 20, 2011 2:28 pm
This is an article regarding the Changeling Courts and how they might apply to a Changeling character. Your character does not have to belong to any of the Courts. This is more a guideline to help you shape your character's behavior.
The four changeling courts give protection and power to changelings. The true Fey understand the world in a very specific way. In the primal chaos, things are either always the same and immune to the change of their environment or once they change they are changed. A dog may turn into a lamppost and that lamppost into a lemur but it will likely never turn into a dog again, there are so many other shapes it could be. The idea of Cyclical change is as bizarre and alien to the Fey as time travel paradox is to humans, Some of they Fey may talk about it but they don't get it and definitely wouldn't know how to go about making one. The courts may not like each other and may fight over succession or the order of passage of power but all of them know deeply that whatever power they have they must regularly pass to their rivals in the other courts lest they all fall. The Wheel of the seasons may turn forward or backward or out of order but it must turn.
Each court has a virtue associated with it. Winter is Temperance, Summer exemplifies Valor, Spring drinks deeply of Compassion and Fall draws their strength from their Conviction. In order learn the Fleeting contracts of a court you must be a member of a court of have a court's favor of 4 or higher. Every rank can bestow a number of points of favor equal to their rank. To become a member of a court one must have 5 points of favor from that court. To rise in rank in a court one is either promoted by someone of Rank 4 or higher or earns their place by making pacts with the spirits of the seasons themselves. This is a difficult and dangerous process.
Ephemeral court members have no rank in the court, not even a rank of 0, they can be ephemeral members of several courts and their ephemeral contracts will continue to function for as long as they have a single point of court favor in the appropriate court. Ephemeral powers return when favor returns.
Eternal court members have access to all ephemeral contracts and access to eternal contracts equal to their level of rank. To be ennobled of a rank the character must have that court's governing virtue equal to the rank they are gaining. not all of those with virtues at such levels gain rank, and once a character gains a rank their virtues might fall due to trauma they will not lose rank for this drop in virtue although they are encouraged to maintain a virtue equal to their rank.
All courts must obey the right of rescue, No matter what court another belongs to, they are bound by oath to rescue a member of a court from kidnapping from anything be if Fey, mortal Police, or whatever else may kidnap a changeling >cough< Lasombra >cough<. There are seven other laws, unique to each court that all members must swear to. Their oaths are not binding with glamour but they may as they see fit take each court's code as a Code of Honour as per the Vampire Codes of Honor with the virtue protection and willpower that comes with said codes.
As a note - if one takes these as codes of honor, their eight rules are the rule of rescue and these other seven codes. With a code of honor, the changeling gets 2 willpower per night to spend in the defense of their code. violating their code provokes a challenge vs the virtue of their court or else lose a point of clarity.
The Court of Summer
The Summer court is a military order Devoted to slaying monsters and fighting against impossible odds. Their ranks are:
Citizen(0)
Knight(1)
Baron(2)
Count(3)
Duke(4)
Prince(5)
They believe in honesty loyalty and above all Valor. Their seven Tenets are as follows:
1. Never Refuse an Honorable Challenge
2. Always Speak the Truth
3. Always Keep Thine Oath
4. Always Respect and Protect your Lessers in the Court
5. Always Respect and Obey your Betters in the Court
6. Do Not Show Fear Before a Foe
7. Allow an Honorable Surrender
The Court of Spring
The Spring Court is an order mendicant, healers, scholars, counselors and social workers. Their Ranks are:
Lantern (0)
Midwife/Goodman (1)
Nurse (2)
Doctor (3)
Caduceus (4)
Angel (5)
They believe in Caring, Love and above all, Compassion.
1. Heal all those in Need
2. Your Blade is a Scalpel not a Sword, Cut the cancer not the patient.
3. Never take a mortal Life
4. Protect the dreams of the innocent
5. Stop Those Who Would Ravage, Do not become A Ravager yourself.
6. Remove The Withering (Dream Venom) Wherever You Find It
7. Do not allow the Ephemeral to Usurp the mortal Clay
The Court of Winter
The Winter Court is a society of Philosopher Warriors, Scholars and Scientist soldiers. They believe in the triumph of Reason over madness and of Order over chaos. Their ranks are:
Apprentice (0)
Journeyman (1)
Master (2)
Doctor (3)
Enlightened (4)
Sophont (5)
Their guiding virtue is Temperance.
1. Destroy all manifest creatures of the Never Never in the true world
2. Understand the ways of your enemies. Teach others to defend themselves.
3. Do not succumb to overwhelming passion or frenzy
4. Suffer not the Life of those who would Challenge the Supremacy of the True World and call the Fey to Earth
5. Protect the dreams of mortals from the Morphean Bile (Dream Venom)
6. Increase the knowledge of the court, study the world both magical and mundane.
7. Maintain Clarity of Thought, do not allow your senses to deteriorate.
The Court of Autumn
The Autumn Court contemplates the loss of their lives and the loss of others. They are penitents seeking to purify themselves and atone for the sins of the world. Some instead are scourges seeking to make the world repent. Their ranks are:
Acolyte (0)
Deacon (1)
Brother/Sister (2)
Mother/Father (3)
Grandfather/Grandmother (4)
Matriarch/Patriarch (5)
They believe in sacrifice, asceticism and Conviction.
1. Do not Reveal the existence of the Fey to the Waking World
2. Do not Reveal the location of the places of power in the waking world to any outside the four courts
3. Tell no one a secret given in confidence
4. Do not succumb to addiction, cure others of their dependencies
5. Do not Violate an oath
6. Aid others on their path to redemption.
7. Do not tempt another to violate their code.
The four changeling courts give protection and power to changelings. The true Fey understand the world in a very specific way. In the primal chaos, things are either always the same and immune to the change of their environment or once they change they are changed. A dog may turn into a lamppost and that lamppost into a lemur but it will likely never turn into a dog again, there are so many other shapes it could be. The idea of Cyclical change is as bizarre and alien to the Fey as time travel paradox is to humans, Some of they Fey may talk about it but they don't get it and definitely wouldn't know how to go about making one. The courts may not like each other and may fight over succession or the order of passage of power but all of them know deeply that whatever power they have they must regularly pass to their rivals in the other courts lest they all fall. The Wheel of the seasons may turn forward or backward or out of order but it must turn.
Each court has a virtue associated with it. Winter is Temperance, Summer exemplifies Valor, Spring drinks deeply of Compassion and Fall draws their strength from their Conviction. In order learn the Fleeting contracts of a court you must be a member of a court of have a court's favor of 4 or higher. Every rank can bestow a number of points of favor equal to their rank. To become a member of a court one must have 5 points of favor from that court. To rise in rank in a court one is either promoted by someone of Rank 4 or higher or earns their place by making pacts with the spirits of the seasons themselves. This is a difficult and dangerous process.
Ephemeral court members have no rank in the court, not even a rank of 0, they can be ephemeral members of several courts and their ephemeral contracts will continue to function for as long as they have a single point of court favor in the appropriate court. Ephemeral powers return when favor returns.
Eternal court members have access to all ephemeral contracts and access to eternal contracts equal to their level of rank. To be ennobled of a rank the character must have that court's governing virtue equal to the rank they are gaining. not all of those with virtues at such levels gain rank, and once a character gains a rank their virtues might fall due to trauma they will not lose rank for this drop in virtue although they are encouraged to maintain a virtue equal to their rank.
All courts must obey the right of rescue, No matter what court another belongs to, they are bound by oath to rescue a member of a court from kidnapping from anything be if Fey, mortal Police, or whatever else may kidnap a changeling >cough< Lasombra >cough<. There are seven other laws, unique to each court that all members must swear to. Their oaths are not binding with glamour but they may as they see fit take each court's code as a Code of Honour as per the Vampire Codes of Honor with the virtue protection and willpower that comes with said codes.
As a note - if one takes these as codes of honor, their eight rules are the rule of rescue and these other seven codes. With a code of honor, the changeling gets 2 willpower per night to spend in the defense of their code. violating their code provokes a challenge vs the virtue of their court or else lose a point of clarity.
The Court of Summer
The Summer court is a military order Devoted to slaying monsters and fighting against impossible odds. Their ranks are:
Citizen(0)
Knight(1)
Baron(2)
Count(3)
Duke(4)
Prince(5)
They believe in honesty loyalty and above all Valor. Their seven Tenets are as follows:
1. Never Refuse an Honorable Challenge
2. Always Speak the Truth
3. Always Keep Thine Oath
4. Always Respect and Protect your Lessers in the Court
5. Always Respect and Obey your Betters in the Court
6. Do Not Show Fear Before a Foe
7. Allow an Honorable Surrender
The Court of Spring
The Spring Court is an order mendicant, healers, scholars, counselors and social workers. Their Ranks are:
Lantern (0)
Midwife/Goodman (1)
Nurse (2)
Doctor (3)
Caduceus (4)
Angel (5)
They believe in Caring, Love and above all, Compassion.
1. Heal all those in Need
2. Your Blade is a Scalpel not a Sword, Cut the cancer not the patient.
3. Never take a mortal Life
4. Protect the dreams of the innocent
5. Stop Those Who Would Ravage, Do not become A Ravager yourself.
6. Remove The Withering (Dream Venom) Wherever You Find It
7. Do not allow the Ephemeral to Usurp the mortal Clay
The Court of Winter
The Winter Court is a society of Philosopher Warriors, Scholars and Scientist soldiers. They believe in the triumph of Reason over madness and of Order over chaos. Their ranks are:
Apprentice (0)
Journeyman (1)
Master (2)
Doctor (3)
Enlightened (4)
Sophont (5)
Their guiding virtue is Temperance.
1. Destroy all manifest creatures of the Never Never in the true world
2. Understand the ways of your enemies. Teach others to defend themselves.
3. Do not succumb to overwhelming passion or frenzy
4. Suffer not the Life of those who would Challenge the Supremacy of the True World and call the Fey to Earth
5. Protect the dreams of mortals from the Morphean Bile (Dream Venom)
6. Increase the knowledge of the court, study the world both magical and mundane.
7. Maintain Clarity of Thought, do not allow your senses to deteriorate.
The Court of Autumn
The Autumn Court contemplates the loss of their lives and the loss of others. They are penitents seeking to purify themselves and atone for the sins of the world. Some instead are scourges seeking to make the world repent. Their ranks are:
Acolyte (0)
Deacon (1)
Brother/Sister (2)
Mother/Father (3)
Grandfather/Grandmother (4)
Matriarch/Patriarch (5)
They believe in sacrifice, asceticism and Conviction.
1. Do not Reveal the existence of the Fey to the Waking World
2. Do not Reveal the location of the places of power in the waking world to any outside the four courts
3. Tell no one a secret given in confidence
4. Do not succumb to addiction, cure others of their dependencies
5. Do not Violate an oath
6. Aid others on their path to redemption.
7. Do not tempt another to violate their code.
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