Changeling kith guide

Kith is the mythic shape of your fae soul in Changeling: The Dreaming 20th Anniversary Edition. Sidhe nobles, pooka tricksters, redcap warriors, and nine others each carry distinct birthrights, Frailties, and story expectations. This guide walks through all twelve kith so you can choose before the Chrysalis fades.

Twelve kith for Kithain chronicles: birthrights, tone, and creation hooks.

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Lore and chronicle tone

Kith, court, and seeming

Kith answers what fairy tale you embody. Court: Seelie, Unseelie, or rarer paths; answers which oath you swear when glamour burns. Seeming: childling, wilder, grump; tracks how long you have held form against Banality. A sluagh wilder and a troll grump share a freehold but face different clocks. Choose kith for myth; choose court for ethics under pressure.

Glamour, Banality, and the Dreaming

Changeling chronicles live between wonder and disenchantment. Glamour fuels Arts; Banality is the weight of mortal doubt. Kith suggests how you harvest glamour: through beauty, mischief, violence, or craft. Your Storyteller uses kith to color freehold politics and which chimera answer your call.

Rules and creation flow

Birthrights, Frailties, and Arts

Each kith grants a birthright: a knack tied to legend: and a frailty, a mythic weakness. Arts and Realms are purchased separately in C20 creation. The wizard records kith, court, seeming, Glamour, and Banality on the dossier PDF. Re-export after major seasonal shifts or court oaths break.

Mists, duennas, and mortal lives

Most changelings wear mortal seemings. Kinain ties, holdings, and dreamers shape where you anchor wonder. Note freehold access and mortal jobs in backgrounds: Banality often arrives through bills, bosses, and broken promises.

At a glance

The twelve kith

Core C20 kith with chronicle tone for each.

Boggan

Quiet hearth-keepers who mend homes and hearts: compelled to help, gifted at finding what is lost in clutter. Ideal for caretakers, innkeepers, and spies who listen over tea.

Clurichaun

Gremlin cousins of boggans with a meaner streak: protectors of wine cellars and treasuries who punish thieves with cruel pranks. Play bitter custodians and vengeful hosts.

Eshu

Wanderers and storytellers who trade in roads, luck, and tales; never still long, always chasing the next horizon. Couriers, raconteurs, and fate-touched travelers.

Nocker

Bitter artisans who build impossible machines: perfectionists whose creations work brilliantly and look terrible. Engineers, smiths, and sarcastic fixers of chimerical gear.

Pooka

Shapechanging tricksters bound to speak in lies: animal-hearted fae who soften hard truths with humor. Play counselors, rogues, and mascots with teeth.

Redcap

Violent border guards stained by battle: must bathe their caps in fresh blood to keep power. Brutal enforcers; use with care when gore-heavy themes need consent.

Satyr

Passionate revelers of music, wine, and desire; wild hearts who chase beauty and leave scandal. Bards, hedonists, and revolutionaries of the body.

Selkie

Sea-born shapeshifters torn between shore and surf: romantics who lose skins and sometimes freedom. Tales of stolen coats and distant tides.

Sidhe

Aristocrats of the Dreaming: radiant, cruel, and ancient, born to rule courts mortals half remember. Nobles, exiles, and politicians of glamour.

Sluagh

Creepers in shadow and forgotten places: spies who hear secrets through walls and nightmares. Information brokers of the unsettling kind.

Troll

Oath-bound guardians with stone in their bones: massive protectors who honor a sworn charge above all else. Bodyguards, knights, and lonely sentinels.

Wichtel

Household spirits of craft and clutter: tiny makers who fix what breaks and steal what owners neglect. Domestic wonder and petty justice.

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What you get

Twelve kith in the C20 wizard
Court and seeming support
Arts and Realms on the dossier
Sheet-aligned PDF export

How to create a character

1
Compare kith
Match birthright fantasy to your chronicle's tone.
2
Weave your fae
Set kith, court, Arts, and Realms in the wizard.
3
Export PDF
Download the dossier for freehold play.

Storyteller and player tips

Storyteller guidance

Frame redcap and selkie tales with content safety. Rotate freehold scenes so each kith birthright matters once per arc. Export PDFs with Arts and Realms visible for fast chimera conflicts.

Player guidance

Play frailty as story, not punishment. Describe your chimerical difference and mortal mask. Pair kith with a court oath you can break dramatically.

Frequently asked questions

How many kith?

Twelve kith are covered in this C20 guide.

Seelie or Unseelie?

Court is a separate wizard choice; kith does not lock court.

Which edition?

Changeling: The Dreaming 20th Anniversary.

Are Arts on the sheet?

Yes. Arts, Realms, and Glamour appear on export.

Free to use?

Yes. Guide and creator are free.

Turkish support?

Changeling hub and wizard support English and Turkish.

Sidhe only nobles?

Sidhe claim nobility; your chronicle may challenge that arrogance.

Official tool?

No. Independent fan project under the Dark Pack license.

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