Changeling the Podcast

And so, with some variable amount of fanfare, we are taking a deep breath and plunging into Season Five. Taking a machete to the wilderness of nWoD, we are beginning by carving a path from the last books of Changeling: the Lost's first edition towards the Hedge of the second, tackling various other books and general concepts along the way. At the top of our upcoming slate of episodes on crossovers, generic WoD titles, and assorted inspirations, is this week's dive into Urban Legends: a collection of creatures and antagonists for any game. We're stepping back to the early days—before CtL was even released!—in order to move forward again, examining this and following works through the lens of the Lost. Changelings are half legendary themselves, after all; surely we can find some connections here? The only way to find out is to listen in...

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Pooka G (any pronoun/they) has appeared as a levitating, glitter-bedecked figure in many amateur photographs, but all but one are hoaxes.
Amelia Fetch (she/her) enjoys a steaming bowl of creepypasta topped with sage butter sauce and Parmesan.

A world that might have Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster is clearly superior to one that definitely does not.
—Chris van Allsburg

And thus we come once again to a moment of pause in our madcap readings, as winter's chill settles over the land (in this bit of the world, anyway). We may have an episode or three up our sleeves in the coming weeks, but assume that things will be fairly quiet until about mid-February—so we hope this report on the state of the podcast will tide you over until then. The usual episode data, some reflections on accomplishments from 2025, and fervent plans for Season Five(!) make up the core of our discussion, but as with all things of the Dreaming, you never quite know where the discussion will lead you...

In the meantime, if you want to keep in touch with us, the doors of the digital freehold are always open:

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Josh Hillerup (any pronoun) will be building an army of snow people to defend the Kingdom from syrup-smuggling ne'er-do-wells.
Pooka G (any pronoun/they) plans to brew some eggnog from whichever oviparous chimera are available. Sphinx nog? Fenghuang nog?
Amelia Fetch (she/her) has the aurora borealis localized entirely to her kitchen (but no, you may not see it).

There’s a certain Slant of light,
Winter Afternoons –
That oppresses, like the Heft
Of Cathedral Tunes –
—Emily Dickinson

Ahoy ahoy! We've moved forward to step back (in time) as we reach, at long last, the final supplement for Changeling: the Lost's first edition, Victorian Lost. This short-ish volume nevertheless packs in the information as the one historical book for the line, although we will get some shorter bits in the Dark Eras sequence coming up soon. Victorian Lost is also one of the earliest books in the Onyx Path canon, as the success of Vampire's 20th Anniversary Edition showed there was still enough of an appetite for World of Darkness material to keep the books coming. It seems fitting to wrap up one era and begin another, transitioning between editions, as we come to the end of the year and Season Four. This will be the last full-length episode before Interregnum, so we hope it is much to your anarchic and anachronistic tastes.

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Pooka G (any pronoun/they) speaks the language of flowers and has a marked propensity for singlestick, as any foppish dandy should.
Amelia Fetch (she/her) is down by the wharf with goblin fruit for sale! Goblin fruit for sale! Two for a ha'penny, ten for a groat!

History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
—Oscar Wilde

Changelings aren't the only ones who step outside the fleshly realm from time to time. Human magi have also been known to wander the farther spaces, and it's not unreasonable that a fae might encounter one of these upstart travelers. Mage: the Ascension's 2nd edition supplement Book of Worlds provides an in-depth treatment of how these willworkers perceive and navigate the Otherworlds. The text mainly deals with the Umbrae, but also contains the first detailed description of the Dreaming—or "Maya", to use their term. (It was early 1996, so very little had even been written for Changeling: the Dreaming at that point.) In this episode, Josh and Pooka pull some highlights from the book that are most relevant to CtD players, from the dreamscapes of Hollywood to mysterious spirit-muses, a smattering of those corners of the Dreaming mages have thus far explored, a space that is indeed vast... but what percentage of infinity is that?

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Josh Hillerup (any pronoun) is only two planets away from a free gift on the Magrathea punch-card!
Pooka G (any pronoun/they) grudgingly accepts Leibniz's principle that this is the best of possible worlds, but only because baklava exists.

As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
—Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

Once in a while, you actually want to play the game you're into. But if you can't think of a good complex plot for your players or don't have the time, what to do? Why, the pre-packaged story, of course! The first edition of Changeling: the Lost had two of these released in the "Storyteller Adventure System" or SAS format: ENnie Award-winner "The Fear-Maker's Promise" and "The Rose-Bride's Plight". And here nearing the end of the run, The Fear-Maker's Promise Compilation collects them in print, along with a pre-generated "Personae" motley. Fetch took the extra step of running both modules for extra Storytelling insights, so tune in as we talk structures and characters while desperately maintaining our pledge of no spoilers.

NOTE: these two modules, the first one in particular, both feature some heavy themes. We don't go into deep detail about those topics in each during our discussion, but we do list some content warnings for your information, especially if you're going to pick up this book.

And speaking of picking up the book, you can do so here: https://www.storytellersvault.com/en/product/92561?affiliate_id=3063731. (For reasons unclear, it's listed as the Compendium on the Vault, despite the cover title...) The individual modules are also available at:

The Fear-Maker's Promise: https://www.storytellersvault.com/en/product/50110?affiliate_id=3063731

The Rose-Bride's Plight: https://www.storytellersvault.com/en/product/58429?affiliate_id=3063731

Personae: https://www.storytellersvault.com/en/product/63120?affiliate_id=3063731

And as for us...!

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your hosts

Pooka G (any pronoun/they) is more of a cheer-baker than a fear-maker. Stuffing waffles for everyone!
Amelia Fetch (she/her) knows there's no pledge so entangling that it can't be resolved by a dance-off.

True, I talk of dreams;
Which are the children of an idle brain,
Begot of nothing but vain fantasy...
—Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet, I.iv.97–99