well, fragility surrounding what Changelings now have, and has some great comparisons to real world biases that drive the point home. This bit works incredibly well at showing the inherent.
We then cut to Now, as it were, and we get a great section showing the paranoia Changelings have, along with the inherent difficulty of balancing past and present. There's then a section that's basically a bunch of anecdotes from Arcadia and dealing with the True Fae directly that work pretty well for setting mood, and showing how bizarre that world really is. So, it's cool to see them reflected here. So, props to that.Īlso, they have a discussion of time that, I'm going to quote to both show the language the book uses and because time is genuinely weird in Arcadia,Ĭlick to expand.This fits with a lot of the time paradoxes I remember CtL 1e had, including some that drove Changelings, among others, insane because of say, spending decades in Arcadia and only like, a minute passing on Earth, and stuff along those lines. I emphasize this not to critique, but because I think it's actually a great example of one can have a villain with few to no redeeming qualities both feel plausible and interesting, which is something that is actually quite difficult. But True Fae? No, True Fae are spoiled children. bullshit, for lack of a better term, to hide their terrible behavior behind. To make a comparison, while the Pure from Werewolf can be quite terrible, they have understandable motivations in regards to stuff like Father Wolf, and while the Seers are very much evil, the Seers from Mage usually have more. We really get a picture here of just how petty, and cruel, the Fae are, because of how much their behavior really just boils down to their whims. So, in the Once section, there's a discussion of why the Fae choose to make Changelings in the first place, versus say, goblins, or other creatures that are closer at hand. So, for those who haven't, that's for you. I highlight this now because, so far, I haven't talked a whole about how the book's voice, as it were, and I might have some people in this thread who haven't read either Changeling the Lost. I think it works, and it does represent the type of language that fairy tales use. It's an antagonist type that both fits their mythical nature, but also is very much the kind of person I suspect a lot of us have had to deal with in real life.īefore I continue, I should note a device that we see throughout the book is the, "Once," and, "Now," chapter dividers.
I do love the way they explain the True Fae as essentially spoiled by the amount of power they have, as it fits with my view of True Fae as spoiled children who will never grow up, and torture people because, again, they're spoiled children. This chapter announces itself pretty quickly, as this is all about what the heck Arcadia is, and all the various bits of setting that for someone new to this game, are, I imagine at least, pretty weird. I should note this chapter maybe should've come first, depending on how new one is to the game, however, there are a number of different views on the matter. So, given issues I ran into previously, and that this chapter is relatively short at about 20ish pages, I'm going to run through this whole chapter here. It's a way of understanding it." Lloyd Alexander, A Visit with Lloyd Alexander. "Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. So after a short story that was kind of weird, but a suitably creepy usage of clairvoyance(I think), we open Chapter 2 with this quote,
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