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Scenario: Gyronnan cultists replaced several babies in the community with changelings, which will mature into hags, developing traits of cruelty over time. The players uncovered the plot, gathered these changelings and sent them to a monastery to be raised.
Thoughts: given that the changelings will become hags, will they grow up evil no matter how they are raised (is it in their blood), is there a spell that can modify any corruption in their souls, or something else? One of the players, a cleric, is hoping to avert the changeling's normally inevitable course.
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Scenario: Gyronnan cultists replaced several babies in the community with changelings, which will mature into hags, developing traits of cruelty over time. The players uncovered the plot, gathered these changelings and sent them to a monastery to be raised.
Thoughts: given that the changelings will become hags, will they grow up evil no matter how they are raised (is it in their blood), is there a spell that can modify any corruption in their souls, or something else? One of the players, a cleric, is hoping to avert the changeling's normally inevitable course.
If the PCs killed the hag mothers, the changelings are incapable of ever growing up into hags. Even if they didn't, it's possible the changelings will not answer the call. There's no inevitability in the changeling's course. You'll want to look at Carrion Crown Book 1 for more information.
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This is the text as stated... work with it as you will.
Having no innate predisposition toward evil, a changeling’s values are solely a product of her environment, and any given individual is just as likely to perform evil as she is to act righteously. Often, though, a changeling’s slightly unusual appearance marks her as the target for harassment, potentially leading her toward a vengeful path. Any means of releasing innate magical energy is good enough for the changeling, and many become witches.
Now this would be useful in a later campaign as plot developments. The hags that birthed those changelings will seek to call them back in order to tranform them into hags when they get older enough... seed material for a campaign perhaps 15 or so years in the future, when PC's are called to investigate incidents of disappearances?
The key is to whether or not the changeling answers the call of it's hag mother. If it does than it's generally doomed towards following her footsteps. If not, than it's destiny is in it's own hands.
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Excellent. The hags haven't been introduced into my campaign (yet).
I think the proper response to my player is for the group to find an expert on hags to answer their questions. Having the chilling thought of hags returning in 15 years or so to "claim" their children certainly is interesting. Given that we're in a Kingmaker campaign, not an entirely impossible scenario.
We have a Changeling in our game right now and she seems to do okay.
They can choose or refuse the call, so they're obviously not inherently evil.
Probably highly depends on the GM... who would have to be the kind to allow the call to take place in-game anyway.
It might be very interesting to suddenly have a hag PC. If I ever did this, I'd probably make them wait until they achieved a level equal to the CR of a hag and then have the call. They'd transform into one as a result (presuming they succumb to whatever challenge that was involved in becoming a hag in the first place). Their alignment would likely become chaotic evil, but they could overcome that.
Then they'd continue on from there (though, of course, there'd be enormous peer pressure from their fellow hags to join a coven... peer pressure that might include death threats of the hag PC decided to be 'redeemed').
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It might be very interesting to suddenly have a hag PC. If I ever did this, I'd probably make them wait until they achieved a level equal to the CR of a hag and then have the call. They'd transform into one as a result (presuming they succumb to whatever challenge that was involved in becoming a hag in the first place).
It's not a challenge as it is more of a hostile makeover done to you by the Hag Coven that called you. It's essentially a ritual which twists you physically and drives you to evil if you're not there already.
Keep in mind that most changelings aren't aware of the true nature of the call until it's too late. For most it manifests as the urge to adventure.
In the backstory she's aware of it.
She's the daughter of an Elf (the character's PC in the second of our two every-other-week games) and a hag he woke up next to as he was coming out of a drunken stupor.
He washed himself liberally, left the immediate area, and 9 months later Ms. Hag shows up with a baby girl, who the Elf leaves with his parents (Either a pair of Druids or a Druid and a Ranger, I can't remember) along with the whole story of her parentage, which they explained to her.
In his own words "She told her mother to shove it", and went to a University, where she fell in love with the works of Professor Lorrimor, hence why she is in Ravengro (I don't think I actually said I was running Carrion Crown, sorry) so she's not technically an adventurer, she's just a scholar/Druid who gets caught up in the whole mess.
I liked it.