Why are your changelings from hags and not fey?

[darth_borehd]

Isn't more common in folklore for changelings to be the result of fairies than hags?

[Umbral Reaver]

They were from doppelgangers in D&D!

[Big Lemon]

Gnomes already covered the "race from fey" niche. Frankly I think the design process was more finding an apropriate name from folklore for the hag-born race than it was deciding to make Changelings and building a race for them.

[Benchak the Nightstalker]

Hags may not have the fey type in Pathfinder, but many have their roots in folklore about fairies.

[Odraude]

I know in folklore, trolls are commonly the ones that take children and leave their young. While trolls aren't fey in pathfinder terms, they are certainly fey in folklore. As are hags.