Changeling


Pathfinder Second Edition General Discussion


How is it with Changeling? Do hags give birth to them and eat their fathers? I've seen 2 versions and I don't know which one is right - I'm still waiting for APG

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Yes, they're the offspring of hags. Usually after the hags eat their father.

All sources I can find agree on this, so I'm not sure exactly why you're confused, but you're substantially correct.


Probably in the first edition it was so that hags cannot give birth because they are outsiders. anyway they can. How long does pregnancy last and how long does the childhood period of chaneling take?


It is dependent on the fathers race

changelings grow up seeming mostly whatever their father was (aside from heterochromia and little odd happenings) so it is safe to assume that they also age the regular way as their fathers race did

I think changelings are most likely a universal heritage instead of an ancestry in pf2, so for everything important you can look at the fathers race


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Bestiary page 62 wrote:
Children of hags, destined to become hags themselves, changelings face a life of conflict. Born of supernatural creatures who kill and consume the child’s father, changelings are deposited into their father’s society to be raised.

You and DMW are correct.

Seisho wrote:
I think changelings are most likely a universal heritage instead of an ancestry in pf2, so for everything important you can look at the fathers race.

They have been confirmed to be Universal Heritages in the APG.


xNellynelx wrote:
Bestiary page 62 wrote:
Children of hags, destined to become hags themselves, changelings face a life of conflict. Born of supernatural creatures who kill and consume the child’s father, changelings are deposited into their father’s society to be raised.

You and DMW are correct.

Seisho wrote:
I think changelings are most likely a universal heritage instead of an ancestry in pf2, so for everything important you can look at the fathers race.
They have been confirmed to be Universal Heritages in the APG.

In the APG already? missed that, but thats pretty awesome :D

Well in that case scoutmaster will get all the infos needed on 30.

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scoutmaster wrote:


Probably in the first edition it was so that hags cannot give birth because they are outsiders.

Hags aren't Outsiders and never have been. Night Hags specifically are, but they're only distantly related to other Hags, who are Humanoids in PF2, and were Monstrous Humanoids (a category PF2 got rid of) in PF1.

scoutmaster wrote:
anyway they can. How long does pregnancy last and how long does the childhood period of chaneling take?

There are not, to my knowledge, any canonical references to gestation periods for hags.

As for the changeling's childhood, in PF1 where all Changelings were assumed to come from human stock they had the same base age as humans. With the conversion to a Universal Heritage, I presume they will now age at the normal rate for whatever their base Ancestry might be.


I haven’t come across that the Hags eat the father. I could see that being a trend that some do for different reasons. Is there a source you could point me towards that actually talks about this?

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Pumpkinhead11 wrote:
I haven’t come across that the Hags eat the father. I could see that being a trend that some do for different reasons. Is there a source you could point me towards that actually talks about this?

It's mentioned in the Changeling entry in the PF2 Bestiary, as well as their original description in Haunting of Harrowstone.

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