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<blockquote data-quote="Rechan" data-source="post: 3850528" data-attributes="member: 54846"><a href="http://forums.gleemax.com/showthread.php?t=906487" target="_blank">Here's a thread</a> on the WotC boards on why changelings are cool.Changelings don't have a place specifically in the history of Eberron because they're a subculture. They assimilate in their surrounding culture, rather than having one of their own. But changelings add to the level of intrigue in Eberron. In addition, they add to a level of wonder in the setting. I've had Changelings in Sharn who are Professional Art pieces; they change appearance and clothing (via illusion) so that one minute at a party, those statues of a couple locked in a Cyran tango to two men locked in a fencing position. (Sort've like mimes, but less obnoxious). I've had a flamboyant changeling painter whose appearance changes with his mood. I've had a changeling Journalist for the Sharn Inquisitor who used his ability to do the work, all with the hidden goal of being allowed into House Medani.Shifters are tied to Eberron's history in one way: The Purge. Lycanthropes were infesting Aundair, and going wild in mass murder. The Silver Flame sent templars and paladins to take care of it, and the lycanthropes turned the templars. The Church went Crusades on the lycanthropes.This included killing innocent shifters in a fervor against the Lycanthropes. Shifters then either sided with the lycanthropes against the Church, and others sided with the Flame, helping the Church hunt down the shifters. Also, I've seen one person play the Lycanthropes as being created by a Rajah related to beasts. And thus that Rajah has sway over Shifters, who were spawned from lycanthropes. Those Shifters might be subtly controlled by the slumbering Rajah to help free it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rechan, post: 3850528, member: 54846"] [url=http://forums.gleemax.com/showthread.php?t=906487]Here's a thread[/url] on the WotC boards on why changelings are cool. Changelings don't have a place specifically in the history of Eberron because they're a subculture. They assimilate in their surrounding culture, rather than having one of their own. But changelings add to the level of intrigue in Eberron. In addition, they add to a level of wonder in the setting. I've had Changelings in Sharn who are Professional Art pieces; they change appearance and clothing (via illusion) so that one minute at a party, those statues of a couple locked in a Cyran tango to two men locked in a fencing position. (Sort've like mimes, but less obnoxious). I've had a flamboyant changeling painter whose appearance changes with his mood. I've had a changeling Journalist for the Sharn Inquisitor who used his ability to do the work, all with the hidden goal of being allowed into House Medani. Shifters are tied to Eberron's history in one way: The Purge. Lycanthropes were infesting Aundair, and going wild in mass murder. The Silver Flame sent templars and paladins to take care of it, and the lycanthropes turned the templars. The Church went Crusades on the lycanthropes. This included killing innocent shifters in a fervor against the Lycanthropes. Shifters then either sided with the lycanthropes against the Church, and others sided with the Flame, helping the Church hunt down the shifters. Also, I've seen one person play the Lycanthropes as being created by a Rajah related to beasts. And thus that Rajah has sway over Shifters, who were spawned from lycanthropes. Those Shifters might be subtly controlled by the slumbering Rajah to help free it. [/QUOTE]

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