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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheAuldGrump" data-source="post: 3201064" data-attributes="member: 6957">Your fey self was both real and something that you turned into - which is to say that your fellow fae could see your seeming, but mortals could not. Much like Hobbes from Calvin & Hobbes most folks would see a fluffy stuffed tiger, but those who could see the Dreaming would see a bipedal tiger.However remaining solely in your fae seeming leads to madness, the human souls which you depend upon to maintain your existence in the real world being driven mad by the ever changing Dreaming. Both souls are required for a Fae to remain itself. Without a human soul to buffer the creeping disbelief and ordinariness (Banality) the fae soul is eroded by the overwhelming blandness of reality. So a balance must be struck. Faerie land is a nice place to visit, but you can't live there too long.If by Noble you mean Sidhe reincarnation the major difference is that there is no human soul to protect against banality. Sidhe are not reincarnated - when they die they are gone. Ennobled commoners on the other hand reincarnate in the same manner as others of commoner stock.I will admit that I have a difficulty with nearly all the fae in Changeling coming from British Isles mythology, especially since the Slavic faerie myths are at least as intriguing, with the line between fae and god blurred.As an odd example of how to view Changeling see the movie Hook, where Peter Pan can no longer even remember his magic. (You can view Hook as an Unseelie fae 'rescuing' a Seelie fae from banality, if only so that he can kill Peter himself.) The Auld Grump</blockquote>

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