Changeling Way

The changeling way is the name of the process whereby a fae soul is bound to a mortal soul. This binding has two important effects:

• The combined soul reincarnates in the manner of the mortal soul. The soul does not need to be taken by the Sluagh to Moonbeam Fissure, and is not incarnated through one of the Gates in Arcadia. At the time the Changeling Way was adopted by many fae, this was a critical factor as the Sluagh were no longer able to perform their functions easily, and Arcadia was home to the Fomori.
• The changeling has a single dreamstuff form which, because it is partly petrified and partly not, can interact with both Ironfell and the Dreaming, an important asset in the post-Shattering world. The changeling also gets the advantage of Liam's Gift. The downside, of course, is the inability of the changeling to function in pure Dreaming or pure Ironfell environments.

The commoner Kiths undertook the Changeling Way at roughly the time of the Shattering, along with House Scathach Sidhe. Only Nocker, of the commoners, did not, for he had found another solution to the problem of existing partly in Ironfell at the time of the Sundering.