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| - The Changeling Way was a means for True Fae, mostly of commoner Kiths, to deal with the rising Banality of the Mundane world as the Mythic Age ended, turning themselves into the forerunners of modern Changelings. These fae transferred their souls into (often infant) humans, leading to the traditional myth of fairies stealing away a human child to replace it with a child of their own. Safely embodied in mortal flesh, these new hybrid beings were protected from banality and able to interact with both the Near Dreaming and with the human world, as fellow humans. Most Changelings now, however, are born naturally, the fae soul migrating to another body at death.
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