History TabletopGame / ChangelingTheDreaming

* TheOathBreaker: House Liam, for which no other Changeling will honour their hospitality, their justice, or any oaths made with them.

* TokenHeroicOrc: Interestingly, the Kith creation segment of C20 brings up the idea of playing a reformed Thallain, Dauntain, or dark-kin. Nowhere else in the book suggests this is possible, but it does raise some interesting questions.

The sequel for the TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness, ''TabletopGame/ChangelingTheLost'', is a DarkerAndEdgier take on it where Changelings are the more traditional sort of humans that have been kidnapped by TheFairFolk and have managed to escape their clutches. While ''Lost'' can be as divisive as ''Dreaming'', it is at least clear about the authors' direction. The tone of ''Changeling: The Dreaming'' and ''TabletopGame/WraithTheOblivion'' were basically swapped in the new World of Darkness for ''TabletopGame/GeistTheSinEaters'' and ''Changeling: The Lost''.

* AwesomeAnachronisticApparel: The sluagh were enthralled by the culture, manners and fashion of Victorian Britain, and still tend to dress as befitting that period.

** Pooka are an entire kith of this. Their innate Frailty is the inability to say the complete truth (barring extremely simple concepts such as orders or an exertion of willpower), causing them to generally speak in odd ways or patterns, leading to this trope.

* EvilIsSexy InUniverse: House Leanhaun gain bonuses to charisma and seduction, and age a year for every week beyond a month's grace period they go without exhausting an artist's creativity, which results in the victim suffering a nervous breakdown at minimum. C20 modifies this so they now age a year every week they don't get Glamour from a Dreamer, whether themselves or others, with Glamour gained from inspiring themselves or an artist reversing it at a rate of one year for every five points gained, Glamour stolen from an artist reversing it at a rate of one year per point, and permanently exhausting an artist's Glamour reversing it at five years per point. Which is to say that if a member of the House falls victim to their curse, they always have quick and harmful options open to them if they want to reverse it.

* FateWorseThanDeath: Ravaging and Rhapsody are taboo forms of harnessing Glamour from Dreamers, as they both destroy a Dreamer's potential to generate Glamour and prevent them from ever making imaginative works again. So if you're a creative Dreamer that's been forced to experience either a Ravaging or a Rhapsody, then death becomes a very tempting alternative to living without any creative imagination.

** Of course, given Changeling's somewhat schizoid nature, even this was subverted on a few occasions. One book had a Boggan who made his living as an accountant; by all rights, this should have had his fae soul halfway to dormancy, but he took such ''joy'' in the potential of numbers and sums that he actually derived Glamour from his living.