Editing Piskey (section)

==Kith Notes==
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===Appearance===
A piskey’s most notable feature is their lack of notable features. A piskey’s face never stands out in a crowd, because he always looks like he belongs to the group he’s traveling with. Their skin tone, facial features, and build change with their travels. Certain characteristics remain familiar, and someone who comes to know a specific piskey well can usually identify her, but those who view the piskey for only a moment are unlikely to recognize her if they encounter her again. They are, in this respect, the perfect spies or couriers for sensitive materials.

Piskies do have a natural appearance, though few ever see it, and it even begins to fade over time. In isolation, with no group to mimic, a piskey’s skin defaults to a warm olive that grows creased and weathered with age, and his hair to a soft silver. Even younger piskies’ faces carry lines from frequent smiles and crinkles at the corners of their large, luminous eyes. Piskies have long pointed ears and a solid build. Their height ranges from only four to five feet, and they tend towards sturdy, muscular builds. Piskey grumps with a long lifetime of travel may lose the details of their facial features entirely to their creases and wrinkles.

===Lifestyles===
Piskies are born to wander, and seldom settle in one place for any length of time as they discharge their duties as couriers and sate their endless curiosity. They prefer companionship on the road, but never stay with one group for long. While a piskey may not want to be center stage, he’s a great friend to have in the wings. Unlike the eshu, who are constantly seeking new tales and adventures, piskies find their happiness in new friends and simple pleasures. Though piskies are often alone, they are seldom lonely. They view any time spent without company as a brief pause between friendships. Piskies rarely swear oaths of fealty, which makes those few who do such a precious commodity. Piskies are a secret weapon in a noble’s arsenal, able to cross enemy lines or move through hostile groups without receiving a second glance.

===Seemings===
====Childlings====
Piskey childlings have the strongest sense of individual identity of their kith. They have limited experience in the world and have worn another face only a scant few times. Childlings tend to be more trusting, forming friendships easily and discarding them less lightly. Piskey childlings can be slightly flighty and unreliable, which makes them less desirable couriers. Their light fingers are also less discerning, and the items they pilfer and hide are often less valuable and more purely interesting.

====Wilders====
While the seeker years make some kiths cynical and wild, most piskey seekers retain much of the sweetness of their childling years, coupled with a newfound desire to discard their old identities and try on something knew. Like the seeds of a dandelion, piskey wilders take to the wind, leaving their birthplace behind them as they search for new experiences and fresh faces. Piskey seekers make friends wherever they go, particularly among the young and the indigent, whom the piskey embraces without judgment or criticism. Only in the Unseelie piskey does the slight bite of sarcasm begin to inject itself into their humor. If this early hint of bitterness can be met with affection or ingenuity, however, the piskey’s buoyant nature reasserts itself. Piskey wilders are sought after at court by those who wish to pass secret missives or gifts. While a piskey would never steal an item she has agreed to deliver, piskey wilders have fully developed their compulsive and intuitive thievery.

====Grumps====
Thought most would not admit it, piskey grumps make
people uncomfortable. A lifetime of changing faces as easily as they change clothes gives piskies a disconcerting anonymity. Even those who think they know the piskey well would, when pressed, have a difficult time describing him. He always fits in, but he never really belongs. His friendships are peripheral and fleeting. Other kiths might find this sad, but piskies see it as freeing. They have their own legends about piskey grumps whose mortal forms disappeared entirely, their essence dispersing and merging with that of everyone around them.

===Revelry===
Piskies find their inspiration in complete immersion within a group. In the euphoria of new sights and sounds, of total acceptance into a group, piskies find their delight. As the group experiences joy, so does the piskey, and as they experience loss and sorrow, the piskey drinks in this new sensation as well. Piskies witnessing births, deaths, and other rites of passage within their current group experience the purest Revelry.

===Unleashing===
Just as piskies are constantly changing and blending in, their unleashing is always evolving and changing. When a piskey travels across California with a group of migrant workers, their unleashing may bring with it a blast of heat and the smell of earth and spices. Piskies traveling with a carnival may unleash with a burst of confetti, the scent of grease paint and fried dough, and the distant sound of a carousel. Should someone ever witness a piskey unleashing in her natural form, they will never be able to describe what they felt, or what it sounded or smelled like, but they’ll feel fresh and new afterwards.