Morganed

Once, sailors plied the waves on small, wooden boats, knowing there was a good chance they would never see home again. The sea called to them — its beauty and mystery irresistible. The morganed were born from the dreams of everyone who looked at the sea with longing, desperate to know what lies beyond the horizon or what awaits in its shadowy depths.

Humans forgot their reverence for the ocean and fouled what they once treasured. Plastic chokes or starves sea creatures, while ocean acidification leaves vast dead zones. With their habitat in peril, the morganed seek to return respect for the ocean to the inhabitants of land. Seelie morganed try to reawaken a sense of wonder about the ocean, while the Unseelie remind people that if the oceans die, the land won’t be far behind.

Morganed
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Name	Morganed
Plural	Morganed
Pronounced	MORE-gahn-ehd
Dream of...	Siren Song
Affinity	Actor
Birthrights	Nature's Bounty, Spin the Wheel, Rose and Oak, Wisdom of Ages
Frailties	The Kiss of Death

Kith Notes

Appearance

Also known as sirens, the morganed are lithe, graceful creatures that exude sensuality and desire. Their skin glistens from blue to emerald green, and their eyes are large, dark orbs split by a vertical pupil. They often work as professional divers, oceanographers, marine biologists, or anything else that lets them be a bridge between people and the ocean.

Revelry

Morganed find Glamour in awe-inspiring activities that unite humans and the ocean. It may be anything from snorkeling through a magnificent, multi-hued coral reef to passionately making love on a beach as the waves crash around them.

Unleashing

Morganed Unleashings are permeated with the smell of salt water, the sound of gulls, and the texture of sand. Depending on a morganed’s intention, her Unleashing might envelop its targets like an ocean fog rolling in or crash down upon them like a tsunami.

Kith Mechanics

Affinity

Actor

Birthrights

Born of the Sea

A morganed is at home in the ocean. While immersed in water, her legs can merge, becoming a caudal fin similar to that of merfolk, and any rolls involving Dexterity are made at a –2 difficulty. The pressure of the ocean’s depth doesn’t bother her, and she is able to hold her breath for five minutes per dot of Stamina. A morganed can breathe the waters of the Dreaming as easily as she can breathe air.

Song of the Sea

The siren song of a morganed is a captivating and haunting melody. It is as inescapable as the tides rhythmically beating against the shore, and as soothing as the wind humming through the planks of a pier. Any mortal within 165 feet (50 meters) per dot of the morganed’s Manipulation who can hear her song must make a Willpower roll (difficulty 7). Failure renders the mortal docile and compelled to seek out the source of the song. This effect lasts until the morganed ends her song or the mortal is threatened or harmed.

Frailty

Bound to the Sea

A morganed begins to dry out and wither if she spends too long away from the ocean. She loses one point of Glamour per day she doesn’t spend at least one hour immersed in salt water.

References

• Changeling: The Dreaming 20th Anniversary Edition, pp. 449-450