Changeling (Swapling)

"A human child might be taken due to many factors: to act as a servant, the love of a human child, or malice. Most often it was thought that fairies exchanged the children. In rare cases, the very elderly of the fairy people would be exchanged in the place of a human baby, so that the old fairy could live in comfort, being coddled by its human parents. Luminaries, simple charms such as an inverted coat or open iron scissors left where the child sleeps, were thought to ward them off; other measures included a constant watch over the child."

You are a being known as a changeling, or a swapling, who is not to be confused with the Changeling race from Eberron (even though you can most definitely be a Changeling changeling). You are one of the many swapling children, who's purpose is that of a decoy as you are a transformed Fey child (or at least one in disguise), who are left behind in the place of the human children, as to not raise parents' suspicions, who get whisked away whenever a (or more) being(s) of the Feywild chooses to kidnap another human child. A "fair" exchange, between the Fey world and the Material one, if you'd like to call it that.

Perhaps you knew of your changeling (swapling) nature while growing up and you just kept it hidden, or perhaps you didn't. Maybe your real nature was discovered later on in your childhood, and when the other inhabitants of your hometown got word of it, you were promptly chased out of there. Maybe you grew up thinking you were a normal human child and that your parents truly loved you, no matter what, only for them to throw you out when they discovered the truth. Or perhaps, in an (admittedly STUPID) attempt to get their own child back, your adoptive "parents" abused you, or maybe (if you were one of those damn lucky bastards) people knew what or who you were and just didn't care. It doesn't matter anymore anyway, because that's all in the past, and (whatever the reason) you have decided to set out on a journey and to travel the world. Perhaps you are looking for some answers, or perhaps you are searching for your blood family/your human-familiar-pseudo-adoptive-surrogate-sibling-counterpart.

Or maybe, for an adventure or two... 

Skill Proficiencies: Choose Two Skills - Nature, Animal Handling, Insight, Medicine, Perception, Deception, Performance, Persuasion, Survival.

Tool Proficiencies: Choose One Tool - Alchemist's Supplies, Carpenter's Tools, Cobbler's Tools, Cook's Utensils, Jeweler's Tools, Painter's Supplies, Tinker's Tools, Weaver's Tools, Woodcarver's Tools, Herbalism Kit, Flute, Lyre, Pan Flute, Lute, Viol, Disguise Kit.

Languages: You can speak, read, and write Sylvan.

Equipment: A set of traveler's clothes, a musical instrument or a set of tools/a kit of your choice, a potion of healing, a trinket of your choice from your "hometown", and a small pouch containing 10 gold pieces.

Spell List

Choose one of two spells that you've learned to use when your original disguise fell/was removed. (If you are of a race such as Changeling, Skinwalker, Shapeshifter, or any other race that has an already existing shape-changing ability of ANY kind, this does not apply to you.)

Suggested Characteristics

Changelings (swaplings) tend to be very flexible in their thinking and their personalities, their alignments are sometimes even fluid because of their ever changing nature. As they are quite widespread over most of the Planes of Existence they have all mostly grown up in different surroundings, with different things that have influenced them in their younger years.