Kithbook: Pooka is a kith book for Changeling: The Dreaming covering the pooka.
Summary[]
- From the White Wolf Catalog:
- The Animal in Us All
- What some people call chaos, others call variety or diversity. Pooka come in all shapes and sizes. Halfhumanoid and half-animal, they live in mortal bodies like the other kith, but can also shift into the forms of their particular animals. They are said to have an affinity with the animal side of themselves
- Kithbook: Pooka features
- A complete look at pookas from their ancient origins to the modern day;
- An inside look at the culture and behavior of nockers;
- New Merits and Flaws for pooka characters.
Chapters[]
Lion and the Heart of Wonder[]
Chapter One: Evolution[]
Chapter Two: Diversity[]
Chapter Three: Love, Lies and Losses[]
Chapter Four: It Wasn't Me[]
Chapter Five: Animal Magnetism[]
Chapter Six: The Animal Kingdom[]
- The Pet - Seelie Dog Pooka (Template)
- The Prince - Seelie White-Tailed Deer Pooka (Template)
- The Philanthropist - Seelie Goldfish Pooka (Template)
- The Pesky Varmint - Unseelie Squirrel Pooka (Template)
- The Predator - Unseelie Snake Pooka (Template)
- The Punisher - Unseelie Panther Pooka (Template)
Chapter Seven: Quirks and Baubles[]
- Merits and Flaws:
- Good Listener (1 Pt. Merit)
- Loud Voice (1 Pt. Merit)
- Calming Presence (2 Pt. Merit)
- Animal Speech (3 Pt. Merit)
- Call to Friends (3 Pt. Merit)
- Intimidation (3 Pt. Merit)
- Wholecloth (3 Pt. Merit)
- Physical Abnormality (3-4 Pt. Merit)
- Venomous Attack (5 Pt. Merit)
- Animalistic Features (1-3 Pt. Flaw)
- Pack Mentality (1 Pt. Flaw)
- Natural Urge (2 Pt. Flaw)
- Environmental Need (3 Pt. Flaw)
- Animal Amnesia (4 Pt. Flaw)
- Mortal Inhibition (4 Pt. Flaw)
- Hibernation (5 Pt. Flaw)
Background Information[]
The 1999 Jul-Dec Catalog has a different text entry for the book:
Simple Pranksters
People may like the pooka, but believing one is sheer folly. These shapechangers are extraordinary pranksters. Yet they have a charm that cracks a smile across even faces of stone. Wee it not for their innate charm, their penchant for pranks would have made them extinct long ago. Yet the pooka hide their true intentions behind this façade - intentions that outsiders rarely see and never fully comprehend.
Clever Liars
The secrets of the pooka are finally revealed. From their origins in Egypt and elsewhere to their disappearance from and eventual re-emergence in the World of Darkness, the complex past of this elusive Kith is laid bare. This book also explores the many different kinds of pooka shapechangers, both in ideology and in black-and-white game terms.
Memorable Quotes[]
Characters[]
- Horus - Falcon Pooka-God
- Anubis - Jackal Pooka-God
- Thoth - Ibis Pooka-God
- Apis - Bull Pooka-God
- Khnum - Ram Pooka-God
- Hathor - Cow Pooka-God
- Sebek - Crocodile Pooka-God
- Querzalcóatl - Pooka-God, Feathered Serpent
- High King David
- Lord Peregrine - Sidhe
- Saffron - Pooka
- 'Raci - Pooka
- Calicus
- Sorema - Wren Pooka
- Jeremiah of Graymere Glen - Pooka
- Catalina - Wolf Pooka of Toronto
- Frederick the Brave - Mouse Pooka
- Martin Long-Claw - Bear Pooka
- Lord Thierry Alain Chevalier - Seelie Peacock Pooka
- Slick - Unseelie Chameleon Pooka
- Ocyrus Pristis - Seelie Sea Bass Pooka
- Mistress Mary Widowe - Unseelie Black Window Pooja
- René Devereaux - Seelie Alligator Pooka
- Moses "Coyote" Delgado - Unseelie Coyote Pooka
- Jezebel - Butterfly Pooka
- Morwen - High King David's sister
- Coca Jones - Unseelie Polar Bear Pooka
Terminology[]
Heart of Wonder, She Who Is Forever, Dream-Burrows, The Forest Beyond Forever, The Depths, Silver Valley, The Legend of Lion, Secret Societies: The Powerful Purveyors of Pestilential Pranks, The Pooka Watchers' Pooka Watchers, The Uncrowned, The Salvage Crew, The Political Animals, The Renunciate Faction, Land's End (Thierry Alain Chevalier: Santa Monica Freehold), Good Times Sanctuary (Organization built by René Devereaux), The Solar Center for Spiritual Healing (Moses Delgado's haven),
References[]
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