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Nobles: The Shining Host is a supplement for Changeling: The Dreaming that discusses the sidhe and playing noble characters.

Summary[]

The Shining Host

From time immemorial the noble sidhe have ruled the fae. Learn their secrets of power: how and why they maintain their chokehold over the commoners. This book covers the history of the nobility, from their return in '69 and the Accordance War which followed, through current politics and events among the sidhe.

The Weighty Crown

Though many envy their splendid halls and delicate Finery, the sidhe pay a high price for their magnificence. They are ill equipped to deal with the ravages of Banality, but are still subject to Bedlam. Here can be the learned the secrets of those sidhe who have succeeded in balancing the dichotomy that threatens to tear them apart.

Nobles: The Shining Host Features:

  • Detailed information on playing noble characters in a Changeling chronicle.
  • A new, previously unknown noble house.
  • New noble Arts, useable only by noble characters

Contents[]

Introduction[]

Asterlan[]

Chapter One: History of the Uasal Sidhe[]

Chapter Two: Rank and Privilege[]

Chapter Three: Politics[]

Secret Societies[]

Kingdoms[]

Chapter Four: Worldview[]

Romantic Legacies[]

  • Seelie Romantic Legacies:
    • Empath
    • Friend
    • Ingenue
    • Jongleur
    • Protector
    • Romantic
  • Unseelie Romantic Legacies:
    • Climber
    • Competitor
    • Cynic
    • Deceiver
    • Martyr
    • Gamester
    • Spy

The Romanticists[]

Chapter Five: Those Who Rule[]

  • New Skill Ability:
    • Temporal Sense
  • New Knowledge Ability:
    • Dream Lore
  • New Backgrounds:
    • Political Connections
    • Patron
    • Trod

Chapter Six: Storytelling[]

Menaces[]

Chapter Seven: The Nobility of Concordia[]

Appendix: Character Templates[]

  • Knight, Protector of the Realm - Seelie, House Gwydion, Red Branch Knight, Sidhe
  • Romanticist Cavalier - Seelie, House Fiona, Cerenaic, Sidhe
  • Street Knight - Seelie, House Liam, Order of Shallat, Sidhe
  • Paranoid Baron - Unseelie, House Eiluned, Beltaine Blade, Sidhe
  • Techno-Girl - Seelie, House Dougal (Association), Pooka

Background Information[]

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Memorable Quotes[]

Characters[]

The Monarchs[]

Other Nobles[]

Others[]

  • Sir William of Virginia - Sidhe Bard and Glass Circle conjurer to the Court of Queen Mab
  • Borach - Redcap chieftain
  • Thulio - Troll warrior
  • Surreal - Sluagh soothsayer
  • Celtchair - House Gwydion knight
  • Idath - House Fiona
  • Winter - House Scathach
  • Princess Marianna
  • Lord Dafyll
  • Sir Marx
  • True Thomas
  • Lord Drummond - Unseelie
  • Lady Morwen
  • High King Falchion
  • Orda - Pooka, died
  • Lady Courtney
  • Duke Rococo
  • Sir Atherlred - Red Branch Knight
  • Villon - Toreador Prince of Paris
  • Madame Paris - CEO of Siren Cosmetics
  • Scathach n Uanaind - Founder of House Scathach
  • Lilith
  • Queen Andalura - House Dougal, died
  • King Sean - Died
  • King Barabas - House Eiluned, died

Terminology[]

Children of Lilith, Tuatha de Danaan, Dream Lords, Fionn Sidhe, The Five, Fomorians, Hidden Ones, Impulse, Lost Ones, Morphean Oracles, Nertmar Sidhe, Romantic, Romanticist, Romantic Legacies, Silver Path, 'Sons of Adam, Daughters of Eve', Sorcerer/Sorceress, Sun and Serpent, Twilight Time, Uasal Sidhe, The Walking Lands, Wizard, Lenoria (Palace), Doria (Shield), Tamerlain (Sword), Mirror of Souls, Pool of Memory, Chiron (Asterlan's Steed), Wylde Lands, Dark Lands, Trillium Veil, Splintered Mountains, Forest of Lies, Empire of the Turtle, Fields of Blood by True Thomas, Escheat, Fior, Gulliver Stone, Caer Paine, Goblin Parchment, Parliament of Dreams, Kingdom, Duchy, County, Barony, Fiefdom, Household, Tara-Nar, Swallow's Nest (Satyr Freehold in Northern Pacifica), Morpheus Sabinis, The Age of Legends, The Sundering, The Shattering, The Twilight Times (The Interregnum), The Resurgence, The Accordance War, Arcadia, Chrysalis, The Near Dreaming, The Far Dreaming, The Deep Dreaming, Trods, The Silver Path,

References[]

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