It’s really quite depressing. For anyone not in the know, Changeling: the Dreaming’s main conflict is the rise of Banality (depression, adulthood, bureaucracy, the wasteland), versus the slow and inevitable leeching of Glamour (childhood, creativity, art, fantasyland) from the world. Psychologists and cubicles are just as deadly as Kithain and Fomorians, and as you can imagine, this narrative trends towards horrific in a way you just don’t really get with other fictional settings. Everything good in the world is going to lose. You can never go home. Winter is coming to the Autumn World.
Griff
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Hmm but a Warlock’s relationship with their Patron doesn’t involve worship (otherwise they’d be a Cleric), so can you really “convert” someone?
I’m sure I speak for the community here when I wish the same for you <3
Thank you for sharing this article! Going through the longlist helped me pick out some of my next reads (first is All the Little Birds).
It was hiding inside a copy of The Advancement of Learning and Novum Organum, by Francis Bacon. I’m not familiar with the contents honestly? Still. It’s heartwarming getting to see this very human thing and interesting to wonder why it was stuck here of all places.
Oh same! I also loved that <3 speaking as a fellow autist, heheh, though I had only read mention of that guy in brief. I should really sit down with the novels they made from the setting at some point. Really the conceit of enemies that desperately want to help you, but their “help” is actually killing you, is super interesting to me. Idk. There’s a type of horror there that is unique to CtD, and might even be why I prefer it to CtL.