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As a child we are told stories from which we learn and fear.Little red riding hood, hansle and grettle, and some times Baba Yaga if your Russian.Stories of children taken in the night by monster who live in the woods, old hags and trolls who ate children.

A world of beauty and madness is beside our own, believe it or not the Fae are watching....the stories are true....and if you catch their eyes you may be next.....

Some times the Fae would bring children and anyone that caught their eye back into their realm with them, to act as slaves, food, or worse.These humans taken from their homes and families, are now slaves who take on the form of their captors as time passes.They become changelings, part Fae and part human.They claw back through the barrier between worlds to find theyre family is dead or a time it self has passed to far from when they here stolen.They must live with what they are now, neither fully human or Fae.They protect the mortals as best they can from the Fae, so no one else has to go through what they had too...

Can the Fae and Changeling be included into a steampunk worlds shadow, along with the other monsters of the night.

I want opinions and thoughts?

In a real world sense those are Fae too.Fae are fairy and faery folk.

Elves, goblin, trolls, hags, kobolds, etc.

Im trying to figure out if a changeling who's escaped, can survive in a steampunk world, protecting children and adults from the Fae who would capture them.

In my writing of steampunk, people hear stories of werewolves and vampires and of mages and warlocks.Theey exist but hide until night, where they go off to fight or hunt.

Ever hear of "Nockers"? Also called "knackers" and a few other names which I unfortunately forget, they work in Cornish and Welsh mines alongside miners, hence their name--from the "knocking" sounds their tools make when they mine for copper, tin, and other metals. They are said to be highly skilled with mechanical equipment such as steam engines and power drills, amongst others, and there are two conflicting stories about them--one is that they can't stand foul language used around them, and will cause cave-ins or mislead anyone foolish enough to curse in a mine where they live and work; the other is that they're some of the most foul-mouthed creatures in existence (although they're surprisingly good-natured), and swear almost constantly due to the constant frustration at the fact that no matter how well-constructed the device they make, it always contains one fatal flaw...

In White Wolf Games Studio's RPG, Changeling: the Dreaming, Nockers are described as "masters of machines, and everyone knows it", even having the ability to intimidate malfunctioning machinery into working once again with a few choice threats and a tap of the hammer or two.

In a steampunk setting, nockers would be the ultimate craftsmen (and craftswomen; why be sexist?) of the Faerie folk, and would regularly interact with humans to keep up with (and make regular improvements on) the latest new inventions, taking new technologies back to their people regularly and creating elaborate devices powered by both magic and Victorian-era power sources such as electricity, steam, coal, etc.

And let's not forget Govannon (Welsh name) or Goibhniu (Irish name), the blacksmith and metalworker of the Tuatha de Danaan (the ancient race of Celtic gods and goddesses who gave rise to the different Faerie races in the British Isles), who (amongst other accomplishments) built a silver-skinned mechanical arm similar to the automail arms of Fullmetal Alchemist for Nuada, who lost his original flesh-and-blood arm in battle and needed a replacement--sort of a "god of steampunk", if you will... >^_^<

ugh Changeling the Dreaming was horrible for individuality when character building the kiths seemed distinctly designed for certain classes (or term used). I'm in LOVE with the new changeling mechanics because you can literally customize your changeling into anything from myth or imagination. Take those rules only make their base universe a steampunk one or them dealing with a True Fae who's realm is steampunk/fantasy and things can get awfully trippy

Hmm... I haven't played the new Changeling (or any of the other games in the "new and improved" system, for that matter) yet, so I can't say. I only referred to C:tD's Nocker Kithain as an example of Nockers/Knackers/etc. in general, actually, answering Freedom's initial question of would Faerie fit into a Steampunk setting.

Obviously, the answer is: depends on whether you use Tolkien-esque elves, dwarves, etc., or if you go back to the original sources that Prof. Tolkien himself used when writing The Hobbit, "Smith of Wooton Major" (I think I spelled that right...), etc.


One place to start is The Encyclopedia of Things that Never Were, since that's where I first heard of nockers myself, actually. Excellent book IMHO because it has a lot of information on different races of Faerie and other "mythical" creatures, imaginary (?) places such as Prester John's Country and the Land of the Waynims, and so forth. (I need to replace my copy, in fact... Bloody gits that cleaned out my storage unit without my permission, grumble grumble...)

Also try checking Wikipedia.org and related sites--if all anyone here knows of Faerie is that they're little boys and girls with butterfly wings on their backs, well.... (evil chuckle)

As an aside about Faerie in general, did you know that the fairy tales most of us grew up with, such as Hansel & Gretel, were actually "cleaned up" for public consumption during the Victorian era? Chase down a copy of Grimm's Grimmest or another book on fairy tails pre-Victorian era and you'll see what I mean! Better than a good penny dreadful, wot? >-_^<

Aren't they great? I also recommend Jim Henson's The Storyteller for the same reason--Henson's folk chose lesser-known variations of some interesting fairy tales and brought them to life, so you get closer to the original versions than the "bowdlerized" versions we know from our childhoods, nyao--all of which date from the Victorian era that we all love so much, ironically enough. But when you do as Prof. Tolkien did, and go back to the original source material, you really see what you've been missing, and it's pretty good stuff!