The changeling appears as whomever the subject most desires to see at that moment.
Prerequisites: Mantle (Spring) •• or Court Goodwill (Spring) ••••
Cost: 2 Glamour; add 1 Willpower for a supernatural subject
Dice Pool: Presence + Subterfuge + Mantle (Spring) vs. subject’s Composure + Wyrd ({Presence}+{Subterfuge}+{Mantle Rating} vs. subject’s Composure + Wyrd)
Action: Instant
Catch: The character has recently offered food to the target and the target has accepted, or vice versa.
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The subject instead sees the character as the person he would least like to see right now. The character is not aware of the failure.
Failure: The character appears as herself, and she is aware of the failed attempt.
Success: The subject recognizes the character as the person he would most like to see at the moment. The character has no say over who she becomes, she just knows that she is recognized as the desired individual. This lasts for one scene.
When using this power on a group of observers, the changeling chooses one as the subject but subtracts the highest Composure in the group from her roll. Success indicates that all observers see her as the same person.
Acting in ways foreign to the visage donned allows reflexive Wits + Composure rolls from people who know whomever the character is pretending to be. These rolls suffer a dice penalty equal to the successes on the character’s activation roll but gain a +1 or +2 dice bonus for actions flagrantly out of character.
Note that the changeling does not always appear as someone the subject knows. The character may appear to be the dark, handsome stranger the target was secretly wishing would appear and whisk her away or the “federal agent” that the beat cop wants to take a murder off his hands. In such cases, the changeling’s actual appearance becomes whatever the subject assumes the desired person would look like.
Exceptional Success: The deception lasts as long as the changeling would like to maintain it.
Suggested Modifiers
| Modifier | Situation |
| +1 | The character knows the subject’s current desire(s). |
| — | The character approaches the subject “blind.” |