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Hey so i was thinking abt your VM Daemon au (which is brilliant and i love btw) and then i started thinking about my own DnD characters and what their daemons would be, and i have a Changeling character, so that got me thinking abt whether Changelings daemons would never settle to better blend in? or whether they would "settle" but still be able to change like their person and oh man there's so much cool stuff to explore with daemons in a world with lots of fantasy races

oh wow that’s so cool! yeah I love the challenge of meshing daemons with a high magic swords and sorcery RPG setting

I would say daemons of shifting races probably settle but retain the ability to change, within reason. I mean, when your soul finds its true shape, there’s no way to deny that. You are who you are. Sooner or later a daemon settles; that’s just the way of things. But since changelings possesses a natural ability to shapeshift, I would imagine a daemon, by extension, would possess a similar ability. Probably not anything wildly different, just like changelings are confined to medium sized creatures (according to these stats I just looked up; I don’t know which ruleset your character is using). Your cat wouldn’t become a goldfish. It might, however, become another species of cat (say, a siamese to a european wildcat, or maybe a persian). Or, your blackbird might become a mockingbird or a kite. Something similar––same size, relatively related taxonomical families––but a different animal. Besides, you don’t need a vastly different daemon for it to indicate different things about a person.

The fast and loose guidelines I’ve been using are that things that can be defined as a “person” (ie would be affected by a Hold Person or Charm Person spell; mostly playable races) definitely have daemons while others may or may not. Those that do, as far as I’ve thought it through, follow standard HDM daemon rules––your daemon settles and stays that way. But then, obviously, with the magic and fantasy races (and soul magic! there’s a lot of soul magic in D&D) those rules can’t be ironclad. First off because Pullman leaves so much as a ~mystery~ and second because, y’know. Magic. It doesn’t work if you refuse to bend the rules a little. Like Lord Briarwood coming back with a different daemon, and people and their daemons becoming separated through deals with dark powers––like Percy––or resurrection––like Pike. There are a lot of possibilities to mess around with.

So what I’m saying is: a changeling’s daemon would settle like any other daemon but retain some shifting ability due to racial background. Of course, that’s just me spitballing over here. It’s your D&D character, so really you get to make the rules.

Hope that helps! Or was interesting at least? Either way, I love talking daemon theory, so I’m glad you asked!!!

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