Changelings radiate hope in a drab world. The embodiments of creativity and the power to dream, these remnants of the fae protect and nurture those fading shreds of wonder and imagination that remain. Without changelings, reality would fall victim to Banality; anything that could not be seen or touched or experienced by the physical senses would no longer exist.

Long ago, the fae served as muses to humanity, inspiring artists and musicians, craftsmen and philosophers, prophets and leaders to expand the boundaries of their minds and hearts to encompass new thoughts and works of beauty. Now changelings have an even more important purpose. In an era when science threatens magic, reducing the supernatural to a series of physio-chemical reactions or to a mechanical progression of causes and effects, changelings uphold the reality of the inexplicable. They tip the balance of the senses, fray the edges of the mind, and defy the “natural laws” that consign the creatures of the world to one fixed form.

Changelings announce to the human world that dreams exist. As their name suggests, they represent the essence of mutability. Reality does not have to lie stagnant or conform to rules. The children of the Dreaming, by their very existence, break the rules and shatter the conventions of everyday life. They are testament to the fact that what is does not have to be.

Yet changelings must tread carefully, for danger looms in all directions. Powerful forces exist that oppose any change of the status quo. Dreams are subversive, for they contradict the world as we know it. Changelings, even the most traditional ones, are revolutionaries and rebels, undermining the stark determinism of modern life. They allow humans to indulge in rare moments in which it seems possible to cure the world's ills — to save the rain forests, to feed the hungry, to house the homeless — and to bring the light of imagination into the shadowy corners of the mundane realm