The Death of the Sugarplum Fairy (Horror Remix)
4"The Dauntain https://whitewolf.fandom.com/wiki/Dauntain
Out of all the terrors the Dreaming spawns, Dauntain are
among the most frightening. A changeling may fear rampaging
chimera, the Shadow Court fomenting discord, or society laid to
waste by the Thallain, but these are, in essence, mortal terrors.
Fear of the Dauntain is a horror that chills straight to the soul.
Dauntain changelings are things that should not be, but
somehow are. Most changelings believe that when they die,
they are born anew, washed clean of their former sins and
failures with a brand new Chrysalis. It is a comforting story,
but it is not always true.
Some fae awaken wrong. Sometimes, the Chrysalis twists
and claws, leaving the fae soul scarred and the human mind
broken. Sometimes, the soul was damaged long before its reincarnation,
bringing its scars and fractures through the cycle of
rebirth. The Dreaming should have destroyed these hopelessly
damaged souls, but instead spits them back out into the world,
incomplete and deranged.
The Ruined of Arcadia
Dauntain are predators birthed of trauma and torment,
and their Chrysalises are always agonizing. Each Dauntain, no
matter his kith, bears the indelible mark of his Doom. This
mark, tied intimately to their Glamour, manifests as a brand
somewhere on the body of the Dauntain, a symbol from an
ancient language — perhaps Arcadian, perhaps older — that
identifies them by their sins.
The Dreaming does not let go of changelings marked as
Dauntain easily. Dauntain bear their Brands through each
turn of the mortal coil, being born anew with the sins of their
ancient lives. Every Dauntain knows he is incomplete, that his
soul is damaged and broken beyond repair, but this does not
stop him from trying to fix himself. Over the many centuries,
Dauntain have developed methods to appease the pain and
mitigate the madness, and some still hope to learn the secrets
of the Dreaming that will allow them to finally heal their souls
and shed their Brands. " -Changeling the Dreaming 20th Aniversary Edition