episode 145 — the huntsmen chronicle anthology

We live again.. again! In the spirit of the Autumn Court and their occasionally ill-advised sense of discovery, now that their season has come, so too has the moment where at last we dive headlong into the second edition of Changeling: the Lost. The thorny glory that is this game will need a slow and winding path of exploration, and thus we begin with the relatively easy lift of tie-in fiction. Released well in advance of the corebook, the **Huntsmen Chronicle Anthology** presents us with a dozen-ish slices of fae life through the incipient 2e lens. Some of these concepts will return when we get to the crunchier material; some of them will vanish into the wind like so many autumn leaves. And while we certainly vibed with certain stories over others, we... well, we certainly read them all, and now you can profit from our experiences. So, listen along with us as we hear tales of fetches who think they're humans, Lost who think they're righteous, and baby foster swans who think they're grown-ups. Learn how treacherous the Huntsmen can be and how traitorous the Courtly politics of a freehold can become. Most of all, think on the stories *you* want to tell and how these examples might inform your approach to roleplaying the game, which we believe is the main benefit of tie-in fiction in the end. And dream safe: chances are we've opened gates that can never completely shut. You can snag the collection for yourself at https://www.storytellersvault.com/en/product/210042?affiliate\_id=3063731, using whatever thorny snagging implement you desire. And you might be able to snag our attention in turn using any of these: - Discord: https://discord.me/ctp - Email: [podcast@changelingthepodcast.com](mailto:podcast@changelingthepodcast.com) - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100082973960699 - Mastodon: https://dice.camp/@ChangelingPod - Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/changelingthepodcast - YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ChangelingThePodcast #### your hosts **Pooka G** (*any pronoun/they*) once called a hunt for the finest pastries in all the land. Decades later, the hunt goes ever on and on... **Amelia Fetch** (*she/her*) fended off the huntsmen with pamphlets about unionization, which has caused all kinds of drama across the Hedge. *Green wind from the green-gold branches, what is the song you bring?* *What are all songs for me, now, who no more care to sing?* *Deep in the heart of Summer, sweet is life to me still,* *But my heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill.* —Fiona Macleod \[William Sharp], "The Lonely Hunter"