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Scarey Nerd
2010-07-30, 10:29 AM
I was looking at a picture of a Changeling and reading the description, and it specifically says that there is only the suggestion of a nose and mouth. I know that Changelings must be able to smell, eat, breathe and speak in their natural form, but I can't see how.

This (http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/mmiii_gallery/82973.jpg) is the picture.

GolemsVoice
2010-07-30, 10:31 AM
I don't know the picture, but I guess it only means that neither of these organs are very prominent, and do not stand out.

John Campbell
2010-07-30, 10:31 AM
How do changelings smell?

Terrible!


(Sorry. Couldn't resist.)

Scarey Nerd
2010-07-30, 10:33 AM
I don't know the picture, but I guess it only means that neither of these organs are very prominent, and do not stand out.

Edited into OP :smallsmile:

Dusk Eclipse
2010-07-30, 10:40 AM
Well they can change their body composition at will, so I don't think that ....."creating"* a mouth when they want to eat should be too difficult,

Evenmore is the fact that in the picture you linked I kinda see a line that I have always assumed to be a closed mouth.


*I know there must be a more approiate word; but I can't remember it.

senrath
2010-07-30, 10:42 AM
The word you want is probably "forming".

Scarey Nerd
2010-07-30, 10:44 AM
Well they can change their body composition at will, so I don't think that ....."creating"* a mouth when they want to eat should be too difficult.

The thing is, when a Changeling is first born it doesn't have much control over its shape-changing, it just makes itself look like its parents etc.

Dusk Eclipse
2010-07-30, 10:51 AM
The thing is, when a Changeling is first born it doesn't have much control over its shape-changing, it just makes itself look like its parents etc.

a) Parents in changeling natural shape: They form a mouth when they want to feed the baby changeling

b)In other form: Most humanoids that breed with changelings have discernable anathomy and probably will have a mouth.

Also thanks senrath, that was the word I was looking for.

Snake-Aes
2010-07-30, 10:53 AM
In natural shape, a changeling's nose is apparent but contains no nostrils, and her mouth is framed by thin, gray lips. A Changeling's eyes are blank pools of milky white. A changeling has wispy, fair hair and a distinct gender, in contrast to full-blooded doppelgangers.

The mouth opens, but the lips are barely noticeable.
The nose bit is trickier and handwaved by the books.

Kurald Galain
2010-07-30, 10:57 AM
A wizard did it (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AWizardDidIt), of course!

RufusCorvus
2010-07-30, 10:57 AM
I always took the "suggestion of a nose" bit to mean they still had nostrils. They just looked sort of like this (http://www.fabbricantidiuniversi.it/harrypotter/immagini/voldemort1.jpg).

As for the mouth bit, I take it more as meaning discernible lips. I'm not really sure how a "suggestion of a mouth" is supposed to work. This (http://www.helsinki.fi/~papinnie/pictures/The%20Matrix%20_DivX_%20110_0001.jpg)seems like it'd qualify, but I don't think that's what Wizards meant.

Scarey Nerd
2010-07-30, 11:00 AM
A wizard did it (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AWizardDidIt), of course!

Yeah, the spooky wizard who lives by the coast, if you get my drift. (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0032.html)

:smallbiggrin:

Marnath
2010-07-30, 11:12 AM
When i look at the picture, it seems to me like the vertical lines alongside the nose are nostril slits..and the mouth, yeah it looks like it opens, just has thin lips. I don't see any real problems with breathing or eating :smallconfused: Not to mention the shapechanging, thats been covered.

Devils_Advocate
2010-07-30, 11:50 AM
The nose bit is trickier and handwaved by the books.
What's the problem? Nostrils aren't necessary for breathing.

Snake-Aes
2010-07-30, 11:51 AM
What's the problem? Nostrils aren't necessary for breathing.

Yeah but people are annoying about that. Why would they have a nose if it was useless?

Marnath
2010-07-30, 11:53 AM
For holding up spectacles. They can't give themselves better vision right?