Seemings

The chimerical Seeming that a changeling takes on is based around their biological (human) age during their Chrysallis. Childlings are usually younger than 12 years old, wilders in their teens and early twenties, and grumps older than twenty four or twenty five. There are exceptions and some childlings and wilders can wilfully resist changing in seeming for years past physical mortal maturity by essentially "refusing to grow up" and not developing a more adult mindset. Typically, the seem young for their age even to ordinary mortals. The opposite can also take place, where a changeling grows up too fast by losing innocence and becoming old before their time. More changelings die of banality or violence than old age, disease, or other human health issues.

When a changeling completes passage from one Seeming to another (which can be slow or literally overnight depending on individual circumstance), they are recognized within their freehold or motley in a minor ceremony much like a birthday party.