This Darkling-of-the-wood kith stems from old Swedish and Scandinavian folklore. In these fairy tales, the skogsra are vicious trolls protecting the dark forests, leading travelers astray and either killing them or stealing their goods. Other tales have the skogsra luring wanderers off the trails where they are enslaved, certainly speaking to legends of the True Fae who have done that very thing. The changelings known as the Skogsra are Darklings in appearance, but often possess miens adorned with dark vines and leaves (sometimes growing beneath the surface of the flesh where the veins should be) or have eyes like black pools of water. These forest Darklings are Keepers of the Feral Heart: the changeling must look into the eyes of a single animal (bird or mammal), and by spending a Glamour point, enslaves the beast to be his “pet” until the next sunrise or sundown (whichever occurs first). The animal will do whatever it is that the changeling demands, even to its own detriment. The animal must of course be capable of doing the thing asked of it.
