Fae Mount

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Allowed Retainer

Rites of Spring p. 89
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Venue	Changeling
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You have earned the favor of a supernatural steed that can be called upon to act as a riding mount for you at any time you are in the Hedge. The Fae Mount comes to you anywhere in the Hedge when called (perhaps they are summoned by a particular whistle or summoning rhyme). While the steed has no particular knowledge of Trods and must be directed by its rider. The steed can travel up to twice the normal speed for a mundane horse while in the Hedge.

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Provides the Hedge equivalent of a simple steed^[1]. The actual description varies to suit the fantastic nature of the Hedge and the mount may well be a motorcycle made of brass and obsidian, a steel-boned skeletal mare, a small hut that walks on chicken legs, or a slithering shadow-serpent). The steed has no supernatural powers other than the ability to manifest when summoned.

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This version has a minor supernatural ability. You may choose from the following, or create your own, subject to Storyteller approval:

• the ability to run across water as if it were solid land
• the ability to fly (Speed 12 and can bear a rider or burden up to 300 pounds - that's about 136 kilograms)
• firebreathing^[2]
• the ability to carry up to three additional passengers of Size 6, or smaller
• a poisonous bite (Toxicity 4)^[3].

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Offers the mount two of the above mentioned traits, or any four abilities of similar level, subject to Storyteller approval, or some combination thereof.

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The steed possesses three of the aforementioned four traits as well as the ability to actually leave the Hedge and travel in the mortal world!

While manifested, the Fae Mount is visible to human eyes (albeit seen as a mundane mount closest to its nature; a walking hut may look like a pickup truck with a large sleeper add-on, for example). The Fae Mount may remain in the physical world for a scene before it must return to the Hedge and rest there for a day and night before it may leave the Hedge again.

The steed may open a portal to the Hedge if the rider feeds the steed a Glamour. Though - somewhat excitingly - by doing so the steed has no control over where the portal may lead.