- Frailties: Longing for the Ocean's Shore:
Selkies lose one additional Mana per day (at sunrise or sunset) that they spend
out of sight of the shore. If at this time their temporary Mana traits are below
their Rank, they must make a Forgetting challenge (rather than if Mana is at
zero, as is normal for other fae, although they lose the Permanent Mana trait
only if they are at zero or if they do not have possession of their seal coat).
- Immunity: Cold-based attacks against a selkie in fae or seal
form cause half damage (rounded down), and all such damage is Bashing, even
if of magical origin.
- Bans: Cannot use Ocean's Grace and Seal Form
Birthrights without wearing seal coat; cannot use Seal's Beauty or spend
(beyond daily loss for survival or Frailty) or regain Mana if seal coat not
in easy reach.
- Weakness: Cold Iron.
- Binding: If someone else takes the seal coat, the selkie becomes
a normal mortal. The selkie has a chance of regaining it and her fae nature,
unless the coat is destroyed or someone else formally and ritually claims it
for himself with the intention of becoming a selkie. (Characters who are already
immortal cannot do this, although they can bestow it upon a third party.) Until
it is claimed by someone else, a selkie always knows where her coat is; if it
is still hers but magically hidden, the selkie gains a free retest in challenges
related to finding it.
- Regaining Mana: Harvesting, Reverie, Rapture.
- Preferred Disciplines: Celerity, Presence, Thaumaturgy
(Neptune's Might or Weather Control, as Discipline)
- Origin: As selkies begin as humans who become fae when they
gain their seal coats, selkies are more often of Earthly origin than Otherworldly.
During the great Separation, mall groups hid themselves or at least their nature
from humans and other immortals (except for the merfolk and some other aquatic
fae), passing seal coats down family lines or to deserving people. Earthly selkies
may have Allies among the merfolk and fairy-blooded selkie-kin, Contacts
among fishermen and other humans with ocean-based occupations, access to communal
Sanctums in seaside villages or on remote islands, and so on.
- Appearance: Depending on what form they are in, selkies look
either like humans or like seals; it is very easy for those of low rank to conceal
their true nature without the Seeming Background. It is not uncommon,
however, for selkies in their more human forms to be covered in water droplets;
another clue to a selkie's true nature is the seal coat, which, although it
may appear as almost any garment.