Editing Umbral Domains: Changeling Dreamform Blossom (section)

=== False Chrysalis ===

But not necessarily all Changelings have such benign origins.  There are purely chimeral entities who ''can'' take posession of humans.  Such entities generally originate from two sources:

1)  Chimera born in or spawned directly by the Dreaming, which have either gained the appropriate redes or been taught the arts necessary to possess humans (or other mortal entities).

2)  Human changelings who have temporarily (or permenantly) "burned off" their mortal seeming through the use of the Expiation cantrip, and set out to possess their fellow man.

The act of possessing a human is sometimes referred to as a "false chrysalis" as the act creates a Changeling, at least temporarily, but results in the supporession of the mortal host's spirit rather than it's emergence and freedom.  Similarly possesion is not accompanied by the telltale signs and rush of glamour normally found at human Chrysalis.