Corporal (CTL)
Corporal is one of the three categories of the Pledges used by the Faerie folk.
Overview
A pledge sworn with a corporal involves at least one of the parties swearing on a physical symbol of some association. It might be the token of rulership carried by his freehold lord, a token that represents his affiliation with his motley. Ultimately, this can be sworn for any association the changeling bears.
As with oaths, the primary use of corporals is in the investment of a pledge into something other than the changeling’s Wyrd. Non-changelings do not receive any additional penalties when forswearing a corporal; the pledge is bound to the emblem sworn on by the changeling parties only. At any given time, a changeling may have only one of each kind of corporal active and invested.
Varieties
These corporals come in one of five varieties:
- Mortal emblems - a pledge invested in the changeling's association with the mortal world;
- Seeming emblems - a pledge invested in the changeling's own fae nature;
- Courtly emblems - a pledge invested in the changeling's association with one of the Courts;
- Title emblems - a pledge invested into a changeling’s Entitlement;
- Nemesis emblems - a pledge sworn on the emblem of another changeling, binding that changeling as a punisher to the pledge.
References
- Changeling: The Lost Rulebook, p. 177