A town with an unusually high Changeling Pop

[Eldagusto]

So a lot of places steeped in romanticism and art often attract changelings, and places such as Paris and San Fran have HUGE Changeling pops. Now unlike Vampires, Werewolves or Mages you can actually have dozens and dozens of Changelings in a relatively small town just because this town say has multiple freeholds or Glades. So I pose this, say you hold a Chronicle at a tiny town and the story revolves around changelings from all over deciding to settle in this place and start up Freeholds, and say even finds some hidden ones. Now if say a town of 40k humans goes from like 3 changelings to 101 then I would expect drastic changes over the decades, as now all of a sudden this community seems to have several highly skilled residents, they inspire humans, enchant others, and even produce a large amount of Kithain. So over a chronicle goes from 30 to even 100 years, what are the types of things can you expect? Hell depending on the location this could even result in a new country even being founded. What are the effects of an area having such a dense fae community? They could realistically have 1-3% of the community somehow faetouched one way or the other.

[Luka C]

Perhaps, but with a larger changeling population come increased faerie problems, like chimera, Thallian, Dauntain, interCourt issues. Smaller towns mean strange things tend to get noticed a lot more. I've personally never been a fan of the rough 1:10,000 rule. I usually go for about 10% of the total population, not counting the fae-touched.

[Windthin]

I run a big game set in LA. I have all of Pacific mapped out for duchies, with California having many more than Oregon or Washington due to the population. Also, the Duchy of Angels, which includes LA County, Orange County, and small slices of a few others, is heavily divided into counties and baronies, particularly in and around the city, where I figure the entertainment and tourist industries can support a MUCH larger fae population than you'd find in most other locales.

[Eldagusto]

Oh yes I figure such a large Freehold would certainly attract a lot of interesting baddies and badness with all this glamour popping off. I mean the Shadow Court and general Unseelie prankery itself in large numbers could easily cause unpleasant interesting troubles.

[Shepherd]

Perhaps, but with a larger changeling population come increased faerie problems, like chimera, Thallian, Dauntain, interCourt issues. Smaller towns mean strange things tend to get noticed a lot more.

These are the "problems" I'd see with such a changeling-dense city. But that could also be a great hook for story ideas. Think of Eureka (the SyFy TV show) but with enchantment and fae. It would be a very different kind of chronicle, but could be a fun one. With that much influence by the Dreaming I'm sure the Mists would start to hide the city from the outside, making people forget details, avoid it, and so on. Neat concept to explore.

[Lian]

So a lot of places steeped in romanticism and art often attract changelings, and places such as Paris and San Fran have HUGE Changeling pops. Now unlike Vampires, Werewolves or Mages you can actually have dozens and dozens of Changelings in a relatively small town just because this town say has multiple freeholds or Glades

THis is really only a kindred problem. Mages tend to clump on nodes which may or may not line up with population but will tend to have higher numbers in certain ares than other and most Fera are generally inversely proportional to the population i.e. you'll get a higher percentage of the popluace in a rural area vs city just based on Caern setup.