Race: Changlings
Mark: Mark of Society
Enclaves: One in Sharn(in the firelight district:blush
Current Patriarch: Rah d' Umbrix (Changling Lv12 Erudite 8/Dragonmarked Heir 4)
(Erudite is found in Complete Psionic Pg 153)
Current Matriarch: Jin d' Umbrix (Changling Lv10 Thoughtsinger 6/ Dragonmarked Heir 4)http://www.bossythecow.com/TheThoughtsinger.pdf
The House has both a female and male leader to symbolize marriage and relations between two seperate persons.
The main source of commerce comes from running gambling halls and selling their services to other Dragonmarked Houses, also they have a nearly perfect monopoly on cough...bordellos (at least the respectible ones).
Mark of Society
Least:Lullaby(2/day), Calm Emotions(1/day), or Empathy(2/day). +2 on Sense Motive checks
Lesser:Probe Mind(1/day), or False Sensory Input(1/day)
Greater:Sympathy(1/day), or Spider Mind(1/day)
Siberys:Microcosm(1/day)
all Spells can be found on http://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/SRD:System_Reference_Document the perfect place for references. The only change I made is Brain Spider cannot use Suggestion as the spell states.
Also False sensory input can be used in unison with a microcosmed individual to control their dream world.
Their occpations are related to other dragonmarked house occupations.
They are excellent cooks, aesthtic crafters, cosmotologists, inquistives, etc.
The House scions are called MindTakers (ooooOOwweee ooo...)
The Dragonmarked Changlings have a strange adaptation of their Dragonmarks, they cannot create Aberrant.
Dragonmarked children if they breed with other dragonmarked house's members.
This makes them ideal for associating with other Houses without the fear of mixed blood.
Changling children have the ability to gain mark of society while other race children can gain their race's dragonmark, but not both.
They can only use their dragonmarks while in their natural changling forms but can then change self if the effect has a duration.
The mark can be changed to not be revealed, but the skin is still warm where it is.
Currently Patriarch Rah d' Umbrix is the most take charge leader and also the 1st official patriarch House Umbrix has had. The House has sat in the background for decades.
i think the base of the house should be in The Gray Tide (nation of Changlings http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/ebds/20050516a link to the info)
i think that you can use the mark in any form but you it is more powerful in your normaly form.
but i do not hink that u can hid the mark becaues i have read that u can not talk a way the dragon mark it is part of your being but i think it would be cool if you can move it around your body so you can hid it when you need
i do have a question but would you real use the mark for like get how you use it in gambling but what other thing can you use it for.
And I think you read becaues i have read that u can not talk a way the dragon mark it is part of your being thing from The Dreaming Dark book 1(the city of towers). Besides It says you can emulate the appearance of a dragonmark so I son't think it says anywhere that you can't just hide the one you have with disguise self.
But it is possible to have both the matriarch and patriarch run their own enclaves.
I really like Rah d' Umbrix being in Sharn because he has a very powerful dragonmark. (Dragonmark Visionary Feat of Dragonmarked) It gives a kind of Precogniton of the futures market which gives him insider trading, corner the market, blah, blah, crap going on. More like a Hypercogntion.
also it isn't quite true about hiding your dragomark. in the book Dragonmarked there is a spell called Conceal Dragonmark or something like that. which can hide your dragonmark.
But yeah I think you could make your mark move about your body but it would impart a -2 penalty when disguising as a non-dragomarked race.
of course I would take a majority poll from the players to see if they can use the dragomark while in another form and if it hides.
Also you wanted to know the practicality of the mark of society and where it can be used.
Proffesion of Society
Waiters:Empathy and Brain Spider can find your cravings, and if you are thristy, etc.
False sensory input can alter what you taste greatly, making the most bland gruel taste like a lobster dinner.
Merchants:empathy, Probe Mind, and Brain spider allows merchants to relate sell better and with higher profits for both the buyer and seller. sympathy draws a crowd to a shop.
Consorts:all abilities I made the abilities to fit around this occupation. by fufilling your "needs". They can put you in other worlds(inside your mind). their Minor Change Shape allows them to appear as anyone their clients what them to be (maybe famous people).
Inquisitives:empathy probe mind and brain spider make them more effective lie detectors they deal with questioning. Microcosm can subdue a criminal quickly and semi-permently, making easier to transport.
Guards:finds criminals, because most changlings are realy good at sneaking around themselves so they understand the minds of criminals much better. Ironically All's fair in love and war so I find that all the abilities can also be used in the occupation.
and maybe the +2 sense motive to +2 Diplomacy
House Umbrix Services
Mind Reader (Hireling) 5 sp per day
Microcosm one use 10 gp
Sympathy per day on a shop 20 gp this is a very useful mechant ability giving the shop 75% increase in profits for the day. Sometimes even higher.
False Sensory Input 3 sp
Consort Varies depending upon perfomer.
And the House sumbol Is a Heart shaped background bound in chains with a lock binding the chains on the bottom. Then in the center a flying Corollax(colorspray parrot) gripped in its claws a single key.http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/mm2_gallery/88268_620_21.jpg But the simple mark they place upon their works is a heart with a key hole in it.
and yes i am reading the novels i going to read though all of them.
Cool, but there's just something I don't like about it.
What is it that you just don't like about it.
And I have thought of ways to add new moons or change the ways the dragonmarks work. Such as maybe an existing moon begins exzibiting strange marking like a large mysterious shadow across one of the moons that darkens as it draws near.
or maybe one of the moons is hiding a moon behind it which has almost identical movement paterns. but only recently has been able to be seen halfway revealed by the other moon.