A Question About: Changeling the Dreaming
In reply to Ipergigio (msg # 1):
The illusionary aspect is very relative. Though chimera are pieces of the dreaming that don't actually exist in the mundane world, they are very real to changelings and can affect them for real like, for example, chimerical food will nourish them as if it were real. A changeling can deny the existence of chimerical stuff at anytime but doing so gets them banality.
Your example is correct. Though the swords will hurt the two elves, to everyone else it will look as if they are larping or playing around and can't be used to hurt normal people (unless they are enchanted, but even so, the damage will be purely chimerical, and thus not physically hurt them, despite the pain being very real).
They can work around that by calling upon the Wyrd, which makes all chimera real for a scene. That means the shining swords and armors become real and can cut and kill for real too. It also means that whatever imaginary creatures nearby such as dragons, monsters, santa claus, etc etc. also become real.