Altered Fates

Altered Fates is a Shared Universe Web Original created by Jennifer Adams in the 1990s. Many stories have been authored for it, primarily in the transgender and age regression communities, though not all by Jennifer Adams.

The key component of the stories is a supernatural object called the Medallion of Zulo. The Medallion is described as looking like "cheap costume jewelry" with an image of an angel or a fairy on one side and strange writing along the edge.

The medallion can cause a variety of different transformations depending on how it is used. If touched to an article of clothing, it will cause the wearer's body to change to match that article of clothing, or to match the person the clothing belonged to. If the Medallion is touched by two people at the same time, it will cause them to swap bodies. The Medallion can only be used to transform a person once every twelve hours, and stories often end with the Medallion mysteriously vanishing before transformations can be reversed, leaving a character stuck.

While most stories focus on gender transformation, body swap, and age regression, Adams' guidelines make mention of animal transformation as a possibility as well.

Many of the stories may be found at Fictionmania and BigCloset TopShelf.