====== Walker Concepts & Abilities ======
=====Chat Archives=====
* that's what a walker does; walks between here and there, between human and animal Chat 2008-07-27
* I see walker as being a thing you are or you are not Chat 2008-01-06
* Mercy is not the only walker left; walkers, like coyotes, are very good at blending in Chat 2007-05-20
* I can tell you that not all walkers are coyotes and there are some that turn into other kinds of animals Chat 2007-06-24
* walkers, like werewolves, just are; they don't really require training Chat 2007-08-25
* Bran knows all about walkers; he chooses what he tells Chat 2007-05-20
* walkers can track vampires through ghost signatures; vampires mostly don't even see the ghosts and they can't do anything to drive them away Chat 2007-06-24
=====Mercy Thompson Series =====
====Moon Called====
[[Mercy Thompson Series]] #1: [[Moon Called]]
* a walker is no real match for a werewolf
* a shift is quick and painless; pure magic
* born this way, not made like some other supernaturals
* do very well in the dark
====Blood Bound====
[[Mercy Thompson Series]] #2: [[Blood Bound]]
* all Mercy knew about being a walker is what the werewolves could tell her, which wasn't much
====Iron Kissed====
[[Mercy Thompson Series]] #3: [[Iron Kissed]]
* not many people still remember what a walker is
* bringing a walker to a fae reservation might not have been as good an idea as you thought
* a walker; there aren't many of the native preternatural species left—so you belong nowhere
* walkers are rare; if there are other walkers around Mercy hasn't met one yet
====Bone Crossed====
[[Mercy Thompson Series]] #4: [[Bone Crossed]]
* among the werewolves, the knowledge of the walker, the coyote shapeshifter, who'd been raised by Bran, was well known
* suspected that controlling ghosts came with practice
====Silver Borne====
[[Mercy Thompson Series]] #5: [[Silver Borne]]
* N/A
====River Marked====
[[Mercy Thompson Series]] #6: [[River Marked]]
* Mercy can shift into a coyote whenever she wants to
* "avatar" is more accurate than "walker"
* Mercy only knew what she knew about walkers from what Bran told her; and he hadn't known much—or he'd told her exactly as much as he intended to
* Mercy met two more walkers; hawks
* not all walkers are alike
* Mercy is immune to the mark of the [[River Devil]] because [[Coyote]] killed it the first time
* aren't any more Thunderbird walkers; certain that he would never return with no one to anchor him
====Frost Burned====
[[Mercy Thompson Series]] #7: [[Frost Burned]]
* a walker is the name given to those who are descendants of Coyote, Raven, Hawk, or any of the other archetypes who once walked the land
* a witch is different from walker; more powerful
* too many walkers had died before they could pass on their knowledge to their heirs, and much of it was lost
====Night Broken====
[[Mercy Thompson Series]] #8: [[Night Broken]]
* [[Hank Owens]] was Mercy's information source for most of what she knew about being a walker32
* most of the coyote walkers have trouble with the law80
* [[Gary Laughingdog]] was the first ever coyote walker that Mercy met85
* all walkers are descended from the archetypal being whos shape they take85
* usually brother and sister walkers are con artists, thieves, and gamblers; not too concerned with saving anyone's hide except their own88
* had met a few other walkers through the Owens', and they seemed to come in all varieties of young and old89
* most walkers age like humans—most are mostly human; Coyote doesn't walk this ground much anymore89
* most of Coyote's children don't have to worry about a long life anyway; a fool and his life are soon parted89
* Mercy felt no regret if there was no choice in killing someone; maybe it was being a walker or maybe being a predator158
====Fire Touched====
[[Mercy Thompson Series]] #9: [[Fire Touched]]
* N/A
====Silence Fallen====
[[Mercy Thompson Series]] #10: [[Silence Fallen]]
* death walker: one who has power over the dead339
* the dead obeyed Mercy, no matter how much she tried to ignore that350
====Storm Cursed====
[[Mercy Thompson Series]] #11: [[Storm Cursed]]
* walkers are sensitive to magic
* Mercy didn't know if she could recognize another walker; she hadn't met enough of them to be sure208
* was able to recognize one later217
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====Smoke Bitten====
=====Alpha & Omega Series =====
====Wild Sign====
[[Alpha & Omega Series]] #6: [[Wild Sign]]
* walkers reflect some of the aspects of their parentage350
======Walkers & The Undead======
=====Walkers & Ghosts======
[[Blood Bound]]
* speak to ghosts
[[River Marked]]
* thought all walkers could see the dead
[[Night Broken]]
* other walkers that Mercy had met hadn't been able to see ghosts the way she could; it made sense that Gary could because he was a coyote shifter
====Mercy & Ghosts====
[[Mercy & Ghosts]]
=====Walkers & Vampires=====
[[Blood Bound]]
* not so vulnerable to their magic
* only a threat for a couple of decades and that centuries ago
* not popular among the vampires
* when the vampires first came to this part of the New World, the walkers here had made themselves enough of a pest that the vampires had killed most of them off
* most vampire magic doesn't work on them
* has seen walkers ignore far more dangerous magics
* supposed to be good at killing vampires
* may have taught vampires to fear them, but there are still a lot of vampires, and only one walker
* [[Andre]] was around when the walkers nearly drove the vampires out of the Western territories; shocked that Mercy found [[Cory Littleton]] so soon
* the reason vampires feared walkers was that they were resistant to vampire magics and could talk to ghosts
[[Iron Kissed]]
* not many walkers because the vampires killed them all
* maybe [[James Blackwood]] wanted something from a walker; he despaired of ever finding another walker
* the last walker he had died fifty years ago; was kept for six-three years
* Blackwood's talent allows him to feed from a supernatural and absorb their abilities; he wants a walker so he can control the ghost of his maker
[[River Marked]]
* aren't any more Thunderbird walkers; certain that he would never return with no one to anchor him
[[Frost Burned]]
* vampires do not like walkers
* they see ghosts and ghosts congregate around the daytime resting places of vampires, betraying the presence of the monster who killed them
* almost entirely resistant to the standard magic of vampires
* when vampires came to the New World, they were met by walkers and nearly destroyed; if disease and war had not decimated the Indians—and thus the walkers—there would be no vampires in the Americas
* being resistant to vampire magic didn't mean a walker was a match for one
* [[Marsilia]] knew a lot about walkers; she'd seen them kill vampires, lots of vampires
* walkers are immune to vampire magic—even vampire magic that has its orgins in witchcraft
[[Night Broken]]
* blood bound walker to a vampire; could be a tame walker270
[[Silence Fallen]]
* the walkers, the children of the ancient ones, hunted down a lot of vampires in the American frontier during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; they ultimately failed, and the vampires exterminated most of the walkers22
=====Walkers & Zombies=====