====== Types Of Nature Supernaturals====== This is a snapshot of all the nature supernatural types in the Mercyverse. ===== How to Read the Format: ===== **Name**: Alphabetical by type. \\ **IA**: Initial Appearance or Mention (Book or Short Fiction) - Link will lead to series or short fiction summaries and snapshot.\\ **Characters Affiliated as this Nature Type** - Link will lead to individual character pages with expanded details. \\ \\ **Known Characteristics & Information ** * Broken Down by Series/Short Fiction with page notation ===== A ===== ====Apistotoki==== **IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #6: [[River Marked]] \\ __**Affiliated:**__ \\ [[Great Spirit]]\\ __**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\ [[River Marked]] * the [[http://www.native-languages.org/apistotoke.htm|great creator god of the Blackfoot tribe]] * is a divine spirit with no human form or attributes and is never personified ====Archetype==== [[Walkers & Archetypes]] **IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #6: [[River Marked]] \\ __**Affiliated:**__ \\ [[Coyote]]\\ __**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\ [[River Marked]] ====Avatar==== **IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #6: [[River Marked]] \\ __**Affiliated:**__ \\ [[Carson Twelve Spoons]] **Deceased**\\ [[Fred Owens]]\\ [[Gary Laughingdog]]\\ [[Hank Owens]]\\ [[Jake Campbell]]\\ [[Mercy Thompson]] \\ [[Zander Fernwood]] **Deceased**\\ __**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\ av·​a·​tar\\ 1. an incarnation in human form\\ Avatars of the archetypal warrior spirits that pattern the walkers [[River Marked]] * AKA [[Walkers]] * a reflection of archetypes ===== B ===== ====Big Foot==== **IA**: [[Alpha & Omega Series]] #1: [[Cry Wolf]] \\ __**Affiliated:**__ \\ [[Breeze]] \\ [[Ford]] \\ [[Ford (Nephew)]]\\ [[Ford (Niece)]]\\ [[Towheaded Boy]]\\ [[Trading Post Server]] \\ __**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\ [[Cry Wolf]] * it was a hobby of the [[Oregon Pack (3)]] to create Big Foot sightings to mask property damage done by their new wolves [[Wild Sign]] * AKA Sasquatch ===== C ===== ====Chindi==== **IA**: [[Alpha & Omega Series]] #4: [[Dead Heat]] \\ __**Affiliated:**__ \\ [[Mackie Sani]] \\ __**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\ [[Dead Heat]] * evil spirits of the dead16 * not supposed to say the word because bad things will happen to you16 * wild spirits, evil things, wrong things; Navajo word42 * don't say the word or the evil spirits will come get you42 * not wise to speak the name of evil where it might hear you70 * they don't listen to children70 * evil spirits can be sung out of a body137 ====Cold Woman==== **IA**: [[Alpha & Omega Series]] #4: [[Dead Heat]] \\ __**Affiliated:**__ \\ [[Charles Cornick]]\\ [[Joseph Sani]] **Deceased**\\ [[Mundane (2) Willcox]] **Deceased**\\ __**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\ [[Dead Heat]] * woman in that old bar in Willcox114 * persistent and tried to get them to both go home with her114 * didn't smell human; was gorgeous but felt like a trap114 * two men went missing that night and were found dead in their car a few weeks later a couple of hundred miles away114 * no wounds; just frozen all the way through on a pleasant spring day114 * too much knowledge can make you a target114 ===== D ===== ====Druid==== **IA**: [[Alpha & Omega Series]] #1: [[Cry Wolf]] \\ __**Affiliated:**__ \\ __**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\ [[Cry Wolf]] * they influenced the natural world: weather, plants and some animals232 ===== E ===== ===== F ===== ====Forest Spirit==== **IA**: [[Alpha & Omega Series]] #1: [[Cry Wolf]] \\ __**Affiliated:**__ \\ [[Charles Cornick]] \\ __**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\ [[Cry Wolf]] [[Hunting Ground]] * they told what they wanted to, whether you wanted to hear it or not * blackberry sanctuary for those who didn't mind their thorns; urban sanctuary ===== G ===== ==== Golem ==== **IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #10: [[Silence Fallen]] \\ __**Affiliated:**__ \\ [[Golem of Prague]] [[Rabbi Loew]] __**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\ [[Silence Fallen]] * had thought magical robots, an animated bit of stone, obedient to the will of the man who had called them into being229 * element of self-determination and thought that did not belong to a robot; no robot ever had a spirit that traveled the streets long after the body was gone to dust229 ==== Great Spirit ==== **IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #6: [[River Marked]] \\ __**Affiliated:**__ Apistotoki\\ __**Known Characteristics & Information**__ \\ [[River Marked]] * a time will come when the Great Spirit will send us back out into the world again, entrusted with tasks to accomplish. * is a divine spirit with no human form or attributes and is never personified ===== H ===== ==== House Spirit==== **IA**: [[Alpha & Omega Series]] #3: [[Fair Game]] \\ __**Affiliated:**__ \\ [[Charles Cornick]] \\ __**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\ [[Fair Game]] * some homes had spirits and some did not110 * a new house; not home to generations of children, so the spirit is weak110 ==== Hunger That Devours==== **IA**: [[Alpha ]] #3: [[Fa]] \\ __**Affiliated:**__ \\ __**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\ [[Wild Sign]] * hungry for flesh153 ===== I ===== ===== J ===== ===== K ===== ===== L ===== ===== M ===== ====Manitou==== **IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #10: [[Silence Fallen]] \\ __**Affiliated:**__ \\ [[Golem of Prague]] \\ [[Guayota]] \\ [[River Devil]] \\ __**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\ [[Silence Fallen]] * are bits of the spirit of the earth229 * the whole earth has an enormous manitou, it can stir as one spirit, but it is too large to be concerned with minor things229 * mostly the earth's manitou sleeps229 * dandelion or pebbles has a bit of manitou, a bit that is fully independent of the whole; their manitou is very small and does not have much power to affect things around it229 * mountains and lakes also have manitou; theirs are powerful and tend, like Mother Earth's greater manitou, to be dangerous when roused; that doesn't happen a lot230 * Avatars like Coyote, Thunderbird etc are very closely related to manitou - like a horse and jackass230 * manitou cannot die; it just is, like the sun and the rain; it can be changed or hidden, but it cannot be killed231 ====Mountain Spirit==== **IA**: [[Alpha & Omega Series]] #1: [[Cry Wolf]] \\ __**Affiliated:**__ \\ [[Charles Cornick]] \\ __**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\ [[Cry Wolf]] * spirits in the Cabinet mountains had never been welcoming; they resented intruders * might be that they were more active or something could have happened * Bitterroots or Pintlers spirits more welcoming ===== N ===== ===== O ===== ===== P ===== ===== Q ===== ===== R ===== ===== S ===== ====Sasquatch==== **IA**: [[Alpha & Omega Series]] #1: [[Cry Wolf]] \\ __**Affiliated:**__ \\ [[Breeze]] \\ [[Ford]] \\ [[Ford (Nephew)]]\\ [[Ford (Niece)]]\\ [[Towheaded Boy]]\\ [[Trading Post Server]] \\ __**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\ [[Cry Wolf]] * AKA Big Foot * it was a hobby of the [[Oregon Pack (3)]] to create Big Foot sightings to mask property damage done by their new wolves [[Wild Sign]] ====Skinwalker==== **IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #1: [[Moon Called]] \\ __**Affiliated:**__ \\ [[Grandma Daisy Hardesty]] \\ __**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\ [[Moon Called]] * a witch of the Southwest Indian tribes who uses a skin to turn into a coyote or some other animal and goes around causing disease and death * he white settlers incorrectly used the term for all the native shapechangers and the name stuck [[Iron Kissed]] * Native American shapeshifter * come from Southwestern tribes, mostly Hopi or Navajo * have to wear the skin of the animal they change into, usually a coyote or wolf, but they cannot change their eyes * they are evil mages who bring disease and death wherever they go [[Hunting Ground]] * Native Americans don't like to be pointed at; skinwalkers and the like, use the gesture to throw curses and disease126 [[Dead Heat]] * are evil witches who take on the shape of animals—usually it is animals—they skin25 * they delight in destruction, suffering, and pain; they spread illness and evil25 [[Burn Bright]] * Native American version of a black witch272 * doesn't matter what form they take; male or female272 * wears the skins of their victims264 * a medicine man, healer, or shaman who has given up their connection with the way of the earth is more evil than anything265 * when those who are sent to do good turn from that path, when they gain power and long life by stealing life from others - there is no greater evil265 * they are rare and dangerous265 * hard to see them - but if you look in their eyes; it is their eyes that give them away266 * there is only one way to kill them, if you are not a medicine man; that is with fire266 ==== Spirits ==== **IA**: [[Alpha & Omega Series]] #1: [[Cry Wolf]] \\ __**Affiliated:**__ \\ [[Charles Cornick]] \\ [[Grandfather]] \\ __**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\ [[Cry Wolf]] * more demanding, if often less beneficent * gave a little help in planning for the future * respond to implusive prayer by interfering a bit further * tick them off and they may decide to aid enemies instead * all you can do is ask and if it suits their whims, the spirits allow it * only the crazy or stupid go out looking for spirits145 * most spirits are more friendly and unfriendly rather than good or evil145 * there aren't as many people who hear them as there used to be--which means more work for those who do145 * sometimes they'll help out if asked but more often or not they have something they need done145 [[Hunting Ground]] * modern things tended to block them12 * were silent as they habitually were in the city [[Fair Game]] * spirits weren't ghosts; they were the consciousness of things that some didn't think were alive; trees and water, stones and earth * spirits; nothing Indian about them other than we believe they exist and most others don't166 * The spirits are more a way for nature to talk to those with the eyes to see and the ears to hear;they never were human. [[Dead Heat]] * dying left a man very close to the whole spirit of the world, and odd things made it through118 * innocent dead; children killed before they had a chance to decide wo they were going to be; unfinished282 * men who say the spirits had to listen to them293 ==== Stick Men==== **IA**: [[Alpha & Omega Series]] #5: [[Burn Bright]] \\ __**Affiliated:**__ \\ [[Medicine Man]] \\ __**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\ [[Burn Bright]] * malevolent and extremely dangerous forest spirits ===== T ===== ===== U ===== ===== V ===== ===== W ===== ====Walkers==== [[Walkers & Archetypes]] **IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #1: [[Moon Called]] \\ __**Affiliated:**__ \\ [[Carson Twelve Spoons]] **Deceased**\\ [[Fred Owens]]\\ [[Gary Laughingdog]]\\ [[Hank Owens]]\\ [[Jake Campbell]] \\ [[Mercy Thompson]] \\ [[Zander Ferwood]] **Deceased** \\ __**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\ [[Wild Sign]] * AKA Walker in the World229 * descendants of primordial powers; most not first-generation229 * walk in the world and do its bidding, be its eyes229 ====Wendingo==== Wendingo\\ **IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #8: [[Night Broken]] \\ __**Affiliated:**__ \\ [[Bran Cornick]]\\ [[Encounter Wendingo]]\\ __**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\ [[Night Broken]] * Bran once encountered one134 * physically capable of massacre killing134 * they smell oddly of magic134 * they don't leave canid paw prints—or leave anything except bare bones134 * their curse is that they hunger in a way that cannot ever be satisfied134 * they tend to haunt the mountain passes, not the open shrub steppe134 ==== Werewolf Spirit==== ===== X ===== ===== Y ===== ===== Z =====