Supernatural Other Types

This is a snapshot of all the types of supernatural other in the Mercyverse. Follow links for sections with expanded details.

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 Type of Supernatural Other - Link will lead to individual character pages with expanded details.

Known Characteristics & Information

• Broken Down by Series/Short Fiction with page notation

IA: Alpha & Omega Series #1: Cry Wolf
Affiliated:
Charles Cornick

Known Characteristics & Information:
Alpha & Omega Novella

• seeing one sticks with you

IA: Mercy Thompson Series #6: River Marked
Affiliated:

Known Characteristics & Information:
River Marked

• a death's-head who appears after a man dies instead of three days before

Demon
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #2: Blood Bound
Affiliated:
Asmodeus
Corey Littleton
Iris Carter
Kurfel
Known Characteristics & Information:
Blood Bound

• is a catchall phrase used to describe beings who are unable to manifest themselves in our world in physical form. Instead, they possess their victims and feed upon them until there is nothing left¹⁴

Dilong
IA: Mercyverse Short Fiction: Fairy Gifts
Affiliated:
Thomas Hao Mother
Known Characteristics & Information:
Fairy Gifts

• Earth dragon⁹⁶
• Thomas' mother's family were scholars, back as far as their family history went—all the way, the stories said, to the dragon scholar who knew everything that dragons knew and turned into a man to see what men knew⁹⁶
• her family history is that her family was founded by a dilong, an earth dragon⁹⁶

IA: Mercyverse Short Fiction: Asil and the Not-Date
Affiliated:
Dragon (A)
Dragon (B) Baby Deceased
Dragon (C) Flowers
Red Dragon of Cymry

Known Characteristics & Information:
Asil and the Not-Date

• collects hoards²²⁴
• wyrms are not dragons²²⁴
• is driven by the need to surround itself with treasure²²⁵
• unlike dragons, it doesn't gather its treasure by itself; it takes a human in thrall and used them to gather it²²⁵
• a wyrm's treasure is not what a dragon's treasure is; dragons surround themselves with metals; wyrms gather whatever catches their eye²²⁵

• IA: Mercy Thompson Series #3: Iron Kissed
  

Affiliated:

Known Characteristics & Information:
Iron Kissed

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Expanded details here: Ghosts: Mercy & Ghosts
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #1: Moon Called
Affiliated:
Mercy Thompson
Walkers

Known Characteristics & Information:
Blood Bound

• ghosts are not people; still just a memory of the person they had been

IA: Alpha & Omega Series #1: Cry Wolf
Affiliated:
Charles Cornick

Known Characteristics & Information:
Cry Wolf

• a demon-like being associated with graveyards and consuming human flesh
• rather face a dozen ghouls than a black witch; a few in the Cabinet mountains

Smoke Bitten

• hospitals are favorite hunting grounds³¹⁰

IA: Mercyverse Short Fiction: Fairy Gifts
Affiliated:

Known Characteristics & Information:
Fairy Gifts

• See Kalman Väki
• A guard. This one is a kalman väki, we think—a dead man’s spirit. He was probably killed and set to guard

IA: Mercyverse Short Fiction: Fairy Gifts
Affiliated:

Known Characteristics & Information:
Fairy Gifts

• See Haltija
• a dead man’s/woman's spirit
• guardian spirit
• holds the power of mortification: it kills with a touch; not even the immortal are immune
• the power of illness, of mortification of living flesh
• väki of whatever kind was a protector of the treasure it guarded

IA: Mercy Thompson Series #10: Silence Fallen
Affiliated:

Known Characteristics & Information:
Silence Fallen

• kind of a ghost but not
• a different word for the same thing; but not quite²²⁹

IA: Mercyverse Short Fiction: Asil and the Not-Date
Affiliated:
Asil Moreno
Tami Reed Deceased
Wyrm Hoarder Deceased
Wyrm Village Deceased

Known Characteristics & Information:
Asil and the Not-Date

• collects hoards²²⁴
• wyrms are not dragons²²⁴
• is driven by the need to surround itself with treasure²²⁵
• unlike dragons, it doesn't gather its treasure by itself; it takes a human in thrall and used them to gather it²²⁵
• a wyrm's treasure is not what a dragon's treasure is; dragons surround themselves with metals; wyrms gather whatever catches their eye²²⁵
• those held in thrall sometimes died when their enslaver died²²⁶
• can range in size from 10 feet long 2 feet in diameter to forty feet long and six feet in diameter²³²
• quick and the older ones can enthrall whole villages²³²
• wyrm flesh, enriched with magic, burned more than hot enough to everything to ash²³³

IA: Mercy Thompson Series #3: Iron Kissed
Affiliated:
Spice Deceased
Werewolf zombie
L Hardesty

Known Characteristics & Information:
Iron Kissed

• to call back to unlife

Bone Crossed

• dead and walking; smells of rot
• Blackwood had seen zombies three centuries old that look almost as fresh as a day-old corpse
• they're passed down in their families like the treasures they are

Frost Burned

• aren't living creatures, they are animated dead with no willpower or thoughts of their own³¹⁶
• can be controlled by those with power over the dead

Silence Fallen

• ghosts are mostly bits and pieces of people, of emotions, left behind—so it was like being followed by zombies¹⁰⁵
• vampires walking during the day—would be a variant on part of zombie animation²⁶⁸

Storm Cursed

• they were witchcraft, and witchcraft was powered by body parts with a leaning toward blood and bone⁵³
• not that they could actually eat anything; dead; no systems go⁵⁷
• thought they would be slow but actually fast⁵⁷
• Mercy could feel them; detect them; sensitized to the way zombies felt⁵⁹
• Mercy not sure how to kill, how to eliminate zombies; thought with fire⁶⁰
• several kinds of practitioners who could create zombies⁶²
• creating zombies too serious mojo⁶³
• Mercy pretty sure a gray witch could create a zombie⁶⁹
• getting bitten by a zombie wouldn't make someone turn into one, though getting bitten by something that was dead might result in the mother of all infections⁸⁸
• zombie wolf better maid; might have believed it was a living werewolf¹⁰²
• to defeat a zombie you need to do mechanical damage because they don't feel pain¹⁰³
• healing damage; healing faster than a werewolf; getting its power from somewhere¹⁰⁸
• making many zombies is a curse of that kind of necromancy; uncontrollable need to make more¹⁸³