Types Of Nature Supernaturals

This is a snapshot of all the nature supernatural types in the Mercyverse.

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

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

Known Characteristics & Information:
River Marked

• the great creator god of the Blackfoot tribe
• is a divine spirit with no human form or attributes and is never personified

Walkers & Archetypes IA: Mercy Thompson Series #6: River Marked
Affiliated:
Coyote

Known Characteristics & Information:
River Marked

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

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

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

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

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

Known Characteristics & Information:
Cry Wolf

• they influenced the natural world: weather, plants and some animals²³²

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

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

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

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

IA: Alpha #3: Fa
Affiliated:

Known Characteristics & Information:
Wild Sign

• hungry for flesh¹⁵³

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

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

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

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

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

IA: Alpha & Omega Series #5: Burn Bright
Affiliated:
Medicine Man

Known Characteristics & Information:
Burn Bright

• malevolent and extremely dangerous forest spirits

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
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