====== Fae Types ======

This is a snapshot of all the fae types in the Mercyverse. 

===== How to Read the Format: =====

**Name**: Alphabetical by type. \\
**Fae Stratification** (If known) \\
**IA**: Initial Appearance or Mention (Book or Short Fiction) - Link will lead to series or short fiction summaries and snapshot.\\
**Characters Affiliated as this Fae Type** - Link will lead to individual character pages with expanded details. \\ \\
**Known Characteristics & Information **
  * Broken Down by Series/Short Fiction with page notation

===== A =====
===== B =====
==== Baba Yaga ====
[[Fae Stratification]]: Greater Fae \\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #4: [[Bone Crossed]] \\ 
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Baba Yaga]] \\
[[Tracy LaBella]]\\

__**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\
[[Bone Crossed]]
  * able to heal mortal wounds
  * stories say she eats children
  * can fly through solid matter
  * flies in a giant mortar

[[Fire Touched]]
  * had a silver tooth but broke it in 1916<sup>203</sup>
  * has a brass tooth<sup>203</sup>
  * in the stories she was supposed to eat people with metal teeth that she would take out of her mouth and sharpen in front of her victims; supposed to be iron not brass<sup>203</sup>
  * home doesn't want her to eat hard-boiled eggs; her home stands on a chicken leg but it doesn't mean she is a chicken<sup>332</sup>

==== Black Dog ====
[[Fae Stratification]]: N/A \\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #3: [[Iron Kissed]] \\ 
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Black Dog Reservation]]

__**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\
[[Night Broken]]
  * black dog is a common fae shape
  * meet a black dog at the crossing of two roads and you are sure to die<sup>129</sup>

==== Brownie ====
[[Fae Stratification]]: Lesser Fae \\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #1: [[Moon Called]] \\ 
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Brownie Teacher]] \\
[[Brownie]]\\

__**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\
[[Moon Called]]
  * rocks and ponds in Ireland that bear the names of brownies that live there
[[Iron Kissed]]
  * sacrificed themselves for children in their care
[[Bone Crossed]] 
  * causes mischief<sup>151</sup> 
  * their magic seeks to lock others out<sup>295</sup> 

===== C ===== 
==== Changeling ====
[[Fae Stratification]]: Lesser Fae \\
**IA**: [[Mercyverse Short Fiction]]: [[Fairy Gifts]] \\ 
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Hollister Leeds]] \\

__**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\
[[Fairy Gifts]]
  * traditions of taking care of changelings, and those who might be changelings were adhered to still; even if the one they watched over was entirely human<sup>78</sup>

[[Dead Heat]] 
  * a family with a changeling in it suffers and dies<sup>158</sup> 
  * disguises itself as a human child<sup>159</sup> 
  * fae who make themselves look like a child who's been stolen away<sup>172</sup> 
  * takes very little magic, glamour variant <sup>172</sup> 
  * 5 changeling cases have been documented by police<sup>172</sup>

===== D =====
==== Doll Collector ====
[[Fae Stratification]]: High Court Fae \\
**IA**: [[Alpha & Omega Series]] #4: [[Dead Heat]] \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Doll Collector]]

__**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\
[[Dead Heat]] 
  * ability to hide from humans, from fae, from other creatures who might hunt you because their glamour is so very good<sup>03</sup>
  * a skilled magician, subtle and powerful<sup>03</sup>
  * able to hide from the best trackers<sup>03</sup> 
  * great ones for stealing human children and teaching them to fetch and carry, to work and to give life to the below lands<sup>224</sup>
  * they take children; loves children, stole them from the humans and turned them into his toys until they died and he had to replace them<sup>225</sup>
  * was a hobby but turned into a geas; keeps them for a year and a day and then consumes them entirely, at which time he has to collect another<sup>225</sup>
  * feeds on the change that time brings upon them<sup>225</sup>

==== Dwarves ====
[[Fae Stratification]]: Greater Fae \\
**IA**: [[Mercyverse Short Fiction]]: [[Fairy Gifts]] \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\

__**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\
[[Fairy Gifts]] 
  * iron-kissed<sup>91</sup> 

===== E =====
==== Earthen Fae ====
[[Fae Stratification]]: N/A \\
**IA**: [[Alpha & Omega Series]] #5: [[Burn Bright]] \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Jonesy]] **Deceased** \\

__**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\

==== Emotional Vampire ====
[[Fae Stratification]]: Mundane+ & Ancestral \\
**IA**: [[Mercyverse Short Fiction]]: [[Hollow]] \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Gina Stephanie Albright]]\\

__**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\
[[Hollow]]
  * fae who can feed on emotions<sup>425</sup>
  * used magic to tie the essence of a person to object<sup>426</sup>

===== F =====
==== Fae Gifted ====
[[Fae Stratification]]: Mundane+ & Ancestral \\
**IA**: [[Mercyverse Short Fiction]] #5: [[Hollow]] \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Rick Albright]]\\

__**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\
[[Hollow]] 
  * fae-born intuition<sup>416</sup>

==== Fae Hounds ====
[[Fae Stratification]]: N/A \\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #5: [[Silver Borne]] \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Brewster Fae Hounds]] **Deceased** \\

__**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\
[[Silver Borne]] 
  * AKA Fear Hounds <sup>270</sup>
  * their howls would drop a stag in its path
  * their gaze could scare a man to death
  * victim if tormented less than an hour would live to be tormented again, over that hour and their victim would die
  * looked a little like a giant beagle: with with brown spots, rounded ears that hung on either side of its faceSB-312
  * can break influence if stray too far

[[Silver]]
  * AKA faery sight hounds<sup>15</sup>; banehounds of old<sup>15</sup>; fae banehounds<sup>17</sup>
  * coats of white and rust<sup>15</sup>
  * do not make good slaves<sup>15</sup>
  * color of old blood and snow<sup>22</sup>
  * chaffing under the leash of the [[Forest Lord (1) Brewster]]<sup>26</sup>
  * overwhelming aura of terror<sup>46</sup>

==== Fairy ====
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]]#1: [[Moon Called]]  \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Muryan]] \\
__**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\
[[Moon Called]]
  * Muryan: a type of fairy

==== Fairy Queen ====
[[Fae Stratification]]: Greater Fae \\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #5: [[Silver Borne]] \\ 
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Daphne Rondo]] **Deceased** \\

__**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\
[[Silver Borne]]
  * travels with five to twenty fairy follower
  * used to capture humans to use as servants/lovers
  * takes them to her own realm, like Underhill but different
  * laughter like tinkling of silver bells
  * mesmerizing spells
  * robs victims of free will; might have same effect on her fae followers
  * rule bound more than most fae, but powerful within those rules
  * not smart; makes assumptions
  * strong; ability to build a home and command many fae
  * tend to be musically talented<sup>284</sup>
  * in Elphame she rules utterly<sup>294</sup>
  * only she can release her thralls<sup>294</sup>
  * only the queen's glamour would work in her Elphame
  * can use the old magic to bind
  * the biggest weapon in the arsenal of a fairy queen is enthrallment

[[Frost Burned]]
  * weren't fae royalty precisely but had a gift that allowed them to enslave humans and fae alike<sup>215</sup>
  * almost like a honeybee queen, they set up courts designed to both feed their power and entertain themselves<sup>215</sup>

[[Fire Touched]]
  * rare ability to make anyone with less power than she had into a follower; a form of magical slavery<sup>143</sup>



==== Fideal ====
[[Fae Stratification]]: Greater Fae \\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #3: [[Iron Kissed]] \\ 
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Aiden Fideal]]

__**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\
 [[Iron Kissed]] 
  * predator; prefers human flesh; had to eat barnyard animals
  * banned from eating humans by the Gray Lords
  * enjoys the chase
  * Scottish
  * water fae of some kind
  * doesn't like iron
  * covered in seaweed; might look like sort of a horse or some hooved animal; or a swamp thingy as big as a SUV
  * salt doesn't bother it  
  * vagely horse shaped; the size of a large donkey
  * bugled like a stallion
  * can block his scent
  * gills in it's neck; fangs
[[Fire Touched]]
  * fae analog of the human pedophile; but the fae version usually ate its prey<sup>165</sup>
  * head more reptilian than equine; body was shaggy with fronds<sup>257</sup>

==== Flanagan ====
[[Fae Stratification]]: Royal Court Fae \\
**IA**: [[Mercyverse Short Fiction]]: [[Fairy Gifts]] \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Dragon Under the Hill]] **Deceased** \\
[[Margaret Flanagan]]

__**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\
[[Fire Touched]] 
  * Gray Lords have no authority to tell where to go or what to do<sup>141</sup>

==== Flitflits ====
[[Fae Stratification]]: Lesser Fae \\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #9: [[Fire Touched]] \\ 
__**Affiliated:**__ \\

__**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\
[[Fire Touched]]
  * they flit around and hear things<sup>159</sup>

==== Forest Fae ====
[[Fae Stratification]]: Greater Fae \\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #2: [[Blood Bound]] \\ 
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Donnell Greenleaf]]\\
[[Garden Sprite]] \\
[[Green Man]] \\
[[Rowan Fae]]\\
[[Wearden]] \\

__**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\
[[Blood Bound]]
  * has an affinity for trees and growing things
[[Dead Heat]]
  * too tough to kill easily<sup>220</sup>
  * hard for the tree-tied fae to move; those who could were moved into the reservations early on<sup>223</sup>


==== Forest Lord ====
[[Fae Stratification]]: Greater Fae \\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #3: [[Iron Kissed]] \\ 
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Forest Lord Brewster]] **Deceased**\\
[[Forest Lord Trapped]] \\
[[Hendrick]] **Deceased** \\

__**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\
[[Iron Kissed]]
  * powerful
[[Silver Borne]]
  * could influence beasts; can command beasts

==== Frost Giant ====
[[Fae Stratification]]: Greater Fae \\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #4: [[Bone Crossed]] \\ 
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Ymir]] \\
__**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\
[[Bone Crossed]]
  * AKA snow elf; snow giant
  * * sheds snow
  * 10-feet tall
  * like a freight train
  * walks quietly
  * used to roam the mountains with a wolf pack at beck and call
  * beserker; lack of control

[[Silver Borne]]
  * AKA ice elf

[[Storm Cursed]]
  * when a frost giant says he's a snow elf, there aren't many, even among the fae, who would argue with him about it<sup>232</sup>

[[Smoke Bitten]]
  * likes to be called a snow elf; even though there is no such thing<sup>167</sup>

===== G =====
==== Gabriel Hounds ====
[[Fae Stratification]]: N/A \\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #8: [[Night Broken]] \\ 
__**Affiliated:**__ \\

__**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\
[[Night Broken]]
  * meet Gabriel hounds at the crossing of two roads and you are sure to die<sup>129</sup>

==== Garden Sprite ====
[[Fae Stratification]]: Lesser Fae \\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #1: [[Moon Called]] \\ 
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Kieran McBride]] \\

__**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\
[[Moon Called]]
  * can't hold cold iron, even through thick leather gloves
  * great charisma in a certain sort of ugliness<sup>15</sup>
  * are gentle folk and easy to look at<sup>15</sup>

==== Giant ====
[[Fae Stratification]]: Lesser Fae \\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #3: [[Iron Kissed]] \\ 
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Giant Jack]] \\
[[Giant Custennin]] \\
[[Giant (3+) Forest]] \\

__**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\
[[Iron Kissed]]
  * strong sense of smell
  * strong; able to rip a human's head from it's body
[[Silver Borne]]
  * beast-minded; more instinct than intelligent
  * those that survived the rise of metal-wielding humans died at the hands of the Gray Lords
  * instinctive behaviors weren't good enough to make sure you'd hide your nature from the humans
  * beasts controlled by the Forest Lord Brewster; last of them died under his hand
[[Fire Touched]]
  * a troll to a giant is like a rabbit to a wolf<sup>210</sup>
[[Fair Game]]
  * could follow a scent as well as a werewolf<sup>123</sup>
  * were beast-minded<sup>12</sup>
  * couldn't hide themselves from the cold-iron-carrying<sup>123</sup>

==== Goblin ====
[[Fae Stratification]]: Lesser Fae Caveat \\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #4: [[Bone Crossed]] \\ 
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Austin Harris]] \\
[[Goblin Skateboarder]]  \\
[[Goblin Scarred]] **Deceased**\\
[[Goblin Wife Sethaway]] \\
[[Goblin Daughter Sethaway]] **Deceased** \\
[[Goblin (5)]] **Deceased** \\
[[Goblin (2)]] **Deceased** \\
[[Larry Sethaway]] \\

__**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\
[[Bone Crossed]]
  * carrion feeder
  * hunt during the day; work for vampires

[[Fire Touched]]
  * a little unreliable<sup>129</sup>
  * they report to [[Columbia Basin Pack]]; three hundred for every stray vampire they sight in the territory; seethe pays them a thousand a month to keep looking<sup>129</sup>
  * neither fish nor fowl<sup>130</sup>
  * qualified as fae; could disguise what they were with illusion spells<sup>130</sup>
  * fae didn't want them; counted themselves as fae without argument from Gray Lords but didn't want to be fae<sup>130</sup>
  * could reproduce fast; if not faster than human<sup>130</sup>
  * many of the fae considered goblin flesh a delicacy<sup>130</sup>

[[Silence Fallen]]
  * a lot tougher than they were credit with by those that knew them<sup>13</sup>
  * in the habit of running; and only fighting when there was no way out<sup>13</sup>
  * running garnered them a reputation as supernatural wimps; a reputation they actively cultivated<sup>13</sup>
  * when cornered they were vicious and deadly<sup>13</sup>
  * weren't a long lived race, as fae went<sup>117</sup>
  * clever and more powerful than most people gave them credit for; often underestimated<sup>117</sup>
  * more reliable and oddly honorable for one of the fae folk<sup>117</sup>
  * were looked upon as scavengers<sup>119</sup>
  * didn't consider themselves fae; reverse wasn't true; most fae looked upon them as sort of lowborn, weak, stupid cousins<sup>119</sup>
  * some of the fae looked upon them as food; goblins never forgot that<sup>119</sup>
  * spoke a language that sounded vaguely Germanic; Norwegian or Norn or Old Icelandic<sup>173</sup>
  * more likely to fight well together<sup>175</sup>
  * everyone underestimated goblins<sup>242</sup>
  * goblins liked it best when no one noticed them<sup>228</sup>
  * do not usually interest themselves in the affairs of wolves<sup>330</sup>

[[Storm Cursed]]
  * could hear as well as werewolves<sup>05</sup>
  * are city denizens<sup>06</sup>
  * glamour isn't effortless<sup>08</sup>
  * humans had very little chance against goblins<sup>09</sup>
  * might be considered among the less powerful fae; didn't mean they were weak<sup>10</sup>
  * common lore said that goblins ran from trouble<sup>12</sup>
  * don't know if they're one of the immortal or nearly immortal fae<sup>14</sup>
  * impression they were one of the shorter-lived races; that may be wrong and may mean something different<sup>14</sup>
  * getting caught was very poorly thought of in goblin culture; getting caught by technology viewed even worse<sup>16</sup>
  * are fae, at least, insomuch that they have glamour and they are forced to tell the truth<sup>17</sup>
  * lesser fae like goblins, die the moment a lie, knowingly spoken, leaves their lips<sup>17</sup>
  * can hid behind a veil of magic so as not to trigger the bargain about lies; it is a version of glamour that the other fae do not have<sup>21</sup>
  * a secret that had been held forever<sup>21</sup>; most closely guarded secret<sup>22</sup>
  * an odd bunch<sup>22</sup>
  * so little power compared to the rest of the fae; yet some have gifts they would envy if they knew<sup>22</sup>
  * were soldiers in the fae wars<sup>36</sup>
  * hobgoblins and goblins are related; was a long way back and they both liked to pretend it wasn't so<sup>235</sup>

[[Smoke Bitten]]
  * control of glamour is different than other fae<sup>58</sup>
  * keep a pretty thorough watch in the Tri-Cities<sup>100</sup>
  * no idea how many goblins there are<sup>100</sup>
  * wouldn't betray the pack for money; have to abide by the bargains they make<sup>100</sup>
  * don't quite fit in<sup>178</sup>

==== Green Man ====

[[Fae Stratification]]: Greater Fae \\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #3: [[Iron Kissed]] \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Uncle Mike]]

__**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\
[[Iron Kissed]]
  * charisma magic
[[Bone Crossed]]

==== Gremlin ====
[[Fae Stratification]]: Greater Fae \\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #3: [[Iron Kissed]] \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Zee Adelbertsmiter]]

__**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\
[[Moon Called]]
  * the metalsmiths, are not included with the lesser fae<sup>150</sup>  
[[Blood Bound]]
  * old gremlins go out of their way to stay away from demon hosts
[[Iron Kissed]]
  * no such thing as a gremlin until Zee decided to call himself one
  * fae are gremlin only because they claim they are
  * gremlin is a term made up by British pilots in the Great War as an explanation for odd things that kept their planes from working<sup>51</sup>
  * not a real fae designation
[[Silver Borne]]
  * natural element was metal
[[Storm Cursed]]
  * were an invention of the twentieth century<sup>130</sup>
  * trivialized Metallzauber power<sup>197</sup>

==== Gwyn ap Lugh ====
[[Fae Stratification]]: Gray Lord \\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #3: [[Iron Kissed]] \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Alistair Beauclaire]]

__**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\
[[Night Broken]]
  * son of Lugh<sup>18</sup>
  * smells like a lake; full of life and greenness with a hint of summer sun<sup>19</sup>

===== H =====
====Harriers====
[[Fae Stratification]]: Lesser Fae \\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #4: [[Bone Crossed]] \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Harriers]] \\

__**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\
[[Bone Crossed]]
  * carrion feeders
  * hunt during the day and work for vampires

==== Healer ====
[[Fae Stratification]]: N/A \\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #10: [[Silence Fallen]] \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Stacia]]
__**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\
[[Silence Fallen]]


==== Hiisi ====
[[Fae Stratification]]: Greater Fae \\
**IA**: [[Mercyverse Short Fiction]]: [[Fairy Gifts]] \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Hiisi Butte]] **Deceased**\\

__**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\
[[Fairy Gifts]]
  * Iron-kissed<sup>91</sup>
  * a talent for finding what you held dear, and then using it to make you do his bidding

==== Hob ====
[[Fae Stratification]]: Lesser Fae \\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #4: [[Bone Crossed]] \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\

__**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\
[[Bone Crossed]]
  * causes mischief<sup>151</sup>


==== Hobgoblin ====
[[Fae Stratification]]: Lesser Fae \\
**IA**: [[Mercyverse Short Fiction]]: [[Silver]] \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Haida]] \\
[[Nick]] \\

__**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\
[[Silver]]
  * magic allows people to forget<sup>21</sup>
  * green-gray and covered with wiry hair from head to feet<sup>22</sup>
  * close to the Heart of Magic; like a shepherd who cared for the flocks<sup>22</sup>
  * veil of shadows magic<sup>22</sup>
  * practical and courageous<sup>24</sup>
  * a great deal stronger than they looked<sup>28</sup>
  * can dilute other fae power<sup>34</sup>
  * can read emotions more easily than words<sup>50</sup>

[[Fairy Gifts]]
  * not innocent<sup>78</sup>

[[Storm Cursed]]
  * as fast as fae get<sup>234</sup>
  * related to goblins but it was a long way back and they both liked to pretend it wasn't so<sup>235</sup>


==== Horned Lord ====
[[Fae Stratification]]: Greater Fae \\
**IA**: [[Alpha & Omega Series]] #3: [[Fair Game]] \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Benedict Heuter]] **Deceased** \\
[[Herne the Hunter]] \\

__**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\
[[Fair Game]]
  * antlered<sup>123</sup>
  * never many of them, less than a handful<sup>123</sup>
  * last one this side of the Atlantic killed in 1981; hit by a car in Vermont<sup>123</sup>
  * capable of perceiving and hiding their scents; very strong<sup>123</sup>
  * howl; a wild piercing whistle sound; combination of elk bugle and stallion scream<sup>199</sup>
  * seriously stronger than a werewolf<sup>200</sup>
  * able to be invisible<sup>201</sup>
  * white stag magic; if you chase it you continue; never stopping until your legs are bloody stumps or you die<sup>206</sup>
  * heals faster than a werewolf<sup>273</sup>

===== I =====
==== Imp ====
[[Fae Stratification]]: Lesser Fae \\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #1: [[Moon Called]] \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\

__**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\


==== Iku-Tursas ====
[[Fae Stratification]]: Greater Fae \\
**IA**: [[Mercyverse Short Fiction]]: [[Fairy Gifts]] \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Iku-Tursas]] **Deceased**\\
__**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\
[[Fairy Gifts]]
  * Finnish fae<sup>92</sup>
  * dragon; sea serpent; is a little more than a mere sea dragon; It can take many forms<sup>92</sup>

===== J =====
===== K =====
==== Kelpies ====
[[Fae Stratification]]: N/A \\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #1: [[Moon Called]] \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
__**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\
[[Moon Called]]
  * rocks and ponds in Ireland that bear the names of kelpies that live there
[[Iron Kissed]]
  * could take the form of a horse
[[Bone Crossed]]
  * thought extinct
[[River Marked]]
  * are rarer than selkies; and terrifying<sup>108</sup>

===== L =====
==== Love Talkers====
[[Fae Stratification]]: N/A \\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #10: [[Storm Cursed]] \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\

__**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\
[[Storm Cursed]]
  * fairy tale fae; male; voices can persuade<sup>155</sup>

==== Lugh the Longarm====
[[Fae Stratification]]: Greater Fae \\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #8: [[Night Broken]] \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Lugh]] **Deceased** \\
__**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\
[[Night Broken]]
  * started out a hero and was turning into something a lot different<sup>78</sup>
  * old and powerful; turned scary<sup>78</sup>
[[Fire Touched]]
  * warrior fae who'd been a combination of Superman and Hercules in the old songs and stories of the Celtic people<sup>56</sup>

===== M =====
==== Maker ====
[[Fae Stratification]]: Greater Fae \\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #5: [[Silver Borne]] \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Ariana Brewster-Cornick]]  
[[Baby Cornick]]

__**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\
[[Silver Borne]]
  * can work magic in silver
  * metals love their touch; magic flourishes
  * ability to imprint their magic on things
  * iron-kissed fae in their background; steel holds no terrors for them
  * holds earth, air, fire and water; ability to do great magic after most of Underhill was out of reach

==== Merrow Folk ====
[[Fae Stratification]]: N/A \\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #4: [[Bone Crossed]] \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Murdhuacha (1)]] **Deceased** 

__**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\
[[Bone Crossed]]
  * AKA merrow folk/mermen and mermaids<sup>273</sup>

==== Metallzauberer ====
[[Fae Stratification]]: Greater Fae \\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #1: [[Moon Called]] \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Tad Adelbertsmiter]] \\
[[Zee Adelbertsmiter]] \\

__**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\
[[Moon Called]]
  * * liked the modern era, with its steel and electricity, better than the old days because there was more for a Metallzauberer, a gremlin, to do than build swords to kill other folk
[[Iron Kissed]]
  * one of the metal working fae<sup>51</sup>
  * a very broad category that contains very few members
  * one of the few kinds of fae with an affinity for iron, which gives them all sorts of advantages over the other fae

==== Morrigan ====
[[Fae Stratification]]: Gray Lords \\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #3: [[Iron Kissed]] \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Nemane]] \\

__**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\
[[Iron Kissed]]
  * AKA The Carrion Crow
  * crow form is a big as a golden eagle with blood red eyes and a white spot on it's head
  * smells of rain, forest and good black garden soil in the spring
  * was one of the Morrigan, the battle goddesses of the Celts, one of her jobs was delivering the killing blow to the heroes dying in the aftermath of a battle to end their suffering<sup>162</sup>
  * old warrior with a sense of honor; wrongful death is an anathema 
  * blind but perceives more clearly than most; can also use other's eyes to see
  * not what she once was; weak and blind and troubles herself overmuch with humans

===== N =====
===== O =====
==== Oakman ====
[[Fae Stratification]]: Greater Fae \\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #4: [[Bone Crossed]] \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Donnell Greenleaf]] \\
[[Forest Fae]] \\

__**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\
[[Bone Crossed]]
  * were not tall; no more than four feet; stout "as a good oaken table"
  * black eyes
  * knows when the sun goes down
  * speaks Welsh; speaks to oaks
  * feeds from sunlight; and blood
  * in the old days they were given blood sacrifices to keep the trees happy<sup>286</sup>
  * are fair spearmen
[[Smoke Bitten]]
  * can gift oak trees; grow faster and have subtle magic<sup>24</sup>

==== Ogre ====
[[Fae Stratification]]: N/A \\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #3: [[Iron Kissed]]  \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Ogre (2)]]\\
[[Ogre Zombie]] **Deceased** \\
[[Ogre Birthday]]\\

__**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\
[[Iron Kissed]]
  * 500-pound; ten-foot-tall
  * if got to point of tearing off a human's head would not have stopped until they'd had a bite or two
  * not particularly friendly

[[Bone Crossed]]
  * look like everyone else until they get ticked off

[[Storm Cursed]]
  * tough hide<sup>296</sup>
  * beefy hands
  * younger; eight-feet-tall; 400-500 pounds<sup>296</sup>
  * clans; in Scotland<sup>298</sup>

==== Otterkin ====
[[Fae Stratification]]: Lesser Fae \\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #6: [[River Marked]] \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Otterkin Walmart]] **Deceased**\\
[[Otterkin Sacrifice]] **Deceased**\\
[[Otterkin Bearded]] **Deceased**\\
[[Otterkin Club]] **Deceased** \\
[[Otterkin (2)]] **Deceased**\\

__**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\
[[River Marked]]
  * remaining seven relocated from reservation to the Columbia River
  * aren't like the selkies, who are their closest kin<sup>118</sup>
  * other fae wear otter shapes, but aren't really related to otterkin
  * they don't interact with people well<sup>118</sup>
  * shapeshifters who can take human form though their true shape is otter; as humans they tend to resemble someone with severe autism: it got many burned at the stake<sup>119</sup>
  * they are territorial and don't kill people for food; implied they do kill people for other reasons<sup>120</sup>
  * very little magic of their own though they are clever with what they have, and they cooperate with each other<sup>120</sup>
  * when there were hundreds of them they were dangerous
  * are minor fae; they used to be very common but they aren't powerful; probably no more trouble than real otters would be<sup>210</sup>
  * not in good health when they were first put in the sanctuary
  * there were only seven in the sanctuary created for them near the camping ground<sup>120</sup>
  * sometimes people drown near otterkin lairs
  * were supposed to be friendly and helpful; being hunted to near extinction changes a lot of things
  * agile and fight like an otter; coming in close; fast and furious
  * turned back into otters when they died
  * despite what was said they were people-eating kind of fae
[[Frost Burned]]
  * some fae would argue that their deaths were a tragedy<sup>65</sup>
[[Night Broken]]
  * blood-thirsty and stupid; no loss<sup>24</sup>

===== P =====
==== Piru ====
[[Fae Stratification]]: N/A \\
**IA**: [[Mercyverse Short Fiction]]: [[Fairy Gifts]] \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Piru Butte]] **Deceased**\\
__**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\
  * Finnish fae<sup>93</sup>
  * one of the witty demons prone to games of wit<sup>93</sup>
  * or, one of the air ladies who hung out and looked beautiful until something ticked them off<sup>93</sup>

==== Pixies ====
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #1:[[Moon Called]]  \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Pixie Tinkerbell]]\\

__**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\
[[Moon Called]]
  * wings

===== Q =====
===== R =====
==== Roaring Bull of Bagbury ====
[[Fae Stratification]]: N/A \\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #4: [[Bone Crossed]] \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Roaring Bull of Bagbury]] \\
__**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\
[[Bone Crossed]]
  * haunts bridges<sup>152</sup>

===== S =====
==== Selkie ====
[[Fae Stratification]]: Lesser Fae \\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #1: [[Moon Called]] \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Selkie Boating]]\\
[[Selkie (2) Underhill]] **Deceased** \\
[[Selkie]] \\

__**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\
[[Iron Kissed]]  
  * smells like a seal
  * dwelt in or about the sea
  * can turn into seals<sup>27</sup>
  * wouldn't have a problem with salt
[[River Marked]]
  * interacted with people a lot<sup>108</sup>
  * closely related to Otterkin<sup>118</sup>
[[Fire Touched]]
  * tough<sup>271</sup>

==== Sidhe-Hearer ====
[[Fae Stratification]]: Mundane & Ancestral \\
**IA**: [[Alpha & Omega Series]] #4: [[Dead Heat]]\\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Katie Jamison]] \\

__**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\
[[Dead Heat]]

==== Sidhe-Seer ====
[[Fae Stratification]]: Mundane & Ancestral \\
**IA**: [[Alpha & Omega Series]] #4: [[Dead Heat]]\\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Franklin (Grandmother)]]\\
[[Jamison (Mother)]] \\
[[Jon Franklin]] \\
[[Kathryn Jamison]] \\
[[Katie Jamison]] \\

__**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\
[[Seeing Eye]]
  * gets hunches <sup>140</sup>
  * could mean anything from a little fae blood in the family tree<sup>140</sup>

[[Dead Heat]]
  * glimpses of likely futures<sup>211</sup>
  * see the fae for what they are, whatever guise they are wearing <sup>212</sup>
  * the fae don't like sidhe-seers<sup>212</sup>


==== Siren ====
[[Fae Stratification]]: Greater Fae \\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #1: [[Moon Called]]\\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Lorelei]] \\

__**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\
[[Moon Called]]
  * German fae
  * have stories that tell their name and give fair warning about what you're dealing with
[[Iron Kissed]]
  * entice ships onto rocks and then drown the surviving sailors
 
====Smoke Weaver====
[[Fae Stratification]]: Lesser Fae \\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #1: [[Moon Called]] \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Rumpelstiltskin]] \\

__**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\
[[Moon Called]]
  * German fae
  * has stories that tell their name and give you fair warning about the fae you might be dealing with
[[Smoke Bitten]]
  * 


==== Snow Elf ====
[[Fae Stratification]]: Greater Fae \\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #4: [[Bone Crossed]]\\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Ymir]] \\

__**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\
[[Bone Crossed]]
  * not a true fae designation; see Frost Giant
  
==== Spriggan ====
[[Fae Stratification]]: Lesser Fae \\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #7: [[Frost Burned]] \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Sliver]]

__**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\
[[Frost Burned]]
  * fairly rare; nasty, bitter mischief-makers one and all<sup>188</sup>

==== Sprite Lord ====
[[Fae Stratification]]: Lesser Fae \\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #9: [[Fire Touched]] \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Sprite Lord]]
__**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\
[[Fire Touched]]
  * weak and stupid; not bothered as much by cold iron as most fae<sup>253</sup>
  * cockroaches of the fae; can't hurt much, but they won't die<sup>253</sup>
  * too likely to think about opportunity instead of danger<sup>254</sup>
  * can be a single body comprised of a hive of female sprites<sup>253</sup>

===== T =====
==== Troll ====
[[Fae Stratification]]: Lesser Fae \\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #1: [[Moon Called]] \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Troll Banker]] \\
[[Old Jarnivd]]**Deceased** \\
[[Jerry]] \\

__**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\
[[Moon Called]]
  * under their glamour might have claws
  * smells of iron and earth
  * a relative to the Gremlin, but not close one<sup>154</sup>
  * like money and extortion, a lot of them go into banking<sup>154</sup>
[[Fire Touched]]
  * nasty pieces of work<sup>134</sup>
  * smelled like water-fae magic and a bit like pepper<sup>40</sup>
  * more populous in continental Europe
  * lived near water by preference and, when they could, around bridges<sup>34</sup>
  * terrifying looking
  * tough, usually more brawn than brains, though they can talk, or most can<sup>35</sup>
  * skin is very thick; like a suit of armor<sup>35</sup>
  * equally comfortable on land or the water<sup>35</sup>
  * will eat people<sup>37</sup>
  * running would attract it's attention<sup>39</sup>
  * can feel you when you watch it<sup>40</sup>
  * can't connect to most bridges now; too many of the bridges today use too much steel<sup>65</sup>
  * aren't a lot of trolls left<sup>78</sup>
===== U =====
==== Underhill====
[[Fae Stratification]]: Greater Fae \\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #3:[[Iron Kissed]]\\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Tilly]]
__**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\
[[Fire Touched]]
  * but another form of fae<sup>163</sup>
  * is sensitive to metal<sup>163</sup>

===== V =====
===== W =====
==== Water Fae====
[[Fae Stratification]]: Lesser Fae \\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #5:[[Silver Borne]]\\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Water Fae Knight of the Water]]\\
[[Water Fae ]] \\

__**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\
[[Silver Borne]]

==== Wearden ====
[[Fae Stratification]]: Lesser Fae \\
**IA**: [[Alpha & Omega Series]] #4: [[Dead Heat]]\\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Forest Fae]] \\

__**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\
[[Dead Heat]]
  * flesh tastes of bark, sap, and lemons<sup>219</sup>
  * a tree man, related to the green man<sup>222</sup>
  * dangerous but not as dangerous as one of the greater fae<sup>222</sup>
  * hard for the tree-tied fae to move; those who could were moved into the reservations early on<sup>223</sup>

==== Widow Queen ====
[[Fae Stratification]]: Gray Lord \\
**IA**: [[Alpha & Omega Series]] #4: [[Dead Heat]]\\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\ 
[[Neuth]] **Deceased** \\

__**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\
[[Dead Heat]]
  * spiritual archetype of the evil queen in the fairy tales<sup>2</sup>
  * adored causing misery and pain to the short-lived humans<sup>2</sup>
  * centuries of power lived in her voice; even if she liked to hold the appearance of helplessness<sup>2</sup>

[[Fire Touched]]
  * sidhe fae<sup>177</sup>
  * likes to play with the humans; causing misery which she can feed upon<sup>177</sup>
  * made her way into more than one folktale
  * when Underhill closed, she lost a great deal of her magic; lost the ability to feed off human misery; the power she enjoyed the most<sup>178</sup>

==== Wild Hunt ====
[[Fae Stratification]]: Greater Fae \\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #5:[[Silver Borne]]\\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Spice]]

__**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\
[[Silver Borne]]
  * mindless violence

==== Wood Sprites ====
[[Fae Stratification]]: Lesser Fae \\
**IA**: \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Forest Fae]] \\

__**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\

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