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Identified Walkers & Archetypes

This is a quick list of the all identified walkers and their archetypes in the Mercyverse. Each name will take you to their individual character page that has expanded details.

How to Read the Format:

For Avatars
Name: Alphabetical by first name (Some characters have had no last name reveal as yet) - Link will lead to individual character page with expanded details.

  • IA: Initial Appearance (Book or Short Fiction) - Link will lead to series or short fiction summaries and snapshot.
  • Affiliated Archetype (If Known): Some characters are linked with Archetypes as their avatars and this link will lead to pages with expanded details.

For Archetypes
Name: Alphabetical by first name (Some characters have had no last name reveal as yet) - Link will lead to individual character page with expanded details.

  • IA: Initial Appearance (Book or Short Fiction) - Link will lead to series or short fiction summaries and snapshot.
  • Affiliated Avatar (If Known): Some characters are linked with Archetypes as their avatars and this link will lead to pages with expanded details.
  • Human Guise: Description
  • Known Characteristics & Information:

Main Characters

Mercy Thompson Series

Coyote

Coyote IA: Mercy Thompson Series #6: River Marked
Affiliated:
Gary Laughingdog
Joe Old Coyote
Mercy Thompson

Human Guise:
River Marked

Known Characteristics & Information:
River Marked

  • one of seven to sacrifice themselves to the River Devil
  • a power but not one who asked to be worshipped
  • the reality of all coyotes; the archetype; the epitome
  • walks in one world at a time; can do this without being trapped because his sisters wait for him and his descendants anchor him
  • understands that the universe is all one
  • doesn't worry about understanding anything, which is why he understands so much

Night Broken

  • the spirit of mischief, of second chances, of adaptation

Storm Cursed

  • trickster207

Gary Laughingdog

Mercy Thompson

Alpha & Omega Series

Recurring & Minor Characters

A

B

Bear

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

  • Indian man; older with wrinkled face and white hair
  • wore very pale hunting leathers that were very plain except for the fringe around the shoulder seams
  • voice is a big rumbling sound that somehow fitting coming from that fierce old body

Known Characteristics & Information:
River Marked

  • one of seven to sacrifice themselves to the River Devil
  • was part of Mercy Thompson vision quest
  • happy for the River Devil to eat the world so it could be made new again; does not like change
  • unhappy with pollution; roads and railways; anything that destroys hunting grounds and leaves only a tiny fraction of the forests free
  • agrees with Wolf who believes Mother Earth cannot move underneath the cement and steel
  • joined forces to help Mercy defeat the River Devil; when they were all alive, they'd been able to harry her, to play off one another's strengths; but as they died, they lost the ability to distract her
  • likes sweets

Beaver

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

Human Guise:
Known Characteristics & Information:

  • part of the Coyote story about the monster who lived in the Columbia river at the time of the (Archetype) first people, before we humans were here.
  • monster ate those who live in the river; who fished the river; Great Spirit sent Coyote to help
  • helped them to escape out its mouth, its gills, its bottom
  • Beaver was the last to leave; barely escaped out the beast's sphincter—and that's why the beaver's tail is flat and has no hair

Bobcat

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

  • Indian man
  • traditional native garb; hunting leathers
  • rich dark brown with ornate quillwork around the neckline
  • stains on his clothes, as if he'd gone hunting many times wearing that particular shirt and leggings

Known Characteristics & Information:
River Marked

  • liked by Coyote; could tell by the tone of his voice
  • was unhappy and uneasy and didn't like to be there
  • Coyote told him the hunting grounds are good here; you just have to find them—as was always true
  • sun is still warm and the flowers still smell sweet
  • Gordon suggested either Coyote or himself should take him to Disneyland
  • Calvin told him; to give it a chance and that he wouldn't find it so horrible here
  • Raven told him to not hold on so hard to the past that you die with it; and that things change whether you want them to or not
  • likes sweets

C

Carson Twelve Spoons

D

E

F

Fox

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

Human Guise:
Known Characteristics & Information:
River Marked

Fred Owens

G

Garden

H

Hank Owens

Hawk

Hawk
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #6: River Marked
Affiliated:
Fred Owens
Hank Owens
Jake Campbell

Human Guise:
River Marked

  • one of seven to sacrifice themselves to the River Devil
  • Indian man
  • traditional garb; had a red cloth wrapped around his head, almost like a turban, from which maybe a dozen brownish red feathers stuck straight up
  • wore a beaded breechclout that reached his knees in front and back
  • shirt was a striped cotton that looked to have been loomed by hand rather than machine from the irregularity of the weave
  • heavily accented voice

Known Characteristics & Information:
River Marked

  • owes Coyote a few favors
  • does not approve of Coyote because he has always been more concerned with the two-legged people than the people in fur
  • feels the Great Spirit should have stopped with the Archetypes
  • helped to free his avatar from the mark of the River Devil; sand-and-drop thing
  • is impetous; left the stonehenge but came back for the fight
  • likes sweets
  • remained in animal form for the battle from the air

I

Iktomi

Iktomi
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #11: Storm Cursed
Affiliated:
Coyote
Raven

Human Guise:
Known Characteristics & Information:
Storm Cursed

  • The Spider
  • trickster like Raven and Coyote; with a crueler edge than either of them207

J

Jake Campbell

Joe Old Coyote

K

L

Lynx

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

Human Guise:
Known Characteristics & Information:
River Marked

M

N

O

Owl

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

Human Guise:
Known Characteristics & Information:

P

Q

R

Raven

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

Human Guise:
Known Characteristics & Information:
River Marked

  • one of seven to sacrifice themselves to the River Devil

Storm Cursed

  • trickster207

S

Salmon

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

Human Guise:
Known Characteristics & Information:

Singer in the Woods

IA: Alpha & Omega Series #6: Wild Sign
Affiliated:
Leah Cornick
Singer in the Woods
Zander Ferwood

Human Guise:
Known Characteristics & Information:
Wild Sign

  • damaged, hungry, lonesome; it needs136
  • being witchborn doesn't matter to it142
  • a pretty name for a creature not friendly202
  • doesn't bargain like demons or fae; doesn't follow the rules202
  • it wanted walkers in the world; walkers to find out things for it and bring back food209
  • bargains with intent209
  • feeds on music; feeds on emotions254
  • powers are music and memory; they can also be used to defend against him; something defiant296
  • alien; not in body; it didn't matter what body it wore326
  • could supply the spark of life - but required two human vessels to complete the act332
  • not yet Become350
  • not like the archetypes; required living men to get women pregnant; when it died, the life force in it's children it fathered on mortal women died350

Snake

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

Human Guise:
Known Characteristics & Information:
River Marked

  • one of seven to sacrifice themselves to the River Devil

T

Thunderbird

Thunderbird
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #6: River Marked
Affiliated:
Gordon Seeker

Human Guise:
Known Characteristics & Information:
River Marked

U

V

W

Wolf

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

Human Guise:
Known Characteristics & Information:
River Marked

  • one of seven to sacrifice themselves to the River Devil

X

Y

Z

Zander Fernwood

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