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

• IA: Mercy Thompson Series #3: Iron Kissed
  

Affiliated:

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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:

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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:

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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