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Types Of Nature Supernaturals

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

How to Read the Format:

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

A

Apistotoki

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

Known Characteristics & Information:
River Marked

Archetype

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

Known Characteristics & Information:
River Marked

Avatar

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

B

Big Foot

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

C

Chindi

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

Cold Woman

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

D

Druid

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

Known Characteristics & Information:
Cry Wolf

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

E

F

Forest Spirit

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

G

Golem

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

Great Spirit

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

H

House Spirit

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

Hunger That Devours

IA: Alpha #3: Fa
Affiliated:

Known Characteristics & Information:
Wild Sign

  • hungry for flesh153

I

J

K

L

M

Manitou

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

Mountain Spirit

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

N

O

P

Q

R

S

Sasquatch

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

Skinwalker

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

Spirits

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

Stick Men

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

Known Characteristics & Information:
Burn Bright

  • malevolent and extremely dangerous forest spirits

T

U

V

W

Walkers

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

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

Werewolf Spirit

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types_of_nature_supernaturals.txt · Last modified: 2021/07/20 22:37 by linda