Table of Contents
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
- had a silver tooth but broke it in 1916203
- has a brass tooth203
- 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 brass203
- 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 chicken332
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 die129
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
- sacrificed themselves for children in their care
- causes mischief151
- their magic seeks to lock others out295
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 human78
- a family with a changeling in it suffers and dies158
- disguises itself as a human child159
- fae who make themselves look like a child who's been stolen away172
- takes very little magic, glamour variant 172
- 5 changeling cases have been documented by police172
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 good03
- a skilled magician, subtle and powerful03
- able to hide from the best trackers03
- great ones for stealing human children and teaching them to fetch and carry, to work and to give life to the below lands224
- they take children; loves children, stole them from the humans and turned them into his toys until they died and he had to replace them225
- 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 another225
- feeds on the change that time brings upon them225
Dwarves
Fae Stratification: Greater Fae
IA: Mercyverse Short Fiction: Fairy Gifts
Affiliated:
Known Characteristics & Information:
Fairy Gifts
- iron-kissed91
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 emotions425
- used magic to tie the essence of a person to object426
F
Fae Gifted
Fae Stratification: Mundane+ & Ancestral
IA: Mercyverse Short Fiction #5: Hollow
Affiliated:
Rick Albright
Known Characteristics & Information:
Hollow
- fae-born intuition416
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 270
- 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
- AKA faery sight hounds15; banehounds of old15; fae banehounds17
- coats of white and rust15
- do not make good slaves15
- color of old blood and snow22
- chaffing under the leash of the Forest Lord (1) Brewster26
- overwhelming aura of terror46
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 talented284
- in Elphame she rules utterly294
- only she can release her thralls294
- 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
- weren't fae royalty precisely but had a gift that allowed them to enslave humans and fae alike215
- almost like a honeybee queen, they set up courts designed to both feed their power and entertain themselves215
- rare ability to make anyone with less power than she had into a follower; a form of magical slavery143
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
- fae analog of the human pedophile; but the fae version usually ate its prey165
- head more reptilian than equine; body was shaggy with fronds257
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 do141
Flitflits
Fae Stratification: Lesser Fae
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #9: Fire Touched
Affiliated:
Known Characteristics & Information:
Fire Touched
- they flit around and hear things159
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
- too tough to kill easily220
- hard for the tree-tied fae to move; those who could were moved into the reservations early on223
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
- 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
- AKA ice elf
- when a frost giant says he's a snow elf, there aren't many, even among the fae, who would argue with him about it232
- likes to be called a snow elf; even though there is no such thing167
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 die129
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 ugliness15
- are gentle folk and easy to look at15
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
- 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
- a troll to a giant is like a rabbit to a wolf210
- could follow a scent as well as a werewolf123
- were beast-minded12
- couldn't hide themselves from the cold-iron-carrying123
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
- a little unreliable129
- 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 looking129
- neither fish nor fowl130
- qualified as fae; could disguise what they were with illusion spells130
- fae didn't want them; counted themselves as fae without argument from Gray Lords but didn't want to be fae130
- could reproduce fast; if not faster than human130
- many of the fae considered goblin flesh a delicacy130
- a lot tougher than they were credit with by those that knew them13
- in the habit of running; and only fighting when there was no way out13
- running garnered them a reputation as supernatural wimps; a reputation they actively cultivated13
- when cornered they were vicious and deadly13
- weren't a long lived race, as fae went117
- clever and more powerful than most people gave them credit for; often underestimated117
- more reliable and oddly honorable for one of the fae folk117
- were looked upon as scavengers119
- didn't consider themselves fae; reverse wasn't true; most fae looked upon them as sort of lowborn, weak, stupid cousins119
- some of the fae looked upon them as food; goblins never forgot that119
- spoke a language that sounded vaguely Germanic; Norwegian or Norn or Old Icelandic173
- more likely to fight well together175
- everyone underestimated goblins242
- goblins liked it best when no one noticed them228
- do not usually interest themselves in the affairs of wolves330
- could hear as well as werewolves05
- are city denizens06
- glamour isn't effortless08
- humans had very little chance against goblins09
- might be considered among the less powerful fae; didn't mean they were weak10
- common lore said that goblins ran from trouble12
- don't know if they're one of the immortal or nearly immortal fae14
- impression they were one of the shorter-lived races; that may be wrong and may mean something different14
- getting caught was very poorly thought of in goblin culture; getting caught by technology viewed even worse16
- are fae, at least, insomuch that they have glamour and they are forced to tell the truth17
- lesser fae like goblins, die the moment a lie, knowingly spoken, leaves their lips17
- 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 have21
- a secret that had been held forever21; most closely guarded secret22
- an odd bunch22
- so little power compared to the rest of the fae; yet some have gifts they would envy if they knew22
- were soldiers in the fae wars36
- hobgoblins and goblins are related; was a long way back and they both liked to pretend it wasn't so235
- control of glamour is different than other fae58
- keep a pretty thorough watch in the Tri-Cities100
- no idea how many goblins there are100
- wouldn't betray the pack for money; have to abide by the bargains they make100
- don't quite fit in178
Green Man
Fae Stratification: Greater Fae
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #3: Iron Kissed
Affiliated:
Uncle Mike
Known Characteristics & Information:
Iron Kissed
- charisma magic
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 fae150
- old gremlins go out of their way to stay away from demon hosts
- 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 working51
- not a real fae designation
- natural element was metal
- were an invention of the twentieth century130
- trivialized Metallzauber power197
Gwyn ap Lugh
Fae Stratification: Gray Lord
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #3: Iron Kissed
Affiliated:
Alistair Beauclaire
Known Characteristics & Information:
Night Broken
- son of Lugh18
- smells like a lake; full of life and greenness with a hint of summer sun19
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-kissed91
- 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 mischief151
Hobgoblin
Fae Stratification: Lesser Fae
IA: Mercyverse Short Fiction: Silver
Affiliated:
Haida
Nick
Known Characteristics & Information:
Silver
- magic allows people to forget21
- green-gray and covered with wiry hair from head to feet22
- close to the Heart of Magic; like a shepherd who cared for the flocks22
- veil of shadows magic22
- practical and courageous24
- a great deal stronger than they looked28
- can dilute other fae power34
- can read emotions more easily than words50
- not innocent78
- as fast as fae get234
- related to goblins but it was a long way back and they both liked to pretend it wasn't so235
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
- antlered123
- never many of them, less than a handful123
- last one this side of the Atlantic killed in 1981; hit by a car in Vermont123
- capable of perceiving and hiding their scents; very strong123
- howl; a wild piercing whistle sound; combination of elk bugle and stallion scream199
- seriously stronger than a werewolf200
- able to be invisible201
- white stag magic; if you chase it you continue; never stopping until your legs are bloody stumps or you die206
- heals faster than a werewolf273
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 fae92
- dragon; sea serpent; is a little more than a mere sea dragon; It can take many forms92
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
- could take the form of a horse
- thought extinct
- are rarer than selkies; and terrifying108
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 persuade155
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 different78
- old and powerful; turned scary78
- warrior fae who'd been a combination of Superman and Hercules in the old songs and stories of the Celtic people56
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 mermaids273
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
- one of the metal working fae51
- 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 suffering162
- 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 happy286
- are fair spearmen
- can gift oak trees; grow faster and have subtle magic24
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
- look like everyone else until they get ticked off
- tough hide296
- beefy hands
- younger; eight-feet-tall; 400-500 pounds296
- clans; in Scotland298
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 kin118
- other fae wear otter shapes, but aren't really related to otterkin
- they don't interact with people well118
- 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 stake119
- they are territorial and don't kill people for food; implied they do kill people for other reasons120
- very little magic of their own though they are clever with what they have, and they cooperate with each other120
- 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 be210
- 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 ground120
- 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
- some fae would argue that their deaths were a tragedy65
- blood-thirsty and stupid; no loss24
P
Piru
Fae Stratification: N/A
IA: Mercyverse Short Fiction: Fairy Gifts
Affiliated:
Piru Butte Deceased
Known Characteristics & Information:
- Finnish fae93
- one of the witty demons prone to games of wit93
- or, one of the air ladies who hung out and looked beautiful until something ticked them off93
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 bridges152
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 seals27
- wouldn't have a problem with salt
- interacted with people a lot108
- closely related to Otterkin118
- tough271
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 140
- could mean anything from a little fae blood in the family tree140
- glimpses of likely futures211
- see the fae for what they are, whatever guise they are wearing 212
- the fae don't like sidhe-seers212
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
- 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
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 all188
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 fae253
- cockroaches of the fae; can't hurt much, but they won't die253
- too likely to think about opportunity instead of danger254
- can be a single body comprised of a hive of female sprites253
T
Troll
Fae Stratification: Lesser Fae
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #1: Moon Called
Affiliated:
Troll Banker
Old JarnivdDeceased
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 one154
- like money and extortion, a lot of them go into banking154
- nasty pieces of work134
- smelled like water-fae magic and a bit like pepper40
- more populous in continental Europe
- lived near water by preference and, when they could, around bridges34
- terrifying looking
- tough, usually more brawn than brains, though they can talk, or most can35
- skin is very thick; like a suit of armor35
- equally comfortable on land or the water35
- will eat people37
- running would attract it's attention39
- can feel you when you watch it40
- can't connect to most bridges now; too many of the bridges today use too much steel65
- aren't a lot of trolls left78
U
Underhill
Fae Stratification: Greater Fae
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #3:Iron Kissed
Affiliated:
Tilly
Known Characteristics & Information:
Fire Touched
- but another form of fae163
- is sensitive to metal163
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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 lemons219
- a tree man, related to the green man222
- dangerous but not as dangerous as one of the greater fae222
- hard for the tree-tied fae to move; those who could were moved into the reservations early on223
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 tales2
- adored causing misery and pain to the short-lived humans2
- centuries of power lived in her voice; even if she liked to hold the appearance of helplessness2
- sidhe fae177
- likes to play with the humans; causing misery which she can feed upon177
- 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 most178
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: