====== 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]]
* the [[http://www.native-languages.org/apistotoke.htm|great creator god of the Blackfoot tribe]]
* is a divine spirit with no human form or attributes and is never personified
====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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===== Y =====
===== Z =====