====== Supernatural Other Types ======

This is a snapshot of all the types of supernatural other in the Mercyverse. Follow links for sections with expanded details.

===== 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 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

===== A =====
====Angel====
**IA**: [[Alpha & Omega Series]] #1: [[Cry Wolf]] \\ 
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Charles Cornick]] \\

__**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\
[[Alpha & Omega Novella]]
  * seeing one sticks with you

===== B =====
====Backward Foreganger====

**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

===== C ===== 
===== D =====
==== Demon ====
[[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 left<sup>14</sup>

===== E =====
===== F =====
====Farseer====
  * **IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #3: [[Iron Kissed]] \\
 __**Affiliated:**__ \\

__**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\
[[Iron Kissed]]
  * Unordered List Item

===== G =====
====Ghost====
[[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

====Ghoul====
**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 grounds<sup>310</sup>

===== H =====
====Haltija====
**IA**: [[Mercyverse Short Fiction]]: [[Fairy Gifts]] \\ 
__**Affiliated:**__ \\

__**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\
[[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

===== I =====
===== J =====
===== K =====
====Kalman Väki====
**IA**: [[Mercyverse Short Fiction]]: [[Fairy Gifts]] \\ 
__**Affiliated:**__ \\

__**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\
[[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

===== L =====
===== M =====
===== N =====
===== O =====
===== P =====
===== Q =====
===== R =====
===== S =====
====Spirit====
**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 quite<sup>229</sup>


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