====== Articles of Magic ======
Magical artifacts that have been used or mentioned in the Mercyverse.
===== How to Read Format =====
**Access the Table of Contents for snapshot of magical artifacts broken down by classification** \\ \\
**Name of Magical Artifact**: Alphabetical (All known names listed) plus **Classification** that created artifact - Link will lead to page of expanded classification details.\\
  * **IA**: Initial Appearance of Artifact (Book or Short Fiction) - Link will lead to series or short fiction summaries and snapshot\\
  * **Artifact Description and Usage Details** (If Known) 


===== A =====
====Fae====
**Antler Knife** | [[Fae]]\\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #7: [[Frost Burned]] \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Asil Moreno]] \\
[[Zee Adelbertsmiter]] \\

__**Artifact Description & Usage Details:**__ \\
[[Frost Burned]]
  * hunting knife; with a dark blade that showed just a touch of rust<sup>210</sup>
  * hilt was some sort of antler
  * runic lettering down the blade but when you looked at it directly that disappeared<sup>210</sup>
  * it doesn't like to stay in one place when interesting things are going on<sup>213</sup>

===== B =====
====Fae====

**Bracers of Giant Strength** |[[Fae]]\\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #3: [[Iron Kissed]] \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[O'Donnell]] **Deceased**\\
[[Tim Milanovich]] **Deceased** \\

__**Artifact Description & Usage Details:**__ \\
[[Iron Kissed]]
  * silver bands worn around each wrist
  * not bracers; bracelets or maybe wristlets; bracers are longer
  * strength of giants

===== C ===== 
==== Fae ====

**Carnwennen** | [[Fae]]\\
**IA**: [[Alpha & Omega Series]] #2: [[Hunting Ground]] \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Anna Cornick]]\\
[[Arthur Madden]] **Deceased** \\
[[Dana Shea]] **Deceased** \\

__**Artifact Description & Usage Details:**__ \\
[[Hunting Ground]] \\
  * AKA Little White Hilt
  * stinks of magic 
  * King Arthur's dagger 
  * was used to hunt the Very Black Witch<sup>274</sup> 
  * as long as Anna's forearm, almost enough to be a short sword instead of a dagger<sup>274</sup> 
  * Arthur supposedly cut the witch in half with it
  * Anna used it to kill the Gray Lord Dana Shea

==== Vampire ====

**Crossed Bones** | [[Vampire]]\\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Mercy Thompson]]\\
[[Wulfe]] \\

**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #4: [[Bone Crossed]] \\
__**Artifact Description & Usage Details:**__ \\
[[Bone Crossed]] 
  * mark of a traitor<sup>172</sup>
  * means that one of their own has betrayed them, and she and all that belong to her are fair marks
  * a declaration of war
  * it keeps you from painting over it for long
  * if it stays in place for long it'll start attracting nasties who have no affiliation to the vampire
===== D =====
==== Fae ====

**Drachen** | [[Fae]]\\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #2: [[Blood Bound]]\\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Andre]] **Deceased** \\
[[Mercy Thompson]] \\
[[Uncle Mike]] \\
[[Zee Adelbertsmiter]] \\

__**Artifact Description & Usage Details:**__ \\
[[Blood Bound]]
  * AKA Dragon Medallion
  * flat disk of gold, on the front was a lizard, and on the back were marks of some sort that might have been letters; both the lizard and the lettering were battered<sup>184</sup> 
  * rest the medallion on something and say the medallion's name and it burns whatever it's touching to ashes<sup>184</sup> 
  * it can only be invoked when it has been given the name of a user, no one else may invoke it, and even then it takes both word and desire; so you have to say it and mean it<sup>185</sup> 

**Druid's Hide** | [[Fae]] \\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #3: [[Iron Kissed]] \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Tim Milanovich]] **Deceased**\\

__**Artifact Description & Usage Details:**__ \\
[[Iron Kissed]]
  * bulky fur cloak that looked almost like yak hide; except it was gray<sup>230</sup>
  * strange-looking and smelled of horse, not yak
  * druid cursed to wear the form of a horse, when he was skinned, he regained his human form; but the horse's skin
  * Keeps your enemy from finding or harming you<sup>230</sup>

===== E =====
====Fae====
**Elf Salve** | [[Fae]]\\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #3: [[Iron Kissed]]\\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Steve Singh (Dr.)]]  \\

__**Artifact Description & Usage Details:**__ \\
[[Iron Kissed]]
  * when Mercy broke Underhill glamour her eyes and ears where checked to see if she wore elf-salve
[[Fair Game]]
  * herbal salve you could rub on your eyes to see the fairies<sup>65</sup>


===== F =====
===== G =====
==== Vampire ====

**Gauntlets** | [[Vampire]]\\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #2: [[Blood Bound]]\\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[William Frost]] **Deceased** \\

__**Artifact Description & Usage Details:**__ \\
[[Blood Bound]]
  * Unordered List Item

===== H =====
====Fae====
**Hunger** | [[Fae]] \\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #7: [[Frost Burned]]\\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Mercy Thompson]]\\
[[Sliver]] \\
[[Zee Adelbertsmiter]] \\

__**Artifact Description & Usage Details:**__ \\
[[Frost Burned]]
  * one of five similar blades made by Zee<sup>180</sup>
  * made from something that isn't iron or steel so that the fae could use it<sup>180</sup>
  * too dangerous for mundane humans and too dangerous to be put in the hands of the Gray Lords<sup>180</sup>
  * blade created by Zee; when he was angry at the world<sup>270</sup>
  * it needs to taste your blood: then it will serve you; until it taste's another's blood it likes better<sup>271</sup>
  * the user will never know when it might prefer someone else<sup>271</sup>
  * less inclined to stay with someone not fae<sup>271</sup>
  * it will kill vampires in a way a normal sword cannot
  * it will eat magic- items or spells; slowly<sup>271</sup>
  * you cut yourself to bind it to you; very sharp<sup>271</sup>
  * when bound; should be able to sheathe the blade just by thinking about it<sup>271</sup>
  * major artifact<sup>272</sup>
  * changes shape with new user<sup>322</sup>
  * pommel and blade get hot with use<sup>328</sup>


**Hunger Swords** | [[Fae]] \\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #7: [[Frost Burned]]\\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Zee Adelbertsmiter]] \\

__**Artifact Description & Usage Details:**__ \\
[[Frost Burned]]
  * made from something that isn't iron or steel so that the fae could use it<sup>180</sup>
  * Zee made five of these swords, each a little bit different from the other
  * Hunger is one
  * Zee has one; see Zee's Dagger
  * all of them are bad news<sup>180</sup>
  * if someone's not using them to slaughter a crowd of people, then some Gray Lord is blathering about how such a fae treasure needs to be protected<sup>180</sup>

====== I =====
===== J =====
===== K =====
===== L =====
===== M =====
==== Fae ====

**Mac Owen Ring** | [[Fae]]\\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #3: [[Iron Kissed]] \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Tim Milanovich]] **Deceased**\\

__**Artifact Description & Usage Details:**__ \\
[[Iron Kissed]]
  * it makes the tongue of the wearer sweeter than honey<sup>IK-227</sup> 
  * it's a politician's ring

**Magic Made** | [[Fae]] \\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #3: [[Iron Kissed]] \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Ariana Brewster Cornick]]\\
[[Phineas Brewster]]\\
[[Mercy Thompson]]\\

__**Artifact Description & Usage Details:**__ \\
[[Iron Kissed]]
  * on sale at the Uptown Mall bookseller for fourteen hundred dollars<sup>165</sup> 
  * been on stock at the bookstore for five or six years 
  * bound in pale leather and embossed in gold 
  * the title is embossed on the front and spine 
[[Silver Borne]]
  * handwritten and tough to decipher; a book written by the fae about the fae<sup>05</sup> 
  * organized in regard to the variety of fae and the fae artifacts<sup>135</sup>

==== Mercy ====

**Mercy's Lamb** | [[Mercy Thompson]] \\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #1: [[Moon Called]]\\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Mercy Thompson]]\\

__**Artifact Description & Usage Details:**__ \\
[[Moon Called]]
  * Silver stylized lamb necklace infused with faith
  * used to repel Marsilia when she attacked Samuel
===== N =====
===== O =====
==== Fae ====

**Orfino's Bane**| [[Fae]] \\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #3: [[Iron Kissed]] \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Mercy Thompson]] \\
[[Tim Milanovich]] **Deceased**\\

__**Artifact Description & Usage Details:**__ \\
[[Iron Kissed]]
  * AKA Huon's Cup; Manannan's Gift
  * a handmade pottery goblet; brown and aged-looking<sup>IK-224</sup> 
  * the goblet in the hands of a human thief, will allow him to enslave another 
  * given as a gift it will heal as well 
  * in the hands of the fae it will testify to truth<sup>IK-244</sup> 
  * the goblet that the fairy used to rob Roland's knights of their ability to resist her will<sup>IK-226</sup>
[[Frost Burned]]
  * very powerful artifact; act of drinking out of it implies consent<sup>220</sup>
[[Night Broken]]
  * liquid is fae-magic concoction that prevents you from disobeying orders<sup>158</sup>
===== P =====
==== Fae ====
**Peace and Quiet** | [[Fae]]\\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #7: [[Frost Burned]] \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Mercy Thompson]] \\

__**Artifact Description & Usage Details:**__ \\
[[Frost Burned]]
  * AKA Fairy Queen's Gift
  * was made as a gift for a fairy queen who collected the wrong fae's son into her court<sup>215</sup> 
  * cuffs only work for a short period of time on the fae, though it can be more permanent on humans<sup>215</sup> 
  * the woman who gave the fairy queen the gift wanted her son back; once the queen died all the humans and fae went back to their lives<sup>215</sup> 
  * break the spell; true love's kiss
  * two part spell; first is spelled to make the wearer happy and relaxed; vulnerable so that the second one can work to make the person wearing it compliant<sup>220</sup>
  * magic continues to work after the cuffs have been removed; so they can be used to subdue more than one prisoner<sup>220</sup>
===== Q =====
==== Vampire ====

**Questioning Seat** | [[Vampire]]\\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #2: [[Blood Bound]] \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Daniel]] **Deceased**\\
[[Mercy Thompson]]\\
[[Stefan Uccello]]\\
[[Wulfe]]\\

__**Artifact Description & Usage Details:**__ \\
[[Blood Bound]]
  * AKA The Chair
  * a large wooden chair; dark wood with a grain like oak
  * covered in carvings, from the lion-paw legs to the gargoyle crouched on the top of the tall back
  * each of the legs had a ring of brass about a third of the way up
  * the arms were made entirely of brass wrought with delicate-appearing vines and small flowers and thorns
  * on the end of each arm, one of the thorns stuck up in a sharp point
  * its magic felt like a dull bass thrum as if someone was beating a very large drum and you were listening to it with your ears covered; you feel it more than hear it
  * old blood on the chair
  * the chair is not vampiric magic, not entirely<sup>BB-155</sup> 
  * used to determine the truth of whatever poor being had the brass thorns stuck in its hands
  * with the statement "You choose to offer Truth willingly" the chair reacts; appropriate that the vampire's truth spells would demand blood
  * the seat isn't dependant on vampire power; it functions by blood, but it was a witch who worked the magic
  * the chair is a very old thing

[[Bone Crossed]]
  * * one of the treasures of the seethe, vampire magic and old magic combined<sup>BC-209</sup> 
===== R =====

**Rowan Stake** | [[Fae]]\\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #2: [[Blood Bound]] \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Andre]] **Deceased**\\
[[Mercy Thompson]]\\
[[Zee Adelbertsmiter]]\\

__**Artifact Description & Usage Details:**__ \\
[[Blood Bound]]
  * a sharpened stake as long as Mercy's forearm
  * from a fae with an affinity for trees and growing things
  * made from the wood of a rowan tree, a wood of light
  * the fae said that this would find its way to the heart of a vampire

===== S =====
==== Vampire ====

**Spellcatcher** | [[Vampire]]\\
**IA**: [[Alpha & Omega Series]] #2: [[Hunting Ground]] \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\

__**Artifact Description & Usage Details:**__ \\
[[Hunting Ground]]
  * a stick that only a couple of vampires can make; they charge a lot for them<sup>HG-253</sup> 
  * it can absorb up to four spells, and the person it's tuned to can use it to cast them, even if that person wouldn't normally be able to do magic<sup>HG-253</sup> 
  * it was the size of a cane or a fighting stick<sup>HG-242</sup> 
  * can only absorb spells given to it voluntarily by the spell caster; Means a wolf gave them the [[shadows spell]] and the [[Look-Not-At-Me]]
==== Fae ====

**Silver Borne** | [[Fae]] \\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #5: [[Silver Borne]]\\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Ariana Brewster Cornick]]\\
[[Mercy Thompson]]\\
[[Phineas Brewster]]\\

__**Artifact Description & Usage Details:**__ \\
[[Silver Borne]]
  * built by Ariane Brewster for her father<sup>278</sup> 
  * it was her magic it was born in, it finds its way back to her eventually<sup>280</sup> 
  * it consumes fae magic -- but mostly just the magic of the person who currently possesses it<sup>279</sup> 
  * eats fae magic; would be easy to change a formidable opponent to someone more vulnerable than a human
  * take power from one fae and give it to another

**Silver Bracelets** | [[Fae]] \\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #9: [[Fire Touched]]\\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Goreu]]\\
[[Margaret Flanagan]]\\

__**Artifact Description & Usage Details:**__ \\
[[Fire Touched]]
  * a fine silver bar bracelet with a red cabochon stone<sup>194</sup>
  * victim wears one; controller wears the other
  * can hold a fae against their will<sup>195</sup>

**St. John's Wort** | [[Fae]] \\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #9: [[Fire Touched]]\\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Mercy Thompson]] \\

__**Artifact Description & Usage Details:**__ \\
[[Fire Touched]]
  * herb could be used to protect yourself and your home against some kinds of fae<sup>15</sup>
  * place it around windows, doors, and chimneys<sup>15</sup>

===== T =====
===== U =====
===== V =====
===== W =====
==== Fae ====

**Walking Stick (1)** | [[Fae]] \\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #3: [[Iron Kissed]]\\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
__**Artifact Description & Usage Details:**__ \\
[[Iron Kissed]]
  * Would lead you home no matter where you roamed<sup>IK-213</sup>

**Walking Stick (2)** | [[Fae]] \\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #3: [[Iron Kissed]]\\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
__**Artifact Description & Usage Details:**__ \\
[[Iron Kissed]]
  * Allowed you to see people for what they were<sup>IK-213</sup>

**Walking Stick** | [[Fae]] \\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #3: [[Iron Kissed]]\\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Coyote]]\\
[[Donnell Greenleaf]]\\
[[Hendrick]]\\
[[Lugh the Longarm]]\\
[[Mercy Thompson]]\\

__**Artifact Description & Usage Details:**__ \\
[[Iron Kissed]]
  * an antiquarian bookstore in the Uptown Mall in Richland; a man runs it; tell him Tad sent you but wait until he's alone in the store
  * one of the fairy treasures
  * its story is in Chapter Five of Magic Made<sup>165</sup>
  * came from Hendrick's house<sup>212</sup>
  * The Stick that multiplied the farmer's sheep<sup>213</sup>
  * it's about four feet long, made of some sort of twisty wood with a gray finish; it's got a ring of silver on the bottom and a silver cap with Celtic designs on the top<sup>IK-159</sup>
  * it was graceful and slender<sup>RM-176</sup>
  * was created to be of use to humans who help the fae<sup>160</sup>
  * created by Lugh the ancient hero of the Tuatha de Danann<sup>RM-176</sup>
  * it predated Christ's birth and then some; it might even be older than Bran<sup>RM-176</sup>
  * it didn't have feet and wasn't alive, it was old fairy magic and it trailed after Mercy like a faithful dog<sup>RM-176</sup>
[[River Marked]]
  * If the oakman had been right about the walking stick’s origins, it predated Christ’s birth and then some. It might even be older than Bran.

[[Night Broken]]
  * particularly contrary artifact<sup>256</sup>
  * 
“It knows how to hide itself better,” Coyote murmured, sounding like a proud parent.
It looked much as it had the last time I’d seen it: a four-foot-long oak staff made of twisty wood, with a gray finish and a ring of silver on the bottom. The silver cap that sometimes became a spearhead was covered with Celtic designs

“I taught it a few tricks and gave it an education. It helped me out of a few jams.”

“Lugh made three walking sticks. This one makes twin lambs. One of them helps you find your way home, and the third allows you to see people as they really are.”
“Hmm,” said Coyote. “Are you sure your source was reliable?”
“Yes,” I told him.
“I think,” said Coyote, “that you should recheck your source. Maybe there were three staves that all did the same thing, or maybe there was only ever one. Or maybe”—he gave me a sly look—“I was just able to teach it to ape its brethren
===== X =====
===== Y =====
===== Z =====
==== Fae ====
**Zee's Dagger** | [[Fae]] \\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #1: [[Moon Called]]\\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Mercy Thompson]]\\
[[Zee Adelbertsmiter]]\\

__**Artifact Description & Usage Details:**__ \\
[[Moon Called]]
  * Zee carries it for personal protection
  * Dark-bladed and as long as Mercy's arm
  * comes with a leather belt and sheath; belt ties to adjust fit for dagger; wrapped the leather belt around my hips a few times. There was a handmade buckle without a pin on one end, and I wove the other end of the belt through and tied it off.
  * old blade
  * power washed through the van, not like the power the Alphas could call, nor did it feel like the magic Elizaveta Arkadyevna used. It was akin somehow to the fae power of glamour and tasted like metal and blood in my mouth.
  * Zee calls the blade "daughter" and it likes the taste of blood
  * not a great help against vampires
  * Each time the knife heated up, it did so more quickly and took longer to cool off.
[[Iron Kissed]]
  * AKA Zee's Sword; Zee's Knife
  * Once swung would cut through whatever was in its path -- including the person who was using it<sup>95</sup>
  * it hungers and it feeds best on things less helpless
[[Fire Touched]]
  * blade that cuts through anything and takes any shape it desires<sup>291</sup> 
