====== Asil Moreno ======
=====AKA=====
[[Cry Wolf]]
  * The Moor<sup>110</sup>
  * Hussan<sup>122</sup>
  * 'Sil<sup>165</sup>
=====Physical Description=====
[[Cry Wolf]]
  * His face was refined and elegant, his skin, like Charles’s, was teak and sunlight. His nose and black eyes said Middle East<sup>55</sup>
  * Looked 23 or 24<sup>55</sup>
  * Almost a foot shorter than Charles, just an inch or two taller than Anna<sup>102</sup>
  * Dark skin and darker eyes and hair-black in artificial light<sup>102</sup>

[[Fair Game]]
  * His features and skin showed traces of Arabia by way of North Africa<sup>15</sup>

[[Unappreciated Gifts]]
  * Hair cut short<sup>276</sup>

====Injuries====
^  Asil Moreno Injuries & Scars  ^^
^  [[Alpha & Omega Series]] #1: [[Cry Wolf]]  ^^
^  Injury Type/Scar  ^  Notes  ^
|  Scars on Back of Ribs<sup>124</sup>  |  Inflicted by Claws  |
|  Bloody Lip<sup>264</sup>  |  [[Mariposa]]  |
^  [[Mercyverse Short Fiction]]: [[Roses in Winter]]  ^^
^  Injury Type/Scar  ^  Notes  ^
|  Torn Tissue in Throat<sup>297</sup>  |  Self-inflicted  |
=====Appearances & Mentions=====
^           Appearances                   ^                            
|[[Alpha & Omega Series]] #1: [[Cry Wolf]]| 
|[[Alpha & Omega Series]] #3: [[Fair Game]]|
|[[Alpha & Omega Series]] #5: [[Burn Bright]]|
|[[Alpha & Omega Series]] #6: [[Wild Sign]]|
|[[Mercy Thompson Series]] #7: [[Frost Burned]]|
|[[Mercyverse Short Fiction]]: [[Roses in Winter]]|
|[[Mercyverse Short Fiction]]: [[Unappreciated Gifts]]|
|[[Mercyverse Short Fiction]]: [[Asil and the Not-Date]]|                        
^           Mentions                    ^                              
|[[Alpha & Omega Series]] #2: [[Hunting Ground]]|
|[[Alpha & Omega Series]] #4: [[Dead Heat]]|
|[[Mercy Thompson Series]] #9: [[Fire Touched]]|
|[[Mercy Thompson Series]] #10: [[Silence Fallen]]|
|[[Mercy Thompson Series]] #11: [[Storm Cursed]]|
|[[Mercy Thompson Series]] #12: [[Smoke Bitten]]|
=====Classification=====
[[Werewolf]] 
====Description====
[[Cry Wolf]]
  * Hint of wildness, of some sickness<sup>55</sup>
  * Not a wolf to mess with<sup>110</sup>
  * If there is a wolf in this world older than the Marrok, it might be Asil<sup>110</sup>
  * Born just before Charles Martel, Charlemagne's grandfather, defeated the Moors at the Battle of Tours<sup>110</sup>
  * Born eighth century A.D.; 1300 years old<sup>110</sup>
  * Crystalline wolf eyes<sup>211</sup>
  * His fur was so dark a brown as to be mistaken for black in the growing shadows<sup>282</sup>

[[Fair Game]]
  * One kill, or maybe as many as three or four, and his control would be gone. Asil was too old, too fragile, to be sent out hunting werewolves. He would enjoy it entirely too much. He could feel the wild spirit of his wolf leap at the chance of such a hunt, the chance of a real fight and the blood of a strong opponent between his fangs<sup>22</sup> 

[[Burn Bright]]
  * Been too long an Alpha before coming here, and his ruling style differed a great deal from Bran's<sup>114</sup>

[[Frost Burned]]
  * Could kill vampires without losing control<sup>165</sup>
  * Eyes the color of citrines<sup>167</sup>
  * Asil's beast enjoyed playing with his victims<sup>170</sup>

[[Roses in Winter]]
  * Asil was very old, and his wolf was given to fits of rage, both of them nearing the end of their very long life<sup>279</sup>

[[Asil and the Not-Date]]
  * Knew some tricks for dealing with witchcraft. He used pack magic to shield himself<sup>229</sup>
====Affiliation====
[[Aspen Creek Pack]] AKA [[Marrok Pack]]
=====Residence=====
[[mercyverse_residences#Asil_Moreno's_House_1|Asil Moreno House]]
=====Family & Significant Other=====
**Previous Mate - [[Sarai]](Deceased)**

**Son - Ibn Hussan**
=====Occupation=====

=====Character Traits & Facts=====
[[Cry Wolf]]
  * Pure Spanish accent<sup>55</sup>
  * Has a hothouse, and seldom cuts the blooms from his plants<sup>103</sup>
  * Asil is not really his name though it's what most people call him<sup>110</sup>
  * There were a lot of stories about the Moor. He was almost a folk hero-or villain-among the wolves<sup>110</sup>
  * It's been over two hundred years since anyone has called him by the name Hussan<sup>122</sup>
  * His roses weren’t as glorious as the ones he’d had in Spain, but they were a vast improvement over the commercially grown flowers he’d started with. His Spanish roses had been the result of centuries of careful breeding. It hadn’t bothered him to leave them at the time, but now he regretted their loss fiercely<sup>164</sup>
  * He’d been exchanging cuttings and rootstock with other rose aficionados for several decades before he’d been forced to leave, so his work had not all been in vain. Somewhere in the world there were probably descendants of his roses. Maybe if Bran made him live a few more years, he’d go out looking for them<sup>164</sup> 
  * A man other people turn their heads to watch<sup>265</sup>

[[Dead Heat]]
  * The only fruit tree he had was a waist-high dwarf clementine that Asil said was a tribute to his Spanish heritage and the oranges he used to grow on some farm he’d owned at one time or another<sup>201</sup> 

[[Burn Bright]]
  * Has a very expensive, brand-new Mercedes SUV<sup>115</sup>

[[Frost Burned]]
  * Had a Spanish accent, but not the same Spanish as most of the people Mercy knew who spoke Spanish as a first language in the Tri-Cities<sup>118</sup>

[[Roses in Winter]]
  * Had been poor-any number of times-but not in the last five hundred years<sup>284</sup>

[[Unappreciated Gifts]]
  * His tastes are only for women<sup>273</sup>
  * Has a Subaru and a Porsche Cayenne<sup>275</sup>

[[Asil and the Not-Date]]
  * Descended from African Berbers and people from the Arabian Peninsula. He is thus a Spanish Moor<sup>220</sup>
  * Gifted himself a sword with modern steel better than his old Spanish steel blade<sup>227</sup>
  * After his mate's death, he made hunting down black witches the focus of his life for several centuries<sup>229</sup>
====Education, Work Experience & Languages====

**Languages**

[[Frost Burned]]
  * English is not his first, nor even his fifth, language<sup>127</sup>
  * Speaks Spanish<sup>178</sup>

[[Unappreciated Gifts]]
  * Fluent in Lao<sup>271</sup>
====Spirituality & Personality====
[[Cry Wolf]]
  * Most of Asil's histrionics were a performance. When he was truly disturbed, he had overly precise moments and started fussing about nonsense and things that didn't matter<sup>125</sup>
  * Too much of a gentleman to leave Anna in trouble<sup>132</sup>
  * His standards of beauty had broadened over the years<sup>165</sup>
  * Self-absorbed and arrogant<sup>209</sup>
  * Too old to believe in happy endings<sup>253</sup>
  * Had once been a truly devout man<sup>265</sup>

[[Fair Game]]
  * Didn't have a modest bone in his body<sup>17</sup>
  * Found that life still had the power to surprise him, so he was willing to stick around for a little while longer<sup>19</sup>

[[Dead Heat]]
  * Vain, beautiful and intelligent<sup>18</sup>

[[Burn Bright]]
  * Flattery was a good way to get cooperation from Asil<sup>99</sup>
  * Asil's anger was a cold thing<sup>114</sup>
  * Would never willingly betray a trust given to him<sup>167</sup>

[[Frost Burned]]
  * Enjoyed being the center of attention<sup>119</sup>

[[Roses in Winter]]
  * Didn't like scaring children<sup>277</sup>
  * Does not hurt women without grave cause and never children<sup>277</sup>
  * Had enough grief and mourning, even secondhand, to last a thousand lifetimes<sup>284</sup>
  * Done with responsibility<sup>305</sup>

[[Unappreciated Gifts]]
  * Muslim and does not care about Christmas<sup>269</sup>

[[Asil and the Not-Date]]
  * Owned that vanity was one of his sins<sup>201</sup>
  * Felt society's failure to care for their most vulnerable to be a shame upon this country<sup>211</sup> 
====Talents & Skills====
[[Cry Wolf]]
  * Artistic talent was plebeian at best<sup>120</sup>
  * Can always track his pack mates<sup>209</sup>
  * Would feed you your anger back with a healthy dose of humiliation<sup>209</sup>

[[Fair Game]]
  * Always had a talent for imitation<sup>21</sup>

[[Frost Burned]]
  * Faster than anyone Mercy had ever seen<sup>167</sup>
  * Was a famous swordsman with centuries of practice<sup>176</sup>

[[Storm Cursed]]
  * Can change just the part of his body he needs<sup>117</sup>

[[Roses in Winter]]
  * A good driver<sup>284</sup>
  * Could carry a tune<sup>285</sup>
  * Knew the woods, he'd spent nearly fifteen years here, and his feet knew every rock and hole within miles of his house<sup>296</sup>
  * Could play guitar<sup>311</sup>
  * Originally composed a song on a guitarra morisca<sup>311</sup>

[[Unappreciated Gifts]]
  * Good at waiting<sup>270</sup>
  * His judgment of people was usually quick- and always accurate<sup>273</sup>
====Health & Fitness====
[[Cry Wolf]]
  * Wakes up disoriented and sometimes not where he went to sleep after dreaming of his dead mate<sup>68</sup>

[[Fair Game]]
  * Spars using Chinese qiang<sup>268</sup>

[[Unappreciated Gifts]]
  * Tango was his favorite dance<sup>278</sup>
  * Very good dancer<sup>278</sup>

[[Asil and the Not-Date]]
  * Ran most nights to exorcise the demons of memory and to calm the raging wolf who shared his skin<sup>201</sup>
====Quirks====
[[Cry Wolf]]
  * His favorite scent was Sarai and vanilla, but Sarai and cinnamon was almost as good<sup>120</sup>
  * Posed a lot<sup>124</sup>

[[Fair Game]]
  * Disliked being called the Moor- saying it was a vampire kind of thing to do, take a part of who a person was and reduce him to it with a capital letter or two<sup>15</sup>
  * Believes romance is good for the soul<sup>20</sup>
  * Will do anything he can to never be Alpha again<sup>22</sup>

[[Burn Bright]]
  * Skirted the truth of what he knew with the wussy words "may" and "seems"<sup>139</sup>
  * Drove as if he were a human, with human reflexes<sup>154</sup>
  * Asil didn’t love his cars. He appreciated them and took meticulous care of them, but they were just vehicles to get him from one place to the next. He enjoyed them more if they did it with style and power, but they weren’t anything he was attached to<sup>155</sup>
  * Likes Johnny Cash<sup>159</sup>
  * Didn't respect anyone's boundaries but his own<sup>210</sup>

[[Frost Burned]]
  * Did not enjoy being a passenger in a car<sup>163</sup>

[[Roses in Winter]]
  * Most of his greenhouse was on drip lines, but he preferred to do some of the work himself—and he’d learned that repairing a drip line was nearly as time-consuming as watering it all himself anyway and considerably less satisfactory. The temptation in this age was to automate too much and ruin his own fun<sup>276</sup>
  * Thinks of the day he met his mate when he smells roses<sup>280</sup> 
  * Doesn't want to be a werewolf<sup>294</sup>
  * Doesn't pay attention to politics anymore<sup>302</sup>
  * Played a song to make his roses grow<sup>311</sup>

[[Unappreciated Gifts]]
  * Thinks that the music the Christmas season subjects him to is mostly bad<sup>269</sup>
  * Clothes horse<sup>274</sup>
  * Doesn't like bullies. Especially doesn't like bullies who put their victims in a position where they could be hurt<sup>274</sup>
  * Preferred merlots and big reds and didn't like sweet wines<sup>274</sup>
  * Renaissance was his favorite era for fashion, when men's wear vied with women's for sheer spectacle<sup>276</sup>
  * Loves to dress in costume<sup>278</sup>

[[Asil and the Not-Date]]
  * Has seen both wyrms and dragons<sup>224</sup>
  * Had killed wyrms before, though only a handful<sup>226</sup>
=====Relationships=====

**Asil and Sarai**

[[Cry Wolf]]
  * Feels guilty because he was traveling when she was tortured to death<sup>68</sup>
  * Had no photographs of her, nor had any of the paintings he'd attempted ever done her justice. Only in his dreams did he see her<sup>120</sup>
  * She was so beautiful to Asil, even though he knew that others might not find her so<sup>120</sup>
  * Sarai had often thumped him soundly on the head for looking at other women, though she’d known he’d never stray. Now that she was gone, he seldom even looked. Flirting didn’t make him feel disloyal to his dead mate, but he’d found he missed that thump too badly<sup>165</sup>
  * He’d found her himself, days after she’d died. He’d taken her poor body and washed it clean. Had burned it with salt and holy water. Knowing who had killed her, he wanted there to be no way to raise her from the dead<sup>171</sup>
  * Kept Sarai's favorite shirt all these years and occasionally sleeps with it on his pillow<sup>171</sup>
  * She who taught him how to grow plants indoors<sup>174</sup>
  * Asil and his wife's mate bond had brought with it an unusual gift, empathy<sup>211</sup>
  * Some mated pairs could talk to each other mind to mind, but with Sarai it had always been emotion. Over the years, practice had allowed it to develop into something not so much different from telepathy<sup>255</sup>
  * For Sarai, Asil lived and died<sup>257</sup>

[[Roses in Winter]]
  * Asil thinks of the day he met Sarai when he smells roses<sup>280</sup>

**Asil and Mariposa**

[[Cry Wolf]]
  * Asil dreams of her almost every night<sup>56</sup>
  * He was afraid of what Mariposa had become. Afraid of the witch who hunted him as she'd hunted his Sarai<sup>171</sup>
  * Ran for over 200years from Mariposa the witch who had killed his mate<sup>172</sup>
  * His dreams always got stronger when the witch got too close<sup>173</sup>
  * Mariposa had somehow stolen the bond between Asil and his mate<sup>173</sup>
  * The witch started to hunt him; he never had figured out exactly what she wanted. He, who had run from nothing, ran from a child not yet into her second decade of life. Because if she took Sarai, he could not guarantee that she could not take him. He was too old, too powerful to be a tool in the hands of a witch, dead or alive<sup>174</sup>
  * Sarai and Asil raised Mariposa<sup>212</sup> 

**Asil and the Cornicks**

[[Cry Wolf]]
  * Asil about Bran: “A gift you have, someone who knows what needs to be done and will do it. You have a place to come home to, a safe place, because of him. I had to leave my Alpha to come here because he’d have let me rot in madness out of love. A weak love that betrays. If you knew what I feel, what Carter Wallace felt, you’d know what a blessing you have in Bran Cornick, who will kill those who need killing.”<sup>56</sup>
  * Asil thought to see Charles, the original lone wolf, caught with a foot in the trap of //amor// will amuse him for a while longer<sup>57</sup>
  * Asil came to Bran a month ago complaining about his dreams and asking Bran to put him out of his misery<sup>68</sup>
  * Asil came to Aspen Creek fifteen years ago to ask Bran to kill him. He settled for the promise of death instead-as soon as Bran determines he really is crazy<sup>110</sup>
  * Asil has no problem with Bran being his Alpha, but he has a problem with Charles being more dominant<sup>110</sup>
  * Digs at Charles and Charles ignores him; then he digs harder<sup>111</sup>
  * Wanted Anna to know that if she decided not to have Charles, she could pick Asil instead<sup>112</sup>
  * Disliked Charles almost as much as Leah did<sup>123</sup>
  * Sage, he knew, was beginning to suspect that his madness was feigned. Bran probably thought so, too, since he hadn’t just killed him, though Asil had requested it of him repeatedly—fifteen years of “not yet.”<sup>169</sup>
  * Supplied the bouquet and decorated the chapel with his roses for Charles and Anna's wedding<sup>293</sup>

[[Hunting Ground]]
  * Had been working with Anna to help her come to some understanding of what she could do as an Omega<sup>69</sup>
  * Taught Anna how to kill vampires<sup>103</sup>

[[Fair Game]]
  * Didn't always get along with Charles<sup>17</sup>
  * Asil had taught Anna all that she knew about being Omega, which he seemed to believe gave him some sort of in loco parentis status<sup>18</sup>
  * Bran allowed Asil's subtle defiance<sup>19</sup>
  * Leah’d flirted with him—his Alpha’s mate, who should know better. He’d allowed her the first one, but the second time he’d taught her not to play her games with him<sup>19</sup>

[[Burn Bright]]
  * Asil liked Leah considerably less than he liked Charles-and he only tolerated Charles for Anna's sake<sup>103</sup>
  * Vowed his loyalty to the Marrok and Bran<sup>105</sup>
  * Asil had lost his mate, but Allah, who knew men’s hearts and how to heal them, had given Asil a second Omega to guard. He loved her—though he was not in love with her. He loved her as a man must love the well that brings water to his people in the desert. For her sake, he would give his life<sup>208</sup>

[[Roses in Winter]]
  * Asil was pretty sure that the Marrok warned all the youngsters away from him<sup>276</sup>
  * Bran saw through him=which was one of the reasons Asil liked him<sup>292</sup>
  * If Bran did not make an exception for Kara, Asil and Bran would have that battle that Asil came here for<sup>302</sup>

**Asil and the Wolves**

[[Cry Wolf]]
  * Slapping down Sage was as rewarding as beating a puppy; it accomplished nothing except to make him feel abusive<sup>165</sup>
  * Had known and liked Leo, Anna's previous Alpha in Chicago<sup>166</sup>

[[Fair Game]]
  * Asil volunteered to go out and scare the bejeebers out of young idiots who break the rules the first time<sup>49</sup> 

[[Burn Bright]]
  * Sage was seldom found too far from Asil if he was present<sup>93</sup>
  * Sage and Asil had something going on-something they'd been pretty private about<sup>140</sup> 
  * Juste has a problem with Asil for not killing the Beast of Gévaudan<sup>151</sup>
  * Bran used Asil to deal with Wellesley most of the time<sup>155</sup>
  * Knew Sherwood Post before the witches got to him and took his leg and memory<sup>173</sup>
  * Kara was a favorite of Asil's<sup>171</sup>
  * Asil and Devon had once been very close<sup>250</sup>
  * Asil had liked and respected Devon, and goodness knew Asil didn't respect very many people on the planet. Bran. The mysterious amnesiac Sherwood Post. Anna couldn't think of anyone else offhand<sup>295</sup>
  * Asil had disappeared for a few days after finding Sage. When he returned, he had retreated to his roses and only come out when Kara went and got him<sup>305</sup>

[[Roses in Winter]]
  * Devon doesn't have to worry about hurting Asil, so he comes to Asil's greenhouse<sup>281</sup>
  * Kara's safety had become important to him<sup>282</sup>
  * Devon misses his flowers and comes to Asil's greenhouse to remember<sup>282</sup>
  * Sang Kara a Moorish tune in African that his father had learned from his grandmother<sup>285</sup>
  * Needed to be in this pack so that when his wolf broke, there would be someone strong enough to hunt him down and kill him before his body count grew too high<sup>290</sup>
  * Asil would learn the names of potential werewolves if they made the transition, not before<sup>291</sup>
  * He would not give in to his beast just yet. He wanted to see what Kara would grow into<sup>297</sup>

[[Unappreciated Gifts]]
  * Had always liked Tag<sup>282</sup>


**Asil and Hussan**

[[Hunting Ground]]
  * Annoyed with Hussan for refusing to kill Asil when he asked. He would not answer phone calls or letters<sup>83</sup>

[[Unappreciated Gifts]]
  * Emailed his son and told him about the game<sup>276</sup>

**With the Fae**

[[Frost Burned]]
  * Got away cleanly from Zee when he used to hunt werewolves<sup>211</sup>
  * Outsmarted Zee for three weeks in high winter in the Alps<sup>213</sup>

**With the Vampires**

[[Frost Burned]]
  * Aware of vampire eye tricks<sup>331</sup>

[[Unappreciated Gifts]]
  * Had never been familiar with any vampire<sup>286</sup>
