====== 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>

==== Dilong ====
Dilong\\
**IA**: [[Mercyverse Short Fiction]]: [[Fairy Gifts]] \\ 
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Thomas Hao Mother]]\\
__**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\
[[Fairy Gifts]]
  * Earth dragon<sup>96</sup>
  * Thomas' mother's family were scholars, back as far as their family history went—all the way, the stories said, to the dragon scholar who knew everything that dragons knew and turned into a man to see what men knew<sup>96</sup>
  * her family history is that her family was founded by a dilong, an earth dragon<sup>96</sup>

====Dragon====
**IA**: [[Mercyverse Short Fiction]]: [[Asil and the Not-Date]] \\ 
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Dragon (A)]] \\
[[Dragon (B) Baby]] **Deceased**\\
[[Dragon (C) Flowers]] \\
[[Red Dragon of Cymry]] \\

__**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\
[[Asil and the Not-Date]]
  * collects hoards<sup>224</sup>
  * wyrms are not dragons<sup>224</sup>
  * is driven by the need to surround itself with treasure<sup>225</sup>
  * unlike dragons, it doesn't gather its treasure by itself; it takes a human in thrall and used them to gather it<sup>225</sup>
  * a wyrm's treasure is not what a dragon's treasure is; dragons surround themselves with metals; wyrms gather whatever catches their eye<sup>225</sup>

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

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

===== G =====
====Ghost====
Expanded details here: [[Ghosts]]: [[Mercy & 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>


===== T =====
===== U =====
===== V =====
===== W =====
====Wyrm====
**IA**: [[Mercyverse Short Fiction]]: [[Asil and the Not-Date]] \\ 
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Asil Moreno]] \\
[[Tami Reed]] **Deceased** \\
[[Wyrm Hoarder]] **Deceased** \\
[[Wyrm Village]] **Deceased** \\

__**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\
[[Asil and the Not-Date]]
  * collects hoards<sup>224</sup>
  * wyrms are not dragons<sup>224</sup>
  * is driven by the need to surround itself with treasure<sup>225</sup>
  * unlike dragons, it doesn't gather its treasure by itself; it takes a human in thrall and used them to gather it<sup>225</sup>
  * a wyrm's treasure is not what a dragon's treasure is; dragons surround themselves with metals; wyrms gather whatever catches their eye<sup>225</sup>
  * those held in thrall sometimes died when their enslaver died<sup>226</sup>
  * can range in size from 10 feet long 2 feet in diameter to forty feet long and six feet in diameter<sup>232</sup>
  * quick and the older ones can enthrall whole villages<sup>232</sup>
  * wyrm flesh, enriched with magic, burned more than hot enough to everything to ash<sup>233</sup>

===== X =====
===== Y =====
===== Z =====
====Zombie====
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #3: [[Iron Kissed]] \\ 
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Spice]] **Deceased** \\
[[Werewolf zombie]] \\
[[L Hardesty]] \\


__**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\
[[Iron Kissed]]
  * to call back to unlife

[[Bone Crossed]]
  * dead and walking; smells of rot
  * Blackwood had seen zombies three centuries old that look almost as fresh as a day-old corpse
  * they're passed down in their families like the treasures they are

[[Frost Burned]]
  * aren't living creatures, they are animated dead with no willpower or thoughts of their own<sup>316</sup>
  * can be controlled by those with power over the dead

[[Silence Fallen]]
  * ghosts are mostly bits and pieces of people, of emotions, left behind—so it was like being followed by zombies<sup>105</sup>
  * vampires walking during the day—would be a variant on part of zombie animation<sup>268</sup>

[[Storm Cursed]]
  * they were witchcraft, and witchcraft was powered by body parts with a leaning toward blood and bone<sup>53</sup>
  * not that they could actually eat anything; dead; no systems go<sup>57</sup>
  * thought they would be slow but actually fast<sup>57</sup>
  * Mercy could feel them; detect them; sensitized to the way zombies felt<sup>59</sup>
  * Mercy not sure how to kill, how to eliminate zombies; thought with fire<sup>60</sup>
  * several kinds of practitioners who could create zombies<sup>62</sup>
  * creating zombies too serious mojo<sup>63</sup>
  * Mercy pretty sure a gray witch could create a zombie<sup>69</sup>
  * getting bitten by a zombie wouldn't make someone turn into one, though getting bitten by something that was dead might result in the mother of all infections<sup>88</sup>
  * zombie wolf better maid; might have believed it was a living werewolf<sup>102</sup>
  * to defeat a zombie you need to do mechanical damage because they don't feel pain<sup>103</sup>
  * healing damage; healing faster than a werewolf; getting its power from somewhere<sup>108</sup>
  * making many zombies is a curse of that kind of necromancy; uncontrollable need to make more<sup>183</sup>

