Magical artifacts that have been used or mentioned in the Mercyverse. This is a combined list across classifications.

Name of Magical Artifact: Alphabetical (All known names listed) plus Classification that created artifact—Link will lead to page of expanded classification details. Major artifacts will have an individual page with expanded 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)

Aiden's Wardrobe | Fae
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #9: Fire Touched
Affiliated:
Aiden Hauptman
Underhill

Artifact Description & Usage Details:
Fire Touched

• filled with fae artifacts³¹⁸
• cobbled together out of bits and pieces of other things³¹⁸
• was split into two halves³¹⁸
• right side; shelves filled with bright-colored fabric bags of all sorts of sizes and colors, with small boxes of bone, wood, or laquer, and larger, jewelry-box-sized boxes; the bottom shelf was full of folded cloth³¹⁸
• left side; held staves and swords and pole arms of all kinds³¹⁸
• the wardrobe doesn't let power leak; because power attracts attention³¹⁸
• if Aiden dies then Underhill will reclaim what is in the wardrobe; she has her own treasures and some of the contents come from there³¹⁹

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 rust²¹⁰
• hilt was some sort of antler
• runic lettering down the blade but when you looked at it directly that disappeared²¹⁰
• it doesn't like to stay in one place when interesting things are going on²¹³

Athame | Witch
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #11: Storm Cursed
Affiliated:
Hardesty Family Witches
Ruth Gillman
Sherwood Post
Uncle Mike

Artifact Description & Usage Details:
Storm Cursed

• a silver knife²⁶¹
• was supposed to kill Ruth²⁶⁵
• if holding it; feeling that you should just set it down and forget about it²⁶⁹
• destroyed by the Sherwood's wolf; sank it two inches into Uncle Mike's scarred wooden desk and snapped it²⁷⁰
• only way the wolf knew how to destroy it; had to work with the limits he had²⁷⁰
• it released a wave of horrid, filthy magic²⁷⁰
• the witches could have done all sorts of nasty things with it²⁸⁷
• they could have used it to take over anyone who held the knife²⁸⁷
• they killed five or six people to make it—and that's if they had plenty of practice²⁸⁷
• it's useless now that it's broken²⁸⁷

Bonarata Room | Witch
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #10: Silence Fallen
Affiliated:
Jacob Bonarata
Mary Deceased
Mercy Thompson

Artifact Description & Usage Details:
Silence Fallen

• cool—almost cold⁰⁹
• looked like a walk-in freezer; all shiny, silvery surfaces⁰⁹
• once in the room no magic can pass¹¹
• some sort of barricade magic or a circle¹¹
• circle of warding, one that does not let magic pass in or out; will block a werewolf bond¹⁰⁹

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 wrist²⁴⁷
• not bracers; bracelets or maybe wristlets; bracers are longer²⁴⁷
• strength of giants

Bronze Sword |Fae
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #6: River Marked
Affiliated:
Otterkin Bearded Deceased
Walking Stick

Artifact Description & Usage Details:
River Marked

• flared with an orange light and broke³⁰¹
• whatever magic it had held wasn't up to dealing with Lugh's walking stick³⁰¹

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 Witch²⁷⁴
• as long as Anna's forearm, almost enough to be a short sword instead of a dagger²⁷⁴
• King Arthur supposedly cut the witch in half with it
• Anna used it to kill the Gray Lord Dana Shea
• “There was an Excalibur, though?” “So Da says—the result of a bargain with the fae who were not any happier with the Anglo-Saxons than the native humans were. Arthur is right that Excalibur wasn’t the only weapon. There was a spear and a dagger, too.“²⁵²
• King Author's spear was called Rhongomyniad - reference Wikipedia

Carrie Green Storage | Witch
IA: Alpha & Omega Series #6: Wild Sign
Affiliated:
Carrie Green Deceased

Artifact Description & Usage Details:
Wild Sign

• Green Family Witches& Erasmus Family Witches grimoires; several boxes and bag; the largest collection Charles Cornick has run across in one place¹⁸³
• the grimoires should be burned but doing that brings its own set up dangers; they had been ignored for a long time, and they didn't want to be hidden again¹⁸⁵
• Health, Joy, Luck charms; handmade bracelets and necklaces crafted from inexpensive wooden beads; price fifteen dollars²⁵⁰
• Protection from Evil charm; a jade bead strung on a silver chain; price tag of two thousand dollars; held real power; but not enough to make it very strong²⁵⁰
• Death charm; a bone shard strung on leather; no price; no feeling of darkness to the magic; its a cyanide pill²⁵⁰
• smaller charms even taken together, there was no harm in them: purpose of each was very carefully set; impossible to use additively; just the nature of that kind of charm²⁵¹
• an antique spool cabinet; two feet square and a little older than Charles Cornick; a family heirloom; it had sic drawers with spools of thread set on individual dowels—organized by color, black in the top drawer working down to white²⁵²
• bird's-eye maple; the thread and the cabinet are both magical; its use isn't known²⁵²

Clarent Sword | Fae
IA: Alpha & Omega Series #2: Hunting Ground
Affiliated:
Arthur Madden Deceased

Artifact Description & Usage Details:
Hunting Ground

• recognized Arthur as rightful king¹⁴⁸
• used to bestow authority; such as kingship or rank

Crossed Bones | Vampires & Sheep: Vampire
Affiliated:
Mercy Thompson
Wulfe

IA: Mercy Thompson Series #4: Bone Crossed
Artifact Description & Usage Details:
Bone Crossed

• mark of a traitor¹⁷²
• 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

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 battered¹⁸⁴
• rest the medallion on something and say the medallion's name and it burns whatever it's touching to ashes¹⁸⁴
• 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 it¹⁸⁵

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 gray²⁴⁶
• strange-looking and smelled of horse, not yak²⁴⁷
• druid cursed to wear the form of a horse, when he was skinned, he regained his human form; but the horse's skin²⁴⁷
• Keeps your enemy from finding or harming you²⁴⁷

Earthenware Bowl | Wild Magic
IA: Alpha & Omega Series #6: Wild Sign
Affiliated:
Ford

Artifact Description & Usage Details:
Wild Sign

• earthenware bowl; putty colored on the outside and reddish brown on the inside⁶⁹
• the shape a little irregular; shiny in some places and matte in others; as if the potter had made a mistake with the finish—or as if it were so old the finish had worn off in spots⁶⁹
• if taken under false circumstances you won't hold onto it long⁷³
• something powerful that belongs to the Sasquatch⁷⁶
• Bran Cornick had it for over one hundred years and fought with Buffalo Singer over returning it⁷⁶

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 fairies⁶⁵

Excalibur | Fae
IA: Alpha & Omega Series #2: Hunting Ground
Affiliated:
Dana Shea Deceased
Lugh the Longarm Deceased
Zee Adelbertsmiter

Artifact Description & Usage Details:
Hunting Ground

• Caladbog, Caledfwych, Excalibur; Shea delivered it to the hands of great men, fighters, heroes all²⁷¹
• the result of a bargain with the fae who were not any happier with the Anglo-Saxons than the native humans were²⁵⁴
• entrusted to Shea; she was the reason for her existence; it meant more to her than her word²⁷⁴

Night Broken

• the blade you know as Excalibur was born when her blade was drowned in the death of Lugh
• Zee forged the sword

Fetch | Fae
IA: Alpha & Omega Series #4: Dead Heat
Affiliated:
Sean McDermit
Amethyst Miller

Known Characteristics & Information:
Dead Heat

• Fetch Riddle: What walks like a child and talks like a child and is left by the fae in the child’s right place?¹⁵³
• a bundle of sticks tied in the semblance of a human figure, arms and legs and head with a scrap of banded hair shoved into the middle of it¹⁵³
• a mannequin spelled to look like a child and act enough like a child that people who do not know what to look for believe it is a child¹⁵⁸
• a fetch is specifically a changeling that isn’t a real living thing¹⁷²

Gauntlets | Vampires & Sheep: Vampire
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #2: Bone Crossed
Affiliated:
William Frost Deceased
Wulfe

Artifact Description & Usage Details:
Bone Crossed

• dark metal gauntlets; hinged metal on the top and chain link below²²⁴
• causes injury and blood dripped from the gloves²²⁴
• connected to the Questioning Chair truths; able to feel the veracity of the truths through the connection of the gauntlets²²⁶

Gris-Gris Bag | Witch
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #10: Silence Fallen
Affiliated:
Elizaveta Arkadyevna Deceased
Guccio de Medici Deceased
Mary Deceased

Artifact Description & Usage Details:
Silence Fallen

• a hand-stitched cloth bag; smelling of a number of herbs, but the main scent was something organic decaying²⁶⁰
• voodoo or hoodoo; perhaps African where the practice of making gris-gris originated²⁶⁰
• allowed the vampire to stay awake during the day, but it wouldn't protect him from the sun²⁶⁷
• whatever was rotting in the bag smelled vaguely rodent-like; but dead and covered in herbs too long; just smelled rotten²⁶⁷
• such things are limited; a certain amount of time per day—and only for so many days²⁷⁶
• a nonrenewable consumable and valuable magic item; expensive; would take time and power to make²⁶⁸
• can affect people adversely; true of black magic, and it tends to stain the user as well as the one who casts it²⁶⁹

Artifact Description & Usage Details:
Storm Cursed

• Elizaveta shows Adam and Mercy one of her Gris-Gris bags/Amulet¹⁸⁶

Hally's Rug | Witch
IA: Alpha Omega Series #3: Fair Game
Affiliated:
Hally Smith

Artifact Description & Usage Details:
Fair Game

• Hally took a small rug out of her pack and laid it out flat. While she was snapping it into place, Charles caught a glimpse of circles and symbols and realized that she’d woven into the rug the protections that a witch would normally have used chalk for. It was a clever thing, something that would save her time and trouble…¹⁶⁹

See: Zee's Dagger | 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 Zee¹⁸⁰
• made from something that isn't iron or steel so that the fae could use it¹⁸⁰
• too dangerous for mundane humans and too dangerous to be put in the hands of the Gray Lords¹⁸⁰
• blade created by Zee; when he was angry at the world²⁷⁰
• it needs to taste your blood: then it will serve you; until it taste's another's blood it likes better²⁷¹
• the user will never know when it might prefer someone else²⁷¹
• less inclined to stay with someone not fae²⁷¹
• it will kill vampires in a way a normal sword cannot
• it will eat magic- items or spells; slowly²⁷¹
• you cut yourself to bind it to you; forearm or calf; very sharp²⁷¹
• when bound; should be able to sheathe the blade just by thinking about it²⁷¹
• major artifact²⁷²
• changes shape with new user³²²
• reputation for deserting its wielder³²⁷
• pommel and blade get hot with use³²⁸

Jonesy Sword | Fae
IA: Alpha & Omega Series #5: Burn Bright
Affiliated:
Jonsey Deceased
Zee Adelbertsmiter

Artifact Description & Usage Details:
Burn Bright

• made for killing things⁷⁸
• the blade, short, broad, and leaf-shaped, was nearly black; so was the cross guard, maybe from age—or maybe it had been charred in a very hot hire⁷⁹
• the grip looked like leather, old and cracking, like some long-abandoned relic⁷⁹
• very end of the pommel, a rough gemstone the size of a walnut gleamed, a thing of beauty; could have been sapphire, blue topaz or some other deep-blue stone⁷⁹
• old and well used; of fae making¹⁰¹
• the blade something other than steel¹⁰¹
• doesn't feel magical but it is¹⁰¹
• blade isn't silver or an alloy with silver¹⁰²
• three runes set into the blade, all three of them no larger than a thumbprint; the mark of the Dark Smith of Drontheim¹⁰²

See: Uncle Mike's Pocketknife | Fae

Hunger Swords 1-5 | 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 it¹⁸⁰
• 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 news¹⁸⁰
• 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 protected¹⁸⁰

Burn Bright

• magical swords tended to have histories and be identifiable to someone with enough motivation¹⁰⁴

Iron Chains | Witch
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #5: Silver Borne
Affiliated:
Daphne Rondo Deceased
Forest Lord Trapped
Witch Cat Deceased

Artifact Description & Usage Details:
Silver Borne

• iron chains that glittered with magic³⁰¹
• Fairy Queen needed something stronger to ensure they were controlled³⁰¹
• created by the Witch Cat³⁰²
• the witch was enthralled and the Fairy Queen used her to grab the Forest Lord—because she didn't have enough power to enthrall him³³²

Jade Pendant | Fae
IA: Mercyverse Short Fiction: Hollow
Affiliated:
Gina Stephanie Albright Deceased
Nicole Albright Deceased
Mercy Thompson
Rick Albright

Artifact Description & Usage Details:
Hollow

• a thick silver chain with a blocky, carved-jade pendant that looked both arty and masculine³⁹⁸
• might have been an expensive piece; a deft hand created the angles and the deliberately primitive lines of the pendant³⁹⁹
• toward the center there was a change in color from clear, translucent green to frost; the carving dipped just there, as if someone had started to carve out the cloudy bit but had reconsidered³⁹⁹
• no maker's mark³⁹⁹
• cold chain, warm pendant; felt like family³⁹⁹
• used as a power source to fuel a spell; Gina quenched the object in her death; it took on the personality traits when she died⁴²⁵
• used fae magic to tie her essence to the object; essence or spirit was different from a soul⁴²⁶
• the personality fades from such objects; unless feeding on emotions; keeping her personality intact indefinitely⁴²⁶
• a ritual was done that put the essence of a person in an object; the pendant; from that object the person is influencing a ghost to haunt Rick⁴²⁷
• foul magic⁴²⁸
• breaking the pendant would stop the problem but there could be backlash when the item broke⁴²⁸
• destroyed by Mercy with an iron pry bar; turned it into jade shards⁴³¹
• the pendant was a focus⁴³³

Jonesy's Hoard | Fae
IA: Alpha & Omega Series #5: Burn Bright
Affiliated:
Jonesy

Artifact Description & Usage Details:
Burn Bright

• most of the items held fae magic, or fae-like magic¹⁰³
• amulets, cups, gems, knives,and a spear
• four arrows from three different regions
• three rugs; two simple rag rugs and a small Persian rug
• a bone bowl; was witchcrafted and stank of blood magic
• a handful of coin-like items
• neolithic arrowhead; something slept within it and smelled bad
• a bronze knife; burned clear and bright with magic, like an artesian well
• a blue-and-purple pottery jar that felt dirty
• powerful items; but most was just junk that happened to contain a spark of something¹⁰³
• a lot of the magical charged things were broken pieces of larger items¹⁰³
• a bowl of a clay pipe; the tongue of a buckle
• Jonesy not very picky about what he collected¹⁰³
• there was a cracking noise inside the cabin and the fire leaped upward, and Charles felt the increase in heat on his face and his skin roughened with the breath of . . . something. Correlation not being causation, it hadn’t been Charles’s wish that had caused the sudden flare-up. Asil met his gaze (briefly) and shrugged. That explosion had been something they’d missed in their search.¹¹⁹

Key | Fae
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #9: Fire Touched
Affiliated:
Aiden Hauptman

Artifact Description & Usage Details:
Fire Touched

• crude bronze key³¹⁹
• pressed against a door, it makes any door a gateway to Underhill³¹⁹
• if you keep in mind where in Underhill you want to appear, that doorway will take you there³¹⁹
• not a weapon but a valuable artifact³¹⁹
• looked like nothing so much as a nail that someone had gotten creative with; unprepossessing sight³³⁷

Leather Bags IA: Alpha Omega Series #2: Hunting Ground
Affiliated:
Angus Hopper
Dana Shae - Nimue

Artifact Description & Usage Details:
Hunting Ground

• three leather bags, hidden several days ago, containing a handful of pig sausage each¹⁷⁸
• Dana has given the bags a little extra fae magic to ensure this is the case. You will not be able to open it—Dana has made certain of it.¹⁷⁹

Lock of Hair | Fae
IA: Mercyverse Short Fiction: Silver
Affiliated:
Ariana Cornick
Haida
Samuel Cornick

Artifact Description & Usage Details:
Silver

• with Haida's aid, Ariana could use a lock of Samuel's hair to come to him⁵⁶
• kept in a small pouch; Ariana burned it when they parted ways⁶⁹

Mac Owen Ring | Fae
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #3: Iron Kissed
Affiliated:
Tim Milanovich Deceased

Artifact Description & Usage Details:
Iron Kissed

• a silver ring²⁴³
• it makes the tongue of the wearer sweeter than honey²⁴³
• it's a politician's ring²⁴³

Magic Made | Fae
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #3: Iron Kissed
Affiliated:
Ariana Cornick
Phineas Brewster
Mercy Thompson

Artifact Description & Usage Details:
Iron Kissed

• on sale at the Uptown Mall bookseller for fourteen hundred dollars¹⁶⁵
• 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 fae⁰⁵
• organized in regard to the variety of fae and the fae artifacts¹³⁵

Magic Shortword | Fae
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #9: Fire Touched
Affiliated:
Gold Guard Deceased

Artifact Description & Usage Details:
Fire Touched

• Magic Shortsword wielded by the Widow Queen's guard - Fae in Gold - it had some hunger in it³²⁷

Mariposa Amulet | Witch
IA: Mercyverse Short Fiction: Asil and the Not-Date
Affiliated:
Mariposa Deceased
Tami Reed Deceased

Artifact Description & Usage Details:
Asil and the Not-Date

• appears as a pendant necklace²⁰⁸
• hides things in plain sight, making one thing seem like another²²⁹
• a complex magical items appeared to be a piece of costume jewelry, or black magic felt like white²²⁹
• recognition of what the amulet did robbed its spell of the rest of its power²²⁹

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

Moonstone Necklace | Witch
IA: Alpha & Omega Series #6: Wild Sign
Affiliated:
Coyote
Carrie Green Deceased
Carrie Green (Great-Grandmother) Deceased
Sissy Connors (Dr.)

Artifact Description & Usage Details:
Wild Sign

• Protection from Evil
• artifact tuned to the witch who wore one, that could prevent power grabs by other witches²²⁰
• attained mythical status among most white witches²²⁰
• a silver necklace with a moonstone flanked by diamonds²²⁰
• silver necklace with a single moonstone in a very plain setting³⁵⁰
• is protection from black witches who want to steal your magic; that's all³⁵¹

Obsidian Knives| Archetype
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #6: River Marked
Affiliated:
Coyote
Mercy Thompson

Artifact Description & Usage Details:
River Marked

• Twelve Obsidian Blades and sheath made by Coyote's Sisters.²⁷⁹

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-looking²²⁴
• the goblet that the fairy had used to rob Roland's knights of their ability to resist her will; rustic goblet²⁴²
• 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 truth²⁴⁴
• the goblet that the fairy used to rob Roland's knights of their ability to resist her will^IK-226

Frost Burned

• very powerful artifact; act of drinking out of it implies consent²²⁰

Night Broken

• liquid is fae-magic concoction that prevents you from disobeying orders¹⁵⁸

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 court²¹⁵
• cuffs only work for a short period of time on the fae, though it can be more permanent on humans²¹⁵
• 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 lives²¹⁵
• 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 compliant²²⁰
• magic continues to work after the cuffs have been removed; so they can be used to subdue more than one prisoner²²⁰

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^BB-155
• 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^BC-209

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

Sage's Necklace | Witch
IA: Alpha & Omega Series #5: Burn Bright
Affiliated:
Grandma Daisy Hardesty Deceased
Sage Carhardt Deceased

Artifact Description & Usage Details:
Burn Bright

• a token that hangs from a leather thong²⁸⁵
• biting the token activates the magic²⁸⁵
• allow a werewolf to shift to their wolf as quickly as Charles Cornick²⁵⁷
• magic trapped in an object²⁵⁸

Silver Borne | Fae
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #5: Silver Borne
Affiliated:
Ariana Cornick
Mercy Thompson
Phineas Brewster

Artifact Description & Usage Details:
Silver Borne

• built by Ariane Brewster for her father²⁷⁸
• it was her magic it was born in, it finds its way back to her eventually²⁸⁰
• it consumes fae magic – but mostly just the magic of the person who currently possesses it²⁷⁹
• 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

Fire Touched

• it can siphon magic away¹⁴³

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 stone¹⁹⁴
• victim wears one; controller wears the other
• can hold a fae against their will¹⁹⁵

Silver Chain | Fae
IA: Mercyverse Short Fiction: Silver
Affiliated:
Ariana Cornick
Samuel Cornick

Artifact Description & Usage Details:
Silver

• silver chain, long enough to wrap twice around the neck
• Ariana's home was difficult to find; wear the chain the the Forest Lord (1) Brewster forest say her name three times, the wearer will find themselves on her doorstep without delay⁵⁶
• Ariana used her magic; silver loves her; to protect Samuel from the silver while wearing it⁵⁶
• the mundane world does not easily hold the things best left in Underhill; Samuel left the silver chain behind when he left⁶⁸
• silver chain unmade itself and fell to the ground, a small pile of pebbles⁶⁹

Spellcatcher | Vampires & Sheep: Vampire
IA: Alpha & Omega Series #2: Hunting Ground
Affiliated:
Ivan Deceased

Artifact Description & Usage Details:
Hunting Ground

• stick the size of a can or fighting stick
• vampire hocus pocus; very secret
• the person it's tuned to can use it to cast them; even if they wouldn't be able to do magic
• a stick that only a couple of vampires can make; they charge a lot for them^HG-253
• 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 magic²⁵³
• it was the size of a cane or a fighting stick²⁴²
• 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

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 fae¹⁵
• place it around windows, doors, and chimneys¹⁵

Stink Bomb | Witch
IA: Alpha & Omega Series #5: Burn Bright
Affiliated:
Grandma Daisy Hardesty Deceased
Sage Carhardt Deceased

Artifact Description & Usage Details:
Burn Bright

• a means of escape; puff of smoke; acrid, greasy cloud²⁵⁷
• smelled stale; magic trapped in an object²⁵⁸

Supernatural Stun Gun | Vampire
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #4: Bone Crossed
Affiliated:
James Blackwood Deceased

Artifact Description & Usage Details:
Bone Crossed

• no normal Taser²⁵²
• one of Blackwood's developments²⁸⁷
• it's a lot hotter than anything Taser makes²⁸⁷
• he sells it to certain government agencies who want to question prisoners without showing harm; not legal for the civilian market²⁸⁷

Tad's Magic Tunic | Fae
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #11: Storm Cursed
Affiliated:
Tad Adelbertsmiter
Zee Adelbertsmiter

Artifact Description & Usage Details:
Storm Cursed

• Glows in the dark.²⁸³
• The tunic will redirect witchcrafting aimed at him. Some of the time.²⁸⁴
• Hasn’t been out in a good long time - It’s a little giddy.²⁸⁴

Treasach's Card | Fae
IA:Alpha & Omega Series]] #3: Fair Game
Affliated
Treasach
Leslie Fisher

Artifact Description & Usage Details:
Fair Game

• With this you could get a car or a house, the man said. Money for an education. He smiled, quite kindly—and it made him look totally different, more real, somehow, as he said, “Or save some other puppy from monsters. All you have to do is wish hard and tear up the card”.⁵
• You can use it to fix your daughter’s knee? Leslie asked. Beauclaire shook his head and handed the card back to Leslie. No. But I’ll remember you offered…²³¹
• I wish— said Leslie, drawing Charles’s attention away from the fae. I wish… She looked at Charles. One lost puppy for another—but Anna is yours as Toby was mine. So I wish that as I lost my puppy, my dog that I loved, that Charles should find his lost wolf. She tore the card in half and the magic…did something.²⁴⁴

Thrall Necklace | Fae
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #5: Silver Borne
Affiliated:
Daphne Rondo Deceased
Witch Cat Deceased

Artifact Description & Usage Details:
Silver Borne

• thin silver collar²⁹²
• silver circlets²⁹³
• once she has them in thrall, only she can release them³¹⁶
• kept her minions in thrall to the Fairy Queen³²⁸

Uncle Mike's Pocket Knife: Hunger Sword 4|5 | Fae
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #11: Storm Cursed
Affiliated:
Sherwood Post
Uncle Mike
Zee Adelbertsmiter

Artifact Description & Usage Details:
Storm Cursed

• a worn pocketknife²⁶²
• kept in a pouch on his belt²⁶²
• can change; is sharp²⁶²
• Sherwood's wolf is wary of it; it's just a knife today and it will do as you wish²⁶⁵

Vampire Dagger | Witch
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #10: Silence Fallen
Affiliated:
Guccio de Medici Deceased

Artifact Description & Usage Details:
Silence Fallen

• old and well made³⁰⁷
• blade bore designs in bright silver; real silver³⁰⁷
• magic is old and corrupted³⁰⁸
• only caused the wound to be slow to heal; no corruption in it³²³
• more deadly to vampires than it was to werewolves³²⁴

Walking Stick (A) | Fae
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #3: Iron Kissed
Affiliated:
Artifact Description & Usage Details:
Iron Kissed

• Would lead you home no matter where you roamed²¹³

Walking Stick (B) | Fae
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #3: Iron Kissed
Affiliated:
Artifact Description & Usage Details:
Iron Kissed

• Allowed you to see people for what they were²¹³

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

• came from Hendrick's house²¹²
• The Stick that multiplied the farmer's sheep²¹³

Bone Crossed

• Has taken to sleeping with Mercy every night and moves about on it's own.⁹⁶
• Lugh build it - it also had the capability to become a spear.²⁷⁹

Silver Borne

• Old magic has grown and developed in strange ways - follows Mercy around.³⁵
• Blocked someone trying to influence Mercy over the pack bonds.³⁷
• Helped Bran find Mercy when she was held by the fairy queen.³³⁶

River Marked

• Mercy muses that the Walking Stick maybe older than Christ.¹⁷⁵
• Mercy called the Walking Stick while killing the River Devil - it turned her heart to white ice.²⁹⁶
• After killing the River Devil, it took the initiative to kill an otterkin who was attacking Mercy.³⁰¹
• Mercy offered the Walking Stick to Coyote at the end of the book and he accepted.³²³

Night Broken

• Coyote give the Walking Stick back to Mercy.²⁵⁰
• Coyote believes that the source of the magic of the three walking sticks was unreliable:
  • one makes sheep have twins
  • one helps you find your way home
  • one allows you to see people as they really are
• maybe there were three staves that did the same thing or maybe there was only ever one walking stick; or maybe he was able to teach it to ape its brethren²⁵¹
• Mercy gave the Walking Stick to Beauclaire.²⁸⁸
• The Walking Stick came back to Mercy.³⁴⁰

Fire Touched

• Mercy uses the Walking Stick to claim the tri-cities territory.⁷⁶
• At the end of the story, the Walking Stick ate the Widow Queen's death spell to protect Mercy and died.³²⁸

Smoke Bitten

• Something else stirred, too, but it wasn’t unfriendly so I let that be for now. I had other things to worry about.³⁰³
• And that was when that niggling presence I’d felt—that presence that was not pack, not Stefan, but bound to me anyway, by thin spidersilk that smelled of fae magic—that presence whispered in my ear.³⁰⁶
• Find your way home, the walking stick told Underhill as lightning arced into the center of her chest.³⁰⁶
• Elizaveta bent to whisper in his ear again, but I took the walking stick in my hand. I noticed that it had made itself into a spear, as it sometimes did when I needed a sharp weapon.³³⁸
• On the top of my chest of drawers, just as though it had always been there, the walking stick lay in its usual place.³⁴²

Walter's Knife | Werewolf
IA: Alpha Omega Series #10: Cry Wolf
Affiliated:
Walter Rice Deceased

Artifact Description & Usage Details:
Cry wolf

• covered with magic charms etched into the blade, strange symbols that had long ago turned black instead of the bright silver they’d been³

Werewolf Cage|Crate | Witch
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #10: Silence Fallen
Affiliated:
Elizaveta Arkadyevna Deceased
Mary Deceased
Mercy Thompson

Artifact Description & Usage Details:
Silence Fallen

• made from welded metal mesh that was probably steel underneath its coat of silver and was riddled with magic²¹⁵
• it had held werewolves—five or six different scents and some too faded to access²¹⁵
• bars of steel and silver and magic²¹⁹
• has kept werewolves captive for months at a time; none being able to escape from it unless they were let go²¹⁹
• opened by Elizaveta²⁵⁸
• cage is designed to subdue werewolves³⁵⁵

Widow Queen's Magic Armor | Fae
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #9: Fire Touched
Affiliated:
Neuth Deceased

Artifact Description & Usage Details:
Fire Touched

• Magic Armor worn by the Widow Queen - turned aside the spear form of the Walking Stick.³²⁸

Witch Bracelet | Witch
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #10: Silence Fallen
Affiliated:
Jacob Bonarata
Mary Deceased
Mercy Thompson

Artifact Description & Usage Details:
Silence Fallen

• plain gold cuff¹⁰
• able to block pack ties¹¹
• blood magic; pokes tiny holes into the wrist of the wearing to fuel the spell⁵⁴
• block a werewolf mating bond; child's play to some witches¹⁰⁸

Witch Cage | Witch
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #9: Fire Touched
Affiliated:
Sherwood Post
Mary Deceased
Mercy Thompson

Artifact Description & Usage Details:

Fire Touched

• they had found, among other things, an emaciated werewolf in a cage. He was missing his leg.²²⁸

Silence Fallen

• dog crate answered why the vampires would have had a catch pole. It was made from welded metal mesh that was probably steel underneath its coat of silver and was riddled with magic.²¹⁴

Wild Sign

• “Because Sherwood doesn’t remember anything before the day the Emerald City Pack found him in the witch’s cage⁵⁰

Witch Collar | Witch
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #10: Silence Fallen
Affiliated:
Irish Witch Deceased
Jacob Bonarata
Lenka Deceased
Mary Deceased
Wellesley

Artifact Description & Usage Details:
Silence Fallen

• silver looking collar²⁷
• forced obedience²⁸¹
• collar almost out of power; witch no longer working for Bonarata²⁹⁸
• white gold maybe²⁷²
• it keeps her under control, but it is a simple thing; if powerful²⁷⁶
• it makes certain that she follows the orders she is given²⁷⁶

Burn Bright

• collar forced the person wearing one to obedience; had to torture a lot of people to death for the power to create one²²³
• takes power to control the collars; no more than six of them at a time or they become less effective²²³
• the power in them had to be renewed twice a year²²³
• witch tried to find a way to make the collars more permanent, to make them power themselves²²³
• no free will, no thoughts that were not put in your heads by the witch and her leman²²⁵
• Bonarata's collar was specific to werewolves; old and failed; no witch to replace it²²⁵
• Wellesley destroyed the collars; he knows the secret to making them²³⁰
• the manner and matter of the collar's making must lie with the dead²³⁰

Witch Gun | Witch
IA: Alpha & Omega Series #4: Burn Bright
Affiliated:
Charles Cornick
Wellesley
Grandma Daisy Hardesty Deceased
Werewolf (C) Mercenary Deceased

Artifact Description & Usage Details:
Burn Bright

• looked like a cross between a gun and a Taser⁵⁹
• it wasn't a gun that shot bullets; looked like a beefed-up Taser; no sort of cartridge or projectile⁶⁰
• uses blood magic; trigger cuts user to fire the magic⁶¹
• gun doesn't feel magical⁶¹
• witchcraft of a kind that Charles has never seen before⁶¹
• witch blood is necessary to fire the weapon¹⁴⁴
• Wellesley burned the gun which was connected to the skinwalker and in doing so destroyed both²⁸⁸

Zee's Dagger: Hunger Sword 1|5 | 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.

Blood Bound

• Zee gave Mercy his dagger to behead vampires after staking them with the Rowan Stake.²⁰⁶

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 it⁹⁵
• it hungers and it feeds best on things less helpless

Fire Touched

• blade that cuts through anything and takes any shape it desires²⁹¹