This is a quick list of the all identified walkers and their archetypes in the Mercyverse. Each name will take you to their individual character page that has expanded details.

For Avatars
Name: Alphabetical by first name (Some characters have had no last name reveal as yet) - Link will lead to individual character page with expanded details.

• IA: Initial Appearance (Book or Short Fiction) - Link will lead to series or short fiction summaries and snapshot.
  
• Affiliated Archetype (If Known): Some characters are linked with Archetypes as their avatars and this link will lead to pages with expanded details.
  

For Archetypes
Name: Alphabetical by first name (Some characters have had no last name reveal as yet) - Link will lead to individual character page with expanded details.

• IA: Initial Appearance (Book or Short Fiction) - Link will lead to series or short fiction summaries and snapshot.
  
• Affiliated Avatar (If Known): Some characters are linked with Archetypes as their avatars and this link will lead to pages with expanded details.
  
• Human Guise: Description
  
• Known Characteristics & Information:
  

Coyote IA: Mercy Thompson Series #6: River Marked
Avatars:
Carson Twelvespoons Deceased
Gary Laughingdog
Joe Old Coyote Deceased
Mercy Thompson

Human Guise:
River Marked

• leathers looked as if he'd worn them long enough that they fit him like a second skin; thin patches were rubbed on the insides of this legs, as if he'd ridden on horseback a lot
• hide was darker under his arms and in the small of his back
• wore a porcupine quill-worked belt from which a coyote tail swung freely; the colors on the quillwork were faded, and the coyote tail was a little ragged
• workingman's hands, rancher's hands, callused and scarred; a man's hands, but not an old man; one finger had been broken and reset crooked
• hair hung in two thick braids that were finished with a red leather tie stopped just below his shoulder blades
• handsome and young with a devil-may-care air

Known Characteristics & Information:
River Marked

• one of eight to sacrifice themselves to the River Devil
• a power but not one who asked to be worshipped
• the reality of all coyotes; the archetype; the epitome
• walks in one world at a time; can do this without being trapped because his sisters wait for him and his descendants anchor him
• brings change and chaos; chaos is never simple unless you are Coyote
• understands that the universe is all one
• doesn't worry about understanding anything, which is why he understands so much
• runs more on instinct than logic

Night Broken

• the spirit of mischief, of second chances, of adaptation

Storm Cursed

• trickster²⁰⁷

Gary Laughingdog

• IA: Mercy Thompson Series #8: Night Broken
• Archetype: Coyote

Mercy Thompson

• IA: Mercy Thompson Series #1: Moon Called
• Archetype: Coyote

IA: Mercy Thompson Series #6: River Marked
Avatars:
Human Guise:
River Marked

• Indian man; older with wrinkled face and white hair
• wore very pale hunting leathers that were very plain except for the fringe around the shoulder seams
• voice is a big rumbling sound that somehow fitting coming from that fierce old body

Known Characteristics & Information:
River Marked

• one of eight to sacrifice themselves to the River Devil
• was part of Mercy Thompson vision quest
• happy for the River Devil to eat the world so it could be made new again; does not like change
• unhappy with pollution; roads and railways; anything that destroys hunting grounds and leaves only a tiny fraction of the forests free
• agrees with Wolf who believes Mother Earth cannot move underneath the cement and steel
• joined forces to help Mercy defeat the River Devil; when they were all alive, they'd been able to harry her, to play off one another's strengths; but as they died, they lost the ability to distract her
• likes sweets

IA: Mercy Thompson Series #6: River Marked
Avatars:

Human Guise:
Known Characteristics & Information:

• part of the Coyote story about the monster who lived in the Columbia river at the time of the (Archetype) first people, before we humans were here.
• monster ate those who live in the river; who fished the river; Great Spirit sent Coyote to help
• helped them to escape out its mouth, its gills, its bottom
• Beaver was the last to leave; barely escaped out the beast's sphincter—and that's why the beaver's tail is flat and has no hair

IA: Mercy Thompson Series #6: River Marked
Avatars:
Human Guise:
River Marked

• Indian man
• traditional native garb; hunting leathers
• rich dark brown with ornate quillwork around the neckline
• stains on his clothes, as if he'd gone hunting many times wearing that particular shirt and leggings

Known Characteristics & Information:
River Marked

• one of eight to sacrifice themselves to the River Devil
• liked by Coyote; could tell by the tone of his voice
• was unhappy and uneasy and didn't like to be there
• Coyote told him the hunting grounds are good here; you just have to find them—as was always true
• sun is still warm and the flowers still smell sweet
• Gordon suggested either Coyote or himself should take him to Disneyland
• Calvin told him; to give it a chance and that he wouldn't find it so horrible here
• Raven told him to not hold on so hard to the past that you die with it; and that things change whether you want them to or not
• likes sweets

Carson Twelve Spoons Deceased

• IA: Mercy Thompson Series #4: Bone Crossed
• Archetype: Coyote

Fox
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #6: River Marked
Avatars:

Human Guise:
Known Characteristics & Information:
River Marked

• was part of Mercy Thompson vision quest

Fred Owens

• IA: Mercy Thompson Series #6: River Marked
• Archetype: Hawk

Garden

• IA: Alpha & Omega Series #6: Wild Sign
• Archetype: Singer in the Woods

Hank Owens

• IA: Mercy Thompson Series #6: River Marked
• Archetype: Hawk

Hawk
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #6: River Marked
Avatars:
Fred Owens
Hank Owens
Jake Campbell

Human Guise:
River Marked

• one of eight to sacrifice themselves to the River Devil
• Indian man
• traditional garb; had a red cloth wrapped around his head, almost like a turban, from which maybe a dozen brownish red feathers stuck straight up
• wore a beaded breechclout that reached his knees in front and back
• shirt was a striped cotton that looked to have been loomed by hand rather than machine from the irregularity of the weave
• heavily accented voice

Known Characteristics & Information:
River Marked

• owes Coyote a few favors
• does not approve of Coyote because he has always been more concerned with the two-legged people than the people in fur
• feels the Great Spirit should have stopped with the Archetypes
• helped to free his avatar from the mark of the River Devil; sand-and-drop thing
• is impetous; left the stonehenge but came back for the fight
• likes sweets
• remained in animal form for the battle from the air

Iktomi
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #11: Storm Cursed
Affiliated:
Coyote
Raven
Avatars:

Human Guise:
Known Characteristics & Information:
Storm Cursed

• The Spider
• trickster like Raven and Coyote; with a crueler edge than either of them²⁰⁷

Jake Campbell

• IA: Mercy Thompson Series #7: Frost Burned
• Archetype: Hawk

Joe Old Coyote Deceased

• IA: Mercy Thompson Series #1: Moon Called
• Archetype: Coyote

Leah Cornick Baby Deceased

• IA: Alpha & Omega Series #6: Wild Sign
• Archetype: Singer

Lynx
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #6: River Marked
Avatars:

Human Guise:
Known Characteristics & Information:
River Marked

• was part of Mercy Thompson vision quest

Otter
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #6: River Marked
Avatars:

Human Guise:
Known Characteristics & Information:
River Marked

• should feel he has something at stake
• unfortunate; might be on the wrong side

Owl
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #6: River Marked
Avatars:

Human Guise:
Known Characteristics & Information:
River Marked

• has a grudge against Raven; who stole his favorite shiny thing and accidentally dropped it in the ocean; a long, long time ago
• clings to his angers

IA: Mercy Thompson Series #6: River Marked
Affiliated:
Coyote
Iktomi
Avatars:

Human Guise:

• Indian man
• in native dress; wore leggings, but his loose shirt was made of patterned red gingham and tied with a hemp belt that ended in a fringe to which tiny brass bells were tied
• his hair was cut straight around his jawline
• voice is hoarse, like a three-pack-a-day-for-twenty-years smoker
• birdlike twitches
• grins with big warm expression that is reassuring
• eyes twinkle

Known Characteristics & Information:
River Marked

• one of eight to sacrifice themselves to the River Devil
• is curious
• tells Bobcat to not hold so hard to the past that you die with it; and that things will change whether you want them to or not
• wanders like Coyote does; knows who the FBI are
• good friends with Coyote
• stole Owl's favorite shiny thing and accidently dropped it in the ocean; Owl still bears a grudge
• Raven hung the stars under the Great Spirit's direction
• died during the battle trying to keep snake alive

Storm Cursed

• trickster²⁰⁷

Salmon
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #6: River Marked
Avatars:

Human Guise:
Known Characteristics & Information:

IA: Alpha & Omega Series #6: Wild Sign
Affiliated:
Leah Cornick
Avatars:
Zander Fernwood

Human Guise:
Known Characteristics & Information:
Wild Sign

• proto-archetype:
• could supply the spark of life - but required two human vessels to complete the act³³²
• not yet Become³⁵⁰
• not like the archetypes; required living men to get women pregnant; when it died, the life force in it's children it fathered on mortal women died³⁵⁰

• damaged, hungry, lonesome; it needs¹³⁶
• being witchborn doesn't matter to it¹⁴²
• a pretty name for a creature not friendly²⁰²
• doesn't bargain like demons or fae; doesn't follow the rules²⁰²
• it wanted walkers in the world; walkers to find out things for it and bring back food²⁰⁹
• bargains with intent²⁰⁹
• feeds on music; feeds on emotions²⁵⁴
• powers are music and memory; they can also be used to defend against him; something defiant²⁹⁶
• alien; not in body; it didn't matter what body it wore³²⁶

IA: Mercy Thompson Series #6: River Marked
Avatars:

Human Guise:
River Marked

• was wearing a modern cowboy look
• brown boots, jeans, earth-tone striped shirt and a brown Montana-style (narrow-brimmed) cowboy hat
• iron gray hair was braided tightly and fell over his shoulder and almost to his knees
• voice silky smooth and beautiful

Known Characteristics & Information:
River Marked

• one of eight to sacrifice themselves to the River Devil
• during the battle was able to drive his spear deep into the River Devil side due to the sacrifice of Raven

Thunderbird
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #6: River Marked
Avatars:
River Marked

• aren't any more Thunderbird walkers; no one to anchor him but he returned faster than Coyote

Human Guise:
River Marked:Gordon Seeker

• sharp brown eyes in a face that looked like it had been left out in the sun to dry too long; skin like beef jerky
• white hair caught back in a smooth French braid down his back
• horn-rimmed glasses and small gold studs in his ears
• his back was bent, and his hands were curled up from arthritis; his fingers bent and knuckles enlarged
• movements surprisingly easy
• jeans, a plain red T-shirt under a Redskins jacket
• a leather pouch; the most lurid pair of cowboy boots; bright lipstick red, each with a United States flag beaded in red, white and blue across the top
• smelled of fresh air and tobacco from a pipe

Known Characteristics & Information:
River Marked

• one of eight to sacrifice themselves to the River Devil
• was part of Mercy Thompson vision quest
• as a bird, he stood taller than the man he'd been
• feathers looked several shades darker than the hawks'
• with a massive wingspan

Wolf
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #6: River Marked
Avatars:

Human Guise:
River Marked

• Indian man
• young looking in an expensive three-piece suit
• pale blue eyes that looked wrong and somehow utterly right in that oh-so-Native-American face

Known Characteristics & Information:
River Marked

• one of eight to sacrifice themselves to the River Devil
• thought werewolves were an abomination when he first heard it; wolf trapped in the same skin as a human—always in opposition; in some ways it is abominable but thinks it is beautiful
• the wolf is his but the man is not at all; yet it works
• feels it is the perfect predator
• was going to swat Mercy with the back of his hand but Adam bit him; a warning
• thinks wolves shouldn't run with coyotes
• in retaliation called Adam's wolf forward so he could change for days
• took the nip personally but not one to cling to his angers
• it takes power to pull forward Adam's wolf so strongly that his human half cannot change; none of the other archetypes have that power over here anymore which is probably why he did it; to show he's not to be trifled with
• he could have killed Mercy if he desired; the punishment will fade away
• agreed to sacrifice himself; unlikely that he will return to this place soon after that

Wild Sign

• talks like words cost money³⁴⁹
• wolf's children are fierce—and not too bright³⁵⁰

Zander Fernwood Deceased

• IA: Alpha & Omega Series #6: Wild Sign
• Archetype: Singer