• that's what a walker does; walks between here and there, between human and animal Chat 2008-07-27
• I see walker as being a thing you are or you are not Chat 2008-01-06
• Mercy is not the only walker left; walkers, like coyotes, are very good at blending in Chat 2007-05-20
• I can tell you that not all walkers are coyotes and there are some that turn into other kinds of animals Chat 2007-06-24
• walkers, like werewolves, just are; they don't really require training Chat 2007-08-25
• Bran knows all about walkers; he chooses what he tells Chat 2007-05-20
• walkers can track vampires through ghost signatures; vampires mostly don't even see the ghosts and they can't do anything to drive them away Chat 2007-06-24

Mercy Thompson Series #1: Moon Called

• a walker is no real match for a werewolf
• a shift is quick and painless; pure magic
• born this way, not made like some other supernaturals
• do very well in the dark

Mercy Thompson Series #2: Blood Bound

• all Mercy knew about being a walker is what the werewolves could tell her, which wasn't much

Mercy & Ghosts

Blood Bound

• not so vulnerable to their magic
• only a threat for a couple of decades and that centuries ago
• not popular among the vampires
• when the vampires first came to this part of the New World, the walkers here had made themselves enough of a pest that the vampires had killed most of them off
• most vampire magic doesn't work on them