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====== Supernatural Other Types ====== | ====== Supernatural Other Types ====== | ||
- | This is a snapshot of all the types of supernatural other in the Mercyverse. | + | 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: ===== | ===== How to Read the Format: ===== | ||
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**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #2: [[Blood Bound]] \\ | **IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #2: [[Blood Bound]] \\ | ||
__**Affiliated: | __**Affiliated: | ||
+ | [[Asmodeus]]\\ | ||
[[Corey Littleton]] \\ | [[Corey Littleton]] \\ | ||
+ | [[Iris Carter]]\\ | ||
+ | [[Kurfel]]\\ | ||
__**Known Characteristics & Information: | __**Known Characteristics & Information: | ||
[[Blood Bound]] | [[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< | * 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< | ||
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+ | ====Dragon==== | ||
+ | **IA**: [[Mercyverse Short Fiction]]: [[Asil and the Not-Date]] \\ | ||
+ | __**Affiliated: | ||
+ | [[Asil Moreno]] \\ | ||
+ | |||
+ | |||
+ | __**Known Characteristics & Information: | ||
+ | [[Asil and the Not-Date]] | ||
+ | * collects hoards< | ||
+ | * wyrms are not dragons< | ||
+ | * is driven by the need to surround itself with treasure< | ||
+ | * unlike dragons, it doesn' | ||
+ | * a wyrm's treasure is not what a dragon' | ||
===== E ===== | ===== E ===== | ||
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===== G ===== | ===== G ===== | ||
- | Ghost | + | ====Ghost==== |
+ | Expanded details here: [[Ghosts]]: [[Mercy & Ghosts]] \\ | ||
+ | **IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #1: [[Moon Called]] \\ | ||
+ | __**Affiliated: | ||
+ | [[Mercy Thompson]] \\ | ||
+ | [[Walkers]]\\ | ||
- | See Spectrology | Ghosts 101 | + | __**Known Characteristics & Information: |
+ | [[Blood Bound]] | ||
+ | * ghosts are not people; still just a memory of the person they had been | ||
====Ghoul==== | ====Ghoul==== | ||
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__**Known Characteristics & Information: | __**Known Characteristics & Information: | ||
- | a demon-like being associated with graveyards and consuming human flesh | ||
[[Cry Wolf]] | [[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 | * rather face a dozen ghouls than a black witch; a few in the Cabinet mountains | ||
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===== H ===== | ===== H ===== | ||
- | Haltija | + | ====Haltija==== |
- | See Kalman Väki | + | **IA**: [[Mercyverse Short Fiction]]: [[Fairy Gifts]] \\ |
- | A guard. This one is a kalman väki, we think—a dead man’s spirit. He was probably killed and set to guardFg- | + | __**Affiliated: |
+ | |||
+ | __**Known Characteristics & Information: | ||
+ | [[Fairy Gifts]] | ||
+ | * See Kalman Väki | ||
+ | | ||
===== I ===== | ===== I ===== | ||
===== J ===== | ===== J ===== | ||
===== K ===== | ===== K ===== | ||
- | Kalman Väki | + | ====Kalman Väki==== |
- | See Haltija | + | **IA**: [[Mercyverse Short Fiction]]: [[Fairy Gifts]] \\ |
- | a dead man’s/ | + | __**Affiliated: |
- | guardian | + | |
- | holds the power of mortification: | + | __**Known Characteristics & Information: |
- | the power of illness, of mortification of living | + | [[Fairy Gifts]] |
- | väki of whatever kind was a protector of the treasure it guardedFg- | + | * See Haltija |
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===== L ===== | ===== L ===== | ||
===== M ===== | ===== M ===== | ||
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===== R ===== | ===== R ===== | ||
===== S ===== | ===== 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< | ||
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===== V ===== | ===== V ===== | ||
===== W ===== | ===== 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< | ||
+ | * wyrms are not dragons< | ||
+ | * is driven by the need to surround itself with treasure< | ||
+ | * unlike dragons, it doesn' | ||
+ | * a wyrm's treasure is not what a dragon' | ||
+ | * those held in thrall sometimes died when their enslaver died< | ||
+ | * can range in size from 10 feet long 2 feet in diameter to forty feet long and six feet in diameter< | ||
+ | * quick and the older ones can enthrall whole villages< | ||
+ | * wyrm flesh, enriched with magic, burned more than hot enough to everything to ash< | ||
+ | |||
+ | ===== X ===== | ||
+ | ===== Y ===== | ||
+ | ===== Z ===== | ||
+ | ====Zombie==== | ||
+ | **IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #3: [[Iron Kissed]] \\ | ||
+ | __**Affiliated: | ||
+ | [[Spice]] **Deceased** \\ | ||
+ | [[Werewolf zombie]] \\ | ||
+ | [[L Hardesty]] \\ | ||
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+ | |||
+ | __**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' | ||
+ | |||
+ | [[Frost Burned]] | ||
+ | * aren't living creatures, they are animated dead with no willpower or thoughts of their own< | ||
+ | * 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< | ||
+ | * vampires walking during the day—would be a variant on part of zombie animation< | ||
+ | |||
+ | [[Storm Cursed]] | ||
+ | * they were witchcraft, and witchcraft was powered by body parts with a leaning toward blood and bone< | ||
+ | * not that they could actually eat anything; dead; no systems go< | ||
+ | * thought they would be slow but actually fast< | ||
+ | * Mercy could feel them; detect them; sensitized to the way zombies felt< | ||
+ | * Mercy not sure how to kill, how to eliminate zombies; thought with fire< | ||
+ | * several kinds of practitioners who could create zombies< | ||
+ | * creating zombies too serious mojo< | ||
+ | * Mercy pretty sure a gray witch could create a zombie< | ||
+ | * getting bitten by a zombie wouldn' | ||
+ | * zombie wolf better maid; might have believed it was a living werewolf< | ||
+ | * to defeat a zombie you need to do mechanical damage because they don't feel pain< | ||
+ | * healing damage; healing faster than a werewolf; getting its power from somewhere< | ||
+ | * making many zombies is a curse of that kind of necromancy; uncontrollable need to make more< | ||
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supernatural_other_types.txt · Last modified: 2021/08/16 18:56 by linda