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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. |
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| ===== A ===== | ===== A ===== | ||
| ====Angel==== | ====Angel==== | ||
| - | **IA**: [[Alpha & Omega Series]] #0.5: [[Alpha & Omega Novella]] \\ | + | **IA**: [[Alpha & Omega Series]] #1: [[Cry Wolf]] \\ |
| __**Affiliated: | __**Affiliated: | ||
| [[Charles Cornick]] \\ | [[Charles Cornick]] \\ | ||
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| ===== B ===== | ===== B ===== | ||
| + | ====Backward Foreganger==== | ||
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| + | **IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #6: [[River Marked]] \\ | ||
| + | __**Affiliated: | ||
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| + | __**Known Characteristics & Information: | ||
| + | [[River Marked]] | ||
| + | * a death' | ||
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| ===== C ===== | ===== C ===== | ||
| ===== D ===== | ===== D ===== | ||
| ==== Demon ==== | ==== Demon ==== | ||
| + | [[Demon]]\\ | ||
| **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< | ||
| - | Demon: is a catchall phrase used to describe beings who are unable to manifest themselves in our world in physical form. Instead, they possess | + | ==== Dilong ==== |
| + | Dilong\\ | ||
| + | **IA**: [[Mercyverse Short Fiction]]: [[Fairy Gifts]] \\ | ||
| + | __**Affiliated: | ||
| + | [[Thomas Hao Mother]]\\ | ||
| + | __**Known Characteristics & Information: | ||
| + | [[Fairy Gifts]] | ||
| + | * Earth dragon< | ||
| + | * Thomas' | ||
| + | * her family history | ||
| - | knowing a demon’s name gave you power over themBB- | + | ====Dragon==== |
| - | greater | + | **IA**: [[Mercyverse Short Fiction]]: [[Asil |
| - | greater servants are bound away from our world but can be invited inBB-53 | + | __**Affiliated: |
| - | demons serve only one master wellBB-54 | + | [[Dragon (A)]] \\ |
| - | are evil, nasty, and powerless unless they manage to attach themselves like a parasite; either they are invited in as a guest, which is what makes a sorcerer, or they sneak in because someone weak of will does an evil thingBB-133 | + | [[Dragon (B) Baby]] **Deceased**\\ |
| - | a demon, who could just possess any corrupt soul (and to offer yourself to a demon sort of presupposes a corrupt soul, doesn’t it?) make a deal with anyone? | + | [[Dragon |
| - | a simple demon possession doesn' | + | [[Red Dragon |
| - | you can't kill a demon; all you can do is remove the threat by killing its hostBB-134 | + | |
| - | Demons crave chaos, violence, and deathBB | + | |
| - | Demons are not patient creatures | + | |
| - | Sorcerers sell themselves to demons for knowledge and power | + | |
| - | Dragon | + | |
| - | like the fae who are most deeply steeped in magic, they have given up creative abilities of all kindsHG-44 | + | __**Known Characteristics & Information: |
| - | Dragons can't createHG-44 | + | [[Asil and the Not-Date]] |
| - | work of artHG-44 | + | * collects hoards< |
| - | + | * wyrms are not dragons< | |
| - | Druid | + | * is driven by the need to surround itself with treasure< |
| - | + | * unlike dragons, it doesn' | |
| - | they influenced the natural world: weather, plants | + | * a wyrm's treasure is not what a dragon' |
| ===== E ===== | ===== E ===== | ||
| ===== F ===== | ===== F ===== | ||
| - | Foreganger | + | ====Farseer==== |
| + | * **IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #3: [[Iron Kissed]] \\ | ||
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| - | backward foreganger—a death’s-head who appears after a man dies instead of three days beforeRM- | + | __**Known Characteristics & Information: |
| + | [[Iron Kissed]] | ||
| + | * Unordered List Item | ||
| ===== 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 | ||
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| + | ====Ghoul==== | ||
| + | **IA**: [[Alpha & Omega Series]] #1: [[Cry Wolf]] \\ | ||
| + | __**Affiliated: | ||
| + | [[Charles Cornick]] \\ | ||
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| + | __**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 | ||
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| + | [[Smoke Bitten]] | ||
| + | * hospitals are favorite hunting grounds< | ||
| - | Ghoul | ||
| ===== 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: |
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| + | __**Known Characteristics & Information: | ||
| + | [[Fairy Gifts]] | ||
| + | * See Kalman Väki | ||
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| ===== 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 | + | ====Spirit==== |
| + | **IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #10: [[Silence Fallen]] \\ | ||
| + | __**Affiliated: | ||
| - | Spirits weren’t ghosts; they were the consciousness of things | + | __**Known Characteristics & Information:**__ \\ |
| + | [[Silence Fallen]] | ||
| + | * kind of a ghost but not | ||
| + | * a different word for the same thing; but not quite< | ||
| - | most spirits are more friendly and unfriendly rather than good or evilCW-145 | ||
| - | there aren't as many people who hear them as there used to be--which means more work for those who doCW-145 | ||
| - | a person had to be crazy or stupid to go out looking for spiritsCW-145 | ||
| - | sometimes they' | ||
| - | modern things tended to block themHG-12 | ||
| ===== T ===== | ===== T ===== | ||
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| ===== V ===== | ===== V ===== | ||
| ===== W ===== | ===== W ===== | ||
| - | Wendigo | + | ====Wyrm==== |
| + | **IA**: [[Mercyverse Short Fiction]]: [[Asil and the Not-Date]] \\ | ||
| + | __**Affiliated: | ||
| + | [[Asil Moreno]] \\ | ||
| + | [[Tami Reed]] **Deceased** \\ | ||
| + | [[Wyrm Hoarder]] **Deceased** \\ | ||
| + | [[Wyrm Village]] **Deceased** \\ | ||
| - | wendigo, | + | __**Known Characteristics & Information: |
| + | [[Asil | ||
| + | * collects hoards< | ||
| + | * wyrms are not dragons< | ||
| + | * is driven by the need to surround itself with treasure< | ||
| + | * unlike dragons, it doesn't gather its treasure by itself; | ||
| + | * 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 | ||
| + | * quick and the older ones can enthrall whole villages< | ||
| + | * wyrm flesh, enriched with magic, burned | ||
| - | Will-O-Wisps | ||
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| - | will-o-wisps were the only creature who could really teleportBB | ||
| ===== X ===== | ===== X ===== | ||
| ===== Y ===== | ===== Y ===== | ||
| ===== Z ===== | ===== Z ===== | ||
| - | Zombie | + | ====Zombie==== |
| - | breath smells fresh and oxygen-rich instead | + | **IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #3: [[Iron Kissed]] \\ |
| - | are supposed to be really cooperative | + | __**Affiliated: |
| - | relentless and don' | + | [[Spice]] **Deceased** \\ |
| - | move a lot faster than a mundane human and are stronger than them as wellIp-391 | + | [[Werewolf zombie]] \\ |
| - | can be created | + | [[L Hardesty]] \\ |
| - | Easiest way to get a corpse to raise is to kill one yourselfIp- | + | |
| - | This kind of magic works best on a fresh corpseIp- | + | |
| - | It would be possible to give such a one a directive, and then dissipate the magic after that directive | + | __**Known Characteristics & Information: |
| - | The magic keeps them warm; Almost at normal body temperature. Forensics wouldn’t give an accurate time of deathIp- | + | [[Iron Kissed]] |
| - | use of the zombie | + | * to call back to unlife |
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| + | [[Bone Crossed]] | ||
| + | * dead and walking; smells | ||
| + | * Blackwood had seen zombies three centuries old that look almost | ||
| + | * they're passed down in their families like the treasures they are | ||
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| + | [[Frost Burned]] | ||
| + | * aren' | ||
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| + | [[Silence Fallen]] | ||
| + | * ghosts are mostly bits and pieces | ||
| + | * vampires walking during the day—would be a variant on part of zombie animation< | ||
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| + | [[Storm Cursed]] | ||
| + | * they were witchcraft, and witchcraft | ||
| + | * 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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