This is a snapshot of all the types of supernatural other in the Mercyverse.

Name: Alphabetical by type.
IA: Initial Appearance or Mention (Book or Short Fiction) - Link will lead to series or short fiction summaries and snapshot.
Characters Affiliated as this Type of Supernatural Other - Link will lead to individual character pages with expanded details.

Known Characteristics & Information

• Broken Down by Series/Short Fiction with page notation

IA: Alpha & Omega Series #1: Cry Wolf
Affiliated:
Charles Cornick

Known Characteristics & Information:
Alpha & Omega Novella

• seeing one sticks with you

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

Known Characteristics & Information:
River Marked

• a death's-head who appears after a man dies instead of three days before

Demon
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #2: Blood Bound
Affiliated:
Corey Littleton

Known Characteristics & Information:
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 left¹⁴

• IA: Mercy Thompson Series #3: Iron Kissed
  

Affiliated:

Known Characteristics & Information:
Iron Kissed

• Unordered List Item

Ghost

See Spectrology | Ghosts 101

IA: Alpha & Omega Series #1: Cry Wolf
Affiliated:
Charles Cornick

Known Characteristics & Information:
a demon-like being associated with graveyards and consuming human flesh Cry Wolf

• rather face a dozen ghouls than a black witch; a few in the Cabinet mountains

Smoke Bitten

• hospitals are favorite hunting grounds³¹⁰

Haltija See Kalman Väki A guard. This one is a kalman väki, we think—a dead man’s spirit. He was probably killed and set to guardFg-

Kalman Väki See Haltija a dead man’s/woman's spiritFg- guardian spiritFg- holds the power of mortification: it kills with a touch; not even the immortal are immuneFg- the power of illness, of mortification of living fleshFg- väki of whatever kind was a protector of the treasure it guardedFg-