This is a snapshot of all the nature supernatural types 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 Nature Type - Link will lead to individual character pages with expanded details.

Known Characteristics & Information

• Broken Down by Series/Short Fiction with page notation

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

Known Characteristics & Information:
River Marked

• the great creator god of the Blackfoot tribe
• is a divine spirit with no human form or attributes and is never personified

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

Known Characteristics & Information:
River Marked

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

Carson Twelve Spoons Deceased
Fred Owens
Gary Laughingdog
Hank Owens
Jake Campbell
Mercy Thompson
Zander Fernwood Deceased

Known Characteristics & Information:
av·​a·​tar
1. an incarnation in human form
Avatars of the archetypal warrior spirits that pattern the walkers

River Marked

• AKA Walkers
• a reflection of archetypes

IA: Alpha & Omega Series #1: Cry Wolf
Affiliated:
Ford
Breeze

Known Characteristics & Information:
Cry Wolf

• it was a hobby of the Oregon Pack (3) to create Big Foot sightings to mask property damage done by their new wolves

Wild Sign

• AKA Sasquatch

IA: Alpha & Omega Series #4: Dead Heat
Affiliated:
Mackie Sani

Known Characteristics & Information:
Dead Heat

• evil spirits of the dead¹⁶
• not supposed to say the word because bad things will happen to you¹⁶
• wild spirits, evil things, wrong things; Navajo word⁴²
• don't say the word or the evil spirits will come get you⁴²
• not wise to speak the name of evil where it might hear you⁷⁰
• they don't listen to children⁷⁰
• evil spirits can be sung out of a body¹³⁷

IA: Alpha & Omega Series #4: Dead Heat
Affiliated:
Charles Cornick
Joseph Sani Deceased
Mundane (2) Willcox Deceased

Known Characteristics & Information:
Dead Heat

• woman in that old bar in Willcox¹¹⁴
• persistent and tried to get them to both go home with her¹¹⁴
• didn't smell human; was gorgeous but felt like a trap¹¹⁴
• two men went missing that night and were found dead in their car a few weeks later a couple of hundred miles away¹¹⁴
• no wounds; just frozen all the way through on a pleasant spring day¹¹⁴
• too much knowledge can make you a target¹¹⁴

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

Known Characteristics & Information:
Cry Wolf

• they influenced the natural world: weather, plants and some animals²³²

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

Known Characteristics & Information:
Cry Wolf Hunting Ground

• they told what they wanted to, whether you wanted to hear it or not
• blackberry sanctuary for those who didn't mind their thorns; urban sanctuary

IA: Mercy Thompson Series #10: Silence Fallen
Affiliated:
Golem of Prague Rabbi Loew

Known Characteristics & Information:
Silence Fallen

• had thought magical robots, an animated bit of stone, obedient to the will of the man who had called them into being²²⁹
• element of self-determination and thought that did not belong to a robot; no robot ever had a spirit that traveled the streets long after the body was gone to dust<usp>229</sup>

IA: Mercy Thompson Series #6: River Marked
Affiliated: Apistotoki
Known Characteristics & Information
River Marked

• a time will come when the Great Spirit will send us back out into the world again, entrusted with tasks to accomplish.
• is a divine spirit with no human form or attributes and is never personified

IA: Mercy Thompson Series #8: Night Broken
Affiliated:
Juan Flores

Known Characteristics & Information:
Night Broken

IA: Alpha & Omega Series #3: Fair Game
Affiliated:
Charles Cornick

Known Characteristics & Information:
Fair Game

• some homes had spirits and some did not¹¹⁰
• a new house; not home to generations of children, so the spirit is weak¹¹⁰

IA: Alpha #3: Fa
Affiliated:

Known Characteristics & Information:
Wild Sign

• hungry for flesh¹⁵³

IA: Mercy Thompson Series #10: Silence Fallen
Affiliated:
Golem of Prague
Guayota

Known Characteristics & Information:
Silence Fallen

• are bits of the spirit of the earth²²⁹
• the whole earth has an enormous manitou, it can stir as one spirit, but it is too large to be concerned with minor things²²⁹
• mostly the earth's manitou sleeps²²⁹
• dandelion or pebbles has a bit of manitou, a bit that is fully independent of the whole; their manitou is very small and does not have much power to affect things around it²²⁹
• mountains and lakes also have manitou; theirs are powerful and tend, like Mother Earth's greater manitou, to be dangerous when roused; that doesn't happen a lot²³⁰
• Avatars like Coyote, Thunderbird etc are very closely related to manitou - like a horse and jackass²³⁰
• manitou cannot die; it just is, like the sun and the rain; it can be changed or hidden, but it cannot be killed²³¹

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

Known Characteristics & Information:
Cry Wolf

• spirits in the Cabinet mountains had never been welcoming; they resented intruders
• might be that they were more active or something could have happened
• Bitterroots or Pintlers spirits more welcoming

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

Known Characteristics & Information:

IA: Alpha & Omega Series #1: Cry Wolf
Affiliated:
Ford
Breeze

Known Characteristics & Information:
Cry Wolf

• AKA Big Foot
• it was a hobby of the Oregon Pack (3) to create Big Foot sightings to mask property damage done by their new wolves

Wild Sign

IA: Mercy Thompson Series #1: Moon Called
Affiliated:
Grandma Daisy Hardesty

Known Characteristics & Information:
Moon Called

• a witch of the Southwest Indian tribes who uses a skin to turn into a coyote or some other animal and goes around causing disease and death
• he white settlers incorrectly used the term for all the native shapechangers and the name stuck

Iron Kissed

• Native American shapeshifter
• come from Southwestern tribes, mostly Hopi or Navajo
• have to wear the skin of the animal they change into, usually a coyote or wolf, but they cannot change their eyes
• they are evil mages who bring disease and death wherever they go

Burn Bright

• Native American version of a black witch²⁷²
• doesn't matter what form they take; male or female²⁷²
• wears the skins of their victims²⁶⁴
• a medicine man, healer, or shaman who has given up their connection with the way of the earth is more evil than anything²⁶⁵
• when those who are sent to do good turn from that path, when they gain power and long life by stealing life from others - there is no greater evil²⁶⁵
• they are rare and dangerous²⁶⁵
• hard to see them - but if you look in their eyes; it is their eyes that give them away²⁶⁶
• there is only one way to kill them, if you are not a medicine man; that is with fire²⁶⁶

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

Known Characteristics & Information:

Cry Wolf

• more demanding, if often less beneficent
• gave a little help in planning for the future
• respond to implusive prayer by interfering a bit further
• tick them off and they may decide to aid enemies instead
• all you can do is ask and if it suits their whims, the spirits allow it
• only the crazy or stupid go out looking for spirits¹⁴⁵
• most spirits are more friendly and unfriendly rather than good or evil¹⁴⁵
• there aren't as many people who hear them as there used to be–which means more work for those who do¹⁴⁵
• sometimes they'll help out if asked but more often or not they have something they need done¹⁴⁵

Hunting Ground

• modern things tended to block them¹²
• were silent as they habitually were in the city

Fair Game

• spirits weren't ghosts; they were the consciousness of things that some didn't think were alive; trees and water, stones and earth
• spirits; nothing Indian about them other than we believe they exist and most others don't¹⁶⁶
• The spirits are more a way for nature to talk to those with the eyes to see and the ears to hear;they never were human.

Dead Heat

• dying left a man very close to the whole spirit of the world, and odd things made it through¹¹⁸
• innocent dead; children killed before they had a chance to decide wo they were going to be; unfinished²⁸²
• men who say the spirits had to listen to them²⁹³

IA: Alpha & Omega Series #5: Burn Bright
Affiliated:
Medicine Man

Known Characteristics & Information:
Burn Bright [ * malevolent and extremely dangerous forest spirits

IA: Mercy Thompson Series #1: Moon Called
Affiliated:
Carson Twelve Spoons Deceased
Fred Owens
Gary Laughingdog
Hank Owens
Jake Campbell
Mercy Thompson
Zander Ferwood Deceased

Known Characteristics & Information:
Wild Sign

• AKA Walker in the World²²⁹
• descendants of primordial powers; most not first-generation²²⁹
• walk in the world and do its bidding, be its eyes²²⁹

wendigo, and he believes that it was physically capable of killing this way. They smell oddly of magic, the way Mercy described them. But he didn’t think that it would have left canid paw prints—or left anything except bare bones. Their curse is that they hunger in a way that cannot ever be satisfied. Also, they tend to haunt the mountain passes, not the open shrub steppe. He’s having Charles do a little more research for us.”