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| ====== Mercyverse Witches ====== | ====== Mercyverse Witches ====== | ||
| =====Witch History===== | =====Witch History===== | ||
| - | =====General Witch Behavior & Facts==== | + | [[Alpha & Omega Series]] #1: [[Cry Wolf]] |
| + | * the few witchblood families left in Europe during the Napoleonic Wars had quit killing each other, forced instead to protect themselves from the ravages of more mundane fighting< | ||
| + | * clans of witches< | ||
| + | * a bad time for all in Europe; the Inquisition had taken a terrible toll a couple of centuries before - and when it was over, the witches started fighting for power; only Napoleon kept them from exterminating each other entirely< | ||
| + | * the only Western European bloodline to survive the power struggle was the Torvalis line, which was interbred with the Gypsies< | ||
| + | * witches were still born here and there into mundane families, but seldom had a tenth of the power of the old families< | ||
| + | * the Eastern European and Oriental witches had never established the kind of dynasties the Western European witches had< | ||
| + | * they guarded their spells from each other; so each family tended to specialize< | ||
| + | * witches are so jealous of each other< | ||
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| + | [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #10: [[Silence Fallen]] | ||
| + | * Spanish Inquisition set off the Witch Wars< | ||
| + | * centuries ago every village had a coven of witches< | ||
| + | * every city of any size had a witch as strong as [[Elizaveta Arkadyevana]] in charge of it< | ||
| + | * humans began it, driving the witches into breaking treaties that had been in place for centuries; by the time it was finished it seemed for fifty years after that they had succeeded in killing off every witchborn person on the planet< | ||
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| + | [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #11: [[Storm Cursed]] | ||
| + | * back in the days covens dotted the landscape of Europe< | ||
| + | * covens are no more; just make-believe attempts; not enough witches from thirteen families< | ||
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| + | ======General Witch Behavior & Facts===== | ||
| + | =====Chat Transcripts===== | ||
| + | * a witch is born to use magic Chat 2007-11-03 | ||
| + | * they are trained in spell usage Chat 2007-11-03 | ||
| + | * and they are usually born to different families who are witches Chat 2007-11-03 | ||
| + | * some of the things witches can do to increase their power, is as corrupting as sorcery Chat 2007-11-03 | ||
| + | * witches do things with mind and body. Wizards have power over the physical -- and both do magic. The ends are sometimes the same, but the means are different. It's far easier to be a powerful wizard and still be a good person then it is to be a powerful witch Chat 2008-07-27 | ||
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| + | =====Alpha & Omega Series===== | ||
| + | ====Cry Wolf==== | ||
| + | * witches often hired themselves out< | ||
| + | * there were witches who regularly worked for the various law-enforcement agencies< | ||
| + | * most witches are human and not immortal< | ||
| + | * witches and dead things went together; there were witches that didn't kill but they were far less powerful than their darker sisters< | ||
| + | * magic and fire have an odd, synergistic effect sometimes< | ||
| + | * likely the witches didn't know why it was forbidden for them to try to take a werewolf for a pet or familiar--not that most of them had the power to do it< | ||
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| + | =====Covens & Witch Families===== | ||
| + | ^ Identified Covens | ||
| + | |[[London Coven]] | ||
| + | [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #11: [[Storm Cursed]] | ||
| + | * a coven of witches was thirteen witches, one from each of the thirteen families< | ||
| + | * if you had a complete coven, then you were limited in power only by your imagination< | ||
| + | * since they are witches, usually that lasted a few months or a year at a time before someone fought with someone else and there would be bodies all over the place; untidy folk, witches< | ||
| + | * examples of what they did: Stonehenge, the Little Ice Age, a couple of volcanic eruptions; used plagues to discipline rules who worked against them< | ||
| + | * the Great Plague of London killed a hundred thousand people in eighteen months; the London Coven was killed by [[Bran Cornick]]< | ||
| + | |[[Samhain Coven]] | ||
| + | [[Mercyverse Short Fiction]]: [[Seeing Eye]] | ||
| + | * thirteen members< | ||
| + | * no member related to any other to the sixth generation | ||
| + | * each family amassed its own specialty spells, and a coven of thirteen benefited from all those differing magics< | ||
| + | * most of the witchblood families had been wiped out by fighting among themselves, covens became a thing of the past< | ||
| + | [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #6: [[River Marked]] | ||
| + | * [[Gordon Seeker]] burned cleaned out a coven; burned the whole town down to do it; Maryhill never recovered | ||
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| + | ^ Identified Witch Families & Lines ^ | ||
| + | |[[Cornick Family Witches]] | ||
| + | |[[Corunda Family Witches]] | ||
| + | |[[Eramus Line]] | ||
| + | |[[Green Family Witches]] | ||
| + | |[[Hardesty Family Witches]] | ||
| + | |[[Keller Family Witches]] | ||
| + | |[[Kikimora Family Witches]] | ||
| + | |[[Mariposa Line]] | ||
| + | |[[Torvalis Line]] | ||
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| + | ====Types of Witches==== | ||
| + | [[Black Witch]]\\ | ||
| + | [[Gray Witch]]\\ | ||
| + | [[White Witch]]\\ | ||
| =====Spell Casting===== | =====Spell Casting===== | ||
| - | =====Witch Families===== | + | [[Alpha & Omega Series]] #1: [[Cry Wolf]] |
| + | * illusions were among the very basic tenets of witchcraft< | ||
| + | * imprisoning spells are pretty basic< | ||
| + | * a strong enough witch can control any werewolf who doesn' | ||
| + | * it usually took witches a while to gain a hold on a lone wolf< | ||
| + | * power circles: some witches used them to set guard spells to keep things they valued safe, and others used them to store power for drawing upon later< | ||
| + | * changing what the senses of others perceived was one of the major powers of the witch< | ||
| + | * most of witchcraft is potions and spells< | ||
| + | * witches could hide in plain sight if they had some sort of hold on you; hide-me spells< | ||
| + | * a witch' | ||
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| + | [[Alpha & Omega Series]] #2: [[Hunting Ground]] | ||
| + | * self-sacrifice--as when the witch uses her own blood to fuel a spell -- has some power, but it's difficult to work withHG-120 | ||
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| + | ====Magic Spells==== | ||
| + | [[Magic Spells]] | ||
witch.txt · Last modified: 2021/07/17 23:34 by linda