Fae Types

This is a snapshot of all the fae types in the Mercyverse.

Name: Alphabetical by type.
Fae Stratification (If known)
IA: Initial Appearance or Mention (Book or Short Fiction) - Link will lead to series or short fiction summaries and snapshot.
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Known Characteristics & Information

• Broken Down by Series/Short Fiction with page notation

Fae Stratification: Greater Fae
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #4: Bone Crossed
Affiliated:
Baba Yaga
Tracy LaBella

Known Characteristics & Information:
Bone Crossed

• able to heal mortal wounds
• stories say she eats children
• can fly through solid matter
• flies in a giant mortar

Fire Touched

• had a silver tooth but broke it in 1916²⁰³
• has a brass tooth²⁰³
• in the stories she was supposed to eat people with metal teeth that she would take out of her mouth and sharpen in front of her victims; supposed to be iron not brass²⁰³
• home doesn't want her to eat hard-boiled eggs; her home stands on a chicken leg but it doesn't mean she is a chicken³³²

Fae Stratification: N/A
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #3: Iron Kissed
Affiliated:
Black Dog Reservation

Known Characteristics & Information:
Night Broken

• black dog is a common fae shape
• meet a black dog at the crossing of two roads and you are sure to die¹²⁹

Fae Stratification: Lesser Fae
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #1: Moon Called
Affiliated:
Brownie Teacher
Brownie

Known Characteristics & Information:
Moon Called

• rocks and ponds in Ireland that bear the names of brownies that live there

Iron Kissed

• sacrificed themselves for children in their care

Bone Crossed

• causes mischief¹⁵¹
• their magic seeks to lock others out²⁹⁵

Fae Stratification: Lesser Fae
IA: Mercyverse Short Fiction: Fairy Gifts
Affiliated:
Hollister Leeds

Known Characteristics & Information:
Fairy Gifts

• traditions of taking care of changelings, and those who might be changelings were adhered to still; even if the one they watched over was entirely human⁷⁸

Dead Heat

• a family with a changeling in it suffers and dies¹⁵⁸
• disguises itself as a human child¹⁵⁹
• fae who make themselves look like a child who's been stolen away¹⁷²
• takes very little magic, glamour variant ¹⁷²
• 5 changeling cases have been documented by police¹⁷²

Fae Stratification: High Court Fae
IA: Alpha & Omega Series #4: Dead Heat
Affiliated:
Doll Collector

Known Characteristics & Information:
Dead Heat

• ability to hide from humans, from fae, from other creatures who might hunt you because their glamour is so very good⁰³
• a skilled magician, subtle and powerful⁰³
• able to hide from the best trackers⁰³
• great ones for stealing human children and teaching them to fetch and carry, to work and to give life to the below lands²²⁴
• they take children; loves children, stole them from the humans and turned them into his toys until they died and he had to replace them²²⁵
• was a hobby but turned into a geas; keeps them for a year and a day and then consumes them entirely, at which time he has to collect another²²⁵
• feeds on the change that time brings upon them²²⁵

Fae Stratification: Greater Fae
IA: Mercyverse Short Fiction: Fairy Gifts
Affiliated:

Known Characteristics & Information:
Fairy Gifts

• iron-kissed⁹¹

Fae Stratification: N/A
IA: Alpha & Omega Series #5: Burn Bright
Affiliated:
Jonesy Deceased

Known Characteristics & Information:

Fae Stratification: Mundane+ & Ancestral
IA: Mercyverse Short Fiction: Hollow
Affiliated:
Gina Stephanie Albright

Known Characteristics & Information:
Hollow

• fae who can feed on emotions⁴²⁵
• used magic to tie the essence of a person to object⁴²⁶

Fae Stratification: Mundane+ & Ancestral
IA: Mercyverse Short Fiction #5: Hollow
Affiliated:
Rick Albright

Known Characteristics & Information:
Hollow

• fae-born intuition⁴¹⁶

Fae Stratification: N/A
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #5: Silver Borne
Affiliated:
Brewster Fae Hounds Deceased

Known Characteristics & Information:
Silver Borne

• AKA Fear Hounds ²⁷⁰
• their howls would drop a stag in its path
• their gaze could scare a man to death
• victim if tormented less than an hour would live to be tormented again, over that hour and their victim would die
• looked a little like a giant beagle: with with brown spots, rounded ears that hung on either side of its faceSB-312
• can break influence if stray too far

Silver

• AKA faery sight hounds¹⁵; banehounds of old¹⁵; fae banehounds¹⁷
• coats of white and rust¹⁵
• do not make good slaves¹⁵
• color of old blood and snow²²
• chaffing under the leash of the Forest Lord (1) Brewster²⁶
• overwhelming aura of terror⁴⁶

IA: Mercy Thompson Series#1: Moon Called
Affiliated:
Muryan
Known Characteristics & Information:
Moon Called

• Muryan: a type of fairy

Fae Stratification: Greater Fae
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #5: Silver Borne
Affiliated:
Daphne Rondo Deceased

Known Characteristics & Information:
Silver Borne

• travels with five to twenty fairy follower
• used to capture humans to use as servants/lovers
• takes them to her own realm, like Underhill but different
• laughter like tinkling of silver bells
• mesmerizing spells
• robs victims of free will; might have same effect on her fae followers
• rule bound more than most fae, but powerful within those rules
• not smart; makes assumptions
• strong; ability to build a home and command many fae
• tend to be musically talented²⁸⁴
• in Elphame she rules utterly²⁹⁴
• only she can release her thralls²⁹⁴
• only the queen's glamour would work in her Elphame
• can use the old magic to bind
• the biggest weapon in the arsenal of a fairy queen is enthrallment

Frost Burned

• weren't fae royalty precisely but had a gift that allowed them to enslave humans and fae alike²¹⁵
• almost like a honeybee queen, they set up courts designed to both feed their power and entertain themselves²¹⁵

Fire Touched

• rare ability to make anyone with less power than she had into a follower; a form of magical slavery¹⁴³

Fae Stratification: Greater Fae
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #3: Iron Kissed
Affiliated:
Aiden Fideal

Known Characteristics & Information:
Iron Kissed

• predator; prefers human flesh; had to eat barnyard animals
• banned from eating humans by the Gray Lords
• enjoys the chase
• Scottish
• water fae of some kind
• doesn't like iron
• covered in seaweed; might look like sort of a horse or some hooved animal; or a swamp thingy as big as a SUV
• salt doesn't bother it
• vagely horse shaped; the size of a large donkey
• bugled like a stallion
• can block his scent
• gills in it's neck; fangs

Fire Touched

• fae analog of the human pedophile; but the fae version usually ate its prey¹⁶⁵
• head more reptilian than equine; body was shaggy with fronds²⁵⁷

Fae Stratification: Royal Court Fae
IA: Mercyverse Short Fiction: Fairy Gifts
Affiliated:
Dragon Under the Hill Deceased
Margaret Flanagan

Known Characteristics & Information:
Fire Touched

• Gray Lords have no authority to tell where to go or what to do¹⁴¹

Fae Stratification: Lesser Fae
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #9: Fire Touched
Affiliated:

Known Characteristics & Information:
Fire Touched

• they flit around and hear things¹⁵⁹

Fae Stratification: Greater Fae
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #2: Blood Bound
Affiliated:
Donnell Greenleaf
Garden Sprite
Green Man
Rowan Fae
Wearden

Known Characteristics & Information:
Blood Bound

• has an affinity for trees and growing things

Dead Heat

• too tough to kill easily²²⁰
• hard for the tree-tied fae to move; those who could were moved into the reservations early on²²³

Fae Stratification: Greater Fae
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #3: Iron Kissed
Affiliated:
Forest Lord Brewster Deceased
Forest Lord Trapped
Hendrick Deceased

Known Characteristics & Information:
Iron Kissed

• powerful

Silver Borne

• could influence beasts; can command beasts

Fae Stratification: Greater Fae
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #4: Bone Crossed
Affiliated:
Ymir
Known Characteristics & Information:
Bone Crossed

• AKA snow elf; snow giant
• * sheds snow
• 10-feet tall
• like a freight train
• walks quietly
• used to roam the mountains with a wolf pack at beck and call
• beserker; lack of control

Silver Borne

• AKA ice elf

Storm Cursed

• when a frost giant says he's a snow elf, there aren't many, even among the fae, who would argue with him about it²³²

Smoke Bitten

• likes to be called a snow elf; even though there is no such thing¹⁶⁷

Fae Stratification: N/A
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #8: Night Broken
Affiliated:

Known Characteristics & Information:
Night Broken

• meet Gabriel hounds at the crossing of two roads and you are sure to die¹²⁹

Fae Stratification: Lesser Fae
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #1: Moon Called
Affiliated:
Kieran McBride

Known Characteristics & Information:
Moon Called

• can't hold cold iron, even through thick leather gloves
• great charisma in a certain sort of ugliness¹⁵
• are gentle folk and easy to look at¹⁵

Fae Stratification: Lesser Fae
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #3: Iron Kissed
Affiliated:
Giant Jack
Giant Custennin
Giant (3+) Forest

Known Characteristics & Information:
Iron Kissed

• strong sense of smell
• strong; able to rip a human's head from it's body

Silver Borne

• beast-minded; more instinct than intelligent
• those that survived the rise of metal-wielding humans died at the hands of the Gray Lords
• instinctive behaviors weren't good enough to make sure you'd hide your nature from the humans
• beasts controlled by the Forest Lord Brewster; last of them died under his hand

Fire Touched

• a troll to a giant is like a rabbit to a wolf²¹⁰

Fair Game

• could follow a scent as well as a werewolf¹²³
• were beast-minded¹²
• couldn't hide themselves from the cold-iron-carrying¹²³

Fae Stratification: Lesser Fae Caveat
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #4: Bone Crossed
Affiliated:
Austin Harris
Goblin Skateboarder
Goblin Scarred Deceased
Goblin Wife Sethaway
Goblin Daughter Sethaway Deceased
Goblin (5) Deceased
Goblin (2) Deceased
Larry Sethaway

Known Characteristics & Information:
Bone Crossed

• carrion feeder
• hunt during the day; work for vampires

Fire Touched

• a little unreliable¹²⁹
• they report to Columbia Basin Pack; three hundred for every stray vampire they sight in the territory; seethe pays them a thousand a month to keep looking¹²⁹
• neither fish nor fowl¹³⁰
• qualified as fae; could disguise what they were with illusion spells¹³⁰
• fae didn't want them; counted themselves as fae without argument from Gray Lords but didn't want to be fae¹³⁰
• could reproduce fast; if not faster than human¹³⁰
• many of the fae considered goblin flesh a delicacy¹³⁰

Silence Fallen

• a lot tougher than they were credit with by those that knew them¹³
• in the habit of running; and only fighting when there was no way out¹³
• running garnered them a reputation as supernatural wimps; a reputation they actively cultivated¹³
• when cornered they were vicious and deadly¹³
• weren't a long lived race, as fae went¹¹⁷
• clever and more powerful than most people gave them credit for; often underestimated¹¹⁷
• more reliable and oddly honorable for one of the fae folk¹¹⁷
• were looked upon as scavengers¹¹⁹
• didn't consider themselves fae; reverse wasn't true; most fae looked upon them as sort of lowborn, weak, stupid cousins¹¹⁹
• some of the fae looked upon them as food; goblins never forgot that¹¹⁹
• spoke a language that sounded vaguely Germanic; Norwegian or Norn or Old Icelandic¹⁷³
• more likely to fight well together¹⁷⁵
• everyone underestimated goblins²⁴²
• goblins liked it best when no one noticed them²²⁸
• do not usually interest themselves in the affairs of wolves³³⁰

Storm Cursed

• could hear as well as werewolves⁰⁵
• are city denizens⁰⁶
• glamour isn't effortless⁰⁸
• humans had very little chance against goblins⁰⁹
• might be considered among the less powerful fae; didn't mean they were weak¹⁰
• common lore said that goblins ran from trouble¹²
• don't know if they're one of the immortal or nearly immortal fae¹⁴
• impression they were one of the shorter-lived races; that may be wrong and may mean something different¹⁴
• getting caught was very poorly thought of in goblin culture; getting caught by technology viewed even worse¹⁶
• are fae, at least, insomuch that they have glamour and they are forced to tell the truth¹⁷
• lesser fae like goblins, die the moment a lie, knowingly spoken, leaves their lips¹⁷
• can hid behind a veil of magic so as not to trigger the bargain about lies; it is a version of glamour that the other fae do not have²¹
• a secret that had been held forever²¹; most closely guarded secret²²
• an odd bunch²²
• so little power compared to the rest of the fae; yet some have gifts they would envy if they knew²²
• were soldiers in the fae wars³⁶
• hobgoblins and goblins are related; was a long way back and they both liked to pretend it wasn't so²³⁵

Smoke Bitten

• control of glamour is different than other fae⁵⁸
• keep a pretty thorough watch in the Tri-Cities¹⁰⁰
• no idea how many goblins there are¹⁰⁰
• wouldn't betray the pack for money; have to abide by the bargains they make¹⁰⁰
• don't quite fit in¹⁷⁸

Fae Stratification: Greater Fae
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #3: Iron Kissed
Affiliated:
Uncle Mike

Known Characteristics & Information:
Iron Kissed

• charisma magic

Bone Crossed

Fae Stratification: Greater Fae
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #3: Iron Kissed
Affiliated:
Zee Adelbertsmiter

Known Characteristics & Information:
Moon Called

• the metalsmiths, are not included with the lesser fae¹⁵⁰

Blood Bound

• old gremlins go out of their way to stay away from demon hosts

Iron Kissed

• no such thing as a gremlin until Zee decided to call himself one
• fae are gremlin only because they claim they are
• gremlin is a term made up by British pilots in the Great War as an explanation for odd things that kept their planes from working⁵¹
• not a real fae designation

Silver Borne

• natural element was metal

Storm Cursed

• were an invention of the twentieth century¹³⁰
• trivialized Metallzauber power¹⁹⁷

Fae Stratification: Gray Lord
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #3: Iron Kissed
Affiliated:
Alistair Beauclaire

Known Characteristics & Information:
Night Broken

• son of Lugh¹⁸
• smells like a lake; full of life and greenness with a hint of summer sun¹⁹

Fae Stratification: Lesser Fae
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #4: Bone Crossed
Affiliated:
Harriers

Known Characteristics & Information:
Bone Crossed

• carrion feeders
• hunt during the day and work for vampires

Fae Stratification: N/A
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #10: Silence Fallen
Affiliated:
Stacia Known Characteristics & Information:
Silence Fallen

Fae Stratification: Greater Fae
IA: Mercyverse Short Fiction: Fairy Gifts
Affiliated:
Hiisi Butte Deceased

Known Characteristics & Information:
Fairy Gifts

• Iron-kissed⁹¹
• a talent for finding what you held dear, and then using it to make you do his bidding

Fae Stratification: Lesser Fae
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #4: Bone Crossed
Affiliated:

Known Characteristics & Information:
Bone Crossed

• causes mischief¹⁵¹

Fae Stratification: Lesser Fae
IA: Mercyverse Short Fiction: Silver
Affiliated:
Haida
Nick

Known Characteristics & Information:
Silver

• magic allows people to forget²¹
• green-gray and covered with wiry hair from head to feet²²
• close to the Heart of Magic; like a shepherd who cared for the flocks²²
• veil of shadows magic²²
• practical and courageous²⁴
• a great deal stronger than they looked²⁸
• can dilute other fae power³⁴
• can read emotions more easily than words⁵⁰

Fairy Gifts

• not innocent⁷⁸

Storm Cursed

• as fast as fae get²³⁴
• related to goblins but it was a long way back and they both liked to pretend it wasn't so²³⁵

Fae Stratification: Greater Fae
IA: Alpha & Omega Series #3: Fair Game
Affiliated:
Benedict Heuter Deceased
Herne the Hunter

Known Characteristics & Information:
Fair Game

• antlered¹²³
• never many of them, less than a handful¹²³
• last one this side of the Atlantic killed in 1981; hit by a car in Vermont¹²³
• capable of perceiving and hiding their scents; very strong¹²³
• howl; a wild piercing whistle sound; combination of elk bugle and stallion scream¹⁹⁹
• seriously stronger than a werewolf²⁰⁰
• able to be invisible²⁰¹
• white stag magic; if you chase it you continue; never stopping until your legs are bloody stumps or you die²⁰⁶
• heals faster than a werewolf²⁷³

Fae Stratification: Lesser Fae
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #1: Moon Called
Affiliated:

Known Characteristics & Information:

Fae Stratification: Greater Fae
IA: Mercyverse Short Fiction: Fairy Gifts
Affiliated:
Iku-Tursas Deceased
Known Characteristics & Information:
Fairy Gifts

• Finnish fae⁹²
• dragon; sea serpent; is a little more than a mere sea dragon; It can take many forms⁹²

Fae Stratification: N/A
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #1: Moon Called
Affiliated:
Known Characteristics & Information:
Moon Called

• rocks and ponds in Ireland that bear the names of kelpies that live there

Iron Kissed

• could take the form of a horse

Bone Crossed

• thought extinct

River Marked

• are rarer than selkies; and terrifying¹⁰⁸

Fae Stratification: N/A
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #10: Storm Cursed
Affiliated:

Known Characteristics & Information:
Storm Cursed

• fairy tale fae; male; voices can persuade¹⁵⁵

Fae Stratification: Greater Fae
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #8: Night Broken
Affiliated:
Lugh Deceased
Known Characteristics & Information:
Night Broken

• started out a hero and was turning into something a lot different⁷⁸
• old and powerful; turned scary⁷⁸

Fire Touched

• warrior fae who'd been a combination of Superman and Hercules in the old songs and stories of the Celtic people⁵⁶

Fae Stratification: Greater Fae
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #5: Silver Borne
Affiliated:
Ariana Brewster-Cornick Baby Cornick

Known Characteristics & Information:
Silver Borne

• can work magic in silver
• metals love their touch; magic flourishes
• ability to imprint their magic on things
• iron-kissed fae in their background; steel holds no terrors for them
• holds earth, air, fire and water; ability to do great magic after most of Underhill was out of reach

Fae Stratification: N/A
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #4: Bone Crossed
Affiliated:
Murdhuacha (1) Deceased

Known Characteristics & Information:
Bone Crossed

• AKA merrow folk/mermen and mermaids²⁷³

Fae Stratification: Greater Fae
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #1: Moon Called
Affiliated:
Tad Adelbertsmiter
Zee Adelbertsmiter

Known Characteristics & Information:
Moon Called

• * liked the modern era, with its steel and electricity, better than the old days because there was more for a Metallzauberer, a gremlin, to do than build swords to kill other folk

Iron Kissed

• one of the metal working fae⁵¹
• a very broad category that contains very few members
• one of the few kinds of fae with an affinity for iron, which gives them all sorts of advantages over the other fae

Fae Stratification: Gray Lords
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #3: Iron Kissed
Affiliated:
Nemane

Known Characteristics & Information:
Iron Kissed

• AKA The Carrion Crow
• crow form is a big as a golden eagle with blood red eyes and a white spot on it's head
• smells of rain, forest and good black garden soil in the spring
• was one of the Morrigan, the battle goddesses of the Celts, one of her jobs was delivering the killing blow to the heroes dying in the aftermath of a battle to end their suffering¹⁶²
• old warrior with a sense of honor; wrongful death is an anathema
• blind but perceives more clearly than most; can also use other's eyes to see
• not what she once was; weak and blind and troubles herself overmuch with humans

Fae Stratification: Greater Fae
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #4: Bone Crossed
Affiliated:
Donnell Greenleaf
Forest Fae

Known Characteristics & Information:
Bone Crossed

• were not tall; no more than four feet; stout “as a good oaken table”
• black eyes
• knows when the sun goes down
• speaks Welsh; speaks to oaks
• feeds from sunlight; and blood
• in the old days they were given blood sacrifices to keep the trees happy²⁸⁶
• are fair spearmen

Smoke Bitten

• can gift oak trees; grow faster and have subtle magic²⁴

Fae Stratification: N/A
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #3: Iron Kissed
Affiliated:
Ogre (2)
Ogre Zombie Deceased
Ogre Birthday

Known Characteristics & Information:
Iron Kissed

• 500-pound; ten-foot-tall
• if got to point of tearing off a human's head would not have stopped until they'd had a bite or two
• not particularly friendly

Bone Crossed

• look like everyone else until they get ticked off

Storm Cursed

• tough hide²⁹⁶
• beefy hands
• younger; eight-feet-tall; 400-500 pounds²⁹⁶
• clans; in Scotland²⁹⁸

Fae Stratification: Lesser Fae
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #6: River Marked
Affiliated:
Otterkin Walmart Deceased
Otterkin Sacrifice Deceased
Otterkin Bearded Deceased
Otterkin Club Deceased
Otterkin (2) Deceased

Known Characteristics & Information:
River Marked

• remaining seven relocated from reservation to the Columbia River
• aren't like the selkies, who are their closest kin¹¹⁸
• other fae wear otter shapes, but aren't really related to otterkin
• they don't interact with people well¹¹⁸
• shapeshifters who can take human form though their true shape is otter; as humans they tend to resemble someone with severe autism: it got many burned at the stake¹¹⁹
• they are territorial and don't kill people for food; implied they do kill people for other reasons¹²⁰
• very little magic of their own though they are clever with what they have, and they cooperate with each other¹²⁰
• when there were hundreds of them they were dangerous
• are minor fae; they used to be very common but they aren't powerful; probably no more trouble than real otters would be²¹⁰
• not in good health when they were first put in the sanctuary
• there were only seven in the sanctuary created for them near the camping ground¹²⁰
• sometimes people drown near otterkin lairs
• were supposed to be friendly and helpful; being hunted to near extinction changes a lot of things
• agile and fight like an otter; coming in close; fast and furious
• turned back into otters when they died
• despite what was said they were people-eating kind of fae

Frost Burned

• some fae would argue that their deaths were a tragedy⁶⁵

Night Broken

• blood-thirsty and stupid; no loss²⁴

Fae Stratification: N/A
IA: Mercyverse Short Fiction: Fairy Gifts
Affiliated:
Piru Butte Deceased
Known Characteristics & Information:

• Finnish fae⁹³
• one of the witty demons prone to games of wit⁹³
• or, one of the air ladies who hung out and looked beautiful until something ticked them off⁹³

IA: Mercy Thompson Series #1:Moon Called
Affiliated:
Pixie Tinkerbell

Known Characteristics & Information:
Moon Called

• wings

Fae Stratification: N/A
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #4: Bone Crossed
Affiliated:
Roaring Bull of Bagbury
Known Characteristics & Information:
Bone Crossed

• haunts bridges¹⁵²

Fae Stratification: Lesser Fae
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #1: Moon Called
Affiliated:
Selkie Boating
Selkie (2) Underhill Deceased
Selkie

Known Characteristics & Information:
Iron Kissed

• smells like a seal
• dwelt in or about the sea
• can turn into seals²⁷
• wouldn't have a problem with salt

River Marked

• interacted with people a lot¹⁰⁸
• closely related to Otterkin¹¹⁸

Fire Touched

• tough²⁷¹

Fae Stratification: Mundane & Ancestral
IA: Alpha & Omega Series #4: Dead Heat
Affiliated:
Katie Jamison

Known Characteristics & Information:
Dead Heat

Fae Stratification: Mundane & Ancestral
IA: Alpha & Omega Series #4: Dead Heat
Affiliated:
Franklin (Grandmother)
Jamison (Mother)
Jon Franklin
Kathryn Jamison
Katie Jamison

Known Characteristics & Information:
Seeing Eye

• gets hunches ¹⁴⁰
• could mean anything from a little fae blood in the family tree¹⁴⁰

Dead Heat

• glimpses of likely futures²¹¹
• see the fae for what they are, whatever guise they are wearing ²¹²
• the fae don't like sidhe-seers²¹²

Fae Stratification: Greater Fae
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #1: Moon Called
Affiliated:
Lorelei

Known Characteristics & Information:
Moon Called

• German fae
• have stories that tell their name and give fair warning about what you're dealing with

Iron Kissed

• entice ships onto rocks and then drown the surviving sailors

Fae Stratification: Lesser Fae
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #1: Moon Called
Affiliated:
Rumpelstiltskin

Known Characteristics & Information:
Moon Called

• German fae
• has stories that tell their name and give you fair warning about the fae you might be dealing with

Smoke Bitten

Fae Stratification: Greater Fae
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #4: Bone Crossed
Affiliated:
Ymir

Known Characteristics & Information:
Bone Crossed

• not a true fae designation; see Frost Giant

Fae Stratification: Lesser Fae
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #7: Frost Burned
Affiliated:
Sliver

Known Characteristics & Information:
Frost Burned

• fairly rare; nasty, bitter mischief-makers one and all¹⁸⁸

Fae Stratification: Lesser Fae
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #9: Fire Touched
Affiliated:
Sprite Lord Known Characteristics & Information:
Fire Touched

• weak and stupid; not bothered as much by cold iron as most fae²⁵³
• cockroaches of the fae; can't hurt much, but they won't die²⁵³
• too likely to think about opportunity instead of danger²⁵⁴
• can be a single body comprised of a hive of female sprites²⁵³

Fae Stratification: Lesser Fae
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #1: Moon Called
Affiliated:
Troll Banker
Old JarnivdDeceased
Jerry

Known Characteristics & Information:
Moon Called

• under their glamour might have claws
• smells of iron and earth
• a relative to the Gremlin, but not close one¹⁵⁴
• like money and extortion, a lot of them go into banking¹⁵⁴

Fire Touched

• nasty pieces of work¹³⁴
• smelled like water-fae magic and a bit like pepper⁴⁰
• more populous in continental Europe
• lived near water by preference and, when they could, around bridges³⁴
• terrifying looking
• tough, usually more brawn than brains, though they can talk, or most can³⁵
• skin is very thick; like a suit of armor³⁵
• equally comfortable on land or the water³⁵
• will eat people³⁷
• running would attract it's attention³⁹
• can feel you when you watch it⁴⁰
• can't connect to most bridges now; too many of the bridges today use too much steel⁶⁵
• aren't a lot of trolls left⁷⁸

Fae Stratification: Greater Fae
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #3:Iron Kissed
Affiliated:
Tilly Known Characteristics & Information:
Fire Touched

• but another form of fae¹⁶³
• is sensitive to metal¹⁶³

Fae Stratification: Lesser Fae
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #5:Silver Borne
Affiliated:
Water Fae Knight of the Water
Water Fae

Known Characteristics & Information:
Silver Borne

Fae Stratification: Lesser Fae
IA: Alpha & Omega Series #4: Dead Heat
Affiliated:
Forest Fae

Known Characteristics & Information:
Dead Heat

• flesh tastes of bark, sap, and lemons²¹⁹
• a tree man, related to the green man²²²
• dangerous but not as dangerous as one of the greater fae²²²
• hard for the tree-tied fae to move; those who could were moved into the reservations early on²²³

Fae Stratification: Gray Lord
IA: Alpha & Omega Series #4: Dead Heat
Affiliated:
Neuth Deceased

Known Characteristics & Information:
Dead Heat

• spiritual archetype of the evil queen in the fairy tales²
• adored causing misery and pain to the short-lived humans²
• centuries of power lived in her voice; even if she liked to hold the appearance of helplessness²

Fire Touched

• sidhe fae¹⁷⁷
• likes to play with the humans; causing misery which she can feed upon¹⁷⁷
• made her way into more than one folktale
• when Underhill closed, she lost a great deal of her magic; lost the ability to feed off human misery; the power she enjoyed the most¹⁷⁸

Fae Stratification: Greater Fae
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #5:Silver Borne
Affiliated:
Spice

Known Characteristics & Information:
Silver Borne

• mindless violence

Fae Stratification: Lesser Fae
IA:
Affiliated:
Forest Fae

Known Characteristics & Information: