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Magic Spell, Concepts & Spell Books

This is a combined list snapshot of all of the spell books, magical concepts and any spells cast in the Mercyverse across all classifications.

How to Read Format

Name of Magical Spell: Alphabetical plus Classification that created and/or used the spell - Link will lead to page of expanded classification details. Major spells will have an individual page with expanded details.

  • IA: Initial Appearance of Spell (Book or Short Fiction) - Link will lead to series or short fiction summaries and snapshot
  • Characters Affiliated with the spell: Link will lead to character pages with expanded details.
  • Spell Description and Effects (If Known)

A

Attack Spell

Attack Spell | Witch
IA: Mercyverse Short Fiction: Seeing Eye
Affiliated:
Lin Keller Deceased
Tom Franklin

Spell Description & Effects:
Seeing Eye

  • a vile spell that would have induced terrible pain and permanently damaged the person it hit167
  • takes a lot of power to feed the spell167

Avoidance Spell

Avoidance Spell | Fae
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #1: Moon Called
Affiliated:
Uncle Mike
Uncle Mike's Tavern

Spell Description & Effects:
Moon Called

  • a spell on the tavern to that makes mundane humans avoid it
  • not sure if magic keep graffiti artists away; exterior of the tavern was always pristine

Blood Bound

  • a subtle spell hurries people along if they stop to outside the tavern

B

Binding Spell

Binding Spell | Witch
IA: Alpha & Omega Series #5: Burn Bright
Affiliated:
Anna Cornick
Grandma Daisy Hardesty Deceased
Wellesley

Spell Description & Effects:
Burn Bright

  • blood magic; a cage wrought by witchcraft191
  • broken with a kiss203

C

Call Down the Moon

Call Down the Moon | Werewolf
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #1: Moon Called
Affiliated:
Pack Magic

Spell Description & Effects:
Moon Called

  • Alpha throws back his head and howls; a wolf's song rising from his human throat268
  • the eerie sound rose, echoed, and died away into silence, but not an empty silence268
  • more like the deadly quiet that precedes the start of the hunt269
  • howled again and answered by every werewolf within hearing distance269
  • called a third time; the moon's call sang through the trees and it caught the rest of the wolves and forced them into their wolf form269
  • cries of agony of those who fought it and the groans of those who didn't269
  • Adam stood in the moonlight, which seemed somehow brighter than it had moments ago; opened his eyes and looked at the moon's face; spoke using words269
  • didn't speak loudly, but his voice, like his song, spread through the area like a roll of thunder, powerful and unavoidable; and the wolves came269
  • less dominant wolves answered the power of the call269

The Change

The Change | Werewolf
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #1: Moon Called
Affiliated:
Pack Magic

Spell Description & Effects:
Moon Called

  • any person bitten by a werewolf doesn't turn into another werewolf
  • it takes an attack so vicious that the victim lies near death to allow the magic of the wolf to slip pas the body's immune system
  • usually the victim dies of the wounds or of the Change
  • if they survive then the next full moon find they survived but not as they had been

Blood Bound

  • give him the power to force his domninion on another group of werewolves100

Cleansing Spell

The Change | Witch
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #1: Moon Called
Affiliated:
Elizaveta Arkadyevna

Spell Description & Effects:
Moon Called

  • spell to wash away evidence of a crime
  • clean away blood

D

Death Spell|Fae

Death Spell | Fae
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #1: Moon Called
Affiliated:

Spell Description & Effects:
Moon Called

Death Spell|Witch

Death Spell | Witch
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #1: Moon Called
Affiliated:
Robert Arkadyevna

Spell Description & Effects:
Moon Called

  • spell gathering death and it bore Adam's name
  • the spell was set in motion; Mercy threw herself in front of it; it shouldn't have worked
  • once a spell is given a name it's sort of like a guided missile rather than a laser beam; it should have moved around her
  • Robert changed the spell to name Mercy; Mercedes whispered the spell satisfied
  • she heard a song; a rhythm to his spell; found herself moving with it, humming the tune softly; music filled her lungs, then head, banking the fire of the pain

Demon Magic

Demon Magic | Demon
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #2: Blood Bound
Affiliated:

Spell Description & Effects:
Blood Bound

  • made it impossible for them to escape the cages

E

Enthrallment

Enthrallment | Vampire
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #1: Moon Called
Affiliated:
Lilly
Samuel Cornick

Spell Description & Effects:
Moon Called

  • marked by a vampire

Enthrallment Break Spell

Enthrallment Break Spell | Witch
IA: Mercyverse Short Fiction: Asil and the Not-Date
Affiliated:
Mariposa Deceased
Tami Deceased

Spell Description & Effects:
Asil and the Not-Date

  • a spell to break an enthrallment226
  • this breaks the hold of a black witch but works on other enthrallments; vampire, wyrm226

Expectation Spell

Expectation Spell | Werewolf
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #6: River Marked
Affiliated:
Adam Hauptman

Spell Description & Effects:
River Marked

  • let people see what they expect to see; saw a werewolf they would think it was a dog76
  • darkness helps but the pack magic works in broad daylight too79

F

Finding

Finding | Fae
IA: Alpha & Omega Series #2: Hunting Ground
Affiliated:
Anna Cornick
Gray Lords

Spell Description & Effects:
Hunting Ground

  • a gift of Finding280
  • the ability to locate a person

Find Me Spell

Find Me Spell | Witch
IA: Mercyverse Short Fiction: Seeing Eye
Affiliated:
Moira Keller

Spell Description & Effects:
Seeing Eye

  • set out “find me” spells so that mundane customers in distress could find her since she didn't advertise138

Fireproofing Spell|Fae

Fireproofing Spell | Witch
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #8: Night Broken
Affiliated:
Ariana Cornick
Adam Cornick
Honey Jorgenson
Mary Jo
Paul
Samuel Cornick
Warren Smith

Spell Description & Effects:
Night Broken

  • she can command earth, air, fire, and water; that she can command fire means she can protect some305
  • doesn't know how many she can spell; unlikely no more than ten but at least five306
  • can make the invulnerable to heat306

Fireproofing Spell|Witch

Fireproofing Spell | Fae
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #8: Night Broken
Affiliated:
Elizaveta Arkadyevna Deceased

Spell Description & Effects:
Night Broken

  • could have made a spell to make one werewolf resistant to elemental fire magic—would have needed a piece of his hair or fingernails305

G

Guard Spell

Guard Spell | Witch
IA: Alpha & Omega Series #1: Cry Wolf
Affiliated:

Spell Description & Effects:
Cry Wolf

  • for keeping things they valued safe; sometimes used in conjunction with power circles234

Guardian

Guardian | Witch
IA: Alpha & Omega Series #1: Cry Wolf
Affiliated:
Mariposa Deceased
Sarai Deceased

Spell Description & Effects:
Cry Wolf

  • the Mariposa Family Witches greatest spell; thought to be lost when when they were eliminated
  • to have guardians on their grounds, great beasts who patrolled and killed for them—but never needed food or drink
  • rumored that they made them from living creatures—they had a menagerie
  • such powerful spells are never made without blood and death
  • guardian is a charismatic name for such abominations
  • even at the peak of their power they'd never been known to make a guardian from a werewolf241
  • they were destroyed every seven years to prevent them from having a presence outside of their creator's call
  • using a werewolf resulted in not a true guardian spell; a binding that allowed the witch to share in the werewolf's immortality
  • guardians were supposed to be obedient, incapable of thinking for themselves
  • did not survive their creator's death

Glamour

Fae Glamour Glamour | Fae
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #1: Moon Called
Affiliated:

Spell Description & Effects:
Moon Called

H

Hide-me Spell

Hide-me Spell | Witch
IA: Alpha & Omega Series #1: Cry Wolf
Affiliated:

Spell Description & Effects:
Cry Wolf

  • witches could hide in plain sight if they had some sort of hold on you238

Hot and Cold Spell

Hot and Cold Spell | Witch
IA: Mercyverse Short Fiction: Seeing Eye
Affiliated:
Moira Keller

Spell Description & Effects:
Seeing Eye

  • closing senses to the outside world, she reached into her well of power and drew out a bucketful an threw it out in a circle around and called to the essence of the person she was looking for151
  • vibrations of power151
  • left hand working the spell151
  • could see the faint traces that the person left behind151
  • finding something of the person with traces left on it, like gum and saliva, pulled toward their source159

Hunter's Magic

Hunter's Magic | Vampire
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #10: Silence Fallen
Affiliated:

Spell Description & Effects:
Silence Fallen

  • met eyes with prey; caught them in order to feed335

Hunting Song

Hunting Song | Werewolf
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #9: Fire Touched
Affiliated:

Spell Description & Effects:
Fire Touched

I

Illusions

Illusions | Witch
IA: Alpha & Omega Series #1: Cry Wolf
Affiliated:

Spell Description & Effects:
Cry Wolf

  • were among the very basic tenets of witchcraft174

Imprisoning Spell

Imprisoning Spell | Witch
IA: Alpha & Omega Series #1: Cry Wolf
Affiliated:

Spell Description & Effects:
Cry Wolf

  • are pretty basic189

Influence Spell

Influence Spell | Witch
IA: Alpha & Omega Series #6: Wild Sign
Affiliated:
Sheldon Underwood (Dr.)

Spell Description & Effects:
Wild Sign

  • a weak construct214
  • precast; used often enough to make up the trouble of setting runes under the oriental carpet or on the client chairs; but not strong enough to penetrate the protections Charles Cornick set220

J

K

The Kiss

The Kiss | Vampire
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #1: Moon Called
Affiliated:
Marsilia
Samuel Cornick

Spell Description & Effects:
Moon Called

  • bespelled by a vampire bite
  • some do die of the Kiss; probably no permanent harm to a werewolf
  • a tranquilizer215
  • possible that a submissive werewolf might have come out of it like any other tranquilized animal, groggy and quiet215
  • only some wolves became problematic; came out fighting with their wolf ready to attack, just as if they'd been trapped215

Silence Fallen

  • the Kiss doesn't always work; it was almost impossible to take a werewolf the way they could humans because of the pack bonds71

L

Look-Away Spell

Look-Away Spell | Vampire
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #10: Silence Fallen
Affiliated:
Stefan Uccello

Spell Description & Effects:
Silence Fallen

  • keeps people away35
  • most vampires can cast something something like that35

Look-Past-Me Spell

Look-Past-Me Spell | Witch
IA: Mercyverse Short Fiction: Seeing Eye
Affiliated:
Moira Keller
Tom Franklin

Spell Description & Effects:
Seeing Eye

  • murmured a few words and then put her fingers against his throat161
  • a sudden shock, like a static charge on steroids hit him—when it was over, her fingers were hot on his pulse161
  • won't make someone invisible, but it'll make people want to overlook you161
  • any witch with a a modicum of sensitivity to auras would have felt him; but no one seemed to notice him165

M

Master Vampire Rage

Master Vampire Rage | Vampires
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #1: Moon Called
Affiliated:
Marsilia

Spell Description & Effects:
Moon Called

  • high pitched noise and a hand gesture; inhuman motion and scream
  • causes vampires and others in proximity to fall to the floor incapacitated
  • magic results in stealing breathe and motion and causes hurt

Moonstruck

Moonstruck | Werewolf
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #1: Moon Called
Affiliated:
Werewolf Moonstruck Deceased

Spell Description & Effects:
Moon Called

  • can feel the full moon coming26
  • when the moon comes you can't stop the change; dreamy; sways back and forth26
  • can happen to newly made wolves who lose control26
  • held in moon dreams26
  • if you were a dominant wolf and you did go moonstruck, you took everyone who was less dominant with you76
  • no control; would kill anyone near them188

N

Necromancy|Vampire

Necromancy | Vampire
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #9: Fire Touched
Affiliated:

Spell Description & Effects:
Fire Touched

Necromancy|Witch

Necromancy | Witch
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #9: Fire Touched
Affiliated:

Spell Description & Effects:
Fire Touched

O

P

Power Circles

Power Circles | Witch
IA: Alpha & Omega Series #1: Cry Wolf
Affiliated:

Spell Description & Effects:
Cry Wolf

  • some witches used them to set guard spells to keep things they value safe, and others used them to store power for drawing upon later234

Privacy Cloak

Privacy Cloak | Vampire
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #1: Moon Called
Affiliated:
Stefan Uccello

Spell Description & Effects:
Moon Called

  • made a gesture like a grand stage magican; throwing his hands up and tossing his head165
  • a fine cloak of real magic settled around them; tasted of earth and darker things165
  • the spell shields a conversation for privacy; because there are things that hear very well in the night166

Q

R

Restraining Spell

Restraining Spell | Witch
IA: Alpha & Omega Series #6: Wild Sign
Affiliated:
Daniel Green

Spell Description & Effects:
Wild Sign

  • tattoo; inked spell
  • brutal magic used to subdue and restrain with greater sureness than a steel chain210

S

Shield

Shield | Witch
IA: Mercyverse Short Fiction: Seeing Eye
Affiliated:
Moira Keller

Spell Description & Effects:
Seeing Eye

  • a magic shield165
  • can tie someone else's essence to it to take the damage of a spell165
  • spells slid off the protections without harm166

Silence

Silence | Werewolf
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #1: Moon Called
Affiliated:
Columbia Basin Pack | Pack Magic

Spell Description & Effects:
Moon Called

  • wolves have little magic; a few magics that allow them to stay hidden202
  • eyes closed and their mouths moving in the chant that brought Silence upon all that stood within their circle202
  • to keep a battle from disturbing anyone; the pack would not willingly break the Silence202
  • moving or stopping the chant would have ruined the spell of Silence204
  • it allows sounds to be absorbed by the pack's spell casting204

Stealing Will

Stealing Will | Witch
IA: Mercyverse Short Fiction: In Red, with Pearls
Affiliated:
Nadia Popov Deceased
Harper Sullivan (Dr.)

Spell Description & Effects:
In Red, with Pearls

  • enforcing their will on a person347
  • black-magic voice347
  • broke something inside a person347
  • suggestions planted might fade but the she'd broken him, and that was permanent348

T

Translation Spell

Translation Spell | Fae
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #9: Fire Touched
Affiliated:
Aiden Hauptman

Spell Description & Effects:
Fire Touched

  • someone, he doesn't know who because it made him dry heave, inflicted a translation spell on him168
  • they needed to talk to him, and he refused to understand any of them no matter what language they used168

Smoke Bitten

  • when Aiden escaped Underhill into the ungentle hands of the fae, they'd gifted him with a translation spell74
  • even the most finely crafted translation spells are traumatic74
  • they ruffle through memory and thought for the meaning of the word that needs translation74
  • the one they'd imposed upon Aiden had been the quick-and-dirty variety74
  • the translation spell did not help him read or write in English319

Trasmutation Spell

Transmutation Spell | Witch
IA: Mercyverse Short Fiction: Seeing Eye
Affiliated:
Coranda Family Witches
Moira Keller

Spell Description & Effects:
Seeing Eye

  • most of the good transmutation spells had been lost with the Coranda family in the seventeenth century; rude people neeed to be turned into frogs; or pigs138

True-Named

True Named | Fae
IA: Alpha & Omega Series #2: Hunting Ground
Affiliated:
Angus Hopper
Dana Shae Deceased

Spell Description & Effects:
Hunting Ground

  • can bespell a person with their true name220
  • must follow orders; fae compulsion220

Truth Spell

Truth Spell | Vampire
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #2: Blood Bound
Affiliated:
Wulfe

Spell Description & Effects:
Blood Bound

  • appropriate that the vampire's truth spells would demand blood

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magic_spells.txt · Last modified: 2022/01/09 05:05 by linda