(Humans know about the Fae and Werewolves as of the 5th book)
In the books theres only one "shape shifter" and they call her a 'walker'
Mercy turns into a coyote. Magic doesn't always work right on here. Something to do with being a walker. Vampires went out of their way to kill any of her kind they could find before she was born and her father was in those that were killed. So she has never met any of her kind and she's not sure what she can do.
She sees Ghosts, and can control them as well. For example, she needed some information in one of the books and she asked a ghost. The ghost didn't want to answer her but she willed the answer from them.
She has increased senses of sight, hearing, smell, and increased speed.
She's not the strongest but over all her character is well written in the stories.
Then theres the werewolves,
Werewolves are only made from violent accidents. Where the human body is weakened enough to let the wolfs 'spirit' in. If the wolf doesn't save them the humans die.
Each pack is lead by an Alpha wolf. And in North America all the packs are lead by the Marrok.
Dominant wolves lead, and only males have rights.
Females take there place in the pack from their mates.
Dominant wolves have the need to protect the submissive wolves and the people/things they care about.
The change for them is painful and time consuming.
They have increased senses sight, hearing, smell. They are super strong and super fast.
Weak against silver. And they can't swim. Most live a long life. They age super slowly... like the marrok in the books still looks like a teenager, and he's from before the dark ages
Fae; Fairies etc.
Like all the old children's stories but they are real.
They hide their true appearances with a thing called "glamor" so they can walk in the human world.
They are ruled by a group of powerful Fae called "The Gray Lords" We haven't really been informed of any of them. There has been some references but I'm not up on my fae so I'm not sure who they are.
Most Fae seem to be weak
Most are weak against Iron and other metals.
They are not the nice and helpless things they try to make the humans believe.
But since the catholic crusades with the iron and such they powers have weakened and they lost most their links to "Underhill" A magic place where their power were increased and they were the rulers.
**There is also this thing call an omega but I'm not sure how to explain it...
Vampires:
Live in Seethe with their masters until they are able and powerful enough to live on their own.
They keep human "sheep" in their place of residents.
Most are as evil as they always say, but in the books there is one "good" vampire.
Though you can't deny what he is, he is better then the rest.
Some of them have powers (which seems off but its not all of them)
Like teleportation or
"you are what you eat" the vampire who had that took the powers of what he feed off of. So he had a tree fae in his keeping and he could walk about during the day, but never trusted it enough to step into sunlight.
weakness sunlight, holywater (though you would need a pool of it to kill them), fire, disembodiment. Stake to the heart will stop them momentarily but not kill. Faith (crosses etc.) will not kill but may burn them
Black Witches/White Witches (we haven't seen many of them so I don't know much)
Black witches feed their power with death and blood. they are more powerful and normally very evil
White witches are the better of the two and tend to use their powers to heal. They don't feed their powers with death and blood so they tend to be fairly harmless.
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I'm sure I'm missing a lot of info on them so... if you have questions ask? If I think of anything else I'll let you know
For more info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_..._Series
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Airi and I will be working some things out in here and then making an rp out of it!
"It's in the stars.
It's been written in the scars on our hearts.
Your head is running wild again, my dear.
We still have everythin'.
We're not broken, just bent.
I'll fix it for us.
Our love's enough. "