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Appendix Field Guide

The **Price Family Field Guide to the Cryptids of North America: Updated and Expanded Edition** can be found in the appendix of each InCryptid novel.Discount Armageddon lacks the subtitle.

A number of cryptid species are added to the guide as they are introduced in the series. Half-Off Ragnarok and Pocket Apocalypse notably include several reptilian species of interest to Alex Price. Pocket Apocalypse contains several Australian cryptids not found in other editions; it consequently lacks several species that are found in other books, presumably for the sake of space.

Not to be confused with the online field guide available on Seanan McGuire's website.

## List of Field Guide Entries

1. ↑ https://seananmcguire.com/fieldguide.php
Homesteader

**Homesteaders**, also called **homesteads**, appear in the Ghost Roads series. They are bound to haunt a single place, and their presence often leads to that place's destruction.

## Price Family Field Guide

Sometimes called "caddis flies"--although this term has fallen out of fashion--these stationary cousins of the coachmen loved their homes so much that when their deaths coincided with the destruction of those homes, they found a way to carry them into the twilight. A homestead *is* the home and has full control over their own "bodies." Be wary of these haunted houses given form. They do not easily forgive.

## Characters

* Corletta: A homestead Rose runs into while she is fleeing Bobby Cross. Corletta was a child when she died, and Rose promises to send friends for her to play with if she lets Rose go. The ever-lasters she sends love playing in Corletta's corn fields.
Yong

A male yong

## Reference

The **yong** is a sexually dimorphic, sapient species of cryptid similar to the dragon. They first appear in Backpacking Through Bedlam.

## Appendix Entry

**Yong** (*Draconem alta aqua*). The so-called "Korean dragon" shares many qualities with their European relatives. The species demonstrates extreme sexual dimorphism; the males are great serpents, some easily exceeding eighty feet in length, with no wings, but possessing powerful forelimbs with which to catch and keep their prey. The females, meanwhile, appear to be attractive human women of Korean descent, capable of blending easily into a human population. Unlike European dragons, their health is dependent on quartz rather than gold, making it somewhat easier for them to form and maintain their Nests (called "Clutches").

## Descriptions and Quotes

"They were all virtually identical. They could have been septuplets, pretty, Asian, young, and female, dressed in simple, well-worn clothes as meticulously clean as the room around them. Their hems had been patched in several places; I could see the worn spots along their seams. Frugal, inhuman, surrounded by precious minerals... right."

"Our bloodline is as strong as any other. We never needed fire to hold our territory." - The NYC yong spokeswoman, Backpacking Through Bedlam chapter 14

"We've asked [William] about other Western dragons, and about laidly worms, but we haven't asked about yong, long, or Tatsu," Verity admitted, slowly. "I knew there were some clusters of their females left, but it hasn't been a priority, with everything else that's been going on."

## Characters

A Clutch of seven Yong women who live in New York City's Koreatown

## References

https://dragonology.fandom.com/wiki/Korean\_Yong

1. ↑ Appendix Field Guide: Book 12
Balance

**Balance** is a short story in the InCryptid series by Seanan McGuire. It is a standalone story featuring a cuckoo named Eliza.

## Synopsis

The cuckoo: the greatest psychic ambush predator this world has ever known. Wherever they originated, they're here now, and killing them is even more difficult than catching them. They walk among us, perfectly disguised, perfectly capable of pretending to be nothing more than another face in the crowd.

Eliza is a beautiful example of her breed. Cool, cunning, and poised for the kill, she sees nothing wrong with taking whatever she wants, whenever she wants it. Humanity is so easy to manipulate, after all; surely it would be more difficult if she wasn't meant to prey on them. In all things there must be balance. And when the predator becomes the prey, is there any hope for escape?

## Plot

Eliza casually manipulates people as she walks through Burbank, causing a truck driver to run over a man and plow into a cafe storefront. She charms a woman named Barb into taking her to "her" home, where she sleeps. The doorbell rings, and a man named Jesse enters, who thinks Eliza is another cuckoo named Victoria, who he loves. He takes out Barb with a pellet gun and advances on Eliza. She realizes too late that his mind is shielded, and sends out a distress signal before he shoots her with a dart of theobromine. As she dies, the other cuckoos in LA and their minions burst into the house and shoot him.

## Characters

* Eliza
* Barb
* Jesse
* Waiter

**Mentioned**

* "Victoria" (possibly assumed name)

## Cryptids

* Cuckoo
* Chupacabra

**Mentioned**

* Dragon
* Manticore
* Siren
* Witch

## Locations

* Burbank, California

**Mentioned**

* Qingyáng, China

## Continuity

* Eliza mentions that she wouldn't want the fate that comes from being a Johrlac queen.
* Jesse mentions he bought his memory of "Victoria" from a witch who saw a cuckoo at a comic-book convention.
Tier 4 rocket

Image of Tier 4 Rocket

#### About

The Tier 4 rocket is a rocket you can craft which is an upgrade to the Tier 3 Rocket. This rocket allows you to travel further than Mercury to planets like Glacio

#### Travel

The rocket can travel to:

* The Moon
* Mars
* Mercury
* Venus
* Glacio
* Orbit

#### Crafting Materials

* 1 Rocket Nose
* 6 Compressed Calorite
* 2 Calorite Tanks
* 2 Buckets
* 2 Rocket Fin
* 1 Calorite Engine
Price-Healy Family

The InCryptid series follows the Price-Healy family in their quest to study and conserve cryptids.

## Characters

### Family Tree

**External Link:** Family Echo: Family Tree

### Generations

* Gen A - Elizabeth, Muriel\*
* Gen B - Caroline, Peter; Annabelle\*
* Gen C - Enid, Alexander, Agnes
* Gen D - Jonathan, Fran, Ada, Charles; (Wallingford Price, Mary Bullard\*)
* Gen E - Alice, Thomas, Angela, Martin, Daniel
* Gen F - Kevin, Evelyn, Jane, Ted, Drew
* Gen G - Verity, Alex, Antimony, Elsie, Artie, Margaret, Sarah\*\*, James, Sally\*\*
* Gen H - Olivia, Charlotte

*\*Not included in Aeslin liturgy*

*\*\*Technically part of Gen F, but peer to Generation G due to age.*

### Friends of the Family

See also: Friends of the Family

	+ Juniper Campbell
	+ Laura Campbell
* Rose Marshall
* Mary Dunlavy
* Cynthia
* Arturo Gucciard
* Mike Gucciard
* Lea Gucciard
* Big Al
* Naga
* Herbert Wilson

### Aeslin Titles

*Alphabetical by first name; includes friends and enemies of the family*
Umbramancer

**Umbramancers** are supernaturals with fortune-telling abilities.

## Price Family Field Guide

These fortune-tellers and soothsayers are loosely tied to the twilight, but the magic they practice is more general than the road-magic of the routewitches and the ambulomancers. It's unclear exactly what relationship the umbramancers have to the twilight. Rose says they're tied to the midnight rather than the twilight. Although they have been seen visiting the crossroads, there are no known bargains involving an umbramancer.

## About

### Abilities

Umbramancers draw power from the twilight, and can briefly travel into it without dying. The further they travel, on the living roads or the ghostroads, the more powerful they become, and the more they are haunted by ghosts. They can fold distance like trainspotters, see and speak to the dead, and tell the future to a limited degree. According to Mary Dunlavy, ghosts do not like them, and when they die they don't leave ghosts behind. Most warding and capturing circles were invented by umbramancers who wanted to be left alone.

### Culture

It is implied that the umbramancers may have a phantom ruler who serves past their death, as Apple mentions that routewitches don't, unlike umbramancers. However, in Angel of the Overpass Rose says that the umbramancers have no coherent system of government at all, and are trained by family members.

## Characters

* Juniper Campbell
* Laura Campbell
* Daisy
* Timothy
* Franz Mesmer

## In Popular Culture

The Latin root "umbra" means "shade or shadow." e.g. Umbreon, umbridge

The sufficx "-mancy" means "prophecy."

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Angel of the Overpass Ch. 9
2. ↑ Long Way From Home
3. ↑ The Girl in the Green Silk Gown Ch. 10
4. ↑ https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/umbra
Unicorn

Traditional illustration

## Reference

A **unicorn** is a type of cryptid that is mentioned in the InCryptid series. Unlike popular legend, unicorns are neither benign nor attracted to virgins. They are fearsome creatures attracted to young or unsullied victims.

## About

### Appearance

Unicorns are four-legged ungulates with a single horn on their head.

### Abilities

Unicorns have the effect of purifying an environment of toxins. The extermination of unicorns in Europe by the Covenant led to contaminated water sources and several plague outbreaks.

They are one of at least eight empathetic cryptid species.

## Series Appearances

### That Ain't Witchcraft

Fern and Annie hunt a unicorn and talk about their love lives.

## Popular Culture

The **unicorn** is a legendary creature that has been described since antiquity as a beast with a single large, pointed, spiraling horn projecting from its forehead.

In European literature and art, the unicorn has for the last thousand years or so been depicted as a white horse-like or goat-like animal with a long straight horn with spiralling grooves, cloven hooves, and sometimes a goat's beard. In the Middle Ages and Renaissance, it was commonly described as an extremely wild woodland creature, a symbol of purity and grace, which could be captured only by a virgin. In the encyclopedias, its horn was said to have the power to render poisoned water potable and to heal sickness.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.dictionary.com/browse/unicorn
2. ↑ Midnight Blue-Light Special Ch. 14
3. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicorn
Swamp Hag

Official artwork

## Reference

**Swamp Hags** are an amphibious cryptid that have appeared in the swamps around the Galway Woods.

## About

Swamp hags evolved in a way known as Mertensian mimicry that allows them to be mistaken, at least in the dark and from a distance, as human women. Up close they are green and clearly amphibian, with ropey green hair and webbed hands and feet. Their mammalian features, such as breasts, are merely part of their disguise. They are obligate carnivores. They are ambush predators, at least during the day, but hunt more actively at night. They hunt in colonies consisting of up to thirty adults, plus juveniles.

The largest known amphibian in the world, they nonetheless bear live young which then go through the typical tadpole stage before maturing into bipeds. They have no maternal instincts and immediately abandon their tadpoles to the care of yearling adolescents, who inevitably eat some of the young they are meant to be protecting. They are about as smart as the average frog, but have the temperament of a wild boar, and the slashing claws of a cougar. They are roughly the size of a human when fully-grown.

Their numbers have been greatly reduced by pollution of waterways. They have no natural predators, and when their population density increases, bloodworm population densities will decline.

"Swamp hags were amphibians, like Loveland frogmen, but unlike Earl, they weren't intelligent beings or proper people. [...] Swamp hags didn't do tactics beyond the basic ones that instinct provided them with; they were basically big frogs, and if they had a little more in the way of clever than an ordinary frog, it was all down to them having bigger heads and bigger brains, which meant more space for thinking about things. But since they were still frogs, the things they were thinking about were generally food, safety, and whether or not it was safe to make more frogs." - Backpacking Through Bedlam, prologue

## In Popular Culture

A **hag** is a wizened old woman, or a kind of fairy or goddess having the appearance of such a woman, often found in folklore and children's tales such as "Hansel and Gretel". Hags are often seen as malevolent, but may also be one of the chosen forms of shapeshifting deities, such as The Morrígan or Badb, who are seen as neither wholly benevolent nor malevolent.

* Swamp Hags appear in the tabletop game Dominion.
* Swamp Hags appear in the TV show Futurama.

## Trivia

* Their taxonomic family name, Hagatusjon, is the Proto-Germanic word from which "hag" is derived. However, according to the ICZN, all animal family names end in -dae or -idae.
* Muskeg is a type of bog or peatland, derived from the Cree word *maskek*.

## References

1. ↑ Dictionary.com
2. ↑ Hag
3. ↑ Template:B
4. ↑ Hag
5. ↑ Hag
6. ↑ https://www.etymonline.com/word/hag
7. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muskeg
White as a Raven's Wing

**White as a Raven's Wing** is a short story in the InCryptid series by Seanan McGuire. It is the third story in the Istas and Ryan mini-series.

## Synopsis

Ryan and Istas have been dating happily for quite some time, and now it seems that they're ready to take the next big step: marriage. But what is normal for a tanuki is not for a waheela, and before she can make a lasting commitment in Manhattan, Istas must return to Kugluktuk to conclude her affairs in the world where she was born.

From the urban sprawl to the white wastes at the top of the world, Istas and Ryan will travel to answer the question of who she is and where she truly belongs. For no member of her family has ever gone into the thaw and remained there, and for the waheela, born as they are to the cold that never ends, a happy ending may seem to be impossible.

However this goes, it will be an ending.

## Plot

Ryan surprises Istas with a late-night picnic on the Freakshow's roof, and asks her to marry him. She accepts, but says that they need to go to far north Canada to "kill her husband" (meaning her father).

The two of them take a series of flights to Kugluktuk, and walk through the snow and ice to Mary's Place, a small bar owned by Istas's aunt Miali. Miali, like Istas, is comfortable around humans, and Istas credits her with making it possible for her to leave the land of her birth. Miali tells Istas how her mother died, and that her father kidnapped a human woman to serve as wet nurse to the pups. Istas and Ryan set out to find her.

Istas enters her family's den and challenges her father, calling on her brothers to join her in fighting against him. Ryan enters and watches, but Istas warns him against interfering. She and her brothers kill and eat their father, at which point Ryan goes outside. Istas orders her brothers to take the cubs to Miali and the human woman back to town, and heads outside to talk to Ryan. He affirms that he still loves her and wants to marry her.

## Characters

* Istas
* Ryan Yukimura
* Miali (Istas's aunt)
* Istas's father
* Irniq (Istas's brother)
* Siluk (Istas's oldest brother)

**Mentioned**

* Kitty Smith
* Candice
* Dave Smith
* Angel, the Freakshow's human bartender
* Verity Price

## Cryptids

* Waheela
* Tanuki

**Mentioned**

* Dragon
* Bogeyman

## Locations

* Manhattan, New York City
	+ The Freakshow
* Toronto
* Edmonton
* Fort Nelson
* Kugluktuk, Nunavut, Canada
	+ Mary's Place

## Quotes

* “We are born of winter. We live in winter. We die in winter. Spring is a lie we tell the young to give them hope before they are devoured.” –Waheela proverb
* “He deserved better than a monster. I deserved better than to become one.” –Istas

### Pop Culture

* Ryan mentions the film *30 Days of Night*.
Oread

Classical depiction

## Reference

**Oread** are a humanoid cryptid with the skin density of granite.

## Appendix Entry

**Oread** (*Nymphae silica*). Humanoid cryptids with the approximate skin density of granite. Their actual biological composition is unknown, as no one has ever been able to successfully dissect one. Oreads are extremely strong, and can be dangerous when angered. They seem to have evolved independently across the globe; their common name is from the Greek.

## In the Series

* Discount Armageddon:[*citation needed*]

## In Popular Culture

In Greek mythology, an **Oread** or **Orestiad** is a mountain nymph. They differ from each other according to their dwelling: the Idaeae were from Mount Ida, Peliades from Mount Pelion, etc. They were associated with Artemis, since the goddess, when she went out hunting, preferred mountains and rocky precipices.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.dictionary.com/browse/oread
2. ↑ Audiobooks narrated by Ray Porter
3. ↑ Appendix Field Guide: Books 1-11
Waxen Wings

**"Waxen Wings"** is a song about Rose Marshall.

## Lyrics

I needed something more than sitting here and counting down

The minutes of a life lived in the margins of redemption.

I needed something more than just a footnote in a sleepy town --

'She lived and died according to the currents of convention.'

Icarus had waxen wings and if he fell, well, he still flew;

He tried to reach the heavens and they slipped right through his fingers.

If someone gave me waxen wings, I'd reach out for the heavens too,

And leave behind these alleys where the ghost of hope still lingers.

I needed something more than anyone could ever give me;

I needed something I could understand.

I tried to spread my wings, I prayed the heavens would forgive me,

And if I fell, I prayed that they would leave me where I land.

I needed something more than sitting here and counting cards

The coffee spoons and cigarettes that measure endless days.

I needed something more than dead-eyed lovers, more than dead-grass yards --

The shadow girls and phantom boys who never found their ways.

Icarus had waxen wings and took a chance on something more;

I wonder if he laughed out loud when gravity embraced him.

They say that luck's a lady, but I think that fate is just a whore,

She keeps chasing all the pretty boys until one lets her taste him.

I needed something more than anyone could ever give me;

I needed something I could understand.

I tried to spread my wings, I prayed the heavens would forgive me,

And if I fell, I prayed that they would leave me where I land.

Ain't no wings for little girls who ought to know their places;

Ain't no wings for baby-dolls who try to join the races.

You've known a thousand girls like me -- you can't recall their faces.

We live inside our own regrets. We fill the empty spaces.

I needed something more than sitting here and killing time

The wasted hours that blew away like ashes in the wind.

I needed something I could face, some mountain I could climb,

A pair of waxen wings to bear me to my happy end.

Icarus had waxen wings and yes it's true, he ended badly,

But I like to think the ending that he had was what he chose.

I'd rather choose to grab for glory; if I fall, then I'll fall gladly.

The only ones who get to fall are the ones who risked, and rose.
Whiting, Indiana

Whiting is a small town in Indiana. It is located on the southern shore of Lake Michigan, only 16 miles from Chicago. It was founded in 1889.

The town is the refuge of Heloise Tapper in the mid-1900s. At that time, its population is approximately 800 people, a mix of factory workers and fishermen. The local Apraxis Wasp hive fled upon Heloise's arrival.

## Points of Interest

* Library: Heloise's place of "employment"
* Whiting Elementary School: Robert's place of "employment"
* The Mayor's house: Heloise and Robert's current residence

## References

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiting,\_Indiana
2. ↑ Oh Pretty Bird
Vegetable lamb

Traditional illustration

## Reference

The **vegetable lamb** is a type of cryptid mentioned several times in the Incryptid series such as in Half-Off Ragnarok and Pocket Apocalypse.

## In Popular Culture

The **Vegetable Lamb of Tartary** (Latin: *Agnus scythicus* or *Planta Tartarica Barometz*) is a legendary zoophyte of Central Asia, once believed to grow sheep as its fruit. It was believed the sheep were connected to the plant by an umbilical cord and grazed the land around the plant. When all accessible foliage was gone, both the plant and sheep died.

In truth, it was likely just Indian cotton plants, which were unfamiliar to the Ancient greeks who first encountered them.

## References

1. ↑ Dictionary.com
2. ↑ “The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary.” Nature 37, no. 947 (December 1887): 176–176. https://doi.org/10.1038/037176c0.
3. ↑ Fantastically Wrong: When People Thought Lambs Grew Right Out of the Ground
Train Yard Blues

**Train Yard Blues** is a Ghost Roads short story, featuring Rose Marshall.

## Plot

In Albuquerque, New Mexico, Rose witnesses a train hit a car parked across the tracks, instantly killing the car driver. The man is elated to find out he's dead, and his ghost quickly dissipates. Rose realizes he slipped her a hobo nickel, a cursed coin full of power from the distance it's traveled.

She figures the only way to rid herself of the nickel is to ask a trainspotter, so she hitches a ride on the next train, asking the train itself to let her on. She gets trapped in a ghost cage in one of the cars, and meets a terrified ghost boy who says he's a breezer, a type of railroad ghost. As they both struggle to open the door, he explains that this is a tithing train, created by trainspotters to feed ghosts to the railroad itself.

A dark, smoky entity that collects the tithes grabs the breezer and drags him away to his doom. Rose tries climbing out the roof of the car, but the thing grabs her too. She throws the hobo nickel at it and another one, and the two entities start fighting over it. Rose takes the chance to escape, running through the train until she reaches the final car and jumps off. As the train moves away from her, she sees a trainspotter on top of the last car, holding the nickel.

## Characters

* Rose Marshall
* Unnamed previous owner of the nickel
* Unnamed child rail ghost
* Unnamed trainspotters

**Mentioned**

* Unnamed cargo jockey
* Persephone

## Field Guide

* Hitchhiker
* Breezer (rail ghost)
* Trainspotter
* Tithe-collecting entities

**Mentioned**

* Routewitch
* Ambulomancer
* Persephone
* Hel

## Locations

* Albuquerque, New Mexico

**Mentioned**

* Ann Arbor, Michigan
* Last Dance Diner

## Objects

* Hobo nickel
* Persephone's blessing
* Ghost trap
* Tithing train

## Continuity

* This was published before *Sparrow Hill Road* retconned Rose's date of death from 1945 to 1952, since she says she's been dead for more than 40 years in 1985. It also mentions her tattoo with the Blessing of Persephone, but she didn't get that until 2013.
* The breezer mentions trains breaking through to the Underworld.

## Trivia

* Death scents: Ashes and burning heather - death on the rails (specifically a train colliding with a car)

## Quotes

"I don't like to say that my elders are full of crap, but there are times when I really hope that they are. There are things that shouldn't have happened once, much less over and over again since the world began. Things that don't make enough sense to be recurring themes in the history of time." — Rose

### Pop Culture

* Journey (Don't Stop Believin'), Orpheus and Eurydice
Sorcerer

Sorcerers are magic-users who have innate magical power, often centered around a specific "element". Because there are so few sorcerers due to persecution by the Covenant of St. George (among others), and the parasitism of the Crossroads many earth-based sorcerers have to learn their powers by trial and error not having a magic school or similar to go to.

Sorcery is not limited to humans and seems to crop up in any dimensional world capable of sustaining life.
"Sorcerers like Thomas seem to occur everywhere there's a pneuma, which is to say, everywhere that's capable of sustaining life. Not intelligent life: *life,* full stop. Oh, sure, maybe there are worlds that haven't progressed beyond single-celled organisms yet, but I'm sure even there, some of the protozoa have weird, inexplicable ways of speeding up their whatever the hell it is protozoa spend their time doing." - Alice

Mark describes sorcery as "physics gone feral" and Thomas's observations seem to support this description.

Sorcery is passed down to descendants, though rarely in every generation (unless there is outside intervention, such as by the Crossroads in the case of James Smith's lineage). Alice Price-Healy suspects that the Price family have a history of hidden sorcery, given how they protected the family vaults with magic.

## Characters

* Bancroft Price (possibly)
* Thomas Price (Fire)
* Antimony Price (Fire)
* James Smith (Cold)
* James's mother (deceased) (Cold)
* Colin Brighton (deceased) (Unknown)
* Betsy (unknown) (Wind)
* Several Pteracercus residents

## References

1. ↑ Backpacking Through Bedlam Ch. 1
2. ↑ Calculated Risks, Ch. 2
3. ↑ Halfway Through the Wood
4. ↑ Backpacking Through Bedlam
Raina Tanner

**Raina Tanner** is a minor character who appears in Pocket Apocalypse. She is Shelby Tanner's youngest sister.

## About

### Appearance

Short, tan, and pleasantly plump with short brown hair. First seen wearing a curly red-brown wig.

### Personality

Generally dour and irritable. Quick to tattle on her sisters to the parents.

### Abilities

Frequently playing on handheld game consoles like the 3DS or GameBoy; in addition to regular games like Pokemon she uses these devices to look at design schematics.

## In the Series

### Half-Off Ragnarok

Raina picks up Alex Price and Shelby Tanner from the airport, helping them get through security with their weapons and other contraband.

## Relationships

### Shelby Tanner

Raina loves her sister and misses her terribly. She resents Shelby for leaving the family for America and frequently complains about it.

## Trivia

Raina has a Gameboy and/or 3DS. It is unclear whether she switches between the two or Alex just can’t identify Nintendo products; he mentions her looking at design schematics on a 3DS and later playing a Pokémon-like game on a Gameboy.

## Quotes

**Pocket Apocalypse**

* **Raina:** "Can we all say, 'yay, we waved our dicks around,' and eat our damn dinner already?" (Ch. 5)
Tom (disambiguation)

Disambiguation page for Tom (disambiguation)The following is a list of links to pages that might share the same title.Please follow one of the disambiguation links below or search to find the page you were looking for if it is not listed. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.
**InCryptid Series**

* Thomas Price, nicknamed Tommy, husband to Alice Price

**Ghost Roads Series**

* Tommy (ghost rider)
* Tom (Ohio State student)
* Tom (Starbright Diner)
Shelly Wainwright

Shelly is a character in the InCryptid series by Seanan McGuire. She appears in the Alice and Thomas shorts.

Shelly is a busybody and flirt who lives in Buckley Township, Michigan. She is the first to greet Thomas Price on his arrival into town and continues trying to get his attention for the better part of a year. The two may have slept together; Thomas blushes and mentions being "out" as his reason for going to the general store so early in the morning.

1. ↑ All That Glitters
Online Resources

## Flash Fiction

* If the Leverage team were in the InCryptid universe
* Verity/Dominic soulmate AU
* Girl in the Green Silk Gown outtake (Patreon)

## Word of God

**Note:** Word of God is debated in fan communities as a source of canon. Word of God information on wiki articles should be clearly marked as such. If canon and Word of God contradict one another, published canon should be prioritized as the most accurate information.

### Lore

* InCryptid Q&A, Part I: Blind Spots
* InCryptid Q&A, Part II: Cuckoo to you too
* InCryptid Q&A, Part III: Race and gender issues
* InCryptid Q&A, Part IV: City Living is the Life for Me
* InCryptid Q&A, Part V: An Outcast's Prayer
* InCryptid Q&A, Part VI: Breeding
* InCryptid Q&A, Part VII: Luck be a Lady
* InCryptid Q&A, Part VIII: Bogeymen
* InCryptid Q&A, Part IX: College Days

### Aeslin Mice

* What Aeslin mice will and will not worship
* Aeslin titles and gender
* Aeslin high priests and splinter colonies
* Family Aeslin title procurement

### Misc.

* Will we see more Drew Baker?
* Covenant kids and pop culture
* On the ethics of eating finfolk
* What are the chances any given legendary creature exists in InCryptid?
* Gorgon digestion
* Tooth fairies
* Gorgon hair
* The name of the Covenant of St. George

### Real Life

* Cover art
* Original pitch for InCryptid
* Facebook live interview with Seanan McGuire about urban fantasy

## Fan Works

### Fan Art

* Alexander & Enid, Jonathan & Fran, Daniel, Thomas & Alice, adult Alice, and Mary
* Price-Healy kids group shot
* Price-Healy kids and partners
* Fran and Jonathan
* Alice, Thomas, and Dire Boars
* Antimony and Sam on the trapeze
* Verity and Dominic
* Sarah and Artie
* Fran and Aeslin mice
* Rose Marshall
* Felt Aeslin mouse
* Knitted Aeslin mouse
* Istas
* Fricken sculpture
* Tailypo sculpture
* Alice and Wilbur
* Mary and Rose as ponies
* Dominic & Verity, Alice & Thomas, Antimony, and Artie & Sarah as ponies
* Aeslin mouse sketch
* Sarah, Alice, Antimony, and Verity
* Alice
* Antimony
* Verity

### Fanfiction

* Archive of Our Own - InCryptid
* Aeslin mice theory (confirmed in Backpacking Through Bedlam Ch. 7)

### Filk

* Filk song by Catherine Faber about the Aeslin mice
Walter

**Walter** is a minor character that appears in Half-Off Ragnarok. He is Dee's brother and the leader of the fringe community of gorgons, who set down permanent roots in Ohio, rather than living a semi-nomadic existence in trailers.

He and his followers prefer to avoid humans as much as possible, producing their own food and goods when they are able. He agrees to take in Alex Price's breeding pair of basilisks.
Paul (disambiguation)

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**InCryptid series**

* Paul Campbell
* Paul (gorgon)
* Paul Yukimura, Ryan's father

**Ghost Roads series**

* Paul (routewitch)
New Gravesend, Maine

**New Gravesend** is a small town in Maine that is the setting of *That Ain't Witchcraft*.

## Points of Interest

### Rental House

Antimony, Sam, Cylia, and Fern rent the house from Norbert, James's cousin. They temporarily ward it against ghosts, so the Crossroads can't send Bethany to spy on them.

### Smith Family House

James Smith lives here with his father, the chief of police. The house also contains his mother's notebooks in the attic.

### Common Grounds Coffee Shop

James Smith works here. Antimony runs into Leonard Cunningham here.

### The Hanging Tree

An old gnarled tree at a crossroads. This is a traditional spot for making a bargain with a Crossroads Ghost. It's where Sally made her bargain, and where James and Antimony go to defeat the Crossroads. Rose Marshall later visits it to find out what exactly happened to the crossroads.

## Characters

* Chief Smith
* James Smith (former resident)
* Sally Henderson (former resident)
* James's mother (former resident, deceased)
* Norbert (traveling)
* Antimony Price (visiting)
* Cylia Mackie (visiting)
* Fern Conway (visiting)
* Sam Taylor (visiting)
* Leonard Cunningham (visiting)
Robert Bullard

**Robert Bullard** is a character in the InCryptid Series by Seanan McGuire. He is a field agent of the Covenant of St. George and has had several run-ins with the Price family.

## About

An experienced member of the covenant who has carried out several purges.

### Personality

Quiet and studious; completely at home with torture.

### Abilities

Robert is incredibly efficient in the field. When Verity is held captive, he produces a seemingly unending supply of household items to torture her with, such as a blood pressure cuff filled with needles.

It is unknown if he was made similarly pliable by Sarah's tampering as Margaret was.

## In the Series

### Midnight Blue-Light Special

Robert was on the mission to New York with Peter Brandt and Margaret Healy, they failed in their mission and were mind wiped by the Cuckoo Sarah.

### Magic for Nothing

Meets a new Covenant recruit (Antimony Price) and heads up the mission to test her in America. Bites off more than he can chew and gets a throwing knife in the throat.

## References

1. ↑ Magic for Nothing Ch. 21
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Midnight Blue-Light Special Ch. 21
3. ↑ That Ain't Witchcraft Ch. 19
4. ↑ Magic for Nothing Ch. 24
Paul (routewitch)

**Paul** is a character in the Ghost Roads series by Seanan McGuire. He is an apprentice routewitch.

## About

### Appearance

Paul is a young routewitch apprentice, with acne scars on his cheeks and wind-chapped lips. Rose says he would be handsome if he took the time to comb his hair, straighten his shirt, and clean the oil from under his nails.

### Personality

Paul is bitter about being forced to serve as a sentry, and Apple says he has not yet learned kindness and humility.

## Biography

Paul is much older than he looks. Around 2006, he traveled all around the world, building up power, and challenged Apple for the leadership of the routewitches. She easily reflected his attack, taking away his distance and power, and returning a sixty-year-old man to a young teenager. As penance, he is forced to stay at the Queen's court on the Ocean Lady as a servant until he learns kindness and humility.

## In the Series

### Sparrow Hill Road

In 2013, Paul is sent to greet Rose Marshall when she arrives at the Ocean Lady to meet the Queen of the Routewitches. He appears to be the youngest routewitch there, and Rose guesses he was sent outside to meet her as a form of hazing.

### The Girl in the Green Silk Gown

Paul is still on the Ocean Lady as before, and hasn't changed much. Apple calls him out for being rude to Rose when she returns with her, and explains why he is a servant there.

## References

1. ↑ The Girl in the Green Silk Gown Ch. 11
Aegon VI Targaryen

**King Aegon VI Targaryen** also known as **Aegon the Unburnt** is the eldest child of **King Corlys I Targaryen** and **Princess Alysanne Dayne.** He is the **Head of House Targaryen, King of the Andals, the Rhoynar and First Men, Lord of the Nine Kingdoms, Defender of the People** and **Protector of the Realm.** He is married to **Queen Cirilla Lannister.** He is the father of **Princess Daenerys Targaryen, Princess Visenya Targaryen, Crown Prince Rhaegar Targaryen, Prince Maekar Targaryen** and **Prince Baelor Targaryen.**
Tailypo

Official artwork

## Reference

**Tailypo** are a racoon-like cryptid, sometimes called the North American lemur, that frequently appear in the Alice and Thomas shorts.

## About

Tailypo are biologically similar to raccoons, albeit much larger. They range in size from standard raccoons to Golden Retrievers and have opposable thumbs. They are obligate carnivores who have been known to take down housecats, vermin, and bats in flight. Working together, they can even take down a deer.

They are well-camouflaged in their forest/mountain habitat with brown, red, and grayish fur. Their tails are three times the length of their body and vital to their individual survival.

They live in small groups of their own gender. Males will fight other males outside their bonded group, but females typically won’t unless they are nursing young.

Tailypo are curious and inquisitive, which leads to them often being shot at by campers and hunters. They are susceptible to rabies, which has decimated the population far more than the Covenant.

## In the Series

* In the Alice and Thomas Shorts, Alice talks Thomas into taking an injured tailypo home and restoring it to health. That tailypo brings many more, and Thomas reluctantly allows them to live in his house. Aside from Mary, they provide most of his companionship from 1956 to 1960, when he is confined to the house and Alice has stopped visiting. Generations later, Alice leaves the Parrish Place to the tailypo most of the time, when she's off in other dimensions. When she comes back, she asks the tailypo for the house key.
* In the (possibly non-canonical) short story "Tailed", Verity works with Elena Michaels to stop tailypo poaching in upstate New York.

## In Popular Culture

The tailypo is based on a legend from Appalachian folklore about a hunter who chops off its tail and eats it. Over the course of the night, he is kept up by strange noises and the glowing eyes of the creature, which demands the return of its "tailypo". He sends his three hounds after it several times, but each time one fails to come back, until he is left alone and the tailypo exacts its revenge.

## Scientific Classification

* **Procyonidae**: The raccoon family. Also includes coatis, which have a long tail like the tailypo (though they hold it raised).
* **Ouramakros**: from Greek oura (tail) and makros (long)
Siobhan Kavanagh

**Siobhan "Bon" Kavanagh** is an ambulomancer who appears in both the Ghost Roads and InCryptid series.

## About

### Appearance

Siobhan has hair dyed black and streaked with lilac.

## Biography

Siobhan is the eldest daughter of Richard and Jill, and has two children, Donal and Minerva. She left Ireland and traveled across the ocean, determined to never go back. In America, she spent some time on the Ocean Lady at Apple's court.

## In the Series

### Ghost Roads

#### The Girl in the Green Silk Gown

Siobhan is one of the routewitches at the Queen's court on the Ocean Lady. Being Irish, she is shocked and unnerved when she encounters Emma, a *beán sidhe*.

### InCryptid

#### Chaos Choreography

Verity Price encounters Siobhan working as a psychic at a flea market. She buys an anti-confusion charm from Siobhan to counteract whatever spell is making Dance or Die employees forget to wonder why the competitors are disappearing after they are eliminated from the show.

## References

1. ↑ The Girl in the Green Silk Gown Ch. 3
2. ↑ The Girl in the Green Silk Gown Ch. 12
Olivia Price

**Spoiler warning!**
Ahead are significant plot details from the InCryptid novel, Backpacking Through Bedlam (2023). Read at your own peril!

## Identity

### Nicknames

Olive
Livvy
Liv

## Family

### Grandparents

Kevin Price (maternal)
Evelyn Price (maternal)
Christabelle De Luca (paternal, deceased)
Antonio De Luca (paternal, deceased)

### Parents

Verity Price
Dominic De Luca

## InCryptid Series

### Notable Appearances

Backpacking Through Bedlam

**Olivia (Olive) Price** is the daughter of Verity Price and Dominic De Luca. She is first introduced in Backpacking Through Bedlam.

Verity has become considerably more careful since becoming a mother, although she has gone on at least one roof-hopping adventure with Olivia strapped to her chest.

Olivia has met Evelyn and is confused when Verity introduces Alice Price-Healy as another "Grandma."
Sunil

**Sunil** is a recurring character in the InCryptid novels. He co-owns a bakery with his siblings in Manhattan, New York City.

His sister, Piyusha, is killed by the servitors and Sunil talks to Verity about retrieving Piyusha's body.

He works at the family business, Gingerbread Pudding Cafe.

He is on his second molt, still considered immature for a madhura, and is embarrased by his brother bringing it up.

## Quotes

* **Sunil:** "People have been nasty to us ever since we moved here.
**Dominic:** "From India?"
Sunil looked at him like he was an idiot. "From San Jose. Do we sound like we're from India?" (Ch. 21)
Routewitch

**Routewitches** are a type of supernatural that draw their power from distance traveled on the road.

## About

These children of the moving road gather strength from travel, much as the ambulomancers do, but the resemblance stops there. Rather than controlling the road, routewitches choose to work with it, borrowing its strength and using it to make bargains with entitles both living and dead. The routewitches of North America are currently based out of the old Atlantic Highway, which "died" in 1926, and are organized by their Queen, Apple, a young woman of Japanese-American descent who matches the description of a teenage girl who mysteriously disappeared from Manzanar during World War II. The exact capabilities of the routewitches remain unclear, although they seem to have a close relationship with the Crossroads.

There are routewitches of the seas as well as land, and both have truces with their counterparts in the air. River routewitches are called sounders.

### Abilities

A routewitch draws power from travel. Unlike a highway ghost, routewitches are affected by any form of travel: walking, flying, riding are all fair game. A routewitch is able to track an item that has traveled in someone’s possession in order to find that person, though their ability is muddled by items that have passed hands countless times.

## Characters

### InCryptid Series

* Juniper Campbell
* Laura Campbell
* Emily Doyle
* Darius

### Ghost Roads Series

* Apple
* Eloise
* Paul (routewitch)
* Devi
* Matthew
* Mikey
* Bethany
* Carl (mechanic)
* Dana
* Rose Marshall would have been a routewitch if she hadn't died, and briefly becomes one when she is forcibly incarnated.

## References

1. ↑ Price Family Field Guide to the Twilight of North America: Ghost Roads Edition
2. ↑ The Girl in the Green Silk Gown
3. ↑ Long Way From Home
4. ↑ Magic for Nothing Ch. 4
The Hand of the Forest

**The Hand of the Forest** is an InCryptid short story. It is tenth in the Alice and Thomas Shorts and continues the events of What You Pay For and What You Build.

## Synopsis

You asked, and I am not entirely cruel, so here is the last part of the problem Alice and Thomas have been dealing with for the last several installments.

## Plot

Thomas and his parents take an unconscious Alice home after her ordeal. Jonathan vows to take Alice far away from Buckley for her own protection, once she recovers.

Thomas, Gwendolyn, and Mary stalk the forest in search of the infected bear. As they walk, Gwendolyn muses about the difficulties of getting Thomas to do his duty by her and produce a Price heir for the Covenant. Thomas sends Mary and Gwendolyn off together so he can use his sorcerer fire to raze the animal remains of a slime attack.

Gwendolyn realizes Mary is a ghost, but Mary keeps up the charade of being Thomas's wife and finally shows some antagonism toward Gwendolyn in the process. The three reconvene and follow the trail to the Healy house. The slime-bear attacks them, and Gwendolyn is infected. Thomas uses his flame to destroy the bear and the slime covering Gwendolyn; Gwendolyn sees. Then Thomas brings Gwendolyn into the Healy house and gets Enid and Alexander's help in expelling the slime.

When Thomas explains his sorcery to Enid, Alexander, and Gwen alike--continuing the lie to Gwendolyn that he and Mary are married--Gwen quickly melts into understanding and sympathy and agrees to go back to the Covenant without him.

## Characters

* Jonathan Healy
* Alice Healy
* Enid Healy
* Alexander Healy
* Thomas Price
* Mary Dunlavy
* Gwendolyn Brandt

**Mentioned**

* Frances Healy

## Field Guide

* Alkabyiftiris slime
* Peryton
* Aeslin Mice
* Crossroads ghost

**Mentioned**

* White Lady

## Locations

* Buckley Township, Michigan
	+ The forest
	+ The Healy House

## Continuity

* The crossroads are ecstatic that Alice may die, as one of her descendants is supposed to make things difficult for them.

## Trivia

* Enid was the best tracker of her generation within the Covenant. She was betrothed to Alexander before she was even seventeen.
	+ They met in Pembrokeshire, Enid wiping blood off her cheeks
* Covenant training includes the belief that a husband's will supersedes his wife's
* Buckey's death rate is three times the state average.
* Sorcery runs in families.
* Enid has hunted sorcerers before.

## Quotes

* "The locals had a word for people who went into the woods at night--two words, actually. The original, and older word, was 'deceased.' The word that had come more recently into favor was 'Healy.'"
* "Three controlled fires and an unseen manipulation are a bit more than I usually attempt in a single day." -Thomas, after Gwendolyn leaves
* "[Alice] belongs to herself, and to the forest, and her deed of ownership, such as it was, was settled by greater hands than mine." -Mary
White Lady

## Price Family Field Guide

These spirits of abandoned or betrayed women can be of any age, united only by the tragedies which killed them. They are not technically road ghosts, but are often mistaken for hitchers, and have been recorded seeking rides as a cover for their violent revenge. White ladies are extremely dangerous and should be avoided.
Trainspotter

**Trainspotters** appear in both the InCryptid and Ghost Roads series. They are supernaturals who gain their power from traveling the rails.

## Price Family Field Guide

Very little is known. They have been called "the routewitches of the rails," but no direct information has yet been collected.

## About

Amusement park rides count as trains when gathering magic. They don't always need to eat or drink, and it's very difficult to kill a trainspotter through ordinary means.

Trains used to frequently pass into the Underworld dimension, leading to the deaths of some or all onboard. This "fed" the railroads, but with the decline in rail travel, trainspotters started creating "tithing trains", which trap ghosts on them and feed them to the railroad.

## In Popular Culture

"Trainspotting" refers to someone who enjoys watching trains and collecting their engine numbers; someone who watches for trains.

## References

1. ↑ Price Family Field Guide to the Twilight of North America: Ghost Roads Edition
2. ↑ Tricks for Free
3. ↑ Long Way From Home
4. ↑ Train Yard Blues
5. ↑ https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/trainspotter
Passing Grades in Penance

Fanmade cover

**Passing Grades in Penance** is an InCryptid short story written for Seanan McGuire's Patreon supporters. It is 17th in the Alice and Thomas Shorts.

## Synopsis

And now we're back to the Alice and Thomas timeline for another visit to Alice's awkward college days.  CW: Domestic violence, brief, and immediately squashed, but still present.

Alice is not enjoying her time in the halls of higher education.

## Plot

Laura prepares to leave for summer break and offers one last time for Alice to come with her. Alice declines, choosing to stay in the dorms and take summer classes.

While on campus, she encounters a classmate named Clark. She manipulates her father into giving her money to get a new dress and wears in to encourage Clark to ask her out.

She and Clark go on several dates. On the seventh, she spills a drink on him and he hits her. Alice retaliates with her own strike before leaving him. She walks through the woods on her way home and encounters a lindworm, which she kills, and then calls her grandfather for help with cleanup.

## Characters

* Alice Healy
* Laura Campbell
* Mary Dunlavy
* Jonathan Healy
* Alexander Healy
* Clark Lawson, a classmate
* Clara/Tara, a classmate, and her friends

**Mentioned**

* Juniper Campbell (unnamed, Laura's mother)
* King of Ghosts and Shadows
* Peter, a classmate
* Frances Healy
* Thomas Price
* Wilbur the hodag

## Field Guide

* Aeslin Mice
* Crossroads Ghost
* Umbramancer
* Lindworm

**Mentioned**

* Hodag
* Tailypo

## Locations

* University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

**Mentioned**

* Buckley Township, Michigan
	+ Galway Woods
	+ Buckley Library

## Organizations

**Mentioned**

* Campbell Family Carnival