“I used to have a crush on William the Bloody, because hearing his accent made me feel less alone.'That crush died when my sister locked me in a room with him, and he tried to rip out my throat!”– Mercy Chancellor. Mercy Chancellor was born in 1862 to Harriet Chancellor and an unnamed father. She was the youngest of two children, and the spawn of an affair with an English man. This created great havoc in her young life, and ultimately led to her imprisonment in the Talisman of Sire.