On the Mentor Spirit front: the intention is that she has Coyote (Raven) as a Mentor, and I'm doing what I can with the bosses to--hopefully--get an insert wedged in somewhere prior to the boxed set(s) going to print.
Wait...so mechanically, Coyote is supposed to be identical to Raven? This is news to me.
And while the SR5 core book does mention that Raven is a "close cousin" to Coyote, it doesn't exactly list in under the "similar archetype" heading. Was this why a formal Coyote mentor spirit was absent from the book? Because it was deemed too similar to Raven?
For game purposes, yes, you use the Raven Mentor Spirit stats for folks following Coyote. The Magic chapter guy had his list of Mentors worked up ahead of time, a few of us (Bull and myself, FWIW) both just kind of
assumed Coyote would be on there, and we both ended up writing fiction pieces with Coyote shaman (mine the Intro/Cover crew, Bull's the text for the Matrix chapter, IIRC). Then, months down the line, when the final product was getting all laid out and everyone was able to really sit down and try to digest it all at once, we went "Bwuh?"
And then we chatted over the Mentor Spirit list, and figured it would be silly to list two classical Trickster archetypes (in a book where page space was fast becoming a valuable commodity), so we slapped a line onto the fluff of Raven to make it clear that Raven also worked for that other classical SR trickster totem, Coyote.
As far as repeat cards, barring the cyberear one, I'm under the impression that's intentional. Ares Predators and Armor Jackets/Lined Coats grow on trees, for instance, so the intent was to provide multiple cards of them, I believe. Cards were someone else's bailiwick, but that's what I recall hearing, at least. That said, the cyberear thing is something I can kick upstairs and try to see if we can fix it prior to things going to print, yes.
