Powers

**Powers**, also known as **Legacies** on Loric or **Paranormal Abilities** or **Special Talents** or **Superpowers**, refers to the unique abilities grant to certain beings or even entire species.

## Stealing Powers

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The most common M.O. of demons and warlocks is to steal powers from other magical beings to increase their own strength. Killing another witch and stealing his or her powers will turn a witch into a warlock. As such, warlocks generally steal the powers of witches; though they will also target other beings to build their power base and achieve their personal end goals. All warlocks possess the innate ability to kill other magical beings and absorb their magic though an athame.

Most demons, by contrast, lack the natural ability to steal powers. Some upper level and fewer lower level demons do have this ability. Other demons require spells, rituals or magical objects in order to steal powers. Demons generally steal powers to build up their own power and strength, to climb the ladder of the demonic hierarchy and eventually take over the Underworld.

### Methods of Power Stealing

In order to obtain the powers from another being one must usually kill it. This is the preferred way for demons and warlocks. They generally use a lethal power or an athame, after which they absorb the powers.

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Warlocks prefer to use only an athame, since athames can be used to channel magic. When warlocks and demons (with the ability to steal powers) kill their victims the powers automatically transfer from victims into the warlocks. However, when using a special type of athame, warlocks and demons can store the powers into the blade until they are ready to absorb them.

Evil witches generally use spells and potions to steal another witch's powers. This allows them to steal powers, unknown to the victim as well as steal them from a distance and without any harm. Vanquishing the evil witch usually sends back the stolen powers to their original possessors, should they still be alive.
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### To Call a Witch's Powers

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Main article: To Separate a Witch from Her Powers
This spell, which can be found in the Book of Shadows, is used to steal the powers from another witch. First one has to brew a potion, which has to be consumed, willingly or unwillingly, by the witch whose powers are sought. After consumption, the adjoining spell then has to be chanted to steal and absorb the powers. This spell was supposedly added to the Book of Shadows to teach future witches a lesson about personal gain, or to reclaim stolen powers.

## Binding Powers

Main article: Power Binding

This refers to the process of using a spell or potion to disable a witch's basic and active powers, rendering them powerless. The act of binding does not remove the powers but simply makes them dormant until the binding was undone. This can be achieved by reversing the unbinding, becoming unbound under stressful situations or due the death of the person who performed the binding. Binding is usually performed on young witches as they are considered incapable of properly using their powers until old enough, and that having powers is potentially dangerous as it makes them targets to evil beings or simply because their active power is too destructive. Examples of binding include:

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* When the Charmed Ones encountered the Evil Enchantress, who was bent on becoming the Queen of 12th century kingdom by magically manipulating the Prince and conceiving his heir, they resolved to stop her plot permanently by binding her powers, as she was a powerful evil witch that could conjure the elements. They bound her powers using a Binding Potion by throwing it near her.

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* Tyler Michaels voluntarily had his powers bound, being a young Firestarter who couldn't control his pyrokinetic abilities and was almost made a student in the training academy of a demon named Ludlow. His power eventually became unbound five years later when he was attacked by demons. Piper made the potion used to bind his powers, while also considering whether to she should bind her own child's powers.
* The Stillman Sisters was a trio of low-level evil witches who gained notoriety for their small-time cons and hustles. This granted them an entry in the Book of Shadows; though it was only a small paragraph that claimed they weren't worth vanquishing and instructed the reader to only bind their magic if they proved to be a nuisance. The Charmed Ones eventually did so after the Stillman sisters took their identities.
* Paige reluctantly decided to bind her daughters' powers after one of them set fire to their house.

## Disempowering Beings

### Tuatha Disempowers the Charmed Ones

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In 1999, an two-hundred year old evil witch called Tuatha was accidentally freed from her prison. In order to prevent the Charmed Ones from killing her, she disempowered them. The spell required a fresh human heart for each witch who had to be disempowered. However, her spell did not bind the potion making ability of the Charmed Ones, but their potions had no effect on her.

A few years later, the warlock Bacarra, used the same method as Tuatha, though he only required one heart.

## Counteracting Powers

When vanquishing an evil being, it may happen that powers have to be counteracted.

### The Charmed Ones Vanquish Eames

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Main article: Eames Vanquishing Spell

In 2001 the Charmed Ones faced the warlock Eames. He had been planning to kill all Elders and Whitelighters since the late 1980s. In order to vanquish him, the Charmed Ones had to counteract three powers he had stolen; cloning, transmogrification, and deflection. They did so using the following spell;

*Time for amends, and a victim's revenge.*
*Cloning power turn sour.*
*Power to change turn to strange,*
*I'm rejectin' your deflection.*
The last three lines where individually written by one of the sisters and counteracted a specific power. Phoebe noted that her line (*the last one*) sounded a little western.

## Relinquishing Powers

Only to be done in direst emergency, powers can be relinquished. Simply put, powers can be *given up*. This can be accomplished by a spell.
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### Rex Buckland Blackmails Prue Halliwell

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In early 1999, a warlock only known by his alias as Rex Buckland, was able to blackmail Prue Halliwell. With the use of trickery and magic, Rex made Prue steal a valuable tiara at the auction house she worked at, thus framing a robery.

When Prue was put in jail, her sisters helped her to escape but while they ran away, they were caught by Rex, who had taken a photograph of their escape. He proposed that the sisters used the relinquishing spell in their Book of Shadows, and give him their charmed powers.

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After a long discussion and with no other choice, the sisters agreed and did as he said. They cast the relinquishment spell and stored their powers in a magical container that Rex had given them. As the sisters handed over their powers to Rex, he ordered his partner and lover, Hannah to kill them.

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However on that moment, Leo Wyatt, the Charmed Ones' Whitelighter, used his powers to reverse the magic and undo the relinquishment spell. This caused for the sisters' powers to return, making them able to rescue themselves from Hannah, who had transformed herself into a black panther.

Back at the Manor, the sisters decided to burn the entry from their Book of Shadows, making it unable for future generations to relinquish their powers.

### The Spell Kept Safe in Piper's Mind

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In late 2001, Piper got kidnapped by the Source of All Evil. He had learned that Piper had memorized the relinquishment spell before she and her sisters burned the page from the Book of Shadows a few years back.

By entering her mind, he tried to manipulate her. By making her believe that she was mentally ill, that her being a witch was part of her imagination, he tried to make her say the spell to *cure* her of her illness. The Source almost succeeded, had it not been for the intervention of Piper's sisters and Leo.

## Powers in Mortals

See also: Corruption
Mortals are humans who possess no magical powers and whose biological functions doesn't allow them to. It has been established that if mortals are granted too much power, they will fall into a state of paranoia and insanity as their body and mentality is not prepared for dealing with them.

However, in 2009, magic switched and supernatural beings were stripped of their powers, while mortals were granted them. However, in this case, mortals didn't suffer any kind of paranoia or insanity, presumably due to the magical balance being switched to allow them to handle the magic as well as beings in the Magical Community could.

## Genetically Powered Races

### Earth

#### **Humans (Homo Sapiens)**

* **Eternals (Homo immortalis):** The Eternals
* **Deviants (Homo descendus):** The Deviants
* **Mutants (Homo Superior):** The Mutants
* **Atlanteans (Homo Mermanus)** The Atlanteans
	+ **Atlantean Mutants (Homo Mermanus Superior):**
	+ **Meta-Atlanteans (Homo Mermanus Metamorphosis):**
	+ **Evolved Atlanteans (Homo Mermanus):**
* **Meta-humans (Homo Metamorphosis):** The Meta-humans
* **Evolved Humans:** The Evolved Humans
* **Supes (Super-abled):** The Supes are humans granted powers by Compound V, The Supes can have their powers removed with Compound V-.
* **Psions (Psi):** The Psions possess powers based on one of five color classification. The source of their abilities is Idiopathic Adolescent Acute Neurodegeneration which caused by Agent Ambrosia.
* **Kree experiments:**
	+ **Inhumans (Inhomo supremis):** Millions of years ago, the alien race known as the Kree visited Earth and experimented with a group of primitive humans. Their intent was to engineer soldiers in their intergalactic war for conquest, but instead it was foretold that said creations would one day destroy them. The Kree ended their experiments and left the Earth, expecting the experiments to die, but the test subjects and their descendants would go on to form a society of their own isolated from the rest of humanity. They became known as **The Inhumans**, an advanced sub-species of the human race who gain their powers through exposure to Terrigen Mist, which activates the augmentations in their DNA. Although The Inhumans were first believed to only exist in their city of Attilan, led by the Inhuman Royal Family, it was later discovered that Inhuman descendants are in fact scattered across the planet. Today, Inhumans are a unique species living alongside their human brethren, mutants, aliens, and others.
	+ **Alpha Primitives:** The **Alpha Primitives** were created four thousand years ago by Inhuman geneticist Avadar, who had convinced the governing Genetic Council of the need of a race of sub-human servants to free their species Inhumans of any physical work. For centuries the Inhumans were told that the Alpha Primitives were artificial humanoid life-forms created as slaves to Attilan, the Alpha Primitives are actually Humans who have gone through Xerogenesis, this involved being exposed to the mists of the Xerogen Crystals empowered by the Slave Engine which was previously created by the Kree to use against their human enemies.
	+ **Utopians (Homo supremis):** Created alongside the Inhumans the Utopians. Exogen Crystals
* **Human Jovians:** The Jovians were those men and women from Earth whose mass and density were adapted to thrive on the gas giants of the Solar System.
* **Human Mercurians:** In the 31st century, Mercury was home to a race that was developed by techno-barons' genetic engineering to breed a sub-species of humans to colonize Mercury. In the year 3,000, Mercurians joined other colonies in the Milky Way galaxy to become partners in a United Federation. The Mercurians, as well as other members of the United Federation, were savagely attacked and conquered by the Badoon in the year 3,007.
* **Pluvians:** In the 31st century, the twin worlds of Pluto-Charon were home to a race that was developed by techno-barons' genetic engineering to breed a sub-species of humans to colonize Pluto. In the year 3,000 Pluvians joined other colonies in the Milky Way system to become partners in a United Federation. The Pluvians, as well as other members of the United Federation, were savagely attacked and conquered by the Badoon in the year 3,007. Martinex T'Naga, last known survivor of Pluto, escaped his world through the inter-colony teleporters along with Charlie-27, the last known Jovian.

#### Animals (Fauna)

* **Mutant Animals (Fauna Superior):** The Mutant Animals
	+ **Predator X (Canine Superior Apexus):**
	+ **Tracker Cats (Felidae Superior Tracker):**
* **Meta-Animals (Fauna Metamorphosis):** The Meta-Animals
* **Evolved Animals:** The Evolved Animals

#### Plant (Flora)

* **Mutant Flora (Flora Superior):** The Mutant Flora
* **Meta-Flora (Flora Metamorphosis):** The Meta-Flora

### Mercury

* **Mercurian (Alien):** The Native Mercurian
* **Mercurian (Human):** The Immigrate Mercurian

### Mars

* **Martians** The Martians
	+ **Burning Martians:** The Burning Martians
	+ **Green Martians:** The Green Martians
	+ **White Martians:** The White Martians
	+ **Red Martians:** The Red Martians

## Mystically Powered Races

### Earth

* **Immortal Humans:** Immortal Humans, or Immortals, are granted immortally.
* **Witches:** Witches
* **Wizards:** Wizards
* **Warlocks:** Warlocks
* **Vampires:** Vampires
* **Werewolves:** Werewolves
* **Shapeshifters:** Shapeshifters
* **Psychics:** Psychics
* **Slayers:** Slayers
* **Miracle Children:** Miracle Children
* **Special Children:** Special Children
* **Utopians:** Utopians
* **Amazonians:** The Amazonians
* **Nethermancers:** The Nethermancers
* **Banishers:** The Banishers

## Notes and Trivia

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* The Charmed Ones are the only beings to have a *power connection* where they can tap into each one another's powers. For example, when Paige was unable to speak and had to orb Wyatt to her, away from the Crone, Piper and Phoebe touched her arms and called out for Wyatt; activating Paige's power to telekinetically orb Wyatt to her.
* In some episodes, there are deviations in a power's natural color (for example: red energy balls and purple orbs).
* According to Grams, during pregnancy, a witch has to train her powers daily. If not, the witch's powers can go awry. This was proven in the next episode by Piper when she was pregnant with Wyatt. When she tried to blow up demons, she would instead create fireworks or flowers.
* Artifacts, like the Book of Shadows, can possess powers as well. However, these powers were given to them by charms and spells that were cast upon them. Their strength usually depends on the being whose using that artifact. For example, as the bond between the Charmed Ones grows, so does the strength of their Book of Shadows.
* Some artifacts are specifically created to contain powers. These *Power Containers* are used to store powers. Even mortals can be used to store powers, a method generally used by Demonic Power Brokers. However, since mortals were not born to receive any kind of magical power, this will ultimately result in their self-destruction.
* The Charmed Ones vanquished a large number of evil beings by redirecting their own or their allies' powers against them.
* Astral Projection is the only known power that can be obtained by through learning rather than naturally possessing it or taking it from another being. Powers like Super Strength can be accessed through the use of other powers.
* Certain beings are named specifically for the power they naturally possess, even if that power isn't necessarily exclusive to them:
	+ Shapeshifters have Shapeshifting
	+ Empaths have Empathy
	+ Firestarters have Pyrokinesis
	+ The Water Demon has Hydrokinesis
	+ The Shocker Demon has Electrokinesis

## See also

* List of Powers
* Channeling
* Corruption
* Power Manipulation
* Power Absorption
* Power Activation
* Power Deactivation
* Power Containment
* Power Erasure
* Power Bestowal
* Power Mimicry
* Power Negation
* Power Transferal
* Power Tapping

## References

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1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Cite error: Invalid `<ref>` tag; no text was provided for refs named `Wicca Envy`
2. ↑ Season 2, "Astral Monkey"
3. ↑ Season 9, "The Old Witcheroo"
4. ↑ Season 5, "Siren Song"
5. ↑ Season 5, "Sense and Sense Ability"
6. ↑ Season 5, "Happily Ever After"
7. ↑ Cite error: Invalid `<ref>` tag; no text was provided for refs named `The Fifth Halliwheel`