Matthew Tate

## **Personal Data**

**BIRTH NAME:** Matthew Tate

**AGE:** Inapplicable.

**HAIR:** Brown.

**EYES:** Brown.

**OCCUPATION:** None

**DESIGNATION:** Warlock.

**KNOWN POWERS:** Translocation, ability to copy the powers of others.

**KNOWN RELATIVES:** None

## **Background**

In 1692, a Warlock named Matthew Tate was sent to Salem, to become the lover of Melinda Warren, a young witch. The plan was for Matthew to acquire Melinda's powers. Once Matthew had achieved that goal, he betrayed Melinda to the village council, and she was arrested.

Just prior to Melinda's execution, Matthew paid her a visit and admitted that he never truly loved her, he had only been interested in her powers. Melinda was ready for him, and used a spell to trap Matthew in a locket that she wore around her neck. The locket was sealed in such a way that only Melinda, or one of her family members, could open it.

Although Melinda was still executed, her daughter, Prudence, survived and started the family line of witches that eventually became the Halliwell line. Her locket eventually ended up in the Witchcraft Museum in Salem.

## **Matthew's first escape**

In 1998, a minion of the Source, named Zathan, stole the locket and delivered it to Rex Buckland and Hannah Webster, who were then working for the Source. Zathan told the two Warlocks the story of the locket and what it contained.

Eventually, Rex tricked Prue Halliwell into freeing Matthew Tate. Rex and Hannah hoped that Matthew could acquire the Halliwell sisters powers.

At first the plan seemed to work, as Matthew successfully acquired the powers of Prue and Phoebe Halliwell. However, Matthew became too overconfident, and the Charmed Ones, with the help of Melinda Warren, whom they had summoned from the Spirit World, defeated him. Matthew was returned to the locket and Melinda, on her way back to the Spirit World, returned to the Witchcraft Museum, in Salem.

## **Interim**

Matthew would remain in the locket for another nineteen years. Thus he was unaware of Rex and Hannah turning against the Source, renouncing evil and eventually leading the Warlock Revolution.

## **Matthew's second escape**

In August of 2017, the Old One known as Hastur, along with Johanna Martense and Herbert West, managed to capture Zathan in order to get information on Rex and Hannah (whom they viewed as a threat to their plans to free the other Old Ones). Zathan informed them about the time that he, acting under the orders of the Source, had brought Melinda Warren's locket, containing Matthew Tate, to Rex and Hannah in 1998, and the subsequent events that followed.

Johanna and West, acting under Hastur's orders, stole the locket from the Witchcraft Museum, in Salem, and brought it back to him. Using his powers, Hastur managed to track the descendants of Melinda Warren. He soon found out about a woman named Charlotte Hackett, a great-great niece of Melinda Warren who had been born in 1834, in Boston.  In 1857, Charlotte had married a man named Michael Brody.  They eventually moved to Michael’s home city of Atlanta, Georgia. A few years after that, in 1864, the couple had a baby girl, just as General Sherman had began his siege on the city.  All three of them were thought of have perished when Sherman had eventually burned the city,  However, the baby had been removed from Atlanta before it had been burned down and neither Charlotte or Michael had a chance to tell any of their relatives before they had died.  Thus the baby grew up, being completely unaware of her background.  Her family line had continued right up to the present day, with the rest of the now Halliwell clan being unaware of their continued existence, and a descendant of this branch could free Matthew.

Said descendant, was an eighty-five year old woman named Margaret Jacobs, who was in a nursing home with Alzheimer's Disease. Herbert West was sent to her, with the locket, and he was easily able to get her to open the locket and release Matthew Tate. Once Matthew was released, West convinced him that he too served the Source and could help Matthew get his revenge. The unsuspecting Matthew easily fell for the dupe. Hastur then posed as the Source, in order to trick Matthew into obeying his orders, namely going after Rex and Hannah, to keep them distracted. Hastur told Matthew that he wanted Rex and Hannah punished for leading the Warlock Revolution. The misguided Matthew, awed that the "Source" would personally choose him for this mission, willing went along with the plan.

## **Matthew tries to attack Rex and Hannah**

Matthew then made two unsuccessful attempts to attack Rex and Hannah.

The first attack was repelled by Hannah shape shifting into a tiger and attacking Matthew. The second attempt failed because Rex used a spell in the Necronomicon to paralyze Matthew, forcing him to retreat.

## **Matthew's final gambit**

After the unsuccessful attacks, Matthew changed his tactics. He kidnapped Staci Clarke, whom he had witnessed Hannah interacting with and saw that they were friends. He took Staci to an island on the Miskatonic River and demanded that Rex and Hannah come there and surrender to him, if they valued Staci's life. Rex and Hannah had no choice but to agree to Matthew's terms, in order to save their friend.

When Rex and Hannah reached the island, they asked Matthew as to why he was doing this. Matthew stated that the Source had survived the Warlock Revolution and he was only carrying out his orders.

However, Rex informed Matthew that the Source had been vanquished by the Charmed Ones, some fifteen years earlier. At first, Matthew didn't believe them, but the two former Warlocks managed to convince him of the truth. Angry, Matthew headed off to confront the "Source", while Rex and Hannah freed Staci.

## **Matthew's fate**

Matthew returned to Hastur and angerly confronted him, demanding to know the truth. Seeing no further use for the hapless Warlock, Hastur revealed his face to Matthew. Seeing the face of the Old One drove Matthew incurably insane.

Matthew was eventually found stumbling along a country road, his hair snow white and his eyes looking like they’d seen some unspeakable horror. All attempts to question him were useless, as his mind had been completely destroyed at the sight of Hastur's face. In the end, Matthew was confined to a sanitarium in the town of Sefton, where he now remains.

## **Rex and Randolph's visit**

In November of 2018, Rex and Randolph learned of Matthew's confinement. They then travelled to see him in the asylum. Rex was shocked at Matthew's appearance.

Matthew then briefly revealed that he now could somehow tune into the thoughts of the Old Ones. He then began to spout a series of numbers, that Rex asked Randolph to take note us. The numbers turned out to be coordinates of a small island in the South Pacific, in the region of Samoa. Matthew had indicated that something was going to happen there, and that Rex and Hannah needed to stop it.

Just before leaving the asylum, Rex promised Matthew that they would return for him and try to find a way to help him. Rex thought he saw Matthew shed a tear of joy at that promise.

## **References**

*Rex and Hannah Chronicles Story No. 47: Revenge From The Past*

*Rex and Hannah Chronicles Story No. 52: Unnameable: The Statement Of C. J. Ward*