Witches

**Witches,** also known as Spell Casters, are human beings that, when empowered by Magic, can utilize many different supernatural abilities.

## History

The first witch was, rather ironically, the first woman Eve. After being banished from Eden and witnessing the murder of poor Abel, Eve was at her wits end. Adam had left to go and be a fighter for Heaven so Eve had to wander the world alone for many years. Eventually she would witness the rise of the worshippers of the pagan deities. She began to study them and eventually joined up with them. One night, she would have a dream of the goddess of magic Hecate. Hecate explained to her the Ancient Arts of Magic and when she awoke, Eve would write down every spell the goddess had taught her. She would teach these spells to others and eventually started the first coven of witches.

## Powers

* **Magical Empowerment**: When empowered by enough magic, witches can do many different wonderous things. The levels of power that witches have depends on their rank, with novice witches only being able to perform a few magical feats while experienced witches can do much more.
	+ **Banishing**: With enough power, witches can banish spirits, gods, and even demons from the mortal world.
	+ **Illusion Creating**: Witches can magically make illusions appear to people. These illusions can range from mundane to utterly bizarre.
		- **Glamouring**: Like Fairy Folk, witches can put a Glamour over themselves so that they look like different people or even animals.
	+ **Telekinesis**: Witches can make objects and people move and levitate using only their minds and hand gestures.
		- **Disintegration**: Witches can make humans, supernatural beasts, or objects disintegrate with their minds.
	+ **Telepathy**: Witches are able to hear the thoughts of humans and other witches. They can also mentally communicate via thought.
		- **Psychometry**: Witches can telepathically learn the history of an object via touching it and opening up their minds to the energies of the object.
	+ **Pyrokinesis**: Witches can magically summon and control flames.
	+ **Hydrokinesis**: Witches can magically summon and control water.
	+ **Geokinesis**: Witches can magically manipulate rock and the Earth around them.
	+ **Chlorokinesis**: Witches can magically summon and control plant life. They can also bring back dead plant life.
	+ **Cryokinesis**: Witches can magically summon and control ice.
	+ **Astral Projection**: Witches can project their souls out of their bodies in order to travel through the Astral Plane, essentially and temporarily becoming a ghost.
	+ **Teleportation**: Witches can teleport to anywhere on Earth with only a thought.
	+ **Containment**: With a certain spell, witches can contain a spirit or demon inside of a specially designed object.
	+ **Magical Rune Mastery:** Witches know the correct ways to use the ancient Runes of Magic.
	+ **Supernatural Healing (limited)**: Witches are able to supernaturally heal wounds and lesser sicknesses like the common cold. They cannot, however, heal more intense illnesses.
	+ **Necromancy**: Witches can bring back and manipulate the bodies of the dead to due their bidding, effectively creating zombies.
	+ **True Sight**: With a special spell, witches can temporarily look through Fairy Glamours and other illusions.
	+ **Summoning**: Through rituals, witches can summon spirits, gods, and demons.
	+ **Bifrost Manipulation**: A skill only extremely powerful witches possess. The ability to create magical portals to other dimensions using the Bifrost.

## Weaknesses

* **Mortality**: Despite being very powerful with Magic, witches are still human and can die due to natural causes like sickness and old age. Even the most powerful witches know that they cannot escape death.
* **Inexperience**: A witch's inexperience can be a great weakness. Witches must learn and struggle to master their magic.
* **Emotions**: A witch's power is not only tied to Magic but also to their emotions. Should their emotions become unstable then so will their powers.
* **Anti-Magic Rune**: Witches can be stopped by the Anti-Magic Rune, a Rune that greatly dampens their magic to the point of them not being able to cast spells.
* **Magic**: Even magic itself can sometimes harm witches, weither it be through overexertion or spells cast by an evil witch.
* **Higher Beings:** Higher beings like deities, angels, demons, and the Primordials can easily hurt and kill witches.

## Trivia

* They're considered one of the most powerful supernatural groups in the Hallows Universe.
* Witches are the oldest allies of the monster hunters.