Power Granting

Maggie Vera gets her foresight from the Chase family ring

**Power Granting** is the power to bestow magical powers upon another being, either permanently or temporarily. This can be accomplished through a variety of methods, including the performance of intricate magical rituals, mystical artifacts, blood magic and more.

## Methods for Granting Powers

### Whitelighters and Darklighters

If during life, a human was worthy of the attention of the Elders, these witches would resurrect them in death by granting them powers and eternal life as Whitelighters, in exchange for their servitude and undying loyalty. However, this process *initially* involved splitting the negative aspects from the human's soul, thus creating a Darklighter counterpart as well.

### The Sarcana

During their initiation ritual, the newly recruited Sisters of Arcana received a mystical tattoo that granted them the power to summon and command the crows of the coven.

### Blood Magic

The Elders greatly opposed the use of blood magic, due to the fact that it could be used to transform an individual into another being. The Necromancer Knansie used demon blood in her rituals to resurrect the dead. Because of this, every person resurrected by her would eventually turn demonic. Macy Vaughn became part-demon through this method, granting her demonic powers like The Evil Sight, Demonic Translation and Pyrokinesis.

The demon Viralis could grant the power of telekinesis to his 'goddesses', presumably through their consumption of his demonic blood.

### Vortex Viribus

Fiona Callahan used the power of the Vortex Viribus that had appeared under the Vera Manor to restore Harry Greenwood's youth and Whitelighter powers.

During the flashback to her massacre of the Sarcana, Fiona revealed that she had been granted the ability to mirror the powers of others from the Vortex Viribus.

### Black Amber

Black amber has also been shown to have the ability to grant powers. Through contact with Jordan Chase's family ring, Maggie Vera's ability to foresee the future was awakened, and after finding the roots of the Black Amber Tree in the Command Center and dipping her fingers into the sap, Mel Vera gained her new ability to manipulate molecules. These new powers are able to be sustained without maintaining contact with black amber. After drinking from the chalice of pure black amber from the room beneath the Command Center containing the Black Amber Tree, Macy's power of telekinesis was reawakened in an advanced form.

After Inara used the recreated Unity Bowl to warp the world to her liking, the Vera-Danso Charmed Ones were able to sneak into the chamber containing the Black Amber Tree. The three of them drank from the chalice of pure black amber to restore their individual powers, which Inara had stripped from them, as well as restoring their connection to the Power of Three.

### The Prism

The Prism was a human-made, scientific device with the ability to siphon the powers of magical beings and grant them to the wielder. According to Vivienne Laurent, she and her nephew, Julian Shea, had designed it as an acquisition and retainment device for magical powers, regardless of origin. The device was used to store the magic of various beings that had been captured and slaughtered by the Faction. When Vivienne wore it, she was shown using the powers of Petrification, Smoking, Energy Blast Generation, and Mind Melding. However, the Prism was unable to contain one power: the Power of Three. When Vivienne tried to siphon it, the power eventually overloaded the device , vanquishing Vivienne and destroying the Prism along with her.

### Progenitor Project

When Kaela Danso developed leukemia, she wasn't responding to chemotherapy. The doctors then recommended an experimental treatment called the Progenitor Project, in which stem cells would be donated to the patient to improve their recovery. Kaela received stem cells in the treatment from Macy, who donated in hopes of saving her dying father. The donation ultimately turned Kaela into a witch and the replacing Charmed One when she met Mel and Maggie six months after Macy died.

### Unity Bowl and The Power of Three

Once a rare and special type of Bowl of Unity was created and empowered via a dark sacrifice of each of the nine original clans of magic, all those who were to drink and sup from it were to attain a great source of magical power, making them a true force of Nature. It was implied that only witches were able to bear that power without suffering its consequences.

During the creation of the Power of Three during the late 9th to early 8th Millennium B.C., a trio of fellow witches: Ishta, Inara, and Ishani each willingly sup from the Bowl of Unity empowered via the collective power from the nine original sacrifices, and became the first Charmed Ones. It might served as the reason as to why the following generations of the *Charmed Ones* needed to accept their destinies together first before unlocking the *unprecedented ultimate power*. Since the first Charmed were all female, the following generations also had only female members.

## Known Users

Original Power
* The Sacred Flame/The Source of All Evil
* Viralis (through the use of his blood)
* The Harbinger of Hell (for his vessels)
* The Power of Three

Artifacts / Locations
* Vortex Viribus
* Black Amber
	+ Chase Family Ring
* The Prism
* Hellflame (possibly)
* Unity Bowl

Through spell, artifact, power stealing, etc.
* The Elders (through the Whitelighter Resurrection Ritual)
	+ Celeste
* The Sisters of Arcana (through their ritual)
* Necromancers
	+ Knansie (through the use of Blood Magic)
* Fiona Callahan (through the Vortex Viribus)
* Vivienne Laurent (through the use of the Prism)

## Gallery

Mel gets her zoopathy from the Sarcana's Initiation RitualVivienne mind melds Macy through the power of the Prism gloveVivienne was maddened by the absorbed magic of the gloveCeleste completes the ritual to turn Harry back into a WhitelighterInara receives the Power of Three from the Unity Bowl
## See Also

* Power Stripping
* Power Negation
* Power Augmentation
* Power Absorption
* Empathic Mimicry

## References

1. ↑ *Deconstructing Harry*
2. ↑ *I Dreamed a Dream…*
3. ↑ *Jingle Hell*
4. ↑ *You're Dead to Me*
5. ↑ *Surrender*
6. ↑ It's shown that she made Harry young again in *Surrender*, but it's revealed that she had fully restored his Whitelighter status in *Source Material*.
7. ↑ *Source Material*
8. ↑ *Be Kind. Rewind.*
9. ↑ *Red Rain*