Zankou

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## Magical Characteristics

### Active Powers

* Energy Balls
* Fire Balls
* Flaming
* Apportation
* Particle Swarm
* Molecular Immobilization
* Power Absorption
* Resurrection
* Sensing
* Shapeshifting (stolen)
* Telekinesis
* Force Blast
* Portal Creation
* Prescience
* Premonition (temporarily)
* Molecular Combustion (temporarily)

### Inactive Powers

* High Resistance
* Immortality

### Basic Powers

* Spell Casting
* Potion Making

### Deseris

* Claim the power of the Nexus (formerly)

## Appearance

### Played By

Oded Fehr

**Zankou** was an ancient and extremely powerful upper-level demon who was feared, even by his own kind. Intelligent and ruthless, his understanding of the human nature made him able to manipulate and prey on the weaknesses of his enemies.

His greatest feats include the Crusades, the September Massacres, and the Black Plague. His abilities and ambition became so great that he eventually contested the Source of All Evil for control over the Underworld. However, the Source was able to imprison Zankou within a magical barrier deep within the Underworld.

Zankou formed one of the biggest threats ever to the Charmed Ones, but his reign of terror came to an end in 2005 with the destruction of the Nexus beneath the Halliwell Manor, which took him along with it.

## Powers and Abilities

***Basic Powers***
* **Spell Casting:** The ability to cast spells and perform rituals.
* **Potion Brewing:** The ability to brew potions.

***Active Powers***
* **Energy Balls:** The ability to throw spheres of magical energy resembling electrical discharges.
* **Fire Balls:** The ability to throw balls of fire, capable of vanquishing other beings.
* **Flaming:** The ability to teleport through intense flames.
* **Apportation:** The ability to transport an object or person across planes from place to place. Zankou has done this using both Flaming and Shimmering effects.
* **Particle Swarm:** The ability to fire a stream of burning orange and black particles from the hands in order to inflict pain on and eventually incinerate a victim.
* **Power Absorption:** The ability to absorb the powers of other beings. Zankou was able to take the powers of other beings by absorbing their essence completely.
* **Resurrection:** The ability to reanimate the dead. Zankou possessed the power to bring the deceased back as the undead. However, he needed an Alchemist to control them.
* **Prescience:** The ability to predict and anticipate the moves of others. Zankou was able to predict where the Avatars would look for him, allowing him to avoid them.
* **Sensing:** The ability to determine the location and status of other beings by concentrating on them. Zankou possessed an advanced form of this awareness, allowing him to observe world events during his imprisonment.
* **Telekinesis:** The ability to move objects and beings with the mind.
	+ **Deviation:** The ability to use a power to deflect magical energies and objects back in the direction they came from. Zankou used this to redirect potions being thrown at him, into the path of his minions instead.
* **Force Blast:** The ability to unleash a blast of great concussive force. Zankou once used this ability on Leo Wyatt, blasting him against a wall.
* **Molecular Immobilization:** The ability to slow down molecules to the point where they move so slowly that objects and people appear completely motionless. Zankou once used this to freeze a demon as he shimmered into the Underworld while being vanquished.
* **Portal Creation:** The ability to create openings in space capable of sending people to other places, planes or worlds.

***Other Powers***
* **High Resistance:** The ability to be highly resistant to physical and magical harm.
* **Immortality:** The ability to have an infinite lifespan and an arrested aging process.

*Through spell, potion, power stealing, etc.*
* **Shapeshifting:** The ability to alter one's physical shape into that of another person. Zankou stole this power from a demon shortly after he was released.
	+ When shapeshifted into different beings, Zankou was shown teleporting in a similar manner to that being. When shapeshifted into the Avatar Beta, he teleported through Fading and when impersonating another demon, he teleported through Smoking.
* **Premonition:** The ability to perceive future and past events. Zankou briefly possessed Phoebe's power with a potion to steal it.
* **Molecular Immobilization:** The ability to freeze molecules to make it seem like time has stopped. Zankou briefly possessed this power when he used a potion on Piper to take it from her.
* **Molecular Combustion:** The ability to speed up molecules to cause explosions. Zankou briefly took Piper's power with a potion.