Post by StoryGirl83 on May 11, 2009 21:12:20 GMT -5
I was doing some research for something totally unconnected to this topic, but I came across an article in Charmed Wiki that explains the difference between Warlocks and Evil Witches. It seems to match up with what I saw on Charmed, so here is what it said:
This helps me with my various Warlocks and children of Warlocks.
Steve Kessler (and sister, Angel)
Devia Kessler
Brianna McInnis
charmed.wikia.com/wiki/Witch(Evil)
Becoming a Warlock
There are two ways for a person to become a warlock. The first is for a magical witch to use his or her powers to kill another witch. Second is for a magical witch to be married to a warlock in a Dark binding ceremony comparable to Handfasting. The witch's consent is not required, and when the ritual is complete, the new warlock will be Evil, despite his or her previous moral inclinations.
Behaviors, Comparisons & Clarifications
A person can also be born a warlock if both parents are also warlocks. A person with only one warlock parent can choose to become a warlock or to not. The half-warlock can embrace his warlock nature and become a full warlock by murdering an innocent. He can also purge himself of his warlock nature by making an "ultimate commitment to Good," such as being ordained a priest.
An evil witch differs from a warlock in that they have not killed another witch to steal their powers, but rather use magic for personal gain, breaching The Wiccan Rede and are willing to kill innocents instead of protecting them. Warlocks often attack and kill Good Witches with the use of a ritualistic tool called an athame; sometimes the athame has the power to suck a power out of a magical being. Evil witches only become warlocks when they've killed good witches to steal their powers. As seen with Tuatha, an evil witch, she had a Familiar that was a snake; Evil Witches like Good Witches have Familiars, unlike Warlocks, which guide them, be it down the path of Good or the Path of Evil.
When warlocks have children, the children will automatically be warlocks unless one of the child's parents is mortal, as evidenced by the character Brendan Rowe from the episode "When Bad Warlocks Turn Good" wherein Brendan Rowe is a half-warlock who is resolved to remain good and become a priest due to the fact that his mother was human. It is also seen in this episode that sealing a conversion from human to Warlock requires a ritual killing of a witch.
Powers
Warlocks will often acquire the powers of witches they kill by absorbing their magucal essence, theretofore, a warlock will have all the basic powers of the witch i.e. Scrying, Potion brewing, Spellcasting etc. However they tend not to use these in favour of their active powers.
Warlocks sometimes like to barter with Good Witches, offering not to hurt them in exchange for their powers; The warlock Nicholas forced Patty to give him immunity and promise him the Charmed Ones' powers in exchange for her life. Another difference is that most Evil Witches carry a Grimoire, (Tuatha) the evil counterpart to a Book of Shadows, which contains dark rituals and spells, possibly information on forces of Good; Warlocks do not; Warlocks rather seek to steal a Good witch's Book and use it's contents against them for dark purposes, such as stealing their powers. (Bacarra)
A common warlock ability is a form of teleportation called Blinking. The ability is so prevalent in the warlock population that the Halliwells will assume that anyone with this power is a warlock. (In the episode Bride and Gloom, Piper and Phoebe spontaneously gained the power of Blinking when they were temporarily transformed into warlocks by Prue's forcible "marriage" to a warlock.)
Most Warlocks unlike Evil Witches are immortal and only meet an end via a spell or potion, where as most Evil Witches, like Good witches are mortal. In a sense, Warlocks are similar to Vampires or a Succubus; once lured to evil, both have to seal the conversion - be it mortal to Vampire/Succubus or human to Warlock - by destroying humanity, renouncing their Goodness.
Although Blinking is associated with all Warlocks, they have about the same variety of powers that witches do, although an individual Warlock is likely to possess a greater number of powers than any individual witch. In the course of the series, warlocks have demonstrated a large number of powers acquired through hunting and murdering witches, including Fire Balls, astral projection, pyrokinesis, telekinesis, freezing time, Glamouring, Cloning, Super human strength, Transformation and memory absorption. A warlock known for his acquiring of Wiccan powers is Eames after decades of witch killing.
They can be vanquished with their own athame or with a Power of Three spell and blinded with a potion or bright flashing light that prevents them from Blinking - "Cat House" - Paige creates a potion to Blind the Familiar Hunter. This differs from the method of vanquish for an Evil Witch because sometimes a Good Witch will only disempower or bind an Evil Witch's powers rendering her completely human instead of destroying her; hence the "Disempower A Witch" and "To Seperate A Witch From Her Powers" rituals/potions in the Book of Shadows.
Blood
Warlocks are not considered demons either by witches or demons. Warlocks are said to be inherently and irredeemably evil, and are said not to bleed, however this has not always been the case such as with Jeremy.
A possible reason why some warlocks bleed while others do not could be based on their heritage; a warlock who is half human will bleed due to human half, a full blooded warlock or spawn of two warlock parents will not bleed due to lack of humanity.
Warlock Sub-Species
- Collectors: Warlocks who are able to drain knowledge through needle like finger protrusions. They also happen to share the ability to blink and invulnerability. After draining their victims information from their head, the victims lose part of their memory and become catatonic. A Collector can also put the information back in someone's head, which revives the person. A Collector's greatest weakness is his thirst for knowledge.
- Dragon Warlock: Known to be the most feared and powerful witch killer there is. He has the power to breathe fire, fly and he possesses superhuman strength. The Dragon Warlock is rumoured to be the spawn of a dragon and a sorceress, according to the Book of Shadows entry.
- Familiar Warlock: When a witch's familiar decides to betray its charge, it becomes a Warlock, taking human form. The familiar's dead witch's powers are transferred to the new warlock in the process. Once this is done, the new Warlock must shed the last of its familiar nature before midnight of the next New Moon in order to become invincible. In the case of a feline familiar, the warlock must die 9 times in order to gain a 10th life of immortality.
- Three-Eyed Warlock: A Warlock from the future that has a third eye which emits a deadly beam to kill innocents.
This helps me with my various Warlocks and children of Warlocks.
Steve Kessler (and sister, Angel)
Steve and his sister, Angel, are full Warlocks, but with the lack of powers neither ended up with a warlock. Steve's wife Sylvia was a mortal, thus their daughter is half mortal. Angel actually married a witch, Sean McInnis, and their daughter is a blatent question mark. She could go either way.
Devia Kessler
Devia is half warlock, half mortal. I guess that makes her an evil witch rather than a warlock. She has never killed anyone (insects not included, as anyone can accidentally step on an ant . . . or step on them on purpose.) She is being pulled both ways with her warlock father and her witch uncle.
Brianna McInnis
Witches and warlocks should never marry and have kids. Per the information above, had Angel and Sean married in a dark ceremony Sean would have been turned, but they were married in a normal ceremony, so both retained their affiliations. Angel's death when Brianna was little left the main influences on Brianna's life as her witch father and warlock uncle. Well, them and the rather unusal batch of friends Brianna collected, two demon/darklighter hybrids, a demon/witch hybrid, and a demon. Like her cousin she has never killed a witch, though the same can't be said for other beings, mostly demonic. So is she an evil witch or a good one?
charmed.wikia.com/wiki/Witch(Evil)