She gets depressed and tries to OD and ends up in a coma. Here she is easy pickings for the Harbinger demon.
This is also when the Charmed Ones meet their first Elder. Now Elders in the Original Series were powerful Whitelighters. In this series, we meet Charity who seems to be a living witch. She is the CEO of a non-profit organization to help women in developing countries. Yes, Charmed is still wearing their politics on their sleeve. But saying this is far more than just "fan service" it established two essential plot points. 1. Elders are living witches, not powerful Whitelighters and 2. that this is someone the girls would trust. We also learn through Charity that Marisol was an Elder or Senior Witch; "the same thing" according to Harry.
Charity's plan is to kill the demon and thus Angela. This doesn't sit well with Mel, who pushed Angela to press the charges; she feels responsible. Eventually, Mel discovers that Angela is alive and trapped in her own body.
Mel convinces Maggie, Macy and eventually even Harry that Angela can be saved. They discover a new spell, one that had been hidden but only revealed till all three girls agreed to try, in the Book of Shadows. It is a witch exorcism spell based, according to Harry, on Santariea. All I know is that Mel sounds great speaking Spanish.
Again, I won't be spoilery with the ending, but not everyone makes it out alive.
What is New for this Series?
The Book of Shadows has a "search feature" not sure if I like this or not.
Elders are living, senior witches, and someone/thing is killing them
Demons look cooler.
Marisol was an Elder.
Elders in Your Game
Last week I gave you all Exorcism and Vanquishing spells so no need to go over that again.
But I do want to investigate this idea of Elders in the game. Now if this were 3rd Edition/Pathfinder we were talking about then an Elder would be a Prestige Class for a witch. Much like my Imbolc Mage Prestige Class.
For OSR style games I would just make some sort of social structure. Something like the Witenagemot of 7th century England. This "Council of the Wise" in many ways typifies what I think the Elders should be about. J.K. Rowling used this idea for her "Wizengamot" of her world.
In my world, I supposed I could call it a "Wiccegemot" or "Council of Witches (Wicce)".
What would they do? What powers would they have? I would like to think that representatives of the major covens and traditions would be here. Maybe this is the council that my Witch Queens are on that meet once every seven years. Or thirteen years, can't remember right now. Looked it up, it's 13 years.
I would say there are special ritual spells that only can be cast by the Wiccegemot. Powerful spells. Earth, or even Plane, altering spells.
I am also likely to give them access to secret spells of lower levels, just ones they don't widely share.
Right though, I'll just keep them mysterious and unknown.
