Celeste is an inoperative Elder that has lived since sometime before the Salem Witch Trials. She is part of those responsible for the creation of Whitelighters and therefore Darklighters as well. She has long since been out of commission from her duties as an Elder, and as a result, was not on the Caines' hitlist when they massacred the Elders. Through the use of a magical watch, Celeste has been able to prolong her life for at least five hundred years.
Celeste was rescued by the Vera-Vaughn Charmed Ones from a member of an organization hunting magical beings. She cast a dangerous spell on the sisters in hopes of bringing them closer together and effectively helped them restore the Power of Three. She had since come to assist both the Charmed Ones and Harry Greenwood in times of need, such as lending her pocket watch for time travel and aiding Harry in his journey to becoming mortal.
History[]
Early Life[]
Celeste lived in the time of the witch trials, particularly the witch trials of Salem. The persecution of witches were devastating to the magical world, prompting Celeste to create the formula to create Whitelighters to protect witches. The process also created Darklighters, a negative doppelgänger split from their original body as a result. Celeste and her coven kept them all locked up in bottles guarded at Castle Breithe.
Celeste also created a pocket watch that slows down a witch's aging, with Leonardo da Vinci's help. Though they worked together, they were not fond of each other. Celeste quoted that he stole some of her finest work. Eventually, Celeste ascended to become an Elder and governed the world of witches.[2]
At some point in her life, Celeste also dated Casanova and Errol Flynn.[3]
Sometime over the centuries, she gave up her title and lived as a normal witch, thus survived the massacre when Hunter Caine and Fiona Callahan killed all the Elders.
Throughout the Series[]
In "Third Time's the Charm", the Vera-Vaughn Charmed Ones find Celeste tied up in the trunk of Bruce's car after being kidnapped from her vineyard in Sonoma. After she is brought back to the Command Center, she reveals a new, potentially helpful "demon-spotting mode" on the wall-sized map. Harry Greenwood soon recognizes her as an Elder and as the person responsible for creating Whitelighters, and in turn Darklighters. Despite her help being declined, Celeste just wants the girls to get the Power of Three back, fearful of the idea that humans could have access to magic. She ultimately resorts to casting a spell that places them in a sleep state to face their own fears, but after a slight miscalculation, she discovers that the sisters' biggest fear wasn't dying as she suspected; it was losing each other. Harry made her place him into the dream to try and save them, now knowing that if Macy Vaughn died in the dream, they all would. When they all came to, Celeste was gone, but after returning to the scene of the crime and successfully restoring the Power of Three, the Charmed Ones returned to the Command Center to find her there with Harry, apologizing to him for her part in creating Whitelighters and Darklighters. Celeste explained that she never meant to force the power onto the girls but instead make them face their fears and not end up making mistakes as she and the other Elders did, regardless of the intentions. After saying goodbye, she was last seen being orbed to hide in Mykonos.
In "Unsafe Space", the Faction started their plans to break into the Command Center. Since they could not enter through the front door, the Charmed Ones enlist Celeste's help. Celeste shares the knowledge that witches who have gone through the "Witchness Protection program" are given a marble that would help them back into the Command Center and restore their powers as a safety measure—the Charmed Ones weren't given one because there was no one to greet them when they first arrived. Celeste and Harry then go to Castle Breithe to find the Skeleton Key that would help them free Jimmy. When Macy and Maggie both became trapped inside the marble, Celeste told Mel that she had specifically told them they needed the witch who owned the marble as well, prompting Mel to find Ruby. Upon freeing Maggie and Macy, the six then enter the Command Center. Celeste then starts casting a spell to entrap Jimmy once he is freed. Unfortunately, the bottle containing the Darklighter explodes and Macy is knocked out cold. Harry accidentally breaks the spell, and Jimmy attempts to run away. Ruby manages to stop him with a Storm Spell.
In "Triage", Celeste appears via Zoom, where it's revealed she didn't feel well enough to go to the Command Center in person. She magically sent Mel Vera her pocket watch to time travel in order to get a piece of Macy's pendant Mel hid in the future. Because Celeste readjusted the watch, it no longer slows down her aging.
In "Perfecti Is the Enemy of Good", Harry Greenwood goes to Celeste in Mykonos to go through experiments that would make him permanently human again. Because the stripping of powers would make Harry rapidly age and die, they now go through a series of injections that would slowly reverse the process.
When Macy and Maggie call to them for help, Celeste activates a Memory Mirror to witness the Perfecti's memories and spots a golem in it. Believing it to be the answer to their problems, Maggie goes to see Fenric the Vile while disguised as Abigael Jameson-Caine; and Celeste and Macy create the golem's body. Overwhelmed with fear, Harry takes the golem to the now-closed Tulipe Institute. Celeste, Macy, and Maggie track him there and take back the golem. Celeste then activates it. However, Maggie then realizes it was a setup by both Fenric and the Perfecti to destroy them. Macy comes up with a plan to draw in the Perfecti with Celeste's help, which turns the golem against its creators.
After the day's adventure, Celeste and Harry share a drink in the backyard. Harry's system is settling down, but Celeste tells him it is only the beginning of a lifetime of difficulties, but that is what makes humanity special.
In "Schrodinger's Future", Celeste observes Harry as he continues to undergo the mortalizing process. When Macy and Maggie travel to the year of 2026, Celeste maintains contact with them while watching over Harry, who was displaying childlike behavior as part of the process. After realizing he didn't need her to watch over him anymore, she returns to Mykonos.
In "I Dreamed a Dream…", Macy is poisoned after an encounter with the Whispering Evil. Desperate to save her, Harry and Jordan travel to Mykonos to find Celeste. Harry requests that she make him a Whitelighter again. Celeste tells him that he must die by the hands of a mortal and then go through the transformative ritual again. She decides not to split Harry's dark half in order to avoid creating another Darklighter. They convince Jordan to kill Harry. Back at the Command Center, Celeste brews a poisonous substance called the Stillness. After Jordan applied it to Harry, Celeste began the ritual. For some reason, the process doesn't revive him, and Jordan tries to resuscitate Harry with a defibrillator. Celeste magically charges it, and Jordan successfully revives Harry.
Personality[]
Like the other Elders, Celeste possesses great knowledge about the magical world and is the Charmed Ones' somewhat tutor and guide when they need her help.
Celeste has lifelong experiences due to having lived centuries as an Elder. Due to the oppressive time she lived in, Celeste committed questionable acts out of fear, such as creating Whitelighters and Darklighters. Despite this, she is a kind and gentle person who would admit her fault and try to atone for the error of her ways. For this reason, she is more well-liked by the Vera sisters than the other Elders. She admits to being a slow learner who has a hard time learning from her mistakes but is willing to learn from them if possible, among which was respecting someone's choice.
Physical Appearance[]
Celeste is an elderly white woman with shoulder-length red hair and blue eyes. Later, her hair became completely white due to the black amber tree being temporarily poisoned by Vivienne Laurent.
Powers and Abilities[]
- Basic Powers
- Spell Casting: The ability to cast spells and perform rituals.
- Potion Making: The ability to brew magical potions.
- Active Powers
- Power Stripping: The power to take away other magical being's powers. This is a collective power that requires the aid of other Elders to strip Whitelighters of their powers.
- Natural Abilities
- Knowledge: As an Elder who had lived for centuries, Celeste has vast knowledge of the magical working and mortal history. She was the one who invented the formula to transform mortals into Whitelighters.
Equipment[]
- Celeste's Pocket Watch: An enchanted watch that has allowed Celeste to prolong her life for at least five hundred years. The watch was created Leonardo da Vinci, referred to as "Leo" by Celeste. If the watch stops or is broken, Celeste will die, being reduced to dust.
Appearances[]
| Season Two Appearances (2/19) | |
| 1. "Safe Space" | 2. "Things to Do in Seattle When You're Dead" |
| Absent | Absent |
| 3. "Careful What You Witch For" | 4. "Deconstructing Harry" |
| Absent | Absent |
| 5. "The Truth about Kat and Dogs" | 6. "When Sparks Fly" |
| Absent | Absent |
| 7. "Past is Present" | 8. "The Rules of Engagement" |
| Absent | Absent |
| 9. "Guess Who's Coming to SafeSpace Seattle" | 10. "Curse Words" |
| Absent | Absent |
| 11. "Dance Like No One is Witching" | 12. "Needs to Know" |
| Absent | Absent |
| 13. "Breaking the Cycle" | 14. "Sudden Death" |
| Absent | Absent |
| 15. "Third Time's the Charm" | 16. "The Enemy of My Frenemy" |
| Appears | Absent |
| 17. "Search Party" | 18. "Don't Look Back in Anger" |
| Absent | Absent |
| 19. "Unsafe Space" | |
| Appears | |
| Season Three Appearances (4/18) | |
| 1. "An Inconvenient Truth" | 2. "Someone's Going to Die" |
| Archive | Absent |
| 3. "Triage" | 4. "You Can't Touch This" |
| Appears | Absent |
| 5. "Yew Do You" | 6. "Private Enemy No. 1" |
| Absent | Absent |
| 7. "Witch Way Out" | 8. "O, The Tangled Web" |
| Absent | Absent |
| 9. "No Hablo Brujeria" | 10. "Bruja-Ha" |
| Absent | Absent |
| 11. "Witchful Thinking" | 12. "Spectral Healing" |
| Absent | Absent |
| 13. "Chaos Theory" | 14. "Perfecti Is the Enemy of Good" |
| Mentioned | Appears |
| 15. "Schrodinger's Future" | 16. "What to Expect When You're Expecting the Apocalypse" |
| Appears | Absent |
| 17. The Storm Before the Calm | 18. I Dreamed a Dream… |
| Mentioned | Appears |
Trivia[]
- The appearance of Elder Celeste in the second season creates a couple of plot inconsistencies with the events of the first season of Charmed that remain unresolved:
- Firstly, if neither Hunter Caine nor Fiona Callahan killed Celeste during or before the events of "Ambush" or "Red Rain", the second sign of the Apocalypse should not have been fulfilled, which means the Apocalypse itself should not have occurred. Additionally, since one of the Elders is revealed to be alive, the Whitelighters should not have started dying between "Red Rain" and "Safe Space"—or at the very least, not all of them should have perished.
- A possible explanation for this is that Celeste retired from her position as an Elder long ago, severing her jurisdiction over Whitelighters and her bond to the prophecy of the Apocalypse. However, this creates additional questions:
- Why was Charity Callahan not excommunicated by the Council of Elders for her series of murders before being sent to Tartarus? One possibility is that expelling someone from the council is a more complicated and time-consuming process than voluntarily retiring, as Celeste did. This could have been particularly difficult after Charity escaped custody during her transport to Tartarus, with the help of Alastor.
- Another possibility is that the Elders, aware of the impending Apocalypse, chose to prioritize preserving their numbers by banishing Charity to Tartarus while leaving her Elder status intact. However, this conflicts with their apparent lack of urgency regarding the Apocalypse until "Ambush," when more Elders were killed and Elder Devorah Silver finally sought the assistance of the Vera-Vaughn Charmed Ones.
- Since Celeste has not exhibited any individual power, it is possible that she had her aura stripped and retired, not only as an Elder, but also as a regular witch.
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