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A Whitelighter is a fictional character featured on the WB television series Charmed. These beings are former human mortals who are given a second chance at life in order to serve under an angelic group known as The Elders as guardian angels for good witches and other future Whitelighters.

Description
Whitelighters are the "guardian angels" of good witches and future Whitelighters. Mortal charges are not known or seen to have much interaction with their whitelighters. They watch over their charges and intervene when necessary to help them along their path and keep them safe; they can also be called by their charges. They can constantly hear the lives of their charges in their heads, and if one of them calls their Whitelighter's name, he/she can usually show up at a moment's notice.

Whitelighters are people who were generally good people that had died. They are given the choice to become Whitelighters and given the powers of a Whitelighter instead of moving on to the afterlife. Their bodies are replicas of their former human bodies, but are composed of orbs which are described as white lights (hence the term Whitelighter) that have a healing ability to them. If struck by a power that would usually kill a mortal (for example, an energy ball or particle acceleration), their bodies will explode into orbs then reform relatively unharmed; they can, however, be knocked unconscious. Because their orbs make their bodies immortal, the only sure way to kill a Whitelighter is to poison them with a Darklighter arrow.

Hybrids
The type of Whitelighter hybrid seen on-screen have been the child of a witch and a Whitelighter. Whitelighter-witch hybrids have been shown to possess both the powers of a Whitelighter, which range from Orbing to Healing, and also witch abilities, such as spellcasting and potion making.

Within the series, Paige Matthews is the first Whitelighter hybrid seen on-screen. She is also the first hybrid to display a magical power that has been affected by both her witch and Whitelighter halves. As a witch of Warren blood and a Charmed One, Paige received the power to "move things with her mind", which is one of the three powers belonging to her ancestor Melinda Warren. However, since she is also a Whitelighter, her Telekinesis became Telekinetic Orbing, which is the ability to call for an object and orb it to the caller.

Throughout the series television run, there have been eight Whitelighter hybrids shown on-screen.

Powers and abilities
In Charmed a Whitelighter is a human soul that has been made a "guardian angel" for good witches and other future Whitelighters (also known as a Whitelighter's "charge"). A Whitelighter acts in the service of The Elders who bestow these souls with their new angelic powers. Below is a list of notable powers associated with this race of guardian angels that have been used in multiple episodes.

Modern usage
"Whitelighter" is also a term used in the Neopagan community, particularly amongst Wiccans to describe those who see Deity only in the "good", but not in things unpleasant or unappealing. The term used in this sense is generally pejorative.