Post by vandergraafk on Sept 7, 2007 10:57:05 GMT -5
Vanquish can't possibly mean die for good. At best, it means a trip to the Wasteland to be recycled or await conjuring. Demonic essences don't die. Nor, for that matter, do witch essences die. The difference, if there is one, is that demons are not mortal, whereas witches are. Death does not become mortal witches. Death is simply another phase in the "life" of a demon. Warlocks, on the other hand, apparently are mortal entities who can and do die. However, the method of their deaths may enable them to become "immortal" and graduate to demon status: see Prewitched.
The issue gets a bit more complicated as a result of Mr. and Mrs. Witch. In that episode, Piper is compelled to deal with the Noxon, low level demons who apparently have been made vanquish proof. Now, good Magic apparently hasn't found a way to vanquish the Noxon. At best, one of the Magic School kids could condemn a Noxon to eternal vanquish by casting him into the astral plane mid-vanquish. As time ceases in this particular plane of existence, the Noxon will be locked in eternal vanquish, but never become fully vanquished.
The other Noxon is vanquished by Christy and Billie during a second thwarted attempt on the part of the Charmed Ones to interrogate the remaining Noxon. Since Christy's powers have been influenced and corrupted by trained agents of the TRIAD. perhaps the Noxon were not truly unvanquishable. It was experiment still in progress, an experiment the Source would love to take advantage of at some future date.
The issue gets a bit more complicated as a result of Mr. and Mrs. Witch. In that episode, Piper is compelled to deal with the Noxon, low level demons who apparently have been made vanquish proof. Now, good Magic apparently hasn't found a way to vanquish the Noxon. At best, one of the Magic School kids could condemn a Noxon to eternal vanquish by casting him into the astral plane mid-vanquish. As time ceases in this particular plane of existence, the Noxon will be locked in eternal vanquish, but never become fully vanquished.
The other Noxon is vanquished by Christy and Billie during a second thwarted attempt on the part of the Charmed Ones to interrogate the remaining Noxon. Since Christy's powers have been influenced and corrupted by trained agents of the TRIAD. perhaps the Noxon were not truly unvanquishable. It was experiment still in progress, an experiment the Source would love to take advantage of at some future date.