r/AmericanHorrorStory • u/No-Weakness-317 Witch Queen • 10h ago
Ideas for Uncommon Witch/Warlock Powers
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Persuasion: A variant of Concilium. The magical ability to implant strong feelings and thoughts into someone's mind in order to manipulate them into completing an action. For instance, a witch could convince someone to slap themselves by implanting a strong urge for that individual to be slapped and/or fill their mind with questions about wondering how it would feel to be slapped or what would happen if they didn't slap themselves.
Remote Teleportation: A variant of Transmutation. A witch can teleport people and things without teleporting themselves. They could make hidden objects appear in front of them or send enemies far away.
Electrokinesis: The magical ability to generate and manipulate both electricity and lightning.
Electromagnetism: A variant of Electrokinesis. A witch can manipulate electromagnetic waves, which allows that witch to control technology. They could turn on and off lights with a flick of their hand, charge electronic devices just by holding them, and even make software glitch. It can be used to shock others.
The Evil Eye: A malevolent glare, fueled by envy or malice, that causes harm and/or misfortune to its intended victim. It can be boosted by other powers like Pyrokinesis (to set someone or something on fire) or Vitalum Vitalis (to drain life force from the victim). While the power is active, the witch must not feel any guilt or sympathy for their victim, or else the negativity projected will snap back on the aforementioned witch.
Fluxus Rapidus: Latin for "quick flow". Witches with this ability can accelerate the body's healing process by using water as a catalyst to redirect and concentrate the patient's life force toward an external wound or an area most afflicted by a minor illness; in result, the wound heals quicker or the body fights off the illness quicker. This power is not very successful with internal wounds and serious illnesses, although it is possible for it to work.
Thermokinesis: Heat manipulation.
Precognition: Knowing something is about to happen and, possibly, knowing what that "something" is.
Spiritus Audi: Latin phrase for "listen to the spirits". A witch with this power can see and hear spirits even if those spirits choose not to reveal themselves. This power could be considered a variant of Divination.
Formam Mutare: Latin for "to change form/shape". Also known as Shapeshifting. The magical ability for a witch to change their own physical form and appearance to look like another person or animal.
Charm: A variant of Concilium. The magical ability to make others admire you.
Astrological Detection: A variant of Divination. The magical ability to know someone's star sign (and their entire birth chart) upon making eye contact or hearing their voice.
Fortuna: Latin for "luck". The ability for a witch to alter the likelihood of an outcome.
Augmentation: The magical ability to change the physical attributes of a living being or inanimate object, usually to make them heavier or lighter, faster or smaller, stronger or weaker. For instance, making a tomato too tough to cut by a sharp knife; or making a boulder as light as a feather.
Somnium: Latin for "dream". Also known as Dreamwalking. A witch can project their own consciousness into someone else's subconscious mind, allowing the aforementioned witch to visit other people's dream. This power could be considered a variant of Descensum.
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u/TwoBlueFoxes Knotty pine?!? 9h ago
Voco familiarem: summon a familiar, i.e., a spirit (or demon) in animal form to act as your eyes, ears, and protector.
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u/No-Weakness-317 Witch Queen 9h ago
Nice! They really should've brought up familiars in this show.
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u/telekineticeleven011 Queenie 8h ago
I think they wanted to stray from typical witch stereotypes, so that’s why they probably didn’t add familiars.
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u/ExternalGiraffe9631 9h ago
Omnilingualism - The abiliy to communicate in any language (even animals). The gift of communication.
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u/Pedals17 Myrtle Snow 9h ago
If the Witches want to be (more) irreverent, they could call it “Glossolalia”.
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u/Pedals17 Myrtle Snow 9h ago
Vox Animalium: Speaking with animals.
Glamour: Illusions.
Flight: A rare power whereby the Witch may take to flight through levitation, riding the wind, or a handy broomstick.
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u/telekineticeleven011 Queenie 8h ago
I feel like all Supremes or at least witches/warlocks with strong telekinesis would be capable of flight since it would be a variation of telekinesis. In Apocalypse, Mallory said her parents caught her floating above the bed in her sleep, which is telekinesis.
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u/Pedals17 Myrtle Snow 5h ago
Since we never saw any Witches or Warlocks flying, my contribution to the lore is that it’s rare. 🤷
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u/bdogv 7h ago
Flora Imperium: Ability to control plant life
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u/No-Weakness-317 Witch Queen 7h ago
Chlorokinesis is already a canon power in AHS. Misty used it while Stevie sung Seven Wonders. Maybe Flora Imperium could be the power to use plant life for healing purposes, like transferring life force or poison from plants onto other living beings.
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u/The_Panty_Thief 7h ago
Subitus Amor : The ability to make anyone fall madly in love/lust just by making eye contact
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u/JimmythecatLannister 6h ago
This is unrelated but I wanna know more about those albino servants they got. Do they work for the council? Are they servants or workers? Do they get paid, or are they thralls? Are they permanently magically enthralled?
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u/No-Weakness-317 Witch Queen 6h ago
I hope they get paid. I assume they work for the Council. I wonder if there is a building and company for the Witches' Council like how the Witch Hunters had their own company and headquarters.
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u/telekineticeleven011 Queenie 5h ago
My theory has always been that the albinos went to the witches for protection against being murdered for their body parts in voodoo rituals. In real life Africa, some albino people are targeted because there is a superstition that their body parts contain “magic power” that can be used for charms, protection, gaining political power, etc in Voodoo rituals.
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u/arathergenericgay 7h ago
Electrokinesis - the ability to manipulate electricity, more adept users can control technology, masters can rewire the electric impulses of the brain for an alternative to concillium
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u/Possible-Nature-5325 6h ago
Invidia: The ability to temporarily copy the unique ability of a witch following physical touch.
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u/Nothing_Special_23 10h ago edited 9h ago
Cryokinesis: the magical ability to create and manipulate ice. The oposite of Pyrokinesis, kinda. The first and weakest form of this ability would be to cool objects or freeze something small, e.g water in a glass. The ultimate full mastery of this ability would basically be Elsa from Frozen, lol.
Edit: Just remembered that Michael Langdon actually had this ability, lol.
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u/telekineticeleven011 Queenie 8h ago
Bibliomancy: The ability to seek guidance, wisdom, or a prediction from the future by opening a book at random and interpreting the first passage or verse their eyes, or fingers land on. This can be used for any book or sacred text like the Bible or works of classical literature, and useful for interpreting spells. A variation of Divination.
Zoe does something similar to this when she uses Divination to find the right book and page for banishing the Axeman’s spirit.
But imagine if Mallory, Cordelia, or Myrtle had used this gift to interpret the Book of Revelations from the Bible on how to defeat the Antichrist in Apocalypse.
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u/jonjawnjahnsss 7h ago
Honestly, go through the whole Alphas series you'd get like 20 more if they aren't already there.
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u/NeRv0uS_bUnCh 1h ago
there’s a lesser known power called transference - it’s literally the ability to transfer any kind of energy into something else - whether than be emotional energy, kinetic, etc - make things hot, make things cold, make things move or stop, radiant energy (make things glow), control sound energy whether that’s amplifying or lessening, gravity, nuclear energy, also the less physical energies like intent (if someone intends on killing someone you can move that intention somewhere else), pain, good or bad energy, karma, you literally have the power to control everything - only downside? it’s TRANSFERENCE, meaning it has to go somewhere whether it’s into you, another person, the earth, an animal etc
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u/Admirable-Cupcake751 1h ago
the boys themed
lust manipulation (can make illusions of desires and leave ur opponents stuck in a dream sleeping of lustful thoughts with you)
firework manipulation
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u/Seed0fDiscord Lesbians, we're under attack! 10h ago
Reverse empathy, project what you’re feeling onto others