Inara

Inara, also known as the Lost One, was an ancient witch who became the middle sister of the first sisterhood of the Charmed Ones after Ishta, Ishani, and herself drank from the Unity Bowl in order to defeat the first Conqueror. Eventually, Inara grew power-hungry and was entombed alive by the other two Charmed Ones for millennia. She would be unbound and freed in 2022 by the Vera-Danso Charmed Ones, who recreated an ancient ritual to resurrect her. She eventually came to her senses and sacrificed herself, along with her sisters, to save the magical world from destruction after having put it in jeopardy, but not before they reconciled their sisterly bond.

Inara was a witch with heightened abilities, due to her being a previous Charmed One. Aside from her basic witch abilities (casting spells and brewing potions), Inara also had the ability to generate and control electricity and the ability to gain information about an object, person, location, or event through means other than the known human senses. Furthermore, she could also access the Power of Three, the collective power of the Charmed Ones. However, she had long since lost access to the Power of Three, when Ishta and Ishani entombed her alive and began the cycle of destruction for generations of the Charmed Ones to come.

History[]

Early Life[]

Throughout the Series[]

Personality[]

Inara was described as a power-hungry witch, with little to no remorse for those she hurt if it meant achieving her goals.

Physical Appearance[]

Inara had black hair, dark brown eyes, and olive-toned skin.

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

• Electrokinesis: The ability to generate and control electricity. Inara was able to manipulate the voltage of her power, ranging from enough to torture someone to so powerful that she can literally cause a person to explode in a violent burst of energy or shatter the Containment Spell from inside.
• Voice Manipulation: The ability to change one's voice. Inara was able to make her voice deeper and more menacing.

Passive Powers

• Immunity: Being a witch, Inara was inherently immune to certain magical abilities (e.g. the sirens' songs and to pixie dust).
• Clairvoyance: The ability to gain information about an object, person, location, or event through means other than the known human senses. It is known that Inara was able to watch for millennia as numerous trios of the Charmed Ones rose and fell. During the time of her Utopia, Inara kept having weird unknown feelings. She was able to see glimpses of Harry Greenwood getting Kaela Danso's teapot and starting it on the oven, though she was unable to see his face. She was also later able to sense the timeline changing, after the Charmed Ones sent the tape back in time, and was able to observe them and the world, as it was revealed that Inara was fully aware and thus changed her tactics.

Former Powers

• The Power of Three: The collective power of the Charmed Ones, which stems from their sisterly bond. Inara and her sisters were the first to wield that power and came together to stop the first Conqueror with the power of the Source. Evidently, there are certain spells that require the Power of Three and cannot be cast by even the most powerful witches, like Charity Callahan. Following her death ten thousand years ago, she has forever lost the Power of Three. In an erased alternate timeline, she was able to reobtain the Power of Three solely for herself after having drunk from a remade Unity Bowl and avoid its overload.
  • Resistance: Presumably through the Power of Three, the Charmed Ones are able to resist the effects of having their memory erased to a certain extent, allowing the memories to slowly bleed back through.

Inara exhibited various powers as a vengeful spirit, however presumably lost them after her resurrection:

• Voice Echo: The ability to project one's voice to a place where one is not present. The Lost One spoke to Sunny from the spiritual realm. She was also shown speaking with the unnamed troll and then the Charmed Ones.
• Possession: The ability to forcefully take control of another being's body. According to the gremlin Nolan Moore, the Lost One possessed his body to speak to his brother, Quentin, and make him start the attacking spree on magical creatures as "the Tallyman" and create the Unseen. She was also shown to use the corpse of the pixie, Annie Periwinkle], in order to get her sister, Daphne, to recruit her into the Unseen.
• Illusion Casting: The ability to create illusions. Inara used this power to disguise herself as a smoky type of monster so no one would know her true appearance and identity.

Equipment[]

• New Unity Bowl (erased future; formerly): After the bowl was remade and empowered by the sacrifice of various members of the Unseen, Inara was fully resurrected. Upon drinking from the Unity Bowl, she was able to claim the Power of Three for herself, stealing it from the Vera-Danso sisterhood in the process. Almost immediately after, she smashed the recreated bowl on the ground, releasing a burst of energy that warped reality to create what she considered a perfect world: one where only magical beings lived, while all humans were transformed into plants. However, she later revealed to Jordan that it had been "a one-time deal", and even if she wanted to, she could no longer warp reality as she desired. However, after Maggie sent a video tape containing all of their memories manifested by Kaela back in time to before Inara was resurrected, this dark timeline was eventually erased and the new bowl was obtained by the Vera-Danso Charmed Ones before it could be used.

Former Weaknesses[]

• Mortality: Despite being a witch, Inara was still mortal and still had many of the same weaknesses as non-supernatural humans (e.g. age, decapitation, disease, heart-failure, suffocation, snapped neck, etc.), until her death.
• The Destruction of the Sisterhood: Despite the Power of Three being one of her greatest strengths, it was also a burden. Inara's entombment by Ishta and Ishani was what started the cycle that cursed future Charmed Ones.

Appearances[]

Trivia[]

• It is unknown what her native language was or place of habitat. With her and her sisters being over ten thousand years old, it is very likely to have been some ancient dead language and civilization.
  • Her name comes from the Arabic word inara (إنارة), which means to light, to illuminate. However, her age pre-dates the Arabic language.
  • According to Inara's actress' own race and origin, Inara might be Persian of origin. Additionally, as the Unity Bowl is inscribed with ancient Persian, it is possible that she and her sisters inhabited one of the regions that are now known as Iran, parts of Central Asia, or the Caucasus region, as these are the regions where the language was spoken.
    • However, as, once again, their ages predate this language and civilization, it is still unknown where exactly they lived and what language or languages they spoke.
• It is unknown how she learned to speak English, though it is known that she was able to witness the rise and fall of various sisterhoods of Charmed Ones throughout her imprisonment, so she could have learned this way.
• According to Joey Falco on Twitter, Inara was the middle sister in her sisterhood of Charmed Ones.^[5] This is similar to  Piper Halliwell from the original series. However, this is their only similarity.
• Inara shares numerous similarities with Neena, Tuatha, Imara, and Prue Halliwell from the original series and the comics continuation of the series:
  • Introduced in the comics, Neena was the first witch to ever exist, while Inara was one of the first set of Charmed Ones to exist in the world of the reboot series. Also, while Neena was initially introduced as an antagonist, it was gradually revealed that she was only a determined woman with a tragic story and that her misguided plans were still well-intentioned. Inara, on the other hand, was also a determined yet tragic figure who believed her actions were for the best.
  • Just like Tuatha, Inara was a good witch who fell from grace and was subsequently entombed alive. Also, similarly to Tuatha, Inara was one of the most powerful witches the Vera-Danso sisterhood had ever faced—as shown by their confrontation with her in Be Kind. Rewind., she managed to kill all three of them even after they reclaimed the Power of Three.
  • Just like Imara, Inara was a mistress of magic whose ambitions made her highly dangerous and unpredictable, and even their names are strikingly similar.
  • Just like Prue, Inara was also one of the original Charmed Ones in her world, who died in the destruction of her sisterhood. Inara also took on the Power of Three by herself, which Prue was able to do in the comics continuation of the original series when magic was made to switch sides. Also, similarly to Prue, Inara became a calamity to mankind and magic but ultimately came to her senses and even made the ultimate sacrifice to save the world, releasing all the negative feelings she harbored over her death and against her sisters as she did so.
• While most utilize the power of possession to inhabit the bodies of living beings, Inara was shown to use the power to inhabit the bodies of deceased beings, such as Nolan Moore and Annie Periwinkle. In some instances, it is implied that Inara was simply casting illusions in order to manipulate her targets into believing that they were speaking with the deceased individuals, though this is never directly stated. For instance, Inara appeared to Daphne Periwinkle as Annie, despite the fact that Annie seemed to have been buried.

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