Tempus

Tempus was an powerful demonic sorcerer that could manipulate time, known to report directly to the Source of All Evil. He was portrayed by the late David Carradine.

Tempus was sent by the Source in 1999 (Season 1) to help the demon known as "Rodriguez", to defeat the Charmed Ones. Every time Rodriguez failed to kill them and got vanquished, Tempus reset time, allowing Rodriguez to be resurrected and learn from his mistakes, giving him another chance. Tempus and Rodriguez were the only ones who knew about this, until Phoebe began to feel that they were in a time loop, which she theorized because of her power of Premonition. Rodriguez killed Andy Trudeau, and once the sisters figured out what had been happening, they cast a spell to accelerate time, therefore breaking the time loop and taking Tempus out of his time. Tempus, temporally defeated by the Charmed Ones, fled back to the Underworld and Rodriguez was vanquished by Prue telekinetically reflecting his Energy ball. ("Deja Vu All Over Again")

In 2001, the Charmed Ones and Shax were exposed on live television. The sisters figured they needed to contact Tempus to reset time to before they were exposed, but none of them knew how. Their whitelighter, Leo Wyatt, decided to go to the Underworld, and ask Cole Turner to get The Source to contact Tempus, bearing in mind that exposure is still a problem for evil. Once Cole asked The Source, The Source stated that Tempus was still weakened from his last encounter with The Charmed Ones, and doing so again could destroy him. But later The Source accepts their offer, after making a deal with Phoebe for her to stay in the Underworld, and forced Tempus to reset time which killed him. ("All Hell Breaks Loose")

In 2006, the demon Tam asked a Possessor Demon, who she was trying to resurrect. Tam started guessing, and asked if it was Tempus, Barbas, Zankou or the Seer, confirming that Tempus was actually dead by then.

Appendices

 * (Book of Shadows text:)



Tempus

 * The Devils Sorcerer


 * Manipulator of time
 * Serving only his will always,
 * always for evil's gain.


 * Remove him, remove him,
 * from the time his in.

To accelerate time

 * Winds of time, gather'round
 * give me wings to speed my way.
 * Rush me on my journey forward
 * let tomorow be today.