The Triad

The Triad first appear in Season 3, and are played by Amir Aboulela, Rick Overton &amp; Shaun Toub. At this time, they work for The Source. The Triad members are males, and have black eyes. They wear long dark red-like hooded robes, with a pentagram behind it. Each of them possesses many powers. When they become aware of the existence of the Charmed Ones, they begin sending demons after them. When all of the previous demons fail, they order Belthazor, Cole Turner's demon half, to go after the Charmed Ones, Belthazor comes very close, but falls in love with Phoebe, which leads to him killing the Triad.

The Triad reappear in Season 8, composed of 3 upper-level demons: Asmodeus, Baliel, &amp; Candor, forming a fitting name pattern of A-B-C (played by Steven J. Oliver, Soren Oliver, and Leland Crooke respectively). This time, they wear a black robe, with a pentagram on the front of it (at times it is the correct way up, at other times upside-down; the most glaring continuity error in their appearances, this is most likely the result of costume and editing oversights in production). They are responsible for kidnapping Christy Jenkins, and hiring demons to guard her and raise her for fifteen years to brainwash her into a killer. Those demons later get vanquished by Christy, Billie, and the Triad, in many separate intervals.

A demon named Xar, a former member of The Triad, orders a demon to tell the Charmed Ones that The Triad is back, thus exposing them. Xar tricks the Halliwell sisters into going after The Triad, because he doesn't want them to take over the Underworld. The Triad become aware of this, and kill Xar. The Charmed Ones go after them, and vanquish Asmodeus and Baliel, thus completely weakening the Triad, as only Candor escaped the skirmish with his life. Candor later appears, when he freezes The Charmed Ones and Billie, but not Christy, as he tells her that they taught her everything she knows, and now that The Triad is weakened, she must go forward alone, to reunite with the Ultimate Power, her sister Billie. Candor then leaves, and unfreezes the others.

Later on, Candor gets killed by Christy, for being responsible for the death of Christy and Billy's parents.

It is later discovered that The Triad cannot be destroyed as easily as previously thought. Their physical bodies can be vanquished but they continue to exist in spirit form until they are strong enough to constitute new bodies for themselves. Therefore, The Triad still exist, but as spirits, they continued to progress their plan to kill the Charmed Ones, with Dumain, who serves them. (This also confirms and explains how they are the same Triad that Cole killed in season 3 resurrected in full). Their spirits later get vanquished by the Charmed Ones, using the power of the Hollow.

However, Dumain went back in the past with Christy to warn the Triad of their death, though as he was warning them, The Charmed Ones and Billie arrived from the future as well, and vanquished the Triad, once and for all. They proceeded to vanquish Dumain and Billie vanquished her sister Christy.

As demons of the highest level, comparable to The Source (though weaker than him at least for a time, as suggested by their answering to him in season 3), they are highly resistant to most manners of attack, and all their abilities as listed below are extremely powerful, though the Charmed Ones are among the few beings whose attacks can actually harm the Triad. In addition to this, their power works as a collective, much like the Charmed Ones, stronger with all three alive.

Appendices

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The Triad

 * The Triad is a collective of powerful upper-level demons.
 * Virtual Emperors of the Underworld, when together, the
 * powers of this evil cabal increase exponentially and there
 * is no known method of vanquishing them. Though
 * unconfirmed, rumours persist of splinter groups seeking to
 * carry out their own agendas.

Powers
The Triad possess the powers of:


 * Fireball
 * Pyrokinesis
 * Teleportation
 * Telekinesis
 * Summoning
 * Conjuring
 * Freezing time
 * Telepathy
 * Banishing demons
 * Manifestation
 * Resurrection
 * Energy balls (in theory, but not wittnessed)