Empath

A race of magical beings that are born with the power of Empathy and called Empaths. They usually grow-up with the ability and become psyciatrists, priests, doctors and so on and are also blessed with immortality. One could think of them as whitelighters but with way less powers.

Empaths are normally always beings of light because demons and warlocks can't feel many emotions aside from pride, anger & hate and therefore they can't handle the full power of human emotion. In the show natural born Empaths are also shown immortal however it is unclear whether or not a witch who gains the power of empathy as a natural power advancement (such as is the case with Phoebe) is also or becomes immortal too though it seems unlikely. Phoebe is the only known witch to become an Empath though general power advancement. She is technically a Witch-Empath hybrid, which is uncommon as Empaths are usually completely separate from witches. Prue could not handle being an Empathic Witch at first as she wasn't meant to be but Phoebe could as she was destined to be one.

Phoebe's predestination to being an empath is a strong case for her being also blessed with immortality, in the sense that she will never die of old age, however it had never been clarified in the show. If that was true however, and if Paige was also immortal due to wher whitelighter side, that would mean that Piper would be the only one to die naturally of old age.

Known Empaths:

 * Father Thomas
 * Phoebe Halliwell
 * Cupids
 * Prue Halliwell