Rowena MacLeod/Abilities and Weaknesses

Powers and Abilities
"Charlie may have cracked the codex, but who's going to read it if I'm gone, not to mention handling the ingredients, getting the measurement just right, unless of course, either of you have spent years of your life studying with the greats, mastering the intricacies of high witchcraft?"

- Rowena

"Oh please! When we initiated your thankless ass into the coven we did overlook your private lapses because of your talent."

- Olivette to Rowena

"That? Parlor trick! I'm capable of greatness. Given free reign I'd be unstoppable."

- Rowena

"I'm afraid Fergus that, in all your long life, you've never seen what a real witch can do with real magic. I'm terrifically pleased it's the last thing you'll ever see."

- Rowena

Rowena is an extremely powerful witch that has been around since the 1600s. She is among the most powerful witches to appear in the series, and according to Sam one of the most dangerous witches in the world. After training throughout her life, she has mastered and collected a vast arsenal of spells and other magical objects, which vary in complication. Although her powers were previously somewhat reduced due to Olivette's sealing, she was not significantly affected. In The Foundry, Crowley refers to her as "a colossally powerful witch" and in Various & Sundry Villains, Dean called her "the deadliest witch in the world". At the end of the same episode, Rowena's true power was unlocked, making her even more powerful than she has been in the past to the point that she could kill Reapers and alter fate. After her true power was unlocked, her eyes glow purple whenever she uses magic. Following her attack on Billie, Rowena exhausted much of her restored powers, reducing her magic back to about the level it was before she unlocked her powers. Rowena herself admits that she doesn't know if she'll ever regain all of the magic she lost.
 * Witchcraft - Being a witch, Rowena is very experienced in the use of spells and hex bags. She even has the ability to create some spells of her own (Defigere Et Depurgare). It is unknown whether or not the Attack Dog Spell is of her making. She is also able to cast a spell that obliterated a human with ease. Her magic is strong enough to affect the King of Hell and a fallen seraph; even angels are unable to heal her curses. With knowledge from the Book of the Damned, she was able to perform the Mark of Cain removal spell, which eventually freed Amara. She was also able to conjure Lucifer and is capable of opening his cage. However, while the Enochian sigils she used to bind Lucifer prevented him from teleporting, they did not remove all of his powers (though this was intentional as she was working for Lucifer). Furthermore, she claims to be the only person capable of opening Lucifer's Cage. According to Michael, due to all the centuries of practicing magic Rowena's body is able to withstand the strain of being an archangel's vessel.
 * Immortality - Rowena can live for a very long time. She has lived for at least 300 years, if not longer.
 * Self-Resurrection - By casting a resurrection spell on herself as a fail safe, she was able to revive herself both times after Lucifer killed her.
 * Regeneration - The Resurrection Seal not only revives her, but also regenerates all damage done to her, including the restoring of her crushed head and the significant burned state of her body. However, it took her quite some time to heal fully from the significant damage Lucifer inflicted upon her the second time he killed her.
 * Spell Creation - Rowena can create spells and is noted to have made Defigere Et Depurgare, one of the only spells known to be capable of killing demons.
 * Molecular Combustion - Through spells, Rowena is capable of obliterating people. She attempted to obliterate Dean with a Gaelic Obliteration Spell which he only survived due to the Mark of Cain. She also turned three Grand Coven witches to dust using a witch-killing spell from the Book of the Damned.
 * Killing Demons - Rowena crafted a spell, Defigere Et Depurgare, capable of quickly slaying ordinary demons using a hex bag. She is so far the only witch to show the ability of killing demons with magic. The spell is less efficient against powerful demons such as Crowley, but even here it can at the very least induce severe pain.
 * Conversion - She was able to transform Olivette into a hamster as punishment for her wrongs against Rowena.
 * Healing - When Amara's powers were significantly weakened by massive injuries caused by the massive smite, Rowena healed her by casting various healing spells. Rowena was also stated to have healed Oskar of a terminal illness with a spell when he was a young boy.
 * Power Granting - With a time-delayed spell, Rowena was able to grant Oskar ageless immortality, so that he can live without effects from age or illness.
 * Hex Casting - Due to being an old talented witch, she has absolute knowledge of hex bags, and is said to have taught Crowley how to use spells and hex bags back in the 1600s.
 * Astral Projection - She was able to project her consciousness outside her body to spy on Crowley one time, and to speak with the Darkness another, when both were several miles away. A different time, after unlocking her full powers, she used this ability to meet with the Winchesters safely when she knew they might kill her.
 * Cursing - Rowena was capable of cursing the Seraphim Castiel with the Attack Dog Spell in an attempt to kill Crowley. Her spell was so powerful that only she could remove it with it blocking even the angel Hannah's powers. Rowena was powerful enough that she was able to use this spell to turn two fellow witches upon one another.383355.jpg
 * Supernatural Perception - Since unlocking her powers, Rowena has shown the capacity to see and listen to reapers. She is the first human character known to perceive them without their voluntarily revealing themselves.
 * Spell and Curse Removal - Through the Mark of Cain Removal Spell, Rowena could remove the Mark of Cain, the first curse. She was also the only one capable of removing her Attack Dog Spell which Castiel referred to as having cursed him. She even removed the memory erasing spell that was cast on Dean by Gideon Loughlin. Rowena removed a love spell cast upon Dean and using the correct ritual, remove a powerful magical binding from herself.
 * Disenchanting and unwarding - Using the Cabirian Invocation, Rowena can take down the warding protecting enchanted objects.
 * Telekinesis - Rowena has pinned humans to the ceiling by impaling them on furniture on multiple occasions. 179224 original.jpg could restrain both Crowley, a powerful crossroads demon, and Castiel, a Seraph, simultaneously. Rowena has demonstrated the ability to throw humans a considerable distance with her mind, as shown when she attacked Sam and Dean. She was also able to cause multiple pieces of furniture to move across a room and form a barricade behind her to prevent a demon from following her. After unblocking her powers her telekinesis became powerful enough to stop a witch-killing bullet in mid-air.
 * Illusion Conjuration - In the 18th century, Rowena invented an illusion spell which can realistically impersonate an individual. The spell can only be performed with a small stone called the Rune of Amarath.
 * Summoning and Banishing - Rowena can summon and banish powerful beings through spells. She is the only known witch capable of casting the Cage Projection spell to summon Lucifer and the reverse of it to banish him back to Lucifer's Cage.
 * Tracking - Using a crystal ball, Rowena could perform a tracking spell capable of locating Lucifer. She was also able to cast a spell on the Black Grimoire so she could locate it, but this one was less accurate and only gave her a general location and if the book was moving around. When unbound, she was powerful enough to narrow down the location of Gabriel though he sensed her tracking spell.
 * Thermokinesis - In order to get a message to the Winchesters and Crowley, Rowena remotely burned a message into a cabinet door near them.
 * Fate Manipulation - Using a a spell, she can change the fate of herself or others. She used this spell on Olivette to turn her into a hamster.
 * Chronokinesis - With help from a second witch and a spell from the Book of the Damned, Rowena could time travel. Rowena was also able to "tweak" the Blood Sigil so that it could be used to return Gavin MacLeod to her correct time period.
 * Mind Control - With the Servitude Spell, she made an initially unfriendly waiter at a fancy restaurant become compliant. The Attack Dog Spell also turns the victim into the slave of Rowena's will, attacking whomever she directs them to.
 * Teleportation - After unlocking her true power, she is able to teleport in a similar fashion to Angels and Demons.
 * Pyrokinesis - Through a Incinerating Spell, she is able to cause people and Reapers to incinerate. She also ignited magically a fire within a bowl, as part of Diagnostic Spell.
 * Sedation - Through a sleeping spell, she is able to cause people to fall unconscious.
 * Portal Creation - Through a ritual, Rowena can open a rift to another reality. Unlike in the version of the ritual transcribed on the Demon Tablet, Rowena is able to channel the power of the ritual through her hands instead of the Seal of Solomon.
 * Binding - Using a combination of a potion and a spell, Rowena was able to magically bind Lucifer, an archangel. However, even in a weakened state, he was able to break free of her hold eventually.
 * Transformation - Using a transformation spell, Rowena was able to transform Jack into a dog for some time.
 * Magical Senses - Rowena possesses an awareness of anything magical, as she was able to sense another kind of magic inside of Jack pushing back against hers.

Skills

 * Multilingualism - She is capable of reading spell books which are written in ancient languages, such as druidic spell books. She was even able to read the Book of the Damned, albeit with the aid of Nadia's Codex and Charlie's decoder.

Equipment
As a powerful witch, Rowena uses a lot of equipment.
 * Hex Bags - For many of her spells, Rowena has hex bags she has created for casting each spell.
 * Angel Blades - On at least one occasion, Rowena has been known to carry and utilize an angel blade.
 * Book of the Damned - Powerful spellbook containing spells to create and undo every kind of damnation there is. Acquired by Rowena after removing the Mark of Cain and remains in her possession.
 * A page from the Black Grimoire - Rowena was allowed to keep a page from the Black Grimoire by Sam Winchester describing a ritual to break the bindings on her powers.
 * Black Grimoire - After the departure of Lucifer through the rift to Apocalypse World, Rowena gained the use of the Black Grimoire itself in the hopes of finding a way to keep the rift open.
 * Dean's gun - During a fight with the zombie Mrs. Plum, Rowena used Dean's gun to kill her. She later returned the weapon to Dean.

Weaknesses

 * Power Sealing (formerly) - Her powers were reduced to a certain degree due to an unknown sealing spell that was cast by Olivette before her expulsion from the Grand Coven. Although her previous powers and abilities were somewhat reduced, she was still very powerful and difficult to defeat. After using a ritual from the Black Grimoire, Rowena lost this weakness.
 * Iron - Her power was reduced dramatically and blocked when she was bound by iron. She was severely weakened when bound by the iron cuff's in Hell's Dungeon. Sam was also able to restrain her using iron chains. However, she was eventually able to escape the chains. She later tells Sam that iron can't hold her long.
 * Verbal Restraints - It appears Rowena is unable to cast many spells without reciting an incantation as Crowley's demons were able to capture her with ease after they had gagged her.
 * Witch-killing spell - As a witch, she is vulnerable to the witch-killing spell.
 * Witch-killing bullets - Sam has twice threatened her with a bullet version of the spell though due to the circumstances, she has not been harmed by it.
 * Witchcatcher - Dean and Crowley were able to restrain and enslave her with this tool.
 * Mortality - Since her immortality only grants her an immunity to age and illness, she can still be killed. Lucifer was able to kill her, simply by snapping her neck.
 * Extensive Damage - Sufficient damage to her corpse, such as decapitation or extensive fire damage, may interfere with the normal time it takes her Resurrection Seal to restore her body and revive her. While Lucifer indicated that removing Rowena's head should permanently kill her even with her Resurrection Seal, it is not known if it would actually prevent the spell from reviving her. After crushing her head, Lucifer burned Rowena's corpse in an attempt to prevent her resurrection. However, this did not permanently kill her and instead resulting in Rowena taking "a very long time" to heal.
 * Power Exhaustion - After using a great deal of her power in an attack on Billie, Rowena stated that she has become weaker and doesn't know if she will ever recover the power she exhausted.
 * Sam Winchester - According to Billie's registers of how everyone will eventually die, every scenario of Rowena's ultimate death has her killed by Sam.
 * Higher Beings - Alone, Rowena's magic was unable to have any effect on The Darkness or Billie, with the latter causing her to become magically weaker. Her magic could be overcome by Archangels, with Lucifer doing so on two occasions, even while weakened. Rowena also seemed to be afraid of Michael's threats, implying that she would be unable to stop him and she feared for being on Noah Ophis hit list. She contempled fighting back Jack Kline at her flat, althought she admittes that she would not have won anyway.undefined