I was a soldier in WWI, got killed by enemy fire while trying to save my comrades, which earned me not only a purple heart but Whitelighter Wings as well.



From then on, I had been assigned to watch over the Halliwells where I met my soulmate. At first the Elders sanctioned our affair because a Whitelighter and Witch being together was unheard of. Upon Prue Halliwell's death they discovered the existence of another Witch who would reconstitute their precious Charmed Ones, Paige Matthews. She paved the way for me and Piper to get married and even have children.



We had Wyatt first. Surprisingly he was a boy. Piper and I had expected a girl, from what she and her sisters saw in the future where Phoebe had been burned at the stake. That future has changed now, Prue was alive then and they didn't even know about Paige Matthews.



Life changing events when the Titans came pushed me to become an Elder. That was when we met our future son Chris who had traveled back from the future to save his older brother from turning evil. He almost vanished from existence, tampering with the past like that, but he pulled through and made it back - only to be killed by a fellow Elder like myself, Gideon. Those were harsh times for me, I couldn't bear the thought of me saving one son in exchange for the life of the other. It was too much for me to bear; I was hearing voices and seeing floating heads. I thought I was going insane. I accidentally killed another Elder, which almost caused my soul to be recycled if not for the fact that I had become an Avatar by then. Tough times, those days. I walked the same path Cole had traveled years before and for a moment, I actually thought I was going to be vanquished.



Luckily I wasn't. Piper and her sisters had not wanted to vanquish me as easily as they did Cole because of the children. Eventually, I pulled myself out from the dark hole I was slowly edging into and returned to the lightside. We never really figured out how to get rid of my Avatar powers, but I had chosen to become an Elder once more. There were a lot of complaints at first, a lot of distrust and more mayhem. Eventually, things settled down and everybody started trusting me again. I did not let them down. We were blessed once again with the arrival of a new addition to our family - Melinda. I like to think that Melinda had not only been a little blessing, but my saving grace as well.



Let me tell you a little secret: I'm still an Avatar. Yes, I am. Even though I am clearly an Elder, nobody - not even the Charmed Ones - were able to extract my Avatar powers from me. I don't mind though. My Avatar powers protected me from getting recycled. I could have been able to save the sisters from death as well but they had refused to be resurrected again like I had notoriously done for Piper and Phoebe when they were killed the first few moments of my being an Avatar, thus sealing their deaths. My Avatar powers have come in handy protecting our progeny though. I still see my beloved Piper Up There. She had been given the chance to have her soul recycled or just stay there and she chose the latter in order to be able to stay with me and still be able to watch over our children.



You want to know a bigger secret? My children think dear old dad is just an Elder. The sisters and I thought that it would be best if we kept that part of our past to ourselves. The only one of our children who would be affected by this would have to be Melinda because she's the only one who was conceived during the time of my Avatar status, but she has thankfully been exhibiting normal Whitelighter powers, at least to my knowledge.



Wyatt, being the firstborn, we had naturally assumed that he was the strongest. Being born on a magical day inside the Manor and having Excalibur didn't hurt much either. We had assumed that his siblings would pale in comparison but we were mistaken. We came to the conclusion that all three of our children were, in their own rights, first-borns. Wyatt was my firstborn as a Whitelighter, Chris as an Elder and Melinda as an Avatar. My wife was concerned about this, and that's part of the reason why I still spend an abnormal amount of time on Earth for an Elder.

This biography was written pre season 8, so as far as we are concerned that never happened.

Elder/Avatar

Meditating at the top of Golden Gate Bridge.