Archetype:Spirit Advisor

Spirit Advisor
Leo Wyatt (Charmed); after Leo died he was rewarded by becoming a Whitelighter, an angelic-like spirit entity who provided guidance and assistance to new Witches and even became the permeant guide to the Charmed Ones themselves.
Archetype:	Spirit Advisor and Guide

The archetype for the characters that possess or have traits of a spirit advisor. Variation of Guardian Angel. Not to be confused with just Guardian Angel or Spiritualist.

Also Called

• Ghostly Guide
• Spirit Guide

Properties

As an archetype, the spirit advisor is a spirit-like entity whose purpose is most often to provide advice, guide and assist living beings and even act as a moral compass all from beyond the grave to those they appear to and will possess a variety of spiritual-based powers to aid them in helping their charges, family members, friends, etc., and even similar type victims to like how the spirit guide died in life. Spirit Advisors or spirit guides will always appear when needed even if it is completely unknown that they are there.

These types of entities can even dwell within the minds of others, being thought of as just your imagination playing tricks on you or a hallucination.

Associated Powers

• Guardianship (varies)
• Guidance
  • Encyclopedic Knowledge
  • Future Illustration
  • Intuitive Aptitude
  • Past Illustration
  • Spiritual Assistance
• Spirit Physiology (Varies from spirit to spirit)
  • Corporealization
  • Ghost Physiology
  • Intangible Interaction
  • Non-Corporeal Form
  • Non-Physical Interaction
  • Psionics
    • Claircognizance
    • Spiritual Awareness
    • Telekinesis
    • Telepathy
      • Dream Manipulation
        • Dream Walking
        • Precognitive Dreaming (Sends dreams to others)
      • Empathy
      • Psychic Communication
      • Omni-Communication (Varies; spirits can commune with the living through various mediums.)
    • Teleportation
  • Selective Appearance
  • Spiritual Force Manipulation
  • Spiritual Symbiosis
  • Transcendent Spirit
    • Shoulder Spirit
    • Transcendent Ghost
• Spiritual Arts
• Spiritualism

Associations/Relationships

• Guardian Angel
• Spirit Physiology
  • Ghost
  • Shoulder Spirit
  • Vengeance Spirit
• Spiritual Assistance
• Spiritualist
• Totemism
  • Totem Physiology
• Transcendent Physiology

Flaws/Weaknesses

• May be vulnerable to any ability that affects spirits, such as a Spirit Barrier or Exorcism.
• Susceptible to Soul Destruction, Soul Mutilation, Ultimate Erasure, Absolute Destruction, and other abilities that may harm or destroy souls/spirits.

Known/Example Characters

See Also: Spirit Advisor and Spirit Guide.

Anime/Manga

• Previous users of One For All (My Hero Academia)

Animation/Cartoons

• Vander (Arcane)
• Previous Avatars (Avatar series)
• Chanuls (Elena of Avalor)
  • Cacahuate
  • Zuzo
• Mufasa (The Lion King)
• Sitka (Brother Bear)
• Littlefoot's Mother (The Land Before Time)
• Master Splinter (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2012 TV series)
• Jaga (ThunderCats, 1985)

Comics

• Whitelighters (Charmed)
  • Leo Wyatt
  • The Elders

Folklore/Mythology

• Guardian Angels (Abrahamic Faiths)
• Mudang (Korean Shamanism)
• Spirits Guides (Wiccan Mythology)
• Ancestor Worship (World Culture)
  • Chinese folk religions
  • Native American religions
  • Shintō

Literature

• The Buffalo Man (American Gods)
• Spirits (The Divine Comedy)
  • Beatrice
  • Saint Bernard
  • Virgil
• The Purple Buffalo (The Neverending Story)

Live Television/Movies

• Snow White (The 10th Kingdom)
• The Buffalo (American Gods)
• Brock Williams (Ash vs. Evil Dead)
• Aniu (Balto franchise)
• Deceased Halliwell Family Members (Charmed)
  • Malinda Warren
  • Patty Halliwell
  • Penny Halliwell
• Whitelighters (Charmed)
  • The Elders
• Harry Morgan (Dexter)
• Bob/Hrothbert of Bainbridge (The Dresden Files)
• Elise Rainier (Insidious: Chapter 2/Insidious: Chapter 3)
• God (Joan of Arcadia)
• Oogway (Kung Fu Panda)
• One-Who-Waits (Northern Exposure)
• Tangina Barrons (Poltergeist II)
• All deceased Jedi (Star Wars)
• Godric (True Blood); for Eric Northman
• Ben (The Umbrella Academy); reluctantly is this to Klaus.
• Pachacamac (Paramount's Sonic the Hedgehog)

Video Games

• Wind (Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin)
• Virgil (Dante's Inferno)
• Ghosts of the Chosen (Eternal Darkness)
• Professor Raymond Knowby (Evil Dead: Regeneration)
• Aerith Gainsborough (Final Fantasy VII series)
• The Hero's Shade (The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess)
• Phantom Alchemist (Reah: Face the Unknown)
• Tikal (Sonic the Hedgehog)
• Lightbringer users (Warcraft series)
• Kel'thuzad (Warcraft series)

Web Animation

• Ozpin (RWBY)

Gallery

The Buffalo Man (American Gods) Personification and Aspect of the American Lands

The Buffalo (American Gods TV Show)

Penny Halliwell (Charmed)

Patty Halliwell (Charmed)

Brock Williams (Ash vs. Evil Dead); once he died and became a ghost and helped his son Ash out before he moved on.

Ben (The Umbrella Academy); reluctantly is this to Klaus.

Virgil (The Divine Comedy)

Godric (True Blood); became a spirit guide for his son Eric Northman.

Mufasa (The Lion King)

Sitka (Brother Bear)

Littlefoot's Mother (The Land Before Time)

Aniu (Balto)

Oogway (Kung Fu Panda)

Tikal (Sonic the Hedgehog)

Pachacamac (Paramount's Sonic the Hedgehog)

Splinter (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2012 TV series)