My Buffy-verse Legend
Our world is older than any of you knows. Contrary to popular mythology, it did not begin as a paradise.
In the beginning, before the time of man, great beings walked the earth. We now call them Old Ones. Untold power emanated from all quarters--the seeds of what would come to be known as good & evil.
But the shadows stretched and became darkness, and the malevolent among them grew stronger. The Earth became a demon realm. Those who had the will to resist left that dimension, but remained ever-watchful. Now known as The Powers That Be or The P.T.B.
But then something new emerged from deep inside the earth--neither demon, nor god. It was human. And it seemed to those who remained ever-watchful, for a time, that through this new race, a balance might be restored.
In the beginning, before the time of man, great beings walked the earth. We now call them Old Ones. Untold power emanated from all quarters--the seeds of what would come to be known as good & evil.
But the shadows stretched and became darkness, and the malevolent among them grew stronger. The Earth became a demon realm. Those who had the will to resist left that dimension, but remained ever-watchful. Now known as The Powers That Be or The P.T.B.
But then something new emerged from deep inside the earth--neither demon, nor god. It was human. And it seemed to those who remained ever-watchful, for a time, that through this new race, a balance might be restored.
The head elders of several early villages decided to take action: to create a power to stop the creatures from spreading. They took the power, essence and might of a demon and channeled it into a young girl, chained to the earth so she would not escape. The girl had no choice. This became her sacred duty and responsibility, for only she had the power to stand against the forces of darkness. She became the first Vampire Slayer.
However, being only slightly superior to Vampires and other half-breeds, the Slayer's life was often brutal and short-lived. The Shadow Men, as they were called (whose descendants went on to become the Watchers), had foreseen this and imbued this power with a hidden clause to guarantee that it would live on. There were hundreds of girls in each generation that had the potential to carry this power within their bodies.
However, being only slightly superior to Vampires and other half-breeds, the Slayer's life was often brutal and short-lived. The Shadow Men, as they were called (whose descendants went on to become the Watchers), had foreseen this and imbued this power with a hidden clause to guarantee that it would live on. There were hundreds of girls in each generation that had the potential to carry this power within their bodies.
Halfway around the world, a group of women known as The Guardians, who wanted to help and protect the Slayer, forged a weapon called The Scythe in secrecy and kept it hidden from the Shadow Men.
The Scythe resembles a metal lochaber axe with a wooden stake and a flanged mace head built into the handle. Due to its design, the Scythe can be used as an axe, sword or spear, depending on the fighting style of its wielder. The Scythe exhibits some mystical properties. A Slayer who picks it up recognizes it as a source of power, and has an instinctive sense of ownership of the weapon.
The Slayer used The Scythe to kill many of the Old Ones including the last pure demon while other Old Ones found more hospitable dimensions and left the Earth. Others were driven out by Mages and Loranites.
The Scythe resembles a metal lochaber axe with a wooden stake and a flanged mace head built into the handle. Due to its design, the Scythe can be used as an axe, sword or spear, depending on the fighting style of its wielder. The Scythe exhibits some mystical properties. A Slayer who picks it up recognizes it as a source of power, and has an instinctive sense of ownership of the weapon.
The Slayer used The Scythe to kill many of the Old Ones including the last pure demon while other Old Ones found more hospitable dimensions and left the Earth. Others were driven out by Mages and Loranites.
The Old Ones did not completely leave this world; so powerful were these beings that they could survive after death--their bodies entombed in the Deeper Well, a hole through the center of the Earth, waiting for the time when they could rise again. Beyond their entombed essences, they left behind other vestiges such as magic, their servitors, and sometimes, their descendants.
The last Old One to leave was a creature that fed off the blood of humans. By mixing its blood with that of humans, a new demonic breed was born: vampires. Vampires, though not the strongest of the half-breed progeny or other servitors, spread far quicker than possibly any other half-breed or pure-breed demon and lost none of their potency.
The last Old One to leave was a creature that fed off the blood of humans. By mixing its blood with that of humans, a new demonic breed was born: vampires. Vampires, though not the strongest of the half-breed progeny or other servitors, spread far quicker than possibly any other half-breed or pure-breed demon and lost none of their potency.
When the First Slayer died in battle, the Guardians embedded the Scythe in a black stone. Then hid the Scythe and themselves till they would be needed again. Meanwhile, the power of the Slayer was transferred to one of the potential girls. Over the course of millennia, in each generation, there was always one girl, in all the world, who had the power, and when she died, another was called, and another, and another, eventually leading to Buffy Summers becoming the Slayer.
7 years after becoming the Slayer, Buffy and her friend Willow, a very powerful witch, discovered a way to share the power with all the potential slayers across the world, using the Slayer's Scythe.
7 years after becoming the Slayer, Buffy and her friend Willow, a very powerful witch, discovered a way to share the power with all the potential slayers across the world, using the Slayer's Scythe.
Now there is no such thing as "Potential Slayers", instead they are an entirely new kind of Slayer with Watchers and Magic users as back-up and brand new Guardians guiding all of them.