In the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the Watchers' Council is the governing body of the Watchers. It pays Watchers to train their Slayers. It also trains Watchers, who keep diaries on their Slayers, while researching vampires, demons and magicks. It tries to locate potential Slayers and then send Watchers to inform and train them.
The Watchers' Council maintains operatives throughout the world in their fight against vampires and demons. A...
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In the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the Watchers' Council is the governing body of the Watchers. It pays Watchers to train their Slayers. It also trains Watchers, who keep diaries on their Slayers, while researching vampires, demons and magicks. It tries to locate potential Slayers and then send Watchers to inform and train them.
The Watchers' Council maintains operatives throughout the world in their fight against vampires and demons. A trio of assassins -- the Special Operations ("Special Ops") team -- is used for such dubious situations as interrogations, smuggling and wetworks.
Headquartered in London, England, the main organ of the body was placed on Great Russell Street in the novel Spike and Dru: Pretty Maids All in a Row. It is often depicted as a bureaucratic organization bound by rules and traditions; it often frowned on Buffy's worldliness. It is known to seek its own justice when a Slayer breaks a rule like killing a human, and places its principles above the...
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