Slayer Lore
"In Every Generation there is a Chosen One. She alone will stand against the demons, vampires and forces of darkness...She is the Slayer.
You've heard it all before, Giles saying it they guy at the beginning of the show. But what does it all mean...what's the history behind it. Here you'll find out.
Demons were the first beings to have roamed this planet...allegedly. But the almighty powers of good managed to put a stop to that and good took over. The evil were forced to take a back seat to good. Ever since there has been evil there has been a slayer. A Chosen one to fight the forces of evil, whether it be vampires, demons or anything else hell has the chance to spit out.
The Slayer has the strength, speed and cunning to out wit anything, whether it be human or not. The First slayer was very primitive. She had no speech, no friends, nothing. Apart from the hunt and kill, slaying was her life. She was alone. Along with a slayer there's usually a Watcher. He or she is meant to help[ the slayer, guide her along the way to her destiny. The Watcher serves the slayer, helping her to train whenever possible. He/She is NOT supposed to develop a relationship with the Slayer, apart from the working relationship. There soon developed a council who were in charge of The Slayer and her goings on.
Once one slayer dies the next slayer is summoned immediately, and it is the Watcher's duty to find the new slayer and guide her to what is to be. Buffy's slayer is Rupert Giles. He comes from a long line of Watchers, but he had no intentions of being a watcher. But he did give in to his own destiny. He was to become the Watcher of Buffy Anne Summers. However he developed a close personal relationship with his slayer, Buffy, a father like relationship and he was fired from The Watchers' Council.
It's 1997, California. Buffy Anne Summers has just left her school for the end of the day. A strange man approaches her and tells her of her destiny. She doesn't believe him until she slays her first vampire. She realises her destiny as The Chosen One. But things get rough, she is booted out of school and is forced to move to Sunnydale. And the rest as they say is history.
Buffy has been the longest running slayer so far, she has survived the longest out of any other slayer that there has been. However she has previously died, and according to the lore another slayer was summoned, her name, Kendra. Kendra. She came from a place where they much believed in The Slayer and her duty to the human race. She was a short lived slayer, and only survived a few months, unfortunately. So when she dies, Faith, the next slayer was forged. Not the conventional slayer, she soon was on the dark side of things. But with some help from friends she's turning things around.
Buffy sacrificed her own life to save the rest of the world. She was thought to be alive and kicking by the underworld while her BuffyBot took her shift. There was no other slayer to rise and take her place, and the rest of the Scooby Gang decided to resurrect Buffy bringing her back to life, to the slayer we all know.
Buffy changed the slayer lore as we know it before the final battle that was to be in Sunnydale. With a magical weapon, a scythe, forged with the slayer in mind, the essence of it was used in a spell to make all potential slayers in the world slayer. Give them the strength and power of that of a slayer. So now, instead of their just being the chosen one (or two) there are thousands.
