Description:

Devoted to studying, tracking, & combating malevolent supernatural entities

Progenitor:

Shadowmen

Place of Origin:

Africa

Legislature:

Watchers Council

Location:

- Munich
- Switzerland
- Rome
- Melbourne

Headquarters:

Great Britain

School:

Watchers Academy

Oversee:

- Potential Slayers
- Slayers

Key Members:

- Quentin Travers
- Edna Giles
- Roger Wyndam-Pryce
- Bernard Crowley (Slayer: Nikki Wood)
- Merrick (Slayer: Buffy Summers)
- Sam Zabuto (Slayer: Kendra Young)
- Rupert Giles (Slayers: Buffy & Faith Lehane)
- Wesley Wyndam-Pryce (Slayers: Buffy & Faith)
- Xander Harris
- Andrew Wells
- Robin Wood

Miscellaneous:

- Shadowmen a group of powerful warlocks created the first Slayer
- Their Descendants & some apprentices formed the Watchers Council
- Received training from a young age, Had an intense knowledge of demonology
- Taught Slayers fighting skills & weapons training, also kept journals of their Slayer
- 1999: Buffy severed her ties to the counsel after their mishandling of Faith going rogue
- 2002: Most Watchers were killed, Giles trained new ones inside the Slayer Organization