(Fic) The History of the Watchers' Council - Chapter Two

[stormwreath]

This is Chapter Two of my account of the Council's history.  For the introduction and contents, go here.

Šes'ene Ğissu'ak - Brotherhood of Shadows 3500 BC - 1746 BC

Comments

[erimthar]

It would be interesting to see how many Slayers in history made it to adulthood. The notion of a middle-aged or even old Slayer is an interesting one. In one of my stories I had the element of a spell the Shadowmen cast to kill off each Slayer on her 26th birthday, in order to prevent her from losing effectiveness due to age (and building up a sense of entitlement through seniority).

I imagine the Slayers of this era were treated pretty much as slaves by the Shadowmen, and simply killed out of hand if they ever became inconvenient or troublesome in any way. Always more where she came from, after all.

I wonder if Erishti-gamelat had a Scooby gang? :-)

[stormwreath]

I imagine the Slayers of this era were treated pretty much as slaves by the Shadowmen, and simply killed out of hand if they ever became inconvenient or troublesome in any way.

Tht's pretty much how I imagine it - although rather than killing them themselves, it would be more likely to just throw her into battle against unbeatable odds (and if she dies, send in the next Slayer, and the next).

If you're read the next chapter yet, it suggests that once the Watchers started training Potentials from childhood instead of just finding them once they became Slayers, they (gradually) started seeing them as people rather than merely a disposable resource.

I wonder if Erishti-gamelat had a Scooby gang?

Quite possibly. ;-) Or, she became the leader of the Young Turk faction that rose up among the Watchers and overthrew their seniors to end the war - and later Council historians tried to write her out of the history books as an embarrassment, but couldn't quite manage it.

[mr_waterproof]

a mighty metropolis with over 60,000 inhabitants. Its people had discovered pottery, bronze-working, the wheel, brewing beer and writing

Which civilization advance should we be working on next, sire?

[stormwreath]

Archery, for good defensive units! Or whatever advance lets them build cottages on all those floodplains around their starting location. :-)

[frogfarm]

I always sucked SO BAD at that game. Freeciv is like a million times worse.

My political atheism notwithstanding -- actually no, that and age have helped rekindle my interest. And you're doing a fantastic job weaving the Buffyverse into our own all too real history (at least what we think we know of it).

[stormwreath]

Every time they bring out a new version of Civilization I have to downgrade one difficulty level, since they always make the game harder each time...