Title: Guardians, Towers and Keepers – A Brief history of

Although I cannot and do not claim to own the characters and actors or concept from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the concept of the Towers and Guardians is mine. If you would like to use it please ask first.

There are many realms, realities or worlds depending upon your view. Some of these realms overlap each other creating door and gateways. As time pass different races learned about these passageways. Not all the entities that found these did so with good intent. Wars were waged, races enslaved or completely destroyed. The stop the spread of this invasion. Some of the older races banded together and found a way to permanently close the smaller doorways between realms and while they could not close the larger gateways they did find a way to seal them.

A fatal flaw was found in this solution. Periodically rips would appear between realms, this gave the others a chance to attack the Gates. The Seals on the Gates where designed to withstand constant attack from without but could be brought down in the seals where destroyed from within.

Seeing this, a second line of defense was formed. 30 years had passes by this time, many of the younger, shorter lived races had forgotten about these dark times and many others wish to forget and bury it into the past.

While other races believe it was a way to control them, finally the decision to build these Towers was left upon the different races.

Three Guardians, the healer, the defender and the judge would guard the Tower. For each tower a coin was made, it became known as the seeker, the sole purpose of this coin was to choose the Guardian(s) or replacement Guardian for its tower. Thus in this way always ensuring an unbiased choice. For many held the fear that power corrupt and absolute power would corrupt absolutely thus the Keeper could only be formed when the 3 Guardians merged mentally into one being.

Upon the initial setup of a tower each Guardian was granted the knowledge and experience of several different beings to help them. As time passes and Guardian(s) change their knowledge is added to this.

The next stage of defense made up of a Warden or Warden(s), their first priority is to protect the Guardian(s) and to help monitor the land around and to ensure when a rip appears nothing-nasty slips through to harm the people. The last of the tower defenders are a small group of guards/soldiers.

Many Guardians died defending the Gate and not all of them from the enemy without, political intrigue, assassination and unrest was the down fall of more than one tower. Nor was finding a replacement as easily as many believe, for if the being chosen could not handle the merge they would be driven insane. Time passes many Towers stand empty, or have been demolished.

If you knew these odds, how would you have chosen?