Title: Trinity
Author: Nopporn Wongrassamee aka The Evil Author
Summary: The real history of the universe.
Disclaimer: The characters and settings belong to whoever owns them. I'm just too lazy to look up who they are.
Book 6 – Chronicles
Many are the defenders and guardians of the cosmic jewel that is Earth. Behold…
The Watchers
Created by the Goa'uld Argus, the Watchers were founded originally created to study the magic wielders and their ilk. The Watchers were to observe the witches and demons, and determine which could serve the Goa'uld and which were threats. To hide themselves better, the Watchers wore the sign of their lord not on their foreheads, but on their forearms where clothing may conceal them.
But alas, the majority of Goa'uld were not cooperative, forcing the Watchers to mostly watch, even hide. To better hide themselves, they moved the symbol of their lord from the traditional spot on the forehead to their forearm. When the Goa'uld left, so did Argus. But the Watchers were left behind to continue their duty. Time passed and memory of their lord if not their purpose faded. And as time passed, a rift grew in the ranks of the Watchers.
The Council of Watchers dedicated themselves to fighting the demons. To that end, they recruited various creatures to serve them. Their greatest coup was the acquisition of not just one Slayer, but the entire Slayer line.
The Society of Watchers argued that their mission was to study the supernatural forces. Foremost among their subjects was the Immortals, long-lived humans who all other supernatural beings seem to avoid like the plague.
In the end came the Schism. The Council and Society parted ways, nevermore to acknowledge each other's existence. Centuries pass and each remembers the other in texts and histories never read until one James Horton came across them.
The Slayer
She is the Slayer. Amongst the Old Ones, the One known only as the Slayer was most unusual. When the Old Ones battled each other for dominance, the weaker would often submit to the stronger. But the Slayer defied this trend, seeking battle with those stronger than her while disregarding those weaker as unworthy of her attentions. She defied even the self appointed authority of the God king Illyria.
And the Slayer was ever victorious. Even when she died, she managed a draw.
The Slayer's surviving enemies – and there were very few of them – gave her corpse to the lowly humans to make what they will. The ancient human mages took the Slayer's heart and created a line of warriors that still bears her name. And thus was the Slayer reborn in a fashion.
The Slayer lives but only as a spirit, a voice in her warriors' dreams. As such, the Slayer can only live vicariously through her warriors. She guides her warriors as best she can, subtly pushing them to find powerful enemies to battle. She can watch, and occasionally sends dreams to her warriors. She allowed her warriors to be allied with the Watchers, for the Watchers focus her warriors on battle.
The Slayer Chooses her warriors. She Chooses who will bear her title when the current warrior dies. She Chooses from the newly born those who may potentially bear her title. She Chose many, more perhaps than anyone mortal or Ascended ever realized.
The Slayer does not like Buffy Summers.
Buffy Summers is disrespectful of the Slayer. Buffy Summers seeks to live a life outside of Slaying. Buffy Summers called upon the Slayer to defeat Adam then dismissed her like a mere servant. Buffy Summers killed the Master instead of letting him release Hell on Earth and thus multiplying the enemies for the Slayer to fight. Buffy Summers will not stay properly dead.
After Buffy Summers rose from the dead a second time, the Slayer simply gave up in frustration. She stopped Choosing. This allowed the First Evil to attempt to extinguish her warriors from existence. But the First Evil had not known just how many Potential Slayers that the Slayer had already Chosen.
Under the tutelage of the Watchers, the Slayer's warriors battled more often than ever. A such, their lives also became much shorter, necessitating the Choosing of warriors more often. Noticing this trend, the Slayer simply increased the number of reserve Potentials.
When Buffy came back from the dead a second time, the Slayer simply stopped Choosing new Potentials. After all, if her warriors were living longer, then there were more than enough Potentials already. The Slayer even complained about it to the First Evil.
And the First Evil had decided to take advantage of this. When the Slayer realized what the First Evil was doing, there was little that she could do but send warning dreams to her warriors.
Then Buffy Summers decided to change the rules again. She persuaded the witch Willow to renegotiate the magics binding the Slayer, activating ALL of the Slayer's Potential warriors. At first, the Slayer was stunned, then delighted. She now has opportunities for battle undreamed of since her death.
The Slayer still does not like Buffy Summers, but she sure as hell respects her.
The Immortals
From the beginning of time they came, literally.
At the beginning of time, Old Ones battled each other for dominance. One of these Old Ones – Osiris, not to be confused with the Goa'uld who would later bear his name - was most unusual. Instead of regarding of humans as disgusting muck, he delighted in them. He found humans and their works endlessly fascinating. He tinkered with the humans, creating interesting hybrid races that he sometimes gave to other Old Ones.
Then the Slayer came to Osiris seeking battle. And they did battle mightily. And they killed each other. And that might have been the end of it, but Illyria's prison had not yet been constructed.
The Slayer's enemies gave the Slayer over to humans to make of her what they will. Osiris' enemies, on the other hand, made him human. Or rather, they chopped him up and made the fragments human.
It was Azrael's idea. Azrael, a long time enemy of Osiris, thought that since Osiris liked humanity so much, then Osiris should be human. But a single human vessel could not contain the full might of even a dead Old One. So Osiris was divided and incarnated as many humans. And when these human formed fragments of Osiris were made, they were unable to remember their existence as an Old One, believing themselves merely human.
Even in human guise though, some of Osiris' majesty and power can be seen. Osiris' human forms were immortal, regenerating damage that would kill just about any lesser demon. Even if the physical body were sufficiently damaged so that it could not regenerate, Osiris' essence – called the Quickening – would pass into the ether to be reborn anew.
But being a fragmented being, Osiris' human vessels subconsciously desire to be a complete and whole being once again even if they are unaware why they feel so. To that end, when one Immortal vessel is slain in front of the other, the surviving vessel absorbs the other's Quickening. Combined with the Old One's natural combative nature, and the Immortals inevitably began to battle each other for their Quickening, eventually formalizing rules of conduct that has become known as the Game.
And thus was Azrael's curse complete. The Immortals battle one another for the Prize of being a whole being once more. But the battle is endless, the Prize forever out of reach because when an Immortal dies, their Quickening and the Quickening of their victims and the Quickening of their victims' victims and so on, are scattered to the winds, each one to be reborn as a new Immortal over the course of centuries. And as of late, quite a few Immortals have died lately without another to take their Quickening.
No lesser demon interferes with the Game. Immortals broadcast their power, and demons who are sensitive look elsewhere, knowing only that this seeming human is nothing they want to mess with. Even the Slayer steers her warriors clear of them for reasons that she keeps to herself.
But mortals can and sometimes do interfere in the game. And witches, wizards, and warlocks are mortal too.