Buffy & Angel: The Chronological Timeline

Last Updated: 23rd December 2025

The Buffy the Vampire Slayer universe has expanded far beyond its original TV series, now including Angel along with a wide range of canonical comics and spin-offs that together form an extensive timeline of events, spanning from before time itself to the distant 23rd century. For reference, this chronology focuses on events leading up to the series, with a key provided below linking to each corresponding story in the series, continuing into the comics and beyond.

PRIMORDIAL EARTH

The universe is created. As the Earth is formed, the Seed of Wonder spills the Old Ones from other dimensions and they ravage the Earth, ruling it for time immemorial. It remains this way until the rise of mortal beings [Last Gleaming; Ready, Steady…].

Illyria the Merciless supresses a rebellion leaving only one survivor, Baticus, buried alive [Angel: Only Human]. After invading another dimension and enslaving its inhabitants, Illyria blames the death of the victims on a survivor, the Nitobe Warrior, Eldre Koh and he is imprisoned [United].

Maloker, an Old One, is banished from Earth. He sires the first vampire before he leaves [The Core].

The deceased Old Ones are imprisoned in the Deeper Well. Mortal beings begin to thrive [A Hole in the World].

PRE-HISTORY

Whistler is born, the child of a Power That Is and a Demon. Both parents are killed by the Powers That Be in disgust and sentence the child to serve as a balance between good and evil. [The Hero of His Own Story].

In Africa, the Shadowmen make Sineya the First Slayer by infusing the girl with the essence of a demon [Get It Done].

Distrusting them, the Guardians, females of power, forge the Scythe so that the Slayer can end the last of the Old Ones on Earth. They keep themselves and their actions a secret. Too secret, as they fade into history without mention [End of Days].

HISTORY

As time is beginning to be recorded, the Old Ones continue to die, but infect and sire more, creating followers. The Slayer line begins to be passed to one girl in every generation, Chosen to stop the forces of darkness. The Shadowmen expand to include more followers as the known world grows and is explored. They become the Watcher’s Council.

Whistler continues on Earth throughout history, subtly arranging things in balance. He never directly interferes. At the same time, the Old One Archaeus sires a human as he leaves this dimension. The human is a man named Heinrich Joseph Nest.

9th CENTURY

800
The Watcher’s Council establish a test for the Slayer called a Cruciamentum that she must undergo on her 18th birthday [Helpless].

880
In Sweden, a woman named Aud, annoyed at her husband for cheating on her, casts a spell to punish him. The Vengeance Demon D’Hoffryn notices her and makes her his primary Vengeance Demon, now known as Anyanka, the Patron of Scorned Women [Selfless].

12th CENTURY

Heinrich Nest, now with followers and known as the Master, comes across the Seed of Wonder and is enthralled to protect it. The vampire Aurelius prophesises the eventual rise of the Anointed One. The Master forms a cult around these teachings [Last Gleaming]. Also, during this century, the Order of Dagon is founded to protect the Key [Blood Ties].

14th CENTURY

The Soul Glutton’s family is killed by a Slayer. The Soul Glutton, bereft of kin, swears eternal vengeance [Return to Sunnydale].

17th CENTURY

1609
A prostitute dying of Syphilis, at Virginia Colony, is attended to by her client from the night before, disguised as a Priest. Revealed to be the Master, he sires the girl, who will assume the name Darla [Darla].

1625
Plymouth Colony. Mysterious deaths are attributed to some unknown animals. These deaths stop shortly after a strange visitor, Abigail Cole, joins the community.

1680
The Watcher’s Council discover the prophecy of Twilight. Thirty Watchers commit suicide over the words [Twilight].

18th CENTURY

1727
In Galway, Ireland, the man named Liam is born [The Prodigal]. As he grows up, his father and Liam develop a bitter relationship.

1753
Arguing with his father, Liam storms from the family home and spends the evening getting drunk. He’s observed by the vampire Darla. Shortly after he is thrown from the establishment, Darla approaches the young man, at this point twenty-seven years old, and sires him [Becoming (Part 1)]. The following night, he rises as the vampire Angelus and massacres his family. They leave the village with no survivors [The Prodigal].

They cut a swath through Ireland and then through Wales.

1760
Angelus is brought before the Master, in London, for the first time. Angelus is disrespectful and the Master demands a choice from Darla between him and her young companion. She leaves with Angelus [Darla].

1764
After being pursued by Captain Daniel Holtz across the North of England, Angelus and Darla track his family to York and kill them, siring his daughter and leaving her for him to kill. Holtz swears revenge and begins chasing them [Quickening; Lullaby].

1765
Trapped in a barn and surrounded by Holtz’s men, Darla abandons Angelus to flames when Holtz’s men set it alight [The Trial].

1767
Angelus tracks Darla to Marseilles, France, where she is travelling with vampires James and Lisbeth. She’s evaded Holtz and he finds them, having tracked Angelus [Heartthrob].

1771
Holtz tortures a captured Angelus in Rome. Darla arrives to rescue him, killing everyone but Holtz [Offspring].

1773
Holtz is approached by the demon Sahjhan, who offers him a chance for revenge [Quickening].

1786
In Ireland, Angelus, alone, sires a Puritan named Penn who kills his family first, following Angelus’ teachings [Somnambulist].

1789
In Prussia, on a battlefield, the Beast, loyal to a fallen Power That Was, attempts to recruit Angelus. The vampire refuses [Soulless].

1791
The Wolf, the Ram and the Hart set up in this dimension, hiring killer Matthias Pavayne to deconsecrate the former church ground their offices will be built on [Hell Bound].

19th CENTURY

1812
In California, in what will one day be Sunnydale, a mission is buried, containing the remains of local Chumash warriors [Pangs].

1838
Angelus, in Dublin, kills a gambler named Daniel [Amends].

1843
Madrid. One of the followers of Aurelius, Luke, is attacked by a Slayer while sleeping [The Harvest].

1845
Boston shipyards are plagued by a series of grisly murders. The attacks end when a quiet young woman arrives in town.

1853
William Pratt is born in London.

1860
In London, Darla points out a young girl with visions, a potential Seer named Drusilla, to Angelus. Over the course of the next year, Angelus stalks Drusilla, slowly driving her insane and then massacring her family. As the young woman runs to a convent for sanctuary, Angelus and Darla slaughter everyone in front of her. Angelus sires her to prolong her suffering [Dear Boy].

1866
In Virginia, several local Civil War widows disappear. The disappearances stop after a young woman named Lucy Hanover comes to town. She sets up camp in the local graveyard.

1880
During a party, the Vengeance demon Halfrek, disguised as Cecily Addams, rejects poet William Pratt in London. He walks away hurt, straight into the arms of Drusilla, who sires him [Fool for Love]. He sires his mother Anne and then stakes her when she changes her feelings towards him [Lies My Parents Told Me]. Taken under Angelus’s wing, he is welcomed into the vampire group, but they soon begin fighting over Drusilla’s affections [Destiny]. By the end of the year, the vampires have been exposed in London and run out of town, being chased across England. William, now going by the name Spike, battles Angelus in a mine shaft in Yorkshire [Fool for Love].

1883
In Dodge City, Kansas, there are forty deaths under suspicious circumstances. The deaths cease when Belle Malone rides into town. Back in London, Angelus kills waitress Margaret at a party [Amends].

1888
With East London under intense scrutiny, the four vampires leave the country for Europe.

1890
Angelus sees the opera Giselle in Vienna. He cries [Waiting in the Wings].

1893
In Oklahoma, a series of savage attacks claim the lives of seventeen homesteaders. The murders stop when a young blacksmith passes through town.

1894
While in Rome searching for Drusilla and Darla, Angelus and Spike are imprisoned by the Immortal, who seduces the females in their absence [The Girl in Question].

1897
Virginia City, Wyoming. Bizarre murders shock this small hillside community. The killings cease shortly after 20-year-old Florence Gilbert arrives in town.

1898
While in Romania, Darla selects a girl for Angelus to feed on. She happens to be the chief daughter of the Kalderash Romani. As punishment, the Kalderash use the Spell of Restoration, channelled through an Orb of Thesulah, to restore Angelus’ soul [Becoming (Part 1); Five by Five).

Darla rejects Angelus when she discovers this and exiles him. Shortly afterwards, Darla has Drusilla and Spike kill every Kalderash alive [Darla]. They miss one survivor, whose lineage will endure, spreading word in the years to come. While on the streets begging, Angelus finds he cannot bring himself to feed from a human.

1899
Told of the Slayers, Richard Wilkins buys some land in California, above a Hellmouth. A town is built within a year. It’s named Sunnydale.

20th CENTURY

1900
The Boxer Rebellion rages through China. Angelus finds Darla, Spike and Drusilla amidst the chaos. He begs Darla for another chance at joining them, but flees when she offers him the chance to feed on a helpless baby [Darla]. During the rebellion, Spike battles Slayer Xin Rong and kills her, impressing Drusilla [Fool for Love].

1902
Angelus, now calling himself Angel, arrives in America at Ellis Island, New York [Orpheus].

1905
The Russian Revolution begins, brought about by interference from Vengeance Demons Anyanka and Halfrek [Selfless].

1910
The Sculptor arrives on Earth and legends begin of his power [Love Dares You].

1912
In New York, 23 people are murdered in the Brooklyn Boarding House Murders. The killings end abruptly when a student nurse named Arabella Gish seeks lodgings in room number 6.

1920
In Mexico, Angel battles a demon named Boone over a woman, but the fight is stopped at sunrise without a resolution [Blood Money]. Later the same year, in Chicago, Angel saves a puppy from a car [Orpheus].

Anyanka and Halfrek enjoy the Russian Revolution

1927
Chicago. Mass murder leads to fears of a serial killer. An unknown woman passes through town mysteriously and the killings stop.

1930
The Master and his followers, including Darla, arrive in California. They travel to the nearest Hellmouth, which is underneath Sunnydale.

1932
Followers of Proserprexa the Demon Queen attempt to destroy the world, but an earthquake swallows them and their temple in Sunnydale [Grave].

1935
In Oklahoma, April, Susan Finney summons a demon and asks him to impregnate her. She later gives birth to twins, Pearl and Nash [The Hero of His Own Story].

1936
An earthquake hits California. In Sunnydale, the Master’s lair in an abandoned church is buried, interrupting a ritual to open the Hellmouth. The quake traps him behind his own spell, restricting his movements to inside the church [The Harvest].

This unnamed woman was in Chicago in 1927

1941
In London, during the Blitz of World War II, Sophronia Fairweather tries to resurrect her lover, only to have to end his suffering when the spell goes wrong [What You Want, Not What You Need].

1943
Angel is captured in New York by the Demon Research Initiative, a US Government department funded to exploit supernatural resources. He is sent to recover a prototype German submarine. Arriving onboard, he encounters Spike, who he leaves to drown [Why We Fight].

1945
Whistler witnesses the destruction of Hiroshima [What You Want, Not What You Need].

1946
Maude Pearson murders her son Dennis in Los Angeles by bricking him up inside her living room wall [Rm. w/a Vu]. Angel visits Las Vegas [The House Always Wins].

1950
Spike and Drusilla reunite in Italy. They briefly encounter Pearl and Nash, mating with demons to create the next generation of hybrids. [The Girl in Question; Spike: A Dark Place].

1952
Angel stays at the Hyperion Hotel and becomes involved with a thief. He’s lynched by a mob under the influence of a Thesulac demon living in the hotel’s foundations [Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been].

1953
In November this year, in Mexico, four of the five Hermanos Numeros are killed [The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco].

1954
Ted Buchanan creates a robot duplicate of himself after his wife leaves him [Ted]. Rupert Giles is born in London.

1955
Sunnydale High School student James Stanley kills his lover, teacher Grace Newman [I Only Have Eyes for You].

1960
Angel visits Las Vegas. Again [The House Always Wins].

1963
Spike kills two members of the Watcher’s Council and an orphanage of children in Vienna [Lineage].

1964
10-Year-Old Rupert Giles fends off a demon, after which he is sent to the Watcher’s Academy in London – to the objections of his magical aunts Sophronia and Lavinia Fairweather [Women of a Certain Age].

1967
Elvis and Priscilla Presley get married in Las Vegas, with Angel in attendance [The House Always Wins]. In San Francisco, future Wolfram and Hart assassin Vanessa Brewer is born [Blind Date]. Angel also attends the first taping of The Carol Burnett Show in Los Angeles in the Fall [Not Fade Away].

1969
The Woodstock music festival occurs in New York. Spike attends, feeds off a flower lady and spends the next few hours watching his hands move [School Hard]. Also in New York this year, Angel watches Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid at a movie theatre.

1970
In Oklahoma, Watcher Alasdair Coames leads an attempt to kill the family of Pearl and Nash [The Hero of His Own Story]. Nikki Wood is activated as a Slayer in New York City.

1972
Nikki Wood’s boyfriend, police officer Li, is killed by a vampire crime boss. Also this year, Giles quits his duties at the Watcher’s Council and argues with his father [Daddy Issues].

The Watchers attack Pearl and Nash in 1970

1973
Nikki Wood survives her Cruciamentum, under the direction of Watcher Bernard Crowley. She is pregnant. She gives birth to a son, Robin, at the end of the year. Crowley makes plans to hide her from the Watcher’s Council in order to allow her a normal life with her son.

1974
After living in South America, Nikki finds herself drawn back to New York [On Your Own].

1975
After witnessing a shooting, Angel cannot help himself and feeds from the victim, allowing him to die [Orpheus]. In London, Rupert Giles and Ethan Rayne lose control of the demon Eyghon [Death and Consequences].

1976
After losing a war in her home dimension, a goddess named Glorificus is banished to Earth in the body of a newborn, Ben Wilkinson [The Weight of the World].

1977
Giles’s grandmother Edna convinces him to return to his duties [Death and Consequences]. Spike and Drusilla arrive in New York City. Spike battles Nikki several times, once in front of young Robin [Lies My Parents Told Me]. Shortly afterwards that Summer, Nikki is killed while in battle with him on a subway train, with Spike taking her coat for himself [Fool for Love].

1980
Zane Pharmaceuticals is formed by Walter Zane in California [Lost and Found]. Tara Maclay is born.

1981
Buffy Summers is born to Joyce and Hank Summers [The Gift].

1982
Charles Gunn and his grandmother are attacked by a neighbour turned vampire. She begins to teach him about fighting vampires [Angel: Only Human]. Willow Rosenberg, Xander Harris and Cordelia Chase are born in Sunnydale.

1985
Gwen Raiden is taken to Thorpe’s Academy [Ground State].

1986
In Sunnydale, Xander steals Willow’s Barbie [Welcome to the Hellmouth].

1987
Sunnydale. Willow breaks the yellow crayon. One day this will save her life [Grave].

1988
In Los Angeles, Walter Kindel kidnaps ten year old Dana after murdering her family. She will remain in a psychiatric hospital for fifteen years [Damage]. Now aged 21, Vanessa Brewer blinds herself and commences training with an order of assassins.

1989
Buffy witnesses her cousin Celia’s death in Los Angeles [Killed by Death].

1990
Charles Gunn’s grandmother passes [Angel: Only Human]. Gunn takes custody of his sister Alonna.

1991
Buffy meets Billy Fordham [Lie to Me]. He is not a fat guy.

1995
Fred Burkle moves from Texas to Los Angeles [Shells]. Gunn makes a deal with a demon, sacrificing his future for his ‘heart’s desire’ in Los Angeles – which turns out to be a truck [Double or Nothing]. In New York, Angel has punished himself for feeding on the victim by living homeless on the streets and feeding on vermin [Orpheus].

1996
Whistler approaches Angel and invites him to be a hero.

That Spring in Los Angeles, on the steps of Hemery High, Buffy is approached after school by a Watcher who informs her of her destiny. Her initial battle sees her miss the heart. Angel observes her first kill with Whistler and agrees to help the Slayer. Buffy’s parents, Joyce and Hank Summers, begin divorce proceedings after he has an affair with his secretary [Becoming (Part 1)].

In 1996, in New York, Whistler finds Angel…

In May, Fred Burkle is sucked through a portal in Los Angeles to the dimension of Pylea and is declared missing. At the same time, Krevlornswath of the Deathwok Clan is thrown from a portal into an abandoned building in Los Angeles from his home dimension of Pylea. He builds nightclub Caritas there. [Belonging].

By July, Joyce and Hank, concerned about Buffy’s behaviour in school, place her in a behavioural unit on a psychiatric ward. Buffy stops talking about vampires and is released shortly afterward [Normal Again]. She burns down the Hemery High Gymnasium to stop ~~vampires~~/asbestos. This is the straw that breaks the family in half, with Joyce receiving custody of Buffy. She makes preparations to move [The Origin].

At some point this year, Drusilla is attacked by a mob in Prague and Spike flees with her to America. He believes the Hellmouth energy in Sunnydale will heal her.

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER SEASON 1

March 1997 – May 1997
Buffy and her mother move to the small Californian town of Sunnydale. Upon arrival as a sophomore at Sunnydale High School, Buffy encounters Rupert Giles, sent to America to persuade her to fulfil her destiny. She befriends Willow and Xander on her first day, and meets Cordelia Chase [Welcome to the Hellmouth].

Angel warns Buffy of the Master and the Harvest, which she prevents, killing Luke in the process. Xander’s friend, Jesse McNally, is killed during the attack. Darla is also present, but flees before Angel can see her [The Harvest].

Buffy meets Amy Madison for the first time [Witch].

As prophesied by Aurelius, the Anointed One rises. Buffy believes the Anointed has been stopped, but it is, in actuality, a young vampire named Collin [Never Kill a Boy on the First Date].

Sunnydale High principal Robert Flutie is eaten by hyena‑possessed students [The Pack].

Buffy discovers that Angel is a vampire. Darla attacks Buffy’s mother and frames Angel, who hasn’t seen her since 1900. When Buffy confronts Angel, they are attacked by Darla, who Angel surprises by staking – enraging the Master [Angel].

Jenny Calendar arrives in Sunnydale. She is a descendent of the Kalderash tribe sent to Sunnydale to observe Angel [I Robot, You Jane].

Principal Snyder becomes principal of Sunnydale High [The Puppet Show].

A prophecy declares that Buffy will face the Master and die. She confronts the Master, who leaves her to drown. Buffy Summers dies [Prophecy Girl].

Kendra Young is Chosen as the Slayer in Jamaica [What’s My Line? (Part 1)].

Xander revives Buffy using CPR. The Master opens the Hellmouth. Buffy defeats the Master and he is killed, leaving nothing but his bones and the Hellmouth closed once again [Prophecy Girl].

Buffy visits her father in Los Angeles in the Summer of 1997 [When She Was Bad].

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER SEASON 2

September 1997 – May 1998
Buffy returns to Sunnydale, haunted by her death and resurrection. She foils the Anointed’s plan to resurrect the Master by smashing his bones [When She Was Bad].

Rupert Giles and Jenny Calendar begin to date [Some Assembly Required].

Spike and Drusilla arrive in Sunnydale. Spike usurps and kills the Anointed, targeting Buffy personally [School Hard].

Senior Oz notices Willow for the first time [Inca Mummy Girl].

Ethan Rayne arrives in Sunnydale [Halloween].

Buffy becomes aware of Drusilla for the first time. Billy Fordham, dying, makes a deal with Spike for immortality but is betrayed. Buffy kills him when he rises again [Lie to Me].

Eyghon kills the remaining circle of Giles’s teenage group. Ethan Rayne and Giles are targeted by the demon, which possesses Jenny Calendar. Angel tricks the demon into possessing his body, where his own demon fights it off. Eyghon is believed destroyed. Ethan Rayne leaves Sunnydale [The Dark Age].

Spike and Drusilla summon the Order of Taraka to assassinate Buffy. Kendra Young arrives in Sunnydale. Angel is used by Spike in a ritual that restores Drusilla to health, but he is injured in the process. Cordelia and Xander begin their tryst in secret. Kendra departs [What’s My Line?].

Ted Buchanan’s robot dates Joyce Summers. Buffy is blamed for Ted’s “death” until his robotic doppelgänger is revealed. The robot is destroyed [Ted].

Buffy and Angel’s relationship deepens on her 17th birthday. They consummate their love. Spike and Drusilla reassemble the Judge, a demon who, if left unchecked, will destroy all human life and can not be killed by any weapon forged. Angel’s soul is removed after his moment of true contentment [Surprise].

Angelus returns to Spike and Drusilla. Buffy realises she may have to slay her love. Jenny Calendar is revealed to be Janna, a descendant of the Kalderash, sent to watch Angel and ensure his misery. Cordelia and Xander’s relationship is revealed to the group. The Judge is destroyed via rocket launcher. Buffy cannot bring herself to kill Angelus [Innocence].

Oz discovers he is a werewolf. He and Willow begin to date [Phases].

Jenny Calendar discovers the spell to restore Angel’s soul. Angelus kills her and leaves her body for Giles to find. Devastated, Giles attacks Angelus but is stopped by Buffy. The disc, with the spell on it, is lost. [Passion].

Buffy discovers her cousin Celia was killed by Der Kindestod [Killed by Death].

James Stanley and Grace Newman’s ghosts are exorcised from Sunnydale High [I Only Have Eyes for You].

Angelus plans to use Acathla to destroy the world and transport it to a Hell dimension. Spike betrays the vampires in jealousy over Drusilla. The disc containing the Spell of Restoration is found. The library is attacked and Drusilla kills Kendra Young. Giles is kidnapped and tortured into revealing the ritual. Buffy tells Joyce she is the Slayer.

Confronting Angelus, Buffy is unaware Willow has conducted the Restoration spell. Angel’s soul returns, but too late to stop Acathla. Spike flees with Drusilla. Buffy kills Angel and sends him to Hell. Distraught and expelled from school, she flees Sunnydale [Becoming].

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER SEASON 3

September 1998 – May 1999
The Mayor of Sunnydale, Richard Wilkins, long‑lived through a demonic pact, plans to ascend to the demonic form of Olvikan. This year marks the centenary of Sunnydale’s founding [Homecoming].

Buffy visits a Hell dimension whilst in Los Angeles. She returns to Sunnydale three months after her departure and is readmitted to Sunnydale High [Anne; Dead Man’s Party].

Buffy begins dating Scott Hope. Faith Lehane, Chosen after Kendra’s death, arrives in Sunnydale, followed by Kakistos and his vampire assistant Mr Trick. Buffy and Faith kill Kakistos, but Mr Trick escapes. Angel returns from Hell. [Faith, Hope and Trick].

Xander and Willow begin a romance. Buffy discovers Angel is alive. Shortly afterwards, Scott Hope ends their romance [Beauty and the Beasts; Homecoming].

Drusilla breaks up with Spike in Brazil, cheating on him with a Chaos demon. She claims his head is ‘swimming with the Slayer’. [Fool for Love].

Ethan Rayne returns to Sunnydale with cursed candy, at the behest of Mr Trick. Trick begins working for the Mayor. Ethan flees town again [Band Candy].

Gwendolyn Post, a disgraced Watcher, attempts to trick Buffy and Faith into possessing the Glove of Myhneghon. She fails and is killed, but distrust between the two Slayers begins to ferment [Revelations].

Spike returns to Sunnydale. Drusilla has left him heartbroken due to his betrayal. He departs to win her back. Willow and Xander’s romance is discovered by Cordelia and Oz, effectively isolating Cordelia from the Scooby Gang [Lover’s Walk].

Anyanka comes to Sunnydale to serve Cordelia, disguised as high school student Anya Jenkins. Cordelia briefly wishes that “Buffy Summers had never come to Sunnydale” and, although the wish is granted, Anyanka is stranded in her mortal form as a result of the wish’s reversal [The Wish].

The First Evil haunts Angel in the form of Angelus’s past victims. It tries to convince him to feed on Buffy, but Angel attempts suicide. Buffy tries to stop him, but Sunnydale’s first ever snowfall ends their fight and the First Evil disperses for the moment [Amends].

Amy Madison accidentally transforms herself into a rat [Gingerbread].

Buffy undergoes her Cruciamentum on her 18th birthday. She is drugged by Giles at the behest of the Watchers’ Council and forced to face psychotic vampire Zachary Kralik. Kralik kidnaps Joyce Summers, but Buffy tricks him into consuming holy water, killing him. Giles is fired for being too emotionally attached to the Slayer [Helpless].

The Sisterhood of Jhe attempt to open the Hellmouth [The Zeppo].

Wesley Wyndam‑Pryce arrives in Sunnydale as Faith and Buffy’s official Watcher. Faith accidentally kills Deputy Mayor Allan Finch and disposes of the body. Framing Buffy for the crime, she kills Mr Trick and secretly joins the Mayor [Bad Girls; Consequences].

Anya attempts to restore her powers, but fails [Doppelgangland].

Faith’s allegiance to the Mayor is revealed when Angel impersonates Angelus to secure information [Enemies].

Buffy saves Jonathan Levinson’s life when he attempts suicide [Earshot].

Buffy is named Class Protector by the Sunnydale Class of 1999. Angel breaks up with her, intending to leave following the Mayor’s ascension [The Prom].

Faith poisons Angel. The antidote is the blood of a Slayer. Buffy stabs Faith, leaving her in a coma and quits the Watcher’s Council. Angel feeds on Buffy. The Mayor ascends at Graduation. Snyder and student Harmony Kendall are killed. The high school is destroyed, along with the Mayor as the Scooby Gang graduate. Anya flees in terror. Angel and Wesley leave Sunnydale [Graduation Day].

Snyder is eaten, just like his predecessor

During the summer, Cordelia departs for Los Angeles. Buffy and Willow prepare to move into separate dorms in the autumn as students at the University of California, Sunnydale. Allen Doyle receives his first visions from the Powers That Be [The Freshman; City Of].

21st CENTURY

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER SEASON 4
ANGEL SEASON 1

September 1999 – May 2000 Watch Order
Buffy and Willow begin their first year at college. Xander returns after a summer travelling. Buffy is introduced to Professor Maggie Walsh and Riley Finn. Olivia Williams and Giles resume their decades‑long romance. Buffy’s Class Protector award is destroyed [The Freshman].

Angel is approached by Doyle in Los Angeles. He tells him about his visions from the Powers That Be, which he has been told to direct to Angel. Angel encounters Cordelia Chase and saves her from Wolfram and Hart client Russell Winters, a vampire. He is represented by Lindsay McDonald, who meets Angel for the first time. Subsequently, Angel is convinced to start a detective agency to “help the helpless”. They call it ‘Angel Investigations’ [City Of].

While on a mission to save victims of a Burrower demon, Angel meets police detective Kate Lockley [Lonely Heart].

Former Sunnydale student Harmony, bitten at graduation, is revealed to be a vampire and dating Spike, who has returned to Sunnydale to locate the fabled Gem of Amarra, which bestows invulnerability to vampires. Buffy meets and spends the night with Parker Abrams, who rejects her afterwards. Anya returns to Sunnydale and seduces Xander. They begin dating by Halloween. [The Harsh Light of Day; Fear, Itself].

Buffy sends the Gem of Amara to Angel in Los Angeles. Spike follows to retrieve it, but Angel and his team, including Oz, resecure the Gem and send Spike retreating. Angel destroys the Gem of Amarra [In the Dark].

Cordelia moves into the apartment once owned by Maude Pearson in 1946. Her son’s ghost, Dennis, haunts the apartment and is benevolent towards Cordelia, even protective [Rm. w/a Vu].

Oz meets Veruca. After a night of passion and, unable to control his wolf side, Oz ends his relationship with Willow and leaves Sunnydale [Beer Bad; Wild at Heart].

Spike returns to Sunnydale and is captured by soldiers. They are revealed to be part of the DRI, now known simply as the Initiative, who aim to experiment on and use science to combat the supernatural. Maggie Walsh is their head scientist, Riley Finn one of her agents. Spike is fitted with a Behaviour Modification Chip inside his brain which induces pain if he attempts to hurt any living creature [The Initiative].

Doyle receives a vision in Los Angeles of Buffy fighting for her life in Sunnydale [The Bachelor Party].

Angel travels to Sunnydale to observe Buffy when she is disturbed by the spirits of the Chumash. She does not discover his presence until after he has left town. Spike pleads with the Slayer for help with the BMC [Pangs].

Shortly afterwards Buffy travels to Los Angeles and confronts Angel. She spends five minutes in his company and leaves [I Will Remember You].

D’Hoffryn offers Willow Anyanka’s former position. She turns him down [Something Blue].

The Gentlemen invade Sunnydale. Willow meets Tara Maclay. Riley and Buffy begin to date [Hush].

The pure demonic army known as the Scourge arrive in Los Angeles. In an effort to stop a device capable of killing his kind, Doyle sacrifices his life, passing his visions to Cordelia via a final kiss [Hero].

Riley and Buffy discover each other’s occupations. Spike discovers his chip allows him to harm the supernatural. The Word of Valios is used in an attempt to open the Hellmouth [Doomed].

Cordelia discovers she now receives the visions from the Powers That Be. Wesley Wyndam‑Pryce resurfaces in Los Angeles as a rogue demon hunter, having been fired from the Watchers’ Council. He is asked to join Angel Investigations [Parting Gifts].

Buffy turns 19 years old. Ethan Rayne returns to town and transforms Giles temporarily into a Fyarl demon. He warns Giles about the number 314 before being incarcerated by the Initiative [A New Man].

Kate discovers Angel is a vampire. Penn makes his presence felt in Los Angeles by duplicating his former crimes. Kate Lockley is the one who kills him [Somnambulist].

Doyle passes along the visions with a kiss

Maggie Walsh attempts to recruit and then assassinate Buffy. She is killed by her own creation, the human/demon hybrid known as Adam, hidden in room 314. Buffy is defeated by the creature [The I in Team; Goodbye Iowa].

Faith awakens from her coma after eight months. A Watchers’ Council assassination team is sent to kill her. Using a Draconian body swap, Faith inhabits Buffy’s body, interfering with her life until the switch is discovered. Faith is defeated and, once returned to her own body, flees Sunnydale on the run for murder [This Year’s Girl; Who Are You].

Kate Lockley’s father is killed by vampires [The Prodigal].

Angel meets Wolfram and Hart lawyer Lilah Morgan for the first time [The Ring].

Jonathan Levinson casts a spell that makes him the most famous person in the world. The spell is broken by Buffy [Superstar].

Riley quits the Initiative. Oz returns to Sunnydale. He leaves when Willow begins dating Tara [New Moon Rising].

Faith is hired by Lindsay McDonald and Lilah Morgan to assassinate Angel. She tortures Wesley, but her self‑loathing reaches Angel. The Watchers’ assassins follow her to Los Angeles and attempt to kill her. Faith hands herself in to the police and confesses to murder. Buffy and Angel briefly clash over Faith’s fate [Five by Five; Sanctuary].

Angel returns to Sunnydale to make amends with Buffy, but briefly battles Riley Finn. Spike is approached by Adam to disrupt the Scooby Gang’s friendships, leading to a huge row between them. Riley confronts Adam. Buffy and her friends breach the Initiative and battle Adam by merging their essences together with Buffy’s and Sineya the First Slayer. The Initiative is shut down after the carnage [The Yoko Factor; Primeval].

Charles and Alonna Gunn encounter Angel in Los Angeles. After Alonna is killed, Charles begins working with the vampire [War Zone].

Vanessa Brewer is hired to kill three blind children and is killed by Angel. He discovers the existence of the Shanshu Prophecy, which declares that after the apocalypse, the vampire with a soul will become human [Blind Date].

Wolfram and Hart summon the demon Vocah to disrupt Angel’s life whilst they raise an evil to defeat him. Although Angel defeats the creature and slices off Lindsey’s hand, under the oversight of Project Leader Holland Manners, Wolfram and Hart succeed in resurrecting a now‑human Darla. Angel’s office is destroyed and Angel Investigations moves into Cordelia’s apartment as their base of operations [To Shanshu in L.A.].

The First Slayer attempts to kill Buffy and her friends in their dreams. Joyce’s headaches first appear [Restless].

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER SEASON 5
ANGEL SEASON 2

September 2000 – May 2001 Watch Order
The remaining descendants of the Order of Dagon flee as Glorificus hunts them down. They summon the Key, transform it into a form the creature will not recognise, and send it to the Slayer for protection [No Place Like Home].

Angel continues to meet Faith in prison, unaware of Darla’s resurrection. He begins to frequent Caritas, the nightclub owned by Krevlorneswath of the Deathwok Clan — now known as Lorne — who uses his psychic abilities to read destinies through karaoke. Angel sings Mandy. Badly [Judgement].

Buffy encounters Dracula when he travels to Sunnydale to tempt her to the dark side. Buffy asks Giles to officially be her Watcher again in an effort to learn more about her calling. Dawn appears as Buffy’s 15‑year‑old sister. She has always been there [Buffy vs. Dracula].

Angel continues to visit Faith in prison

Angel investigates the Thesulac demon in the abandoned Hyperion Hotel. The Angel Investigations team, now joined permanently by Charles Gunn, defeat the demon and move into the hotel as their new base [Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been].

Angel discovers Darla alive and human in Los Angeles [Dear Boy].

The last surviving member of the Order of Dagon explains to Buffy that Dawn is the Key in human form. Glorificus, or Glory, arrives in Sunnydale. Rupert buys the Magic Box. Joyce Summers’ headaches are revealed to be caused by a brain tumour [No Place Like Home].

Wesley Wyndam‑Pryce begins dating Virginia Bryce after impersonating Angel [Guise Will Be Guise].

Spike tells Buffy how he became a vampire and how he killed two previous Slayers. He realises he has feelings for her [Family; Fool for Love].

Darla reveals she is dying of syphilis [Darla].

Joyce Summers undergoes surgery to remove her tumour. The operation is a success [Shadow; Listening to Fear].

Riley, feeling neglected by Buffy, leaves Sunnydale to rejoin the military. Xander tells Anya he loves her [Into the Woods].

Angel undertakes a mystical trial to fight for Darla’s life. He passes, but Darla cannot be saved again. Wolfram and Hart bring Drusilla to Los Angeles, and she sires Darla [The Trial].

Reunited, Darla and Drusilla cut a deadly path through Los Angeles, culminating in the massacre at Holland Manners’ house. Twenty‑three victims are killed, leaving only Lindsey McDonald and Lilah Morgan alive. Angel fires his employees, too emotionally attached to the case, and sets Darla and Drusilla on fire [Reunion; Redefinition].

Cordelia, Wesley, and Gunn go into business for themselves [Blood Money].

Quentin Travers and the Watchers’ Council travel to Sunnydale to give Buffy information about Glory. She allows them back into her life and Giles is reinstated. Glory is revealed not to be a demon but a God [Checkpoint].

Dawn discovers she is the Key. She also learns Glory is trapped in the body of Ben Wilkinson, a new friend of Buffy’s, but forgets this after the transformation ends. Willow slows Glory in battle. Buffy celebrates her 20th birthday [Blood Ties].

Wesley is shot. Virginia Bryce breaks up with him [The Thin Dead Line; Reprise].

Drusilla returns to Sunnydale to recruit Spike. She fails and leaves town once more. Harmony also departs. Spike tells Buffy he is in love with her [Crush].

Angel sleeps with Darla. Following an epiphany, he rejoins Angel Investigations. Rejected by Angel, Darla leaves Los Angeles. Kate is fired from the LAPD and attempts suicide. Angel saves her life despite never being invited in to her apartment [Epiphany].

Warren Mears returns to Sunnydale, pursued by his robot girlfriend April [I Was Made to Love You].

Buffy finds her mother Joyce lifeless at home. Angel returns to Sunnydale to comfort Buffy at her funeral [The Body; Forever].

Harmony arrives in Los Angeles and betrays Cordelia. She flees to Mexico [Disharmony].

Lindsey gains a new hand and leaves Los Angeles [Dead End].

Glory targets Tara, believing her to be the Key. Willow embraces Dark Magics to attack the God, becoming significantly threatening. Glory realises Dawn is the Key [Tough Love].

Fleeing Sunnydale, Buffy and her allies are pursued by the Knights of Byzantium, determined to keep the Key from Glory. When Giles is injured, Buffy calls Ben, who transforms into Glory and steals Dawn [Spiral; The Weight of the World].

Buffy and her friends battle to stop Glory using Dawn’s blood to open a portal to a Hell dimension. Xander proposes to Anya. Willow restores Tara’s mind. Giles kills Ben to prevent Glory’s return. Dawn is saved, but Buffy sacrifices her life to seal the dimensional breach. Her body is buried in a sheltered spot in Sunnydale Woods [The Gift].

Gregor, leader of the Knights of Byzantium

Cordelia is sucked into Pylea via a portal. Travelling to that dimension with Lorne to save her, Angel Investigations start a revolution against the corrupt regime. They also find and bring Fred Burkle home with them. Cordelia is made Princess, meets and becomes betrothed to the Groosalugg, the brave and undefeated. Angel Investigations return home to Los Angeles and find Willow waiting to inform them of Buffy’s death [Belonging; There’s No Place Like Plrtz Glrb].

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER SEASON 6
ANGEL SEASON 3

September 2001 – May 2002 Watch Order
Following Buffy’s death, Angel travels to Tibet to grieve in peace. The monks he meets there are demonic and, after three months, he kills them and returns to Los Angeles. Fred has moved into the Hyperion Hotel [Heartthrob].

In Sunnydale, former high school friends Warren Mears and Jonathan Levinson meet with Andrew Wells. They resolve to “become super villains and take over Sunnydale” [Flooded].

Angel encounters Lisbeth, fails to recognise her, and kills her. James seeks revenge by removing his heart, rendering him invulnerable for a limited time. Angel eventually kills him [Heartthrob].

In Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, Darla kills a courier who brings her information on a shaman she has been searching for. She is heavily pregnant [Heartthrob].

Lilah and Gavin Park use Wolfram and Hart resources to interfere with Cordelia’s visions, almost killing her. To save her life, Angel recovers prisoner Billy Blim from a Hell dimension after defeating the demon Skip [That Vision Thing].

In Honduras, the shaman attempts to identify Darla’s condition, but the baby inside her is protected. She decides to visit “daddy” [That Vision Thing].

Willow, Tara, Anya, and Xander prepare a spell to resurrect Buffy. Unaware, Giles decides to return to England, with Anya taking control of the Magic Box. The Scooby Gang hide Buffy’s death from the world, using a robot duplicate to fool both Dawn’s teachers and the forces of darkness. Willow and Tara move into the Summers house.

Giles leaves Sunnydale. That night Willow performs the spell and resurrects Buffy inside her coffin. Buffy fights her way to the surface and is reunited with her friends, though she is emotionally distant and traumatised [Bargaining].

Buffy reveals to Spike that when she died she was in a place of peace akin to Heaven. Her friends can never know [Afterlife].

Roger and Trish Burkle reunite with daughter Fred in Los Angeles [Fredless].

Giles returns to Sunnydale, clashing with Willow over her magics. Warren, Jonathan, and Andrew — now calling themselves the Trio — begin testing Buffy [Flooded; Life Serial].

Angel is contacted by Willow and arranges to meet Buffy at some point between Sunnydale and Los Angeles [Carpe Noctem].

Billy Blim infects men in Los Angeles with misogyny. Wesley attacks Fred under its influence. Lilah is attacked by Gavin and kills Blim [Billy].

Willow and Tara clash over her magic use. Willow wipes Tara’s memory of the argument using Lethe’s Bramble [All the Way].

The demon Sweet is summoned to Sunnydale, accidentally, by Xander. The town is plunged into song, during which Buffy reveals she was pulled from Heaven. Spike and Buffy kiss [Once More, With Feeling].

Willow casts a spell that wipes the Scoobies’ memories, further damaging relationships. Giles returns to England. Tara breaks up with Willow and leaves the Summers house. Spike and Buffy’s relationship deepens [Tabula Rasa].

Darla arrives in Los Angeles and reveals her pregnancy to Angel. Various factions attempt to kill her before she can give birth. Captain Daniel Holtz is released into the 21st century by the pan-dimensional demon Sahjhan, seeking revenge [Offspring].

Holtz learns Angel has a soul [Quickening].

Caritas is destroyed when Holtz breaches its sanctuary spell. Darla stakes herself to save the baby, leaving only her ash [Lullaby].

The baby is named Connor Angel. Lorne, now homeless, moves into the Hyperion Hotel and officially joins Angel Investigations [Dad].

Willow transforms Amy Madison back into human form. Amy takes her to Rack, a dealer of dark magics. Willow endangers Dawn and resolves to quit magic. Spike and Buffy consummate their relationship [Smashed; Wrecked].

Buffy and Willow discover the existence of the Trio [Gone].

Needing money, Buffy takes a job at the Doublemeat Palace. Halfrek arrives to help Anya with her wedding plans [Doublemeat Palace].

Cordelia meets Skip and, after experiencing a life without Angel, decides to become part demon to withstand the visions [Birthday].

Warren brainwashes and kills his ex‑girlfriend Katrina Silber. To disguise their crimes, the Trio frame Buffy for the murder [Dead Things].

Halfrek is recognised by Spike as “Cecily” at Buffy’s 21st birthday party [Older and Far Away].

Gunn and Fred begin dating. The Groosalugg arrives in Los Angeles. Angel begins to develop feelings for Cordelia [Waiting in the Wings; Couplet].

Riley briefly returns to Sunnydale with his wife Samantha. Buffy ends her affair with Spike [As You Were].

A false prophecy that “the father will kill the son” leads Wesley to kidnap Connor. The baby is taken to the Hell dimension Quor’toth by Holtz. Wesley is ostracised and nearly killed by Angel [Loyalty; Sleep Tight; Forgiving].

Xander and Anya’s wedding day arrives, but Xander cannot go through with the ceremony. D’Hoffryn restores Anya to Anyanka [Hell’s Bells].

Gunn’s truck deal resurfaces, but is resolved without costing his soul [Double or Nothing].

Xander discovers Buffy’s affair with Spike. Anya and Spike sleep together. Willow and Tara reunite [Entropy].

The Trio battle Buffy. Warren escapes. Jonathan and Andrew are arrested. Spike attempts to assault Buffy; disgusted with himself, he leaves Sunnydale. Warren shoots Buffy, and a ricocheting bullet kills Tara [Seeing Red].

Willow embraces dark magics and saves Buffy’s life. Unable to resurrect Tara, she pursues and apparently kills Warren. Buffy protects Jonathan and Andrew from Willow’s wrath. Giles returns and battles Willow with Buffy [Villains; Two to Go].

Willow unearths Proserprexa’s temple and attempts to destroy the world until Xander reminds her of their love. The Magic Box is destroyed. Buffy resolves to teach Dawn everything she knows. Andrew and Jonathan flee to Mexico. In Africa, after enduring trials, a demon restores Spike’s soul [Grave].

Connor returns from Quor’toth, now aged seventeen. Holtz commits suicide, framing Angel. Lorne leaves for Las Vegas. Wesley begins an affair with Lilah Morgan. Connor traps Angel in a coffin and sinks him to the ocean floor. Cordelia ends her relationship with the Groosalugg and realises her feelings for Angel. On her way to tell him, Skip appears and she ascends to the Powers That Be [The Price; Benediction; Tomorrow].

For three months, Gunn and Fred search for Angel and Cordelia. Willow travels to England with Giles to learn from a Coven how to control her magics [Deep Down; Lessons].

Potential Slayers around the world begin to be targeted and killed. Spike, newly resouled, meets Dylan Turner [In Pieces on the Ground].

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER SEASON 7
ANGEL SEASON 4

September 2002 – May 2003 Watch Order
Sunnydale High School is rebuilt on its original site. Dawn enrols. Xander’s construction company completes the restoration. Principal Robin Wood arrives.

Buffy becomes guidance counsellor at the new school. Spike is discovered hallucinating in the basement near the Hellmouth. The First Evil, exploiting the broken Slayer line, targets Spike in the forms of the Master, Drusilla, Mayor Wilkins, Adam, Glory, and Warren. It then appears as Buffy herself [Lessons].

Spike’s soul is revealed to Buffy [Beneath You].

Willow returns to Sunnydale and is rendered invisible. Targeted by the Gnarl, her friends are unaware of her arrival until the spell is broken. Willow believes she caused it, but it is actually engineered by Amy Madison [Same Time, Same Place].

Anyanka’s latest wish kills a fraternity. Buffy resolves to stop her. Xander attempts to intervene, but D’Hoffryn strips Anyanka of her powers, restoring her human form as Anya and killing Halfrek to prove his point [Selfless].

Wesley finds Angel at the bottom of the ocean, revives him, and returns him to the Hyperion Hotel. Connor’s deception is revealed and he is exiled. Lilah assassinates her superior to become head of Special Projects at Wolfram & Hart. Angel discovers Cordelia has disappeared and encounters Gwen Raiden for the first time [Deep Down; Ground State].

Jonathan and Andrew return to Sunnydale, having suffered from bad dreams in Mexico.

The First Evil begins its campaign in Sunnydale, appearing to Willow and Dawn in forms meant to disorient them. Andrew is manipulated and murders Jonathan in the high school atop the Hellmouth’s Seal of Danthalzar. Spike is revealed to be killing despite his soul and chip, triggered via music by the First [Conversations With Dead People; Sleeper].

Giles is attacked by Bringers, agents of the First Evil, in England [Sleeper].

Andrew is found by Willow and made a reluctant prisoner in the Summers home. Bringers attack. Spike’s trigger is revealed. The Watchers’ Council prepare to return to Sunnydale but are killed in an explosion [Never Leave Me].

Jonathan is killed on the Seal of Danthalzar

Giles returns to Sunnydale with numerous Potentials, including Kennedy. Buffy faces the Turok‑Han for the first time and is defeated. Surviving Potentials make their way to Sunnydale, including Violet, Molly, Rona and Chloe [Bring on the Night].

Angel Investigations travel to Las Vegas. They discover Lorne is being exploited to steal destinies. Cordelia nudges Angel to defeat the corrupt casino owner. Lorne returns to Los Angeles with the team. Cordelia is found amnesiac in the Hyperion lobby [The House Always Wins; Slouching Towards Bethlehem].

Dawn discovers she is not a Potential Slayer. Her classmate Amanda, however, is. [Potential].

Fred discovers her professor, Oliver Seidel, engineered her original portal to Pylea. Gunn kills him to prevent Fred from taking revenge. They effectively split up [Supersymmetry].

Lorne restores Cordelia’s memories. Cordelia leaves the Hyperion with Connor [Spin the Bottle].

The Beast rises in Los Angeles. The rain of fire begins. Cordelia sleeps with Connor. The Beast invades Wolfram and Hart and massacres every employee — only Lilah Morgan escapes and goes into hiding [Apocalypse, Nowish; Habeas Corpses].

Willow and Kennedy kiss, activating a spell engineered by Amy that transforms Willow into Warren. A further kiss breaks the spell. Spike’s chip is removed [The Killer in Me].

The Beast kills the Ra‑Tet and blocks the sun over Los Angeles. Wesley decides they need Angelus [Long Day’s Journey; Awakening].

Buffy discovers Robin is the son of Nikki Wood. She is thrown into the past to the ancient ceremony that created the Slayer and shown a vision of the Turok‑Han army inside the Hellmouth. Potential Slayer Chloe commits suicide. Non-English speaking Potential Chao-Ahn arrives. [First Date; Get It Done].

Angel’s soul is removed and Angelus returns. The soul is stolen from its secure location [Soulless].

Andrew begins charting the apocalypse through film. He officially joins the Scooby Gang when Buffy confronts him over Jonathan’s death [Storyteller].

Angelus tricks Angel Investigations into freeing him. Lilah Morgan returns and is killed by Cordelia in the Hyperion [Calvary].

The sun above Los Angeles is blotted out

Faith is targeted by a Bringer assassin in prison. When Wesley visits to tell her about Angelus, she escapes custody to pursue him [Salvage].

Giles colludes with Robin to kill Spike, leading to a clash with Buffy. Spike’s trigger is removed. Willow receives a phone call from Fred in Los Angeles [Lies My Parents Told Me].

Faith faces Angelus. The Beast is killed and the sun is restored. Faith injects herself with Orpheus and allows Angelus to feed, causing them both to hallucinate. They are taken to the Hyperion. Willow arrives to restore Angel’s soul. Cordelia reveals to Connor that she is pregnant [Release; Orpheus].

Gwen Raiden asks Gunn for help to steal a device to control her electrical bursts. Cordelia’s villainy is revealed. Skip explains her body has been hijacked by a Power That Was, using her to give birth to itself. The entity persuades Connor to sacrifice an innocent [Players].

An entity, either sent by the Powers That Be or the First, attempts to stop Connor using Darla’s form. They fail. Cordelia gives birth to Jasmine. Cordelia slips into a coma [Inside Out].

Willow travels with Faith to Sunnydale. Caleb arrives. An early battle with Buffy kills several Potentials, including Molly, and blinds Xander in one eye [Dirty Girls].

Jasmine corrupts anyone who sees her. Fred, exposed to Jasmine’s blood, sees the demonic horror beneath. She frees Angel Investigations. Connor, disillusioned, remains with Jasmine. Angel travels to another dimension, learns her name, and ends her influence. Connor kills Jasmine [Shiny Happy People; The Magic Bullet; Sacrifice].

Wolfram and Hart is resurrected and restaffed. Lilah Morgan, bound by contract after death, offers Angel Investigations control of the company.

Connor attempts suicide by terrorism but is stopped by Angel. Angel agrees to Lilah’s request on the condition Connor’s existence is erased and replaced with a normal life. Cordelia remains in a coma [Peace Out; Home].

Connor Angel is removed from life. Connor Reilly is born. Angel Investigations have no memory of him. Angel is given an amulet to be used against the First Evil [Home].

Sunnydale residents, demon and human alike, flee en masse. The Potentials, disillusioned after defeat against Caleb, exile Buffy and take Faith as their leader. Buffy discovers the Slayer Scythe in Caleb’s possession and claims it. She meets the last Guardian, who reveals its purpose. Caleb attacks Buffy and is killed. Angel delivers the amulet to Buffy and leaves Sunnydale to prepare in case she fails [Empty Places; End of Days].

Buffy reunites with her allies and declares her plan to open the Hellmouth and face the Turok‑Han army. Willow uses her magic to share Buffy’s power through the Scythe, activating every Potential Slayer worldwide. Amanda is killed.

Spike uses the amulet to destroy the Turok‑Han army. Buffy tells him she loves him. Spike dies. Sunnydale collapses into a crater. Anya dies saving Andrew.

“Here’s the part where you make a choice…”

Buffy is no longer the only Slayer in the world. There are now thousands [Chosen].

ANGEL SEASON 5

July 2003 – May 2004
Thirteen days after the destruction of Sunnydale, Angel Investigations formally take the reins of Wolfram and Hart. Eve, their liaison to the Senior Partners, is introduced. Harmony is hired as Angel’s assistant. Gunn has his brain enhanced with criminal and demon knowledge by Doctor Sparrow. The amulet from Sunnydale arrives at Wolfram and Hart via courier.

Thirteen days after his death, Spike — now incorporeal and bound to the offices of Wolfram and Hart — returns from death [Conviction].

Nina Ash is bitten and infected by a werewolf. Angel saves her life [Unleashed].

Matthias Pavayne’s spirit attempts to imprison Spike but is foiled by Angel [Hell Bound].

Archduke Sebassis attends the Wolfram and Hart Halloween party [Life of the Party].

The remaining brother of Los Hermanos Numeros, Número Cinco — a courier at Wolfram and Hart — is assisted by Angel in defeating the demon Tezcatcatl, who murdered his brothers decades earlier [The Cautionary Tale of Número Cinco].

Androids, under the command of a duplicate Roger Wyndham-Pryce, attack Wolfram and Hart. Their employers are revealed to be the Circle of the Black Thorn [Lineage].

Spike regains his corporeal form and battles Angel over the Shanshu Prophecy. Eve is revealed to be involved with Lindsey McDonald [Destiny].

Lindsey McDonald, claiming to receive visions from the Powers That Be, approaches Spike as “Doyle” and recruits him as a vampire champion [Soul Purpose].

After residing in an institution since childhood and plagued by Slayer dreams, Dana escapes custody. Andrew Wells arrives in Los Angeles to claim her for the Slayer movement. In the process, he learns Spike is alive but lies about the Scooby Gang’s whereabouts out of distrust for Angel [Damage].

Angel takes Izzerial the Devil on as a client [You’re Welcome].

Cordelia receives a final vision from the Powers That Be. She seemingly awakens from her coma to warn Angel of a threat posed by Lindsey McDonald. Lindsey is captured by the Senior Partners. Cordelia disappears shortly afterwards. Angel is later told that, despite appearances, the vision killed her and she never truly awoke from her coma [You’re Welcome].

Angel is transformed into a puppet by magic. He begins dating Nina Ash. Wesley and Fred finally admit their feelings for one another. Gunn signs an artefact into the country for Doctor Sparrow in exchange for a further legal upgrade [Smile Time].

Yes, he’s made of felt. And his nose comes off

The artefact is revealed to be a sarcophagus containing the essence of the Old One Illyria. Fred accidentally awakens the spirit and is hollowed out from within so Illyria can be reborn in her body. Fred Burkle dies in Wesley’s arms. Illyria hatches from her form. Angel and Spike visit the Deeper Well and encounter Drogyn, its keeper [A Hole in the World].

Angel contacts Giles for help but is told that Willow is currently on a different plane of existence [Willow: Goddesses and Monsters; Shells].

Willow travels to the nether-realms and chooses Aluwyn the Saga Vasuki as her magical mentor. They begin a romantic relationship [Willow: Goddesses and Monsters].

Angel, Spike and Gunn enter a Hell dimension to free Lindsey McDonald in exchange for information on the Circle of the Black Thorn — the Senior Partners’ instruments on Earth. Gunn takes his place. Eve is fired, and Marcus Hamilton assumes her role [Underneath].

Connor Reilly is brought to Wolfram and Hart by his parents after a supernatural incident. Spike begins training with Illyria. Wizard Cyvus Vail is revealed to be the architect of Connor’s false memories. Wesley discovers Connor’s existence. Sahjhan is killed by Connor [Origin].

Illyria retrieves Gunn from the Hell dimension. Wesley is forced to remove most of Illyria’s time-travel abilities, leaving her significantly weakened [Time Bomb].

Angel and Spike travel to Italy after learning Buffy is dating the Immortal. They are unaware that “Buffy” is a decoy orchestrated by Andrew, who finds the entire situation hilarious [The Girl in Question].

Roger and Trish Burkle visit Los Angeles to see Fred but are deceived by Illyria [The Girl in Question].

Xander spends time with Dracula in his castle, forming the basis of a lifelong friendship [Tales].

Angel kills Drogyn to gain admittance to the Circle of the Black Thorn. He also ends his relationship with Nina Ash. He receives a vision from Cordelia, and the team rallies together [Power Play].

Angel and his allies assassinate each member of the Black Thorn. Harmony betrays Angel to Hamilton and is fired. Hamilton is killed by Angel. Connor reveals that he knows who he truly is. Lorne kills Lindsey on Angel’s orders. Wesley is killed by Cyvus Vail and dies in Illyria’s arms. Illyria, Gunn and Spike stand behind Angel as a demon army advances on the Hyperion Hotel. They go to work… [Not Fade Away].

THE CANON COMICS

ANGEL AFTER THE FALL

May 2004 – May 2005
Los Angeles is sent to Hell by the Senior Partners [After the Fall: First Night].

Drusilla, institutionalised in Los Angeles, experiences premonitions the moment the city falls [Drusilla: After the Fall].

Gunn is spirited away during the battle by a sect of vampires. Angel battles a dragon that ultimately switches sides and names it after Cordelia. Angel realises he is human and is accompanied by Wesley, preserved after death by the Senior Partners’ contract. Spike and Illyria take control of Hugh Hefner’s mansion [Spike: After the Fall].

Connor encounters Kate Lockley. He assembles allies — including Nina Ash and an unstable Gwen Raiden — to escort survivors to safety in Silverlake, a secure zone ruled by Lorne. Hell itself is governed by Demon Lords, none of whom realise Angel is now human [After the Fall: Chapters 1 – 3].

Gunn, now a vampire and receiving fake visions from the Senior Partners, imprisons Betta George, a psychic aquatic creature. Angel confronts the Demon Lords of Los Angeles. Gwen betrays Connor to Gunn, who tortures Angel and kidnaps Illyria. Cordelia Chase appears as Angel’s guide [After the Fall: Chapters 4 – 16].

Gwen is killed by the dragon. Gunn kills Connor. Enraged, Angel attacks Gunn. The Senior Partners attempt to intervene, but Angel is killed. Needing Angel alive, they reverse time to the original night in the alleyway. Wesley disappears [After the Fall: Chapters 16 – 17].

May 2004 – September 2005
Illyria, Gunn and Spike stand behind Angel as a demon army advances on the Hyperion Hotel. They go to work… [Not Fade Away].

Angel prevents Gunn from being sired, and the army is defeated. The citizens of Los Angeles retain memories of their time in Hell. Wolfram and Hart leaves Los Angeles for Las Vegas [After the Fall: Chapter 17].

One month later, Angel names the public library in honour of Wesley and Fred. Gunn, human once more, is protected by Illyria. Angel has become a minor celebrity. He is reunited with Connor [After the Fall: Become What You Are].

Illyria and Gunn travel to the Burkle family home, encountering the Scourge working alongside Baticus, an Old One from Illyria’s past. After defeating their enemy, they return to Los Angeles, but Illyria departs for destinations unknown [Angel: Only Human].

In an attempt to save the world from a trio of spiritual entities, Lorne sacrifices himself, dispersing his essence into music and saving the world at the cost of his corporeal existence [Lorne: Music of the Spheres].

Wolfram and Hart locate and recruit Drusilla [Alone Together Now].

Angel is approached by Twilight [Last Gleaming].

Spike encounters Drusilla and her lover, John, in Las Vegas. With Willow’s help, Drusilla briefly regains her soul but is unable to cope with the emotional burden, and Spike removes it. Drusilla is taken to Los Angeles and placed in an institution to heal [Something Borrowed; Give and Take].

Wolfram and Hart leave the earthly dimension. Spike steals their interdimensional vessel — crewed by cockroach-like aliens — and pursues the Senior Partners from his home dimension [Stranger Things].

Lorne sacrifices himself to save the universe

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER SEASON EIGHT

September 2005 – May 2006
Buffy leads a group of Slayers in a bank heist on a Swiss vault filled with Nazi treasure. The authorities begin to notice the Slayers [Anywhere But Here].

Shortly after being approached by Twilight, Angel meets with Whistler and begins to exhibit supernatural powers [Last Gleaming].

At Berkeley, Dawn cheats on her boyfriend Nick with his roommate Kenny and is cursed [Anywhere But Here].

Twilight recruits Pearl and Nash [The Hero of His Own Story].

The military begin investigating the Slayers and the circumstances of Sunnydale’s destruction, exploring the crater.

Riley Finn joins Twilight’s crusade [Riley: Commitment Through Distance, Virtue Through Sin].

Buffy relocates to a castle in the Highlands of Scotland. Xander accompanies her, along with Slayer recruits Renee and Satsu. Dawn’s curse activates, transforming her into a giant.

Buffy notices the Twilight symbol for the first time. The military find Amy Madison alive beneath Sunnydale, along with a skinless but living Warren Mears. Amy attacks the castle and kidnaps Willow. Buffy is warned about Twilight by Ethan Rayne in a dream.

Willow is tortured by Warren in Sunnydale but heals herself. The military declare war on the Slayer Organisation. Ethan Rayne is killed [The Long Way Home].

One of Andrew’s Buffy decoys is killed battling the demon Yamanh of Hoht. Her faerie companion escapes [The Chain].

Giles recruits Faith for an undercover mission in England: infiltrate and kill rogue Slayer Genevieve Savidge. Savidge’s assistant, Roden, is an agent of Twilight. Faith decides to remain with Giles [No Future for You].

Buffy and Willow question the Sephrilian for information on Twilight. Willow discovers Buffy’s theft; Buffy discovers Aluwyn. Both receive a vision of the Seed of Wonder [Anywhere But Here].

Buffy and Satsu are attacked by Twilight, who defeats them. Buffy and Satsu spend the night together [A Beautiful Sunset].

The Scythe is stolen from Scotland by Japanese vampires intending to remove Slayer powers. They wield shapeshifting powers stolen from Dracula, who allies with Buffy in revenge. Renee is killed in Japan. Satsu remains to run a Slayer squad [Wolves at the Gate].

Buffy meets with Riley about Twilight. Willow opens a portal to the future and Buffy is sucked through. She travels to the 23rd century, encounters Melaka Fray, and returns later, more emotionally distant for reasons she won’t share [Time of Your Life].

Harmony Kendall is caught feeding on television. Vampires and the supernatural become public knowledge. Harmony becomes a celebrity, with humanity reacting positively.

Spike arrives in London in summer 2006 and learns of the Slayer Organisation from press coverage of Sunnydale, the bank thefts, and Harmony’s outing [Last Gleaming].

Slayer Simone Doffler breaks away from the Organisation with her own criminal group [Predators and Prey].

Dawn is transformed into a living doll and abducted by a deranged doll maker. Buffy has Kenny reverse the curse, restoring Dawn [Living Doll].

Fleeing Twilight’s forces, now allied with the military, Buffy and the Scoobies travel magically to Tibet. Oz agrees to help them hide their magical abilities at great cost. Xander and Dawn begin their relationship. In the battle that follows, several Slayers are killed. Twilight’s forces win, taking Faith, Giles, and Andrew captive [Retreat; Turbulence].

Buffy develops sudden supernatural powers. Willow discovers Slayers have been murdered by Twilight’s forces throughout the globe. Twilight is unmasked as Angel. Buffy and Angel give in to passion, magically creating a new universe. Demons are unleashed upon Earth, all searching for the Seed of Wonder. Spike reveals himself to the Scoobies. Buffy and Angel both reject Twilight [Twilight].

Travelling to Sunnydale to locate the Seed of Wonder, Buffy finds it protected by a resurrected Master. Angel, possessed by Twilight, kills Giles by breaking his neck. The Master is killed. Buffy destroys the Seed of Wonder, removing magic from the human realm permanently, shattering the Scythe and leaving Willow powerless. Warren Mears finally dies. Twilight is defeated, leaving Angel disorientated [Last Gleaming].

Willow breaks up with Kennedy. Xander and Dawn begin a normal life together. Giles leaves Buffy the Vampyr book in his will, but his estate goes to Faith. Faith moves into his London townhouse and takes in a catatonic, guilty Angel. Buffy begins looking for a new apartment in San Francisco and takes a job waitressing at a coffee shop [Last Gleaming].

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER SEASON NINE
ANGEL & FAITH SEASON NINE

September 2006 – May 2007
Riley negotiates amnesty for the Slayers with global organisations, provided they return stolen property. With magic gone, Eldre Koh frees himself from his prison [Freefall].

A Magic Council is formed to preserve what little magic remains on Earth. D’Hoffryn is a founding member [Welcome to the Team].

Severin’s girlfriend Clare rises as a zompire, forcing him to kill her with his siphon powers. He is later approached by fugitive Slayer Simone Doffler [Freefall].

Faith takes up residence in London, watching over Angel as he works through Giles’s casefiles. Slayer Nadira Kureishi arrives, traumatised after Pearl and Nash murdered her squad. Whistler, furious at Twilight’s failure, recruits Pearl and Nash [Live Through This].

Angel resolves to resurrect Rupert Giles [Live Through This].

Buffy moves into a new San Francisco apartment with roommates Tumble and Annaheed. She battles Severin for the first time and meets Detective Robert Dowling [Freefall].

Eldre Koh settles on Alcatraz Island. Despite initial suspicion, he joins Buffy and Spike in battle on several occasions [Guarded].

Faith’s father, Pat Lehane, arrives in London fleeing gambling debts. Faith sends him away. Drusilla resurfaces as a guru, removing memories with a Lorophage demon, before escaping [Daddy Issues].

Buffy discovers she is pregnant [On Your Own].

Buffy loses her arm in battle and learns she is a robot containing the brain engrams of the real Buffy. The true Buffy is kidnapped and brainwashed by Simone. Andrew restores her engrams to her body [Apart (of Me)].

Spike leaves San Francisco, travelling with his crew. He allies with succubus Morgan to defeat Pearl and Nash and prevent a Hellmouth opening [Spike: A Dark Place].

Lavinia and Sophronia Fairweather reveal themselves in London, moving into Giles’s townhouse [Women of a Certain Age].

‘Buffy’ is stunned to realise she’s a robot…

Willow departs San Francisco with the damaged Scythe. She enlists Angel’s help to travel to Quor’toth, joined by Faith and Connor. Willow is nearly corrupted by the dimension. Angel, Connor, and Faith return to Earth; Willow continues her quest [Family Reunion].

Buffy briefly works for Kennedy’s Slayer security firm, DeepScan [Guarded].

In Santa Rosita, Billy Lane trains as a Slayer with his boyfriend Devon as Watcher. Buffy warns him against slaying with someone he loves [Billy the Vampire Slayer; Love vs. Life].

Pearl and Nash’s mother, Susan Finney, dies, urging them to pursue human/demon evolution. Whistler offers Angel one last chance to join him; Angel refuses [The Hero of His Own Story].

Willow travels through dimensions with Troll Marek, reunited with Aluwyn. Marek is revealed as Rack. A higher power tells Willow the key to restoring magic lies on Earth [Willow: Wonderland].

Faith and Angel exhume Giles’s body but find it missing. They encounter Giles under Eyghon’s thrall, alongside a revived Ethan Rayne. Eyghon allies with Whistler, Pearl, and Nash to spread a zombie plague.

Spike arrives in London to help. Eyghon nearly possesses Angel, but Giles’s soul fights back. Eyghon is destroyed. Faith is exiled by the Slayers for allying with Angel [Death and Consequences].

With Angel incapacitated, Spike and Faith team up in London [Spike and Faith].

In battle with vampires, Buffy is transported to Los Angeles by Illyria, now part of the Magic Council with Eldre Koh. They warn her Severin is working with Simone. Annaheed reveals that she’s a Slayer. Dawn becomes ill and begins to fade [Welcome to the Team].

Xander is approached by Simone, who offers a way to save Dawn [The Watcher].

Giles’s resurrection is completed, but he returns in the body of a thirteen‑year‑old boy, magically powerful but emotionally unstable [What You Want, Not What You Need].

Whistler triggers a magical explosion over London, transforming citizens into unpredictable magical creatures. Nadira kills Nash but is badly burned; the magic begins to heal her. Whistler sacrifices himself to contain the energies [What You Want, Not What You Need].

Xander betrays Buffy to save Dawn, allowing Simone and Severin access to the Deeper Well. They plan to use Severin to turn back time. Buffy, Xander, Willow, D’Hoffryn, and the Council descend into the Well. Simone unleashes the Old One Maloker and is sired, becoming a true Vampire Slayer.

Willow discovers a new Seed of Wonder. Using Severin and Illyria’s power, she accelerates its growth, restoring magic to Earth. Buffy kills Simone. The Scoobies, Eldre Koh, and D’Hoffryn barely escape. Illyria and Severin are vapourised [The Core].

Billy returns home to battle zompires. Sineya appears to him in a vision [Love vs. Life].

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER SEASON TEN
ANGEL & FAITH SEASON TEN

September 2007 – May 2008
The new Seed brings forth a new breed of vampire: super‑strong, super‑fast, impervious to sunlight. Vicki makes her presence felt to the Scooby Gang. Giles rejoins them in the body of his thirteen‑year‑old self. Anya appears to haunt Xander. Dracula writes rules in the Vampyr book, transforming himself into Maloker until Xander reverses the text. Xander and Dawn’s relationship ends [New Rules].

Angel re‑encounters Nadira, now merged with the magic and working as a spiritual guide. Pixies cause riots in Magic Town. Angel meets police officer Brandt. Rory’s underground demon bar grows popular. Amy Madison arrives in London. Faith begins work for DeepScan [Where the River Meets the Sea].

A vampire named Parnell terrorises women in broad daylight. Angel learns of the new breed. Lavinia and Sophronia Fairweather aid him. Angel begins dreaming vividly of past kills committed by Angelus, while similar murders occur in present‑day London [Old Habits].

Xander begins therapy with Doctor Mike for anger‑management issues [Love Dares You].

The Scooby Gang move into a haunted apartment block. To claim it, they must clear the ghosts, confronting both unconscious and conscious desires and fears.

Xander and Spike are nearly seduced by Sirens under the Mistress’s command [I Wish].

Amy Madison requests Angel’s aid in restoring Warren Mears. In South America, Faith joins a team working with Zane Pharmaceuticals to locate missing founder Walt Zane and his escort Riley Finn [Lost and Found].

Faith’s team is ambushed by tribal new‑breed vampires. Several are killed. Samantha Finn guides them to Riley. Riley is rescued, but the team is captured by tribesmen under vampire Walt Zane. He is killed by his daughter, and the survivors, including Riley and Sam, return safely.

Faith is offered the role of Head of Security with Zane Pharmaceuticals; her first assignment is in Magic Town.

Angel refuses Amy’s request. She attacks him, hoping to lure Willow. Nadira intervenes, turning Amy back into a rat. She escapes [Lost and Found].

Festival‑goers trek to Sunnydale’s ruins for a Halloween spectacular.

Andrew returns to Sunnydale with the Vampyr book, intending to resurrect Tara Maclay. The Soul Glutton emerges. Willow prevents Andrew from making a mistake. The Soul Glutton is defeated in the crater but escapes. Andrew uploads Jonathan’s memories to a hologram, intending to restore him [Return to Sunnydale].

The Soul Glutton later allies with the Mistress and the Sculptor. Spike brings kittens home [Love Dares You].

Buffy and Spike finally begin their relationship properly. Spike suffers vivid dreams.

Willow ends her relationship with Aluwyn, who banishes her. Xander and Dawn officially break up. Andrew, under a mystical potion, is transformed into his ideal self and comes out [Love Dares You].

Angel is shocked to discover Fred Burkle alive in Magic Town. Illyria is contained within her, and Fred struggles for control. Eldre Koh arrives in London seeking answers. Nadira’s magical connection deepens. Fred reveals Illyria killed Eldre Koh’s people [United].

Faith returns to London, reunited with Angel and Fred [United].

Buffy’s mind travels into Spike’s to test the reality of his dreams. She traces them through his vampire lineage to Archaeus, sire of the Master. The Scooby Gang barely survive their confrontation [Relationship Status: Complicated].

Angel and Fred visit his hometown, targeted by witches worshipping Gachnar [Fight or Flight].

Spike calls Angel about his dreams. Angel travels to San Francisco, seeing Buffy for the first time since Twilight. They mend their friendship. In battle with Archaeus, Angel is susceptible to his influence and briefly reverts to Angelus. Archaeus flees [Old Demons].

Faith and Fred investigate missing teenagers at St Cuthbert’s Prep School. They discover Drusilla targeting a student. The girl is rescued, but Drusilla’s motives remain unclear. Her target, Mary Weatherford, returns home and asks her museum curator father about a recently unearthed bronze statue. [Those Who Can’t Teach, Teach Gym].

Giles is restored to adulthood for one day [Freaky Giles Day].

Angel returns to London to pursue Archaeus. Despite the combined efforts of Angel, Faith, Eldre Koh, and Illyria, Drusilla kidnaps Nadira and delivers her to Archaeus. The bronze statue is erected in Magic Town. Inspector Brandt is revealed as a vampire spy and killed by Faith [A Little More Than Kin].

Drusilla tries to appeal to Angel’s emotions. She battles Faith to a standstill. Koh learns the truth about his family when Fred briefly transforms into Illyria [A Little More Than Kin].

Xander is told during an exorcism that Anya is not truly Anya [Triggers].

Demon incursions erupt worldwide via a dimensional device known as the Restless Door. Former Initiative member Graham Miller is called in as an expert. Dylan Turner arrives in San Francisco. Harmony and Vicki strike an agreement with the military, Slayers, and Council to regulate vampire behaviour [In Pieces on the Ground].

Willow works with the military, which Buffy disapproves of. She begins dating Lake Stevens. Giles spends time in Faerie Land with a Fae named Sundrop.

The Sculptor offers Andrew a deal: retrieve the Scythe and he will create a new body for Jonathan. Andrew delivers a fake Scythe, enraging the Sculptor.

Learning Anya is not real, Xander begins ignoring her. In battle with the Soul Glutton and the Mistress, the Scoobies triumph, but the villains destroy the Restless Door, leaving a permanent Hell portal to the dimension Anharra open. The Gang enter the portal. Dawn’s Key powers activate, defeating the horde, but the portal can only be sealed from the Hell side. Xander stays behind with her. Buffy wishes her problems away. Anya solidifies into Anyanka.

D’Hoffryn reunites with her and kills the Soul Glutton and the Mistress [In Pieces on the Ground].

Magic from Magic Town is released into the bronze statue. The citizens of Magic Town rally to fight Archaeus back. Archaeus confronts the Magic and is defeated, sealed inside the statue. Drusilla escapes again. Faith departs London and Angel [A Tale of Two Families].

Dawn and Xander encounter demons in Anharra and befriend them. Offered a way home by Lilah Morgan of Wolfram & Hart, they decline and travel through multiple dimensions, rekindling their relationship [Own It].

D’Hoffryn kills the Magic Council and steals their powers. Xander and Dawn return home as the Gang regroup. D’Hoffryn steals the Vampyr book [Own It].

Jonathan reveals to Andrew that D’Hoffryn has made him the first male Vengeance demon. D’Hoffryn attacks the Scoobies and declares himself all‑powerful. Anyanka kills Xander [Vengeance].

Buffy wishes she had never given D’Hoffryn power. Anyanka grants the wish, stripping him of power. She revives Xander. D’Hoffryn kills her for betrayal. The Vengeance Demons flee. D’Hoffryn escapes to his home dimension, but Dawn pursues him. Buffy decapitates him [It’s On You].

A new Magic Council is assembled. Giles, Riley, Buffy, and Dracula are among its members [It’s On You].

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER SEASON ELEVEN
ANGEL SEASON ELEVEN

September 2009 – May 2010

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER SEASON TWELVE

Late 2011
The Reckoning occurs.

After 2011
After the climatic Battle of the Reckoning, the world is forever changed. The Slayers disappear and the connection to the Slayer lineage is lost. The world is overrun with demons and no new Slayers can be called [Ready, Steady…]. Without the Slayers to protect the world, demons inherit, humans become second class citizens. Technology continues to grow. Climate change ravages the planet, and human beings begin to die or mutate from radiation in the atmosphere.

DISTANT FUTURE

23rd Century
By the 23rd century, humanity survives in scattered patches across ruined cities. New York is now Haddyn, a sprawling technological metropolis where the wealthy live above and the poor below. Vampires, known as Lurks, rule the streets.

No Slayers have been called for two centuries since the events of the Reckoning. Whispers persist of a lone survivor.

Twins Melaka and Harth Fray are born. Their parents die young, leaving them to be raised in poverty by their older sister Erin in the Versi district of Haddyn.

One night, the twins are attacked by a Lurk named Icarus. Harth is bitten but claws free, while Melaka escapes [Ready, Steady…; Out of the Past].

Erin becomes a law officer.

On her sixteenth birthday, Melaka — now a thief working for aquatic mutated human Gunther — discovers her super strength. A mysterious man immolates himself, declaring her the Chosen One [Big City Girl].

Melaka is approached by Urkonn of the D’Avvrus, a demon claiming to be a Watcher. He explains the Slayer line, the Watchers, and the final Slayer of the 21st century who fought the Reckoning, banishing all demons and magic from Earth. With no demons left, she was the last Slayer to be called [Ready, Steady…].

Harth resurfaces, revealing that while Melaka inherited the Slayer’s power, he received the Slayer dreams and knowledge. Urkonn helps Melaka claim the Scythe and tells her of the Reckoning [Alarums].

Horrified by the existence of a new Slayer, Harth orders Melaka’s death. Icarus fails and is crushed by a falling car [The Gateway].

Harth summons a demon, but Melaka kills it. Harth escapes. Now wielding the Scythe, Melaka kills Urkonn for betraying an ally and resumes her work with Gunther, while patrolling Haddyn’s nights [All Hell].

Melaka discovers an old library filled with Watcher Diaries. She moves in, sharing it with its previous occupant, a mutated monkey she names Gates [Tales].

Harth is approached by a new ally who claims knowledge of the Slayers.

Melaka is stunned when Buffy Summers appears in Versi, wielding a Scythe and claiming to be a Slayer from the past. Buffy learns she was lost in the Reckoning, though the conflict itself remains unnamed.

Harth’s ally is revealed as Willow, dark and driven insane by her failure to save Buffy. She opened the portal to the past to bring Buffy to the future and begs Buffy to kill her. Buffy refuses but is ultimately forced to. Melaka watches as Buffy returns to her own time, worried that this knowledge may reshape her present [Time of Your Life].

Harth begins receiving new dreams of the Reckoning. He starts to plan… [One Year Later].