Characters

  • Whistler

    Whistler

    Whistler was a demon whose true name was a series of whistles, a being tasked with maintaining the cosmic balance between good and evil. He first appeared in Angel’s life…

  • Archaeus

    Archaeus

    Archaeus was an ancient Demon Lord whose essence birthed a distinct vampire bloodline — one that would eventually produce the Master, Darla, Angel, Drusilla, and Spike. Every vampire descended from…

  • Rory

    Rory

    Rory was a demon bartender in Magic Town, running a pub that served as neutral ground in a district transformed by the magical plague. Unlike many of the altered beings…

  • Pearl & Nash Finney

    Pearl & Nash Finney

    Pearl and Nash were born in 1935 to Susan Finney, a human who deliberately bred with a demon in the belief that her children would be the next step in…

  • Lavinia and Sophronia Fairweather

    Lavinia and Sophronia Fairweather

    Sophie and Lavinia Fairweather were Rupert Giles’s great‑aunts — glamorous, troublesome, and magically inclined long before the Watchers Council ever tried to tame them. In 1964, they sought the Shard…

Welcome to The Watcher’s Guide, a resource, quite fittingly, back from the dead!

The original website shut down in 2004, following the cancellation of Angel. Now with a new show set in the BuffyVerse eagerly anticipated by fans old and new and featuring the return of Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy, it’s time to spruce up The Watcher’s Guide for a new generation.

All the episodes have been added, along with notes, biographies and continuity references. But as always, one question remains… Where Do We Go From Here?