Watchers Council

The Watchers' Council is the governing body of the Watchers. It pays Watchers to train their Slayers. It also trains Watchers, who keep diaries on their Slayers, while researching vampires, demons and magicks. It tries to locate potential Slayers and then send Watchers to inform and train them.

The Watchers' Council maintains operatives throughout the world in their fight against vampires and demons.

Known members and former members of the Council and their Slayers
Named Watchers
 * Crowley, Bernard and Nikki Woods
 * Giles, Edna and a Unknown Slayer (Between the 1940s to early 1970s)
 * Giles, Rupert and Buffy Summers, briefly Faith LeHane
 * Post, Gwendolyn (Mrs.) and briefly Faith LeHane
 * Merrick and original Buffy Summers, along with several potential slayers
 * Sirk, Rutherford and Unknown Slayer
 * Travers, Quentin and Unknown Slayer
 * Wyndam-Pryce, Roger and Unknown Slayer (Between the 1950s to the 1960s)
 * Wyndam-Pryce, Wesley and Faith LeHane
 * Wells, Andrew and Unknown newly actived Slayer
 * Zabuto, Roger "Sam" and Kendra Young

Others The following have featured with no significant details known about them. Not all of these are true Watchers, some of them are merely operatives on payroll.
 * Blair
 * Hobson
 * Lydia
 * Nigel
 * Phillip
 * Robson
 * Faith's first Watcher
 * Giles' father
 * Collins, Weatherby and Smith - The Council Special Ops Team
 * Faith's nurse
 * Wesley's thugs

Watchers in novels and comics
The numerous novels and comics, specially those focusing on previous Slayers, show or mention many other Watchers:
 * Michaela Tomassi
 * Archibald Lassiter
 * Harold Travers
 * John Travers
 * Yanna Narvik
 * Marie-Christine Fontaine
 * Diana Dormer