In the fight against evil, those with an ear to the ground are usually informed about the slayer. One girl chosen in each generation with the strength and skill to take back the night. Then there are the watchers: men and women belonging to a secret organization sworn to seek out the slayer and any potentials who might some day be chosen. The watcher's job is to train these girls in combat, teach them about their gifts, and provide any needed guidance and research needed along the way.
Who is selected to become a watcher? Generally the tradition passes from father to son, though there is of course the rare occasion in which no male heir is available in which case the oldest daughter is chosen. Most are trained from a young age in the necessary skills for the job ahead of them.
The year 1837 revolutionized the tradition. With the proposed invention of mathematician Charles Babbage's
Analytical Engine, it was obvious that information was soon to be much more accessible than it had in the past. And so with the forward momentum of the Victorian age, the H.B. Fillworth Institute (named for the recently passed head of the council) was founded in London in hopes of instilling University aged potential watchers with the skills and knowledge they would need in the fight against the dark.
Posing for the outside world as a highly exclusive co-ed private academy, The Fillworth Institute would in reality teach among other topics classes in various forms of martial art, demonology, divination, and the occult. Classes were taught by retired and inactive watcher's and provided boarding facilities for year-round education.
The year is 1888, seventeen years after the final development of the Analytical Engine. The Institute, being funded by the vast resources available to the council was in possession of one of the first on the market, and at the start of the fall semester was able to provide each student with their own
portable, (the latest in steam technology), for use in their studies as well as a means of networking around campus.
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