Later this same year, Giles purchased a profitable magic shop named the Magic Box. By this time, Tara and Anya had joined the Scooby Gang. The Initiative was closed down in spring 2000 after a climactic battle with the bio-mechanical demonoid Adam. There, they first came into contact with the United States Government secret military organization, the Initiative, with its facilities located beneath the campus. In the fall of 1999, Buffy, Willow, and Oz began attending UC Sunnydale. In June 1999, Sunnydale High was destroyed in a great conflict that killed Mayor Wilkins and Principal Snyder on graduation day. Another slayer, Faith, arrived during their senior year of high school and lived at the Sunnydale Motor Inn until she joined forces with Mayor Wilkins. ĭuring their time in high school, Buffy and her friends fought several vampires, most notably the Master, Spike, Drusilla, and Angel. Buffy's mother, Joyce, worked in an art gallery in Sunnydale. They formed the Scooby Gang and often hung out at the Bronze and the Espresso Pump coffee house. There, she met her new friends Willow, Xander, Cordelia, and Oz, as well as her new Watcher, Giles. In the winter of 1997, Buffy Summers, the active Slayer, moved to 1630 Revello Drive, where she began attending Sunnydale High. The newspaper also reported supernatural events as if they were common human crimes, with headlines such as: "Mayhem Caused - Monsters Certainly Not Involved, Officials Say." After Buffy's arrivalĪ view of the town from Sunnydale Hospital. However, Mayor Wilkins had instructed both the police to cover up any supernatural or mysterious violence occurring in the city and Principal Snyder to cover up supernatural violence occurring at Sunnydale High. īy the 1990s, Sunnydale appeared to have become a typical town on the California coast, with a popular mayor, a police force, and a local newspaper (the Sunnydale Press). Sometime in the late 1900s, Richard Wilkins was again elected mayor, then under the name of "Richard Wilkins III," and served more than one term. In the 1930s, there was at least one more major earthquake in Sunnydale it caused a cave-in that swallowed up the Master and the church he was in, as well as the Temple of Proserpexa on Kingman's Bluff. Richard Wilkins founded Sunnydale in May 1899, considering the alternate names "Happydale" and "Sunny Acres." He made a pact with the demons to found a town atop the Hellmouth for them "to feed on," in return for the promise of immortality by becoming a pure demon himself. In the late 19th century, vampires took over the settlement, killing its inhabitants and wrecking its buildings a Navajo Slayer arrived searching for a vampire to avenge her Watcher and slew the vampires in the process, burning it to the ground. In 1812, an earthquake in the Sunnydale region caused a cave-in that buried the Sunnydale Mission. One or more groups of monks or friars also settled in this area. The settlement where would become Sunnydale.Ĭenturies later, Navajo and Chumash peoples lived in this area. In ancient times, the mystical weapon mʔ was used at the site of the Hellmouth "to kill the last pure demon that walked upon the Earth." After this, the Guardians hid the Scythe, and the last of its members remained, waiting in a pagan temple for centuries. 4.2 Evidence for the Santa Barbara region.
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