maelstrom209 said:
Apparently its able to empower the slayer or something.
This is certainly how it appears on Buffy, with the "scythe" she's able to defeat the Turok Hans almost effortlessly and she can feel "power" coming from it, not to mention what Willow was able to do with it. However, in Fray, they're not as specific about it's attributes. While Melaka is more efficient while using it, there's not much about it's "power".
maelstrom209 said:
I was wondering how come Buffy was never told about it?
Apparently, the last remaining Guardian (the one who explained it to Buffy) was one of many who "watched the watchers". The "scythe" was created to slay the last pure demon that walked the earth. I guess that since, as Anya established in Graduation Day, the only demons that still walk the earth are impure and tainted, there was no longer a purpose for it, or for Buffy to know about it... until the Turok Han came a callin', a pure demon.
maelstrom209 said:
How did she find out about it?
She found out about it from Spike. He and Andrew had gone to an old monestary and on the wall in latin (which Spike had been schooled in before he was turned), was something explaining that there was a weapon that had been forged "for her alone to wield". He and Buffy assumed that this would be at the winery, as that was where Caleb was. So then Buffy went there and "King Arthured it" out of a giant rock. That's how she found out about it's existence, but it's purpose and history was explained to her by the last of many guardians, who had created it and "hid it" and hid themselves also, they were "the last surprise".
maelstrom209 said:
Was it one of the clues that came out of Principal Wood's mother's slayer "bag of tricks?" Did Buffy find out about the axe from the Shadow Men from the strange spinning carousel?
No, it had nothing to do with the "slayer's emergency kit" and the Shadow Men had nothing to do with it, infact they knew nothing about it seeing as the Guardians had "forged it in secrecy and kept it hiden from the Shadow men".
Hope that clears things up a little. I think that what happened with the whole deal is that Joss intruduced the "scythe" (not really a scythe) in Fray and then needed to fit it into Buffy somehow to give some continuity to the mythology of the slayerverse.
~Kindred
