(credited as '''Primitive'''), also known as '''The Primeval One''' (in an invocation spell) was the first in the line of
Slayers in the cult tv series ''
Buffy The Vampire Slayer '' and was portrayed by
Sharon Ferguson .
The First Slayer first appears in the Season 4 finale, ''
Restless ''. She kills, in their respective dreams,
Giles ,
Xander and
Willow . She fights Buffy, but does not manage to kill her in the dream, since Buffy manages to wake up from it. Giles reveals she never had a watcher, and attributes her appearance to the enjoining "spell
{Link without Title} cast with Buffy" in
Primeval , claiming that invoking the essence of the Slayer's power was an affront to the source of that power. The Slayer had always lived, hunted and died alone; without a Watcher, she had lost all kind of human contact and being invoked by a group of people, albeit all of them inhabitting the same body, was an offense to her.
As the enjoining spell included the reference to Buffy as "Daughter of Sineya, First of the Ones", it is possible that Sineya was the actual name of the First Slayer, though it hasn't been confirmed.
In of a
Demon . It is suggested that this demonic energy originates from the same source that gives power to the vampires. She had incredible strength, stamina and a predatorial instinct, but she also lost her humanity.
The Slayer hunted and killed vampires, but her own people mistook her for a demon, due to her superhuman powers, and expelled her. The Shadow-Men failed to find her and so she never had someone to guide her. The Shadow-Men's descendants became the Watchers and eventually the
Watcher's Council . Eventually, the Slayer died and her power passed on to another girl. The Slayer lineage had begun.
Following the Enjoining ritual, the Buffy/Giles/Xander/Willow collective inside Buffy's body invokes the power of the First Slayer, a power superior to that of later Slayers - which is confirmed in ''Get it Done'', as merging with the demon's essence would've given Buffy more power. The spell, in Sumerian, (as written on the script of ''Primeval'') goes as following:
Sha me-en-dan. Gesh-toog me-en-dan.
Zee me-en-den.
Oo-khush-ta me-ool-lee-a
ba-ab-tum-mu-do-en.
Translation:
We are heart. We are mind.
We are spirit.
From the raging storm,
we bring the power of the Primeval One.
- She first appears in the episode Restless (see above).
- The Buffy episode, Get It Done , reveals her origins (see above).
- In the graphic novel, Tales Of The Slayers , the First Slayer is asked to leave the village that created her. They fear her.
- In Intervention , the First Slayer appears to Buffy as a "spirit guide", giving her the advice that "death is {Link without Title} gift".
- The First Slayer also appears in the beginning of ''Get It Done'', telling Buffy that "it is not enough". Buffy later learns she means her power is not enough, and she must get more power from the original Shadow-Men.
- She appeared in the comic mini-series Fray Issue #3 : "Ready, Steady..." (August 2001).
- In the non-canon Queen Of The Slayers , the First Slayer is named as Senaya, which sounds similar to the name Sineya, mentioned in the enjoining spell performed by Willow, Giles and Xander in Primeval .
