Yet the Higher Powers and the Lower Beings all work in mysterious ways. For difficult times call for dirty fighting, and Faith is not the only morally ambiguous person to find her way to Cleveland. Illyria, the former god-king of the Primordium, has arrived in the city to start a new job under the persona of her bodily "shell," the deceased physicist Winifred Burkle. Nerd-cum-archvillain-cum-repentent whiner Andrew Wells is there to assist Faith and act as a representative of the Britain-based Council of Watchers. The demonic Senior Partners of law firm Wolfram & Hart have sent dead lawyer Lilah Morgan from hell to their Cleveland branch (apparently, there's a difference) for purposes unknown, and she has brought one of Wolfram & Hart's deadliest clients, the mad prophetic vampire known as Drusilla, with her. This band of misfits and murderers (most being both) has a strange destiny in front of them as they stand between the world and its destruction, doing what must be done even where others would shirk. They may not be the purest of souls (those of them that have souls), but if these Dark Champions cannot learn to use the darkness inside them rather than living in fear of it, then the world may find itself with a far darker fate. Because on this Hellmouth, there isn't any room for mercy.
