We all know the story. From dawn of time they can't move a silent night down through the centuries. Living many secret lives, struggling to the time of the gather, when the few who remain will battle to the last. No one has ever known they were a moments, until now. While very descriptive introduction, it's not exactly accurate. I mean during the original 3 or 4th built, it was, but the series revealed something slightly different. You see there were some who knew of the existence of the mortals. They knew of the game and the rules. They sworn oath to observe the immortals and keep record of the game, as well as the whereabouts of nearly every immortal throughout history. Once all the mortals are gone, only did then, with a tell of their existence to the world. Paired by Emiletto, the accadian, after witnessing the immortal Gilgamesh return to life, but watch her order has existed since roughly 2000 BC. A little over a thousand years later mythos, the oldest living immortal, discovered their existence in 904 BC. He was able to infiltrate the organization due to his low profile, and the fact that he was viewed, I simply amit for many centuries. The watcher order has split into many different suborders, a structure which has served them well over the centuries. The tribunal governs over the organization, three members which are responsible for the final decision, made by the order. Originally the tribunal was appointed, but after a moral Jacob Galati ruthlessly executed dozens of watchers during the scheduled execution of Joe Dawson, which later became known as the Galati affair, members were democratically elected. Directly under the tribunal were geographic leaders, who were appointed to be in charge of a watcher group in different parts of the world. Under the geographical leaders, or the field operatives, field operatives follow immortals out in the open from a safe distance. They have the eyes of the organization to report back their observations for the leaders. Other divisions in this status include philosophical operations, functional operations, historic operations, and special operations. Usually new field agents are assigned to safe-free immortals. What this means is that they're assigned to watch immortals which are more peaceful or moral in nature. Then we have the research operations. These watchers usually have advanced skills and an aptitude for detailed research, ranging from the collection and safe storage of ancient manuscripts and documents to computer, language, forensic, archival, and investigative skills. Many operatives actually prefer research to field work. The research operations of the watchers maintains a regularly updated database of known active immortals, officially designated the active roster of immortal. In addition to watchers, there's a rogue group of watchers known as the Hunters. The Hunters view the mortals as an unholy abomination and were bent on killing every last one, originally formed and led by Joe Dawson's brother-in-law James Horan. It was Horan's time spent assigned to the Kurgan in the 1980s that most likely led to his opinion of immortals. Watchers who broke the rules of the organization were placed on trial before the tribunal, and if bound guilty, depending on the severity of their actions, would either be reassigned, expelled from the organization were executed. The latter often being the result of a guilty verdict. In July of 1996, the democratically elected tribunal replaced the original. The watcher organization had a number of locations which held special purposes for the order. The Hall of Martyrs was one of these institutions, which was a location where watchers who were killed in the line of duty were honored. Immortals who had grown tired of the game or otherwise requested were placed into the sanctuary, basically a safe house for Immortals ran by watchers. The Immortals were drugged and held in contraptions intended to immobilize them and ensure immortal humanity would never be ruled by an immortal. For the most part, this basically designed to ensure that no immortal could claim the prize by being the last. The watchers assigned to sanctuary were heavily armed in order to defend against attacks. However, Jacob Kellen immortal with the highest amount of confirmed kills in history destroyed sanctuary in the early 21st century and be headed, all the inmates saved for Conor McLeod who had been there for the past 10 years. Watchers are generally tattooed with the symbol of the order on their left wrist just under the palm of their hand. This is to help identify them to other watchers. The organization has only ever been infiltrated once over the centuries by an immortal. As mentioned earlier, this was performed by Mithos, the oldest living immortal, who will talk about in a future video. But since this video is about the watchers, I will talk about all the times Mithos has become involved in the organization over the centuries. In 904 BC, he learned of their existence while in Jerusalem. When overhearing a group of people discussing immortal names, he recognized he was eventually invited to a meeting where he met and fell in love with a watcher named Ruth. Under the name Alexander, he installed himself into the group and learned that due to his low profile over the centuries, Mithos meant that his actual name was relatively unknown in their records. After he devoted himself to the organization, he learned of the game. Mithos left the watchers in 825 BC after Ruth, who was his wife at the time, died. His second infiltration of the organization came about during the 16th century, while living in Italy where he'd made friends with his watcher. The watcher kept a separate private journal, recording their friendship due to the watcher's code prevented any open acknowledgement of their existence to immortal. In 1984, Mithos adopted the identity of Adam Pearson and studied ancient languages at St. Aiden's College Durham University. He enlisted with the watchers as a historian as a way of keeping track of other immortals to avoid the game, graduating from the watcher academy sixth in his class of 103. By the mid-90s, he had become the lead researcher on the Mithos Chronicles. In one episode of the television series, he stated, I'm in charge of finding myself and I make sure that never happens. Mithos created the database reference earlier, alongside Don Salser, a watcher's story. Shortly after the Galadia Fair, Adam Pearson was listed as absent without leave from the watcher organization. There is one other rogue watcher organization, which there's very little known about. That is the cult known as the eye. The eye was created by Adamine Nahuru, who left the watchers at some point in the late 1900s, early 2000s, when no one would listen to her conspiratorial rants. After this, she founded the eye. The watchers managed to infiltrate the eye only once with a single undercover operative, who was discovered and returned to the watchers in pieces. The little is known about the cult. It is revealed that they use at least one immortal to detonate a nuclear weapon. By placing a metal collar around Adema's immortal aclyc, Nibbola's neck, the collar served two purposes, protecting Nibbola from decapitation, and if it were to be destroyed, it would detonate a nuclear weapon. Currently, the fate of the watchers is unknown. If you enjoyed that video, make sure you hit the subscribe button right there so you can stay up to date on all things Geek Culture. Also, make sure you check out one of these two playlists on the side. For more videos, just like the one you just watched. 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