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| Deeper Well | |
| Continuity: | Buffyverse |
| Category: | Locale |
| Continent: | Europe |
| Country: | England New Zealand |
| Residents: | Baticus; Drogyn; Illyria |
| 1st appearance: | "A Hole in the World" |
The Deeper Well is a fictional location featured on the WB Network television series Angel, which is part of the greater "Buffyverse" mythos. It first appeared in the season five episode, "A Hole in the World".
Description[]
The Deeper Well was an immense cavern that literally extended through the entirety of the planet, creating a veritable "hole in the world". Being mystical in nature, it could be accessed from one of two different points, one opening which was in New Zealand, and another in the Cotswolds in England.
The cavern served as a burial site and was filled with the stacked sarcophagi of dozens of ancient immortal beings, who were known as the Old Ones. The Guardian of the Deeper Well was a demon named Drogyn. In ancient times, the Old Ones ruled the Earth, but the world's human population waged war against them, and ultimately defeated them by using mystical processes to bind their spirits to their sarcophagi and encase them inside the well.
The L.A. based demonic law firm Wolfram & Hart had one of the sarcophagi removed and shipped to the United States. This particular coffin contained the essence of a higher being named Illyria. After Illyria was released, Angel and Spike journeyed to the Deeper Well to learn more information from Drogyn. (Angel: A Hole in the World)