10 Craziest Things That Happened After Buffy The Vampire Slayer's TV Series Ended
3. All Magic Is Lost
At the end of season eight, the Seed of Wonder, the source of all magic, is destroyed by Buffy. This has tragic consequences for the world moving forward. Not only did it affect magic users like Willow, it meant all newly sired vampires become horrific, violent zombie-vampires which the Scoobies cleverly name Zompires.
It also affected humanity in general - as Willow explains, not a single good book, film, or song was made after magic ended. Luckily, anyone with inherent powers like Slayers were able to keep them. Unfortunately for Dawn, she was created from magic and ended up fading away, leading the gang to desperately try and find a way to save her.
The loss of magic led to all kinds of complex consequences and drove good people to do horrendous things out of desperation. Even Xander betrayed the Scoobies in an attempt to save Dawn from an imminent death as she started to vanish.
The loss of magic even led to the rise of Severin, a Siphon who could "siphon" the powers of mystical creatures. Together with rogue Slayer, Simone, he planned to take Buffy's powers and kill her in revenge for her ending magic which had resulted in his girlfriend becoming a Zompire.