Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-27931462-20160617065441/@comment-27565137-20160628224653

Killer kev wrote: You may not have noticed but Teen Wolf doesn't always follow real-word mythology. You can't say thats not how it works when the mythology hasn't even been established yet. Just look at every supernatural creature that has been introduced, none of them strictly follow the actual lore that the creatures are based off. Teen Wolf often twist the mythology to fit the story. In a matter of fact how Teen Wolf plays loosely with mythology, is one of the show biggest traits.

Take for example the real world werewolf mythology. If you read books about the subject then you know there's more than one kind of werewolf. There's the lycans, the werewolves, the hexen-wolves, and the Loup Garou.

The Lycans, were mainly descrived as, well... What Scott looks like. Some animal traits but mostly human. No connection to the cycles of the moon, or weakness to silver.

The Werewolves were mainly descrived as the literal and willingly transformation of a person into a wolf or wolf-like creature. Again, no connection to the moon or weakness to silver.

The Hexen-wolves are mostly unknown. It's said that much like the mythology of the berserkers. Hexen-Wolves happened when someone wore a enchanted talisman with some connection to the wolf. Like a piece of bone or a belt made of wolf pelt. The person using it would have to recite a magic word that would trigger the transformation into a wolf-like creature. While remaining mostly aware of what the person was doing in that form. But again, no connection to the moon or weakness to silver.

And finally we get the Loup Garou. Now these were the real deal monsters. Mostly Loup Garou came from some kind of curse. Where someone was chosen to defend a tribe against invaders and a shaman or sorcerer would fuse into the spirit of a man or woman, a spirit forged from the combination of multiple wolf spirits into a single one, or a very ancient wolf spirit that are said to represent the essence of the spirit of the wolves. That person because during the change lost all his or her consciousness/humanity and became a beast of pure destruction, was bond to the phases of the moon and the transformation could also be alted by the ingestion of certain herbs. And they were basically immortal. The curse could be passed on by the bite. They were monster wolf-like creatures, descrived as being taller than bears or horses. Only silver could kill them. And not just any kind of silver, but silver that had been passed down, inherited.

So yeah. I know full well, how much Teen Wolf plays with mythology. Maybe more than most.

Either way the Wild Hunt has been explored before in other tv shows and mostly fantasy books. So I just hope they pull something original or at least credible within the genre.