Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-544940-20160226102622/@comment-544940-20160226211948

Honestlycynical wrote: Let's use the recent Eichen heist as an example.

If they didn't state that it almost killed Scott the last time he broke a small barrier, he would have just been able to break the mountain ash barrier, waltz through to the closed ward, and gotten himself killed anyway when Lydia's scream killed the entire area (for the sake of this example, we're ignoring the fact that the Hellhound would have shown up anyway).

By stating that a relatively small circle of it almost killed him, they save him from being a wolf'd out version of Superman. What I mean by that is him breaking through things that shouldn't be able to be broken through (in this case a barrier meant to keep supernatural creatures at bay), then losing to almost every single person he fights (I mean, he loses like 99% of his fights anyway, but that's besides the point).

Truthfully, it doesn't matter if Mountain Ash becomes a last resort to keep the supernatural away/locked up. If Scott could just power through and break it without breaking a sweat, there would be no use for it. It's one thing for a Hellhound to burn it away, but to have an Alpha Werewolf break through it like nothing numerous times is another issue entirely. Eichen House is covered with Mountain Ash and other wards for the supernatural which makes sense why it's more difficult.