Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-13965604-20140715134406/@comment-19765459-20140716205508

Paul.rea wrote: I have a simple and genuine question - Where does it say that True Alphas are supposed to be super strong?

Wouldn't it actually make more sense (purely speculation) that one who didn't kill to attain the status would not be super strong?

While possible, it runs into practical problems. Given that we do not know the factual origin of werewolves, or the rules governing them, that concept raises as many questions as it answers.

Werewolf culture is violent. So precedent would suggest that a physically-weak Alpha would have a very short life expectency, unless they had other powers to compensate for their weakness. Deucalion's second tried to kill him when he was blinded (and failed at the cost of his life). Unless, for some reason not yet mentioned, a True Alpha's Spark is non-transferrable then they would be prime targets for other werewolves looking to become Alphas.

That was what was running through my mind when the twins were beating down Scott to try to get him to shift despite his hangups. He was lucky that they really had abandoned the whole killing thing, because one of them (probably Aiden) could have killed Scott and become an Alpha again with one claw slash across the throat.