Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-108.81.117.0-20140328022141/@comment-186.155.165.8-20140329184622

As someone stated before, it seems the ritual can only be done in the Worm Moon.Also Peter was revived about a month after he died (according to the wiki's timeline) and even after that time his body was severly damaged, but there was still a full body .As it seems the ritual needs the full body of the "revived" or, tryng to revive a wolf like Boyd,Erica or even Aiden would be basically imposible, as after 4 or 5 months the body is basically just the bones and some flesh.

Also, i believe this is similar to trying to heal someone who is too injured, it could rip off the life of the Alpha doing it. After Peters rebirth, Derek was very weak and it was in some kind of limbo (very similar to the one Scott,Allsion and Stiles went when they"died") and he woke up thanks to Deaton. Maybe if Deaton wouldnt have appeared at that moment and helped him wake up,.Derek will be dead. Also again, if revivng a person that has been just 1 month death left an alpha in such a condition, i imagine trying to revive someone who has been death for 4 or 5 months will kill him. I think that althought Lydia loves Aiden, she wouldn't ask Scott to risk his life for reviving him.

In the end, we actually dont know what other things the ritual requires.Like someone said, it could be that Derek was not used because of being an alpha but because he was family of Peter,it can be also posible that the ritual needs this "tribute" to be both an alpha and a family member but it could also be that the one required is the person who killed the wolf or even a conbination of the 3 things(just like Derek) or maybe a Banshee can only revive the wolf who "activated" her. We dont know, but i honestly believe reviving someone cant be that easy.