Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-27547895-20160209013701/@comment-27547895-20160209211426

In A Promise to the Dead Brett Talbot mentions that werewolves can somehow be born as an alpha. It's never clear if he means born as an alpha or born to inherit the alpha status, but I had always assumed it was the latter.

We really don't know for sure....but it has been suggested more than once that a beta can inherit alpha status.

If that's the case, then you could say that it is highly unlikely that the number of alphas would dwindle, regardless of how often the status is or is not stolen.