Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-108.81.117.0-20140414000136/@comment-6383956-20140420010855

The amount of made-up stuff ya'll are saying is hysterical -- especially because some of it makes this all way more complicated than it actually is or needs to be. I have my own headcanons for the things we don't know yet, as each of you obviously do, but it's just *my* opinion, not anything the show has said. This is what we know:

Alpha are more powerful than Betas. Alphas are pack leaders, but (as we've seen) it is possible to be an Alpha with no pack (although we can assume it is not recommended, since when Derek had no pack when he first became an Alpha and obviously he was not a fan of that idea. Peter, likewise, didn't seem to like not having Betas around.)

Betas are less powerful than Alphas, more powerful than Omegas. Betas are members of a pack. They might draw strength from an Alpha, and an Alpha seems to draw strength from their Betas (although this potentially could also simply be references to a "strength in numbers" type of thing, we don't really know how this works yet either.)

Omegas are the least powerful of all werewolves. Derek tells us in season 2 that Omegas are lone wolves with no packs -- but the twins said they were the Omegas of their pack (before they, y'know, murdered them all) so obviously there's some way of being an Omega and being in a pack but it's not a way to be popular in a pack. We do not know how this works yet.

Alphas have red eyes. Betas and Omegas have gold eyes unless they take an innocent life, and then their eyes are blue.