VIDEO: Zeus Theory Defense Part One
In the season three episode Visionary, Gerard Argent explains the ancient origin of werewolves in the Teen Wolf universe.
Lycaon didn’t just refuse to honor the gods, he challenged them. He invited Zeus to a banquet and then tried to serve him the flesh of a human being.
Zeus blew the place apart with lightning bolts and then punished Lycaon and his sons by turning them into wolves.
If Druids then Zeus?[]
Yes, Gerard is an unreliable narrator. But he did not write the book shown in the episode about the druids and how they hooked up with the werewolves. That is an ancient story that reflects a modern ongoing relationship that we all know is very real within this universe.
At some point the werewolves sought out the druids and they became besties to the point that - thousands of years later - almost all the organized packs that we saw on the show had a druid working with them.
The Hale and Scott McCall Pack had Alan Deaton. While the Alpha Pack had Deaton’s sister Marin Morrell. At one time Julia Baccari (Jennifer Blake) served as druid emissary to Kali’s pack. The druids on Teen Wolf are undeniably real and they hang out with werewolves.
And all the things the druids do with plants and physical sacrifices actually work. The mountain ash barriers against supernatural creatures, the wolfsbane poison, and perhaps the most stunning example – human sacrifices resulting in superpowers.
As Jennifer explained to Lydia Martin in the Season 3 episode The Girl Who Knew Too Much, sacrifice is literally “sacrificium” or an offering to a deity.
If all the Druid stuff that we know is real – they hang out with werewolves and can do very real supernatural stuff - then it suggests that at least the druid part of Gerard’s ‘’Visionary’’ retelling is also real.
Lycaon sought out the druids to help turn him back to human. They couldn't make Lycaon and his son's human again, but they did teach them how to shift back and forth. Gerard Argent
And if the truth is that Lycaon sought out the Druids to stop being a wolf, then one must question how he became a wolf in the first place.
Werewolf Spark is Proof of Zeus[]
VIDEO: Zeus Theory Defense Part Two
We have a good bit of information provided in the Teen Wolf TV show that explains where werewolves’ supernatural abilities come from. Unfortunately, the majority of this information is from Peter Hale, another character considered to be an “unreliable narrator”.
As he explains to Derek in the episode Alpha Pact -
...power that provides you with those special gifts. The power that heightens your senses, your strength. The power that transforms your body.
As an alpha, you have that bit of extra, that spark intensifies the color of your eyes from a bright yellow into a searing red.
Peter Hale
From Peter we get that there is a special spark of energy inside the werewolf that does all the work of shape-shifting healing and strength.
But beyond taking Peter’s word for it, we’re shown again and again that all those powers and the spark at their center are heavily influenced by how the werewolf is doing emotionally.
In the Season 3 episode Frayed and again in the Season 5 episode The Last Chimera, Scott McCall is shown to be weak and has difficulty healing.
In the former this is due to fear and guilt over the fate of Derek Hale in the previous night’s fight with the Alpha Pack at the abandoned mall. In the latter episode, Scott’s pack is disrupted and scattered by Theo Raeken’s manipulations and Scott finds himself feeling unsupported.
Stepping outside the supernatural for a moment, regular humans are electrical creatures. We generate electricity within our bodies that makes our brains work and creates self-awareness. So, all the emotions, everything you think and feel is a result of electrical activity.
Long before we knew about our body’s electrical field, humans understood there was some energy at work inside them. Many cultures around the world call that natural human electricity and its complex interplay “the human soul” and embue it with a divine origin.
The spark inside the human body is real. In the fictional Teen Wolf universe, that same real spark of energy is somehow altered in a way that allows for werewolves and other supernatural shape shifters with advanced senses, accelerated healing, and full body transformations.
Teen Wolf presents us with a special “spark” that creates a Werewolf, a spark that interacts with and alters the human soul. Gerard Argent presents us with a reasonable origin for that special spark.
Zeus blew the place apart with lightning bolts and then punished Lycaon and his sons by turning them into wolves.
Gerard Argent
Both the truth of the druid/werewolf relationship and a soul-altering spark that grants amazing abilities add up to supports the story we got from Gerard.
Zeus made the original werewolves from Lycaon and his 49 sons by transforming their internal electrical field with divine lightning.