It's time to make the Teen Wolf Universe a much duller and more joyless place by pointing
out that there's no magic being performed even though sometimes it all looks like magic.
Isaac: So, what are you?
Some kind of witch?
Deaton: No, I'm a veterinarian.
Oh Isaac, please stay adorable!
I can't say there’s zero magic in Teen Wolf.
For instance, we still don’t know how Kate put that whammy on Derek in Season 4, but
we know for sure there’s no magic in what Deaton
and Morrell and the Darach did on the show.
To understand what's actually happening, you just need to understand the basic elements
that we're working with here.
First, you need a power source.
There are a couple of natural power sources at play in most of what we saw on the show.
The largest pool of potential energy is flowing all around you at this very moment.
Stiles: Danny marked all the Telluric currents.
Okay?
Now, the weird thing about Beacon Hills is it actually is a beacon.
You wouldn't believe how much energy flowing through this earth is around this town.
Telluric currents crisscross the entire planet.
The other power source is your body.
Human’s are electrical, generating between 100 and 2000 watts of energy.
Add a layer of faith or fiction to that fact and you get a supernatural entity called a
human soul, which, in Teen Wolf, was a particularly potent pool of potential power.
Once you have a power source, you need a focusing agent that will, well, focus the power.
The show gave us a few.
Peter: Mountain ash, that's an old one.
For the vast telluric currents, the most obvious focusing agent was mountain ash.
In addition to werewolves being unable to touch the wood itself, mountain ash has the
peculiar ability to always attach to itself and form a circuit.
If you throw Mountain Ash dust into the air, it forms a perfect, circle around you.
This is why Stiles was able to surround the rave even though he ran out of the dust.
He just got it close enough
for the dust to move itself into position and complete the circuit.
You can see it moving on its own.
If you throw the dust between two pieces of solid mountain ash, it always completes the
circuit and forms a focused energy barrier.
The barrier repels anyone with a supernatural spark.
Which is why chimera and banshee have no trouble with it because they are not supernatural.
There are exceptions.
People pushing through mountain ash or burning mountain ash.
But that is for the Teen Wolf science advanced courses.
We're just dealing with the basics here.
And the basic fact is that mountain ash creates
the most obvious effects working with the telluric currents.
Another useful tree for focusing natural energies is a large oaken Nemeton.
The tree acts as a battery and we saw it store up and disperse
both telluric current and the life force of sacrificed humans.
It's stored energy saved Jennifer's life .
And then, years later after the symbolic sacrifices,
Noshiko was able to use telluric currents flowing into the tree to give physical form
to her summoned Oni.
As we saw with the Darach killed certain types of people in certain spots along the
telluric currents so she could gain specific abilities like fully tactile glamours,
super strength, weather control and telekinesis.
Scott: All right, there's three places. Right?
Where they're kidnapped and the place where their body was found.
Lydia: That's right on a telluric current.
Scott: So maybe where he was sacrificed is somewhere in between?
As Scott and the gang figured out, the currents carry that life force,
and dark druids are able to tap the power.
Life force is shown to be the most powerful source of energy in the Teen Wolf universe,
but it’s wrong to kill people for power. So normal and sane people would never,
ever, even think about trying to use that type of energy.
Good Druids just use the power of plants like mistletoe and wolfsbane, crystals like moonstone
and trees like the Nemeton oak tree and the mountain ash.
All of those are real and some are actually used as natural remedies and poisons in the
real world.
And, the best part is, no one has to die to make use of the power.