Hello there!
Today I’m digging into the superpowers of the Darach
and how the Nemeton and Telluric currents did their part to turn her into a total badass.
Jennifer Blake or Julia Baccari or whatever name you remember
was dubbed the Darach or dark druid in first half of Season 3.
Now, I did a thing a couple weeks ago about good Druids and how their knowledge allowed
them to do some pretty amazing things. If you missed that video, I’ve linked it above. You
really should watch it before you watch this one because there are topics I just
kind of touch on here that were actually explained fully in the earlier video.
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A quick refresher: druids are full of ancient knowledge that
allows them to take the various flora and fauna present in the natural world
and focus the energy of the earth into types of power they can use.
The good druids like Doctor Deaton and his sister only use plants, trees, and crystals, the bits
that don’t really harm other creatures, because they’re good druids and try to do no harm.
Deaton: I didn't poison him with lichen. But I did give him a powerful paralytic. The same one I put on that jar.
Well, they do no harm unless they’re trying to save someone else from harm. You understand.
On the other end of the spectrum we have the bad druids. The Darach, which we’re told means “Dark
Oak”. This is the type Jennifer became after Kali almost killed her. The dark
druids can do a lot more stuff with the natural energies because they’re
willing to kill people and animals in order to focus that power directly into themselves.
Now, in reality the stories of druid human sacrifices were overblown or
just made up by historians over the years. Most of the legitimate folks who study this
stuff suggest they were no more into human sacrifice than anyone else at the time.
But, for the purposes of Teen Wolf, the writers divided the druids into those who do
and those who don’t kill people for power and they gave us a wonderful
example of how that works with Jennifer Blake.
Let’s start at the beginning.
Actually, that is not the beginning.
The beginning of Jennifer’s story starts here with the Beacon Hills Nemeton. The big tree
sits at an intersection of telluric currents which carry natural power all around the planet.
Telluric currents are legitimate – they pulse with electricity
in real life. Google “Earth Battery” for details on how they actually work.
The telluric energy is more nuanced in Teen Wolf, more nuanced and much
more powerful than mere electricity but the concept is the same as in the real world.
Anyway, the tree, back when it was whole, soaked up and focused that telluric power.
It flowed out from the tree and generated good vibes for the whole surrounding area
and drew the types of people and creatures that could sense it into Beacon Hills.
Then some son of a bitch came along and cut it down.
[chain saw]
Chris: There's a belief that cutting or harming the tree in any way would cause serious problems for the surrounding vilages.
Gerard: What sort of problems?
Chris: Fires, plagues, strife, death and destruction of all kinds.
Disasters strike Beacon Hills and the Hales helped protect and rebuild as best they could after it happened.
Benefactor Tape: This family used their wealth to rebuild the community around them while remaining isolated from it.
Into this post Nemeton apocalypse we have young Derek Hale and his recently bitten girlfriend.
Paige is suffering and Derek kills her to save her from the pain.
He unwittingly did this at the base of a super powerful telluric
battery which absorbed Paige’s very powerful life and stored it.
During this same period, Kali and her pack were in town for a meeting.
Now, presumably, Julia was your run of the mill druid emissary playing diplomat,
advisor, doctor and all around helpful herbalist to the pack. Then Kali joined
Deucalion’s church of the overblown ego and fucked Julia over and left her for dead.
Luckily for her, Julia was close enough to the Nemeton to sense its power and crawl to it.
There was enough of Paige’s life force stored in the tree stump
to keep Julia alive long enough for help to get to her.
Deputy Stilinski: She's still breathing.
In the hospital, Julia got the benefit of even more sacrifices to help her heal further.
Melissa: While the patient was in the O. R. struggling to hold on, hundreds of birds were flying into the walls, the windows,
like they were committing some kind of mass suicide.
Sheriff Stilinski: Or like they were sacrificing themselves.
Melissa: For what? Stilinski: Not what, who?
It’s actually not clear if Julia called to the birds,
but their deaths against the side of the hospital
would have added more life force to what was already working inside her.
And so she recovered and spent like ten years plotting her revenge against the Alpha Pack.
Her plan was pretty simple really. Follow Deucalion and perform a bunch of human sacrifices
to gain specific skills and abilities then wait for the lunar eclipse that would allow her to
kill an entire pack of very powerful alpha werewolves when they were at their weakest.
Harris: They'll figure this out and they're going to find you.
She did each sacrifice on top of a telluric current.
Stiles: Okay, now the weird thing about Beacon Hills is that it actually is a beacon. You wouldn't believe how much
energy flowing through this earth is around this town.
Scott: Stiles look. They match.
The life force flowed from the sacrifice into the current and connected to her.
She kind of explained on the show what she got from each specific group she killed.
Jennifer: Maybe I should have started with philosophers, with knowledge and strategy.
Healers. Warriors. Guardians.
Virgins.
That last bit might be a little hazy. She killed the virgins so she could look beautiful which,
I guess, made it easier to hide. But did that really help when it came to taking out the Alpha Pack?
Probably not, but it did allow her to get sexy with Derek
And that’s worth a few innocent lives. Am I correct?
Scott: All right, there's three places. Right? Where they're kidnapped and then the place where their body was found.
Lydia: That's right on a telluric current.
Scott: So, maybe where he was sacrificed was somewhere in between.
Okay, so Jennifer was juiced on telluric
energy and the life force of a dozen or so people which allowed her to do this.
And this.
And ultimately this.
And, in the immortal words of every camp villain ever, she
would have gotten away with it too if it hadn’t been for those meddling kids.
Derek: Jennifer!
Jennifer: What!?
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