Werewolves can do many things, and undoubtedly, they have an incredible amount of powers. But it’s generally accepted that werewolves are not immortal and that, although it’s difficult, they can be killed. This got me thinking, sure they can die, but do they age? And how exactly does that happen? Why do some werewolves seem to stay teenagers for a long time, while there are also werewolves that are elderly? They must age, but just how does that work?
Werewolves certainly do age. But they can kind of control their aging in a way. And even though Stephenie Meyer may have taken great liberties with her take on the vampire, she did keep it pretty close to common folklore when it came to the wolves and how they age. Like Stephenie describes in the books, werewolves can age. However, as long as they continue to shape-shift and take on the form of the werewolf, they will not age. This means that werewolves can stay a certain age for as long.
Once werewolves stop shifting permanently, they will continue to age as they normally would. But even this aging won’t happen right away. The wolf first has to demonstrate that they have to control to keep from shifting and that they can maintain that control over a prolonged period of time. No one really knows how long it will take before the shifting will stop completely and aging will begin.
There are some parts of werewolf folklore that have werwolves living thousands of years. Even though they’re not immortal, they stay alive for this long even if they stop actually shifting into wolf form. These myths are few and far between and even within them, the wolves who can actually live that long are even fewer. And of course, there’s always the fact that werewolves are things of great mystery. And so, we’ll probably never know what the actual truth is!
- Kate
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ok i love to run im fast and strong, i have a BAD temper and i have a good sense of hearin and smelling. i have always been havin dreams of me as i a wolf and well i gtg see ya
hey im back i had to go but as i was sayin…….. i was 5 or so when i saw a wolfman and i was in my bed i didnt kno wat to do then it bit me and ran off and i love to walk at night and am i a werewolf and i have had this weird feelin i was one (lycan) sense 4ever ago.
Hello Kate,
In regards to werewolves not aging, it’s rare but it has been used in movies/tv shows. The first example is Eric Cord and his ilk in the WEREWOLF tv series, Janos Skorzeny was made a werewolf during the Civil War, and the head of Cord’s Bloodline Nicolas Remy was around 2000 yrs old.
Another example is the werewolf movie Full Eclipse, the werewolf antogonist Adam Garou (hehe) played by Bruce Payne is shown in newspaper clippings during Mario Van Peebles character investigating him, to not age over a span of decades.
The last example is in The Company of Wolves, when The Traveller character played by Stephen Rea goes out on his wedding night during a full moon and doesn’t return for almost a decade. When he returns, his wife comments that he looks exactly the same as he did when he left, suggesting immortality.
I think it’s got to do with the curse aspect, the werewolf can never really escape it, and will go on killing forever until someone manages to stop him, causing him to be tormented unto eternity…which is the true curse.
ohonestly guys i would like to becamo a werewolf bcz i want to to do precisely what the curse does killin people non stop and i hope that one day i will wake up as a werewolf or as full fledged wolf
well u sed in a prev. post tat dey had rapid healing powers nd ageing deteriorates like everything so won’t they heal from the effects of ageing?
Ima werewolf and y would u like to kill people i only kill animals and all werewolves arent hellish. i mean i control myself and not kill humans! WHAT IS WRONG WITH HUMANS WANNA TO BE A WEREWOLF JUST TO KILL! GOD!
@SheWolf1997… is your b-day in december???i was just wondering because you sound like…a friend of mine.o…and about humans always wanting to be a werewolf, they just like to kill things. they don’t know what ist really like to be a werewolf…ignorance.
i belive this is not a myth
Ha ha.. Humans and their needs to slaughter.. Although it may be fun, only do it if necessary, if not, you WILL be hunted.
Slam dunkin like Shaquille O’Neal, if he wrote ifnormaitve articles.
Im with you shewolf1997 and rose Iam a werewolf and im not in it for killing.
werewolves have many powers that include black and white magic so y dont u rite somethin about that Kate oh and werewolves have traces of vampire in the so they do live forever unless they’re killed
guys, werewolves doesent exist. grow up! It is just a story.. -.-
Man, just the other night…well you know…it was crazy. and we do live FOREVER