Alpha

The First of Monsters

An **Alpha**, also known as **The Father of Fallen Beasts** is the offspring of a creator or the first species of any kind of creature that roams the Earth, like Typhon and Echidna, who is the progenitor of a particularly group of monsters, fae, Creatures of the Night and others.

## Overview

Alphas are regarded as the strongest and most creature-esque of their respective broods; having developed a psychic link with their progeny as the head of a hive mind. Due to their age and power, they possess very few weaknesses, often being immune to or less affected by major weaknesses that hold true for their respective species. It is noted that there can be more than one alpha of their respective race.

## Description

As the purest of their respective kin, Alphas possess superior strength and resilience than their progeny; able to more easily withstand the respective weaknesses of their breeds, although they are still susceptible and can be pushed past their threshold through extreme exposure.

In addition to being able to commune with their children through their psychic union, an Alpha may also exert its dominion upon them on masse; able to compel them into hibernation by inhabiting their dreams or possessing their bodies for a time to see and hear through their eyes.

## Powers and Abilities

As the creators of their specific species, each of them are much more powerful because of literally being the first of their kind.

* **Telepathic Link**: They possess a telepathic link to their children, allowing them to track or communicate with them over great distance. They can also learn knowledge their children possess.
* **Super Strength**: As the eldest, purest, and most endowed of their respective breeds, alphas possess far superior strength than any common member of their species. The strongest of them are at least stronger than a common demon or at most powerful enough to push an Angel away for a few moments though they are not strong enough to beat a Levian on their own. An Alpha Shapeshifter demonstrated strength great enough to rip an iron door off of its hinges with ease and an Alpha Vampire, along with holding his own momentarily against a Levian, was often seen throwing hunters around with just one hand when fighting them.
* **Super stamina**: Their durability and pain thresholds are far superior to the rest of their species.
* **Immunity**: Alphas are more resistant to certain weapons that harm lesser members of their races. For example, an Alpha Shapeshifter is immune to silver and an Alpha Vampire demonstrated a high degree of resilience to dead man's blood though massive amounts weakened him enough for three demons to overpower him. Additionally, an Alpha Shapeshifter can only briefly slowed down by massive amounts of tranquilizer and quickly recovered.
* **Immortality**: Even if their species is not immortal, the alpha is, provided they are not killed. This is supported by the fact that while shapeshifters are not immortal, an Alpha Shapeshifter had not die until recently.
* **Invulnerability**: Silver and powerful tranquilizers caused no harm to an Alpha Shapeshifter with only the rare metal iridium causing any harm to him. In the case of an Alpha Vampire, he withstood electrocution without an issue, even mocking his torturer and a weapon that could easily kill lesser vampires was noted to only be able to likely be able to hurt him. The only confirmed methods of killing an Alpha are decapitation or with divine or Enochian weapons.
* **High Endurance**: An Alpha will not even be phased by being electrocuted and are able to withstood torture without much trouble.
* **Enhanced Abilities**: All skills that are owned by their own offspring alphas own on a considerably higher level.

### Weaknesses

* **Decapitation**: Even as a Alpha, they are vulnerable to decapitation.

## Notable Alphas

* Typhon (A Father of Monsters) (Created by Tartarus)
* Echidna (A Mother of Monsters) (Created by Gaia)
* Ambrogio (Alpha Vampire) (Created by Selene)
* Maacah (Alpha Vampire) (Created by Satan)
* Metzlicihuatl (Alpha Borderwalker) (Created by Huehuecoyotl)
* Unnamed Alpha Shapeshifter
* Unnamed Alpha Skinwalker
* Lycaon (Alpha Werewolf) (Created by Zeus)
* Unnamed Alpha Djinn (Created by God)
* Master Wendigo (Alpha Wendigo) (Created by Kabibonnokka)
* Unnamed Alpha Ghoul (Created by Maacah)
* Unnamed Alpha Wraith
* Unnamed Alpha Arachne

## Quotes

* *"Of course monsters have parents. They have ancestors also. Where else do you think they come from? Just like how humans originated from Adam and Eve, Monster-kinds originated from the Alphas, the first of their kind and the, quote-on-quote, Fathers of Fallen Beasts. Goodness know where they get the later title from, it sounds like something straight out of a Magic the Gathering card."* - Matt Wright.

* *"Like all monsters come from somewhere, right? First one, who spawned all the others."* - Dante.

## Trivia

* Many alphas are creations of other greater entities, like an Archdemon or Deity.
* While believed by many scholars and hunters, Iblis is not an Alpha Djinn.
* In Bobby Singer's Guide to Hunting, there is confirmed existence of the Alpha Wendigo, which implies that they are descendants from something.

## Image Sources

* (Frozen Seraphim Dragon Disufiroa.jpg) Blazing Dragon Disfiroa by 深海雷音Shinkai
* ([Ulrich-Uncontested-Alpha-Eldritch-Moon-MtG-Art.jpg) Ulrich, Uncontested Alpha MtG Art from Eldritch Moon by Slawomir Maniak