Town History

(According to Sheriff Stilinski, Beacon Hills has a population of roughly 30,000 people, and is part of Beacon County, which has a population of 500,000 people.)

The earliest known history of Beacon Hills dates back to World War II, when the town created a internment camp called Camp Oak Creek in order to imprison Japanese immigrants and Japanese-Americans in the aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor. This camp was located near Eichen House, which was then used as a field hospital for the internees and the soldiers who ran it, and those interned there included the Celestial Kitsune Noshiko Yukimura and then-Beta Werewolf Satomi Ito.

In 1943, after a riot broke out at the camp following the revelation that the camp's doctor and several members of the Army Military Police were stealing medication meant for those at the camp (which led to a pneumonia epidemic that killed several people), the riot escalated to a firefight on the part of the military that killed dozens of internees, as well as one of the soldiers, Corporal Rhys. Upon learning that the riot and subsequent carnage would be covered up by the United States government, Noshiko prayed to her ancestors for kitsune-tsuki, or possession by a Fox spirit, specifically a Nogitsune who would help her heal and give her additional strength with which to get revenge on those responsible. However, the Nogitsune ultimately possessed Corporal Rhys' body instead and used it to slaughter the rest of the soldiers and internees alike at the camp. Horrified by what the Nogitsune she summoned had done and desperate to prevent it from causing any more chaos, Noshiko and Satomi ultimately worked together to incapacitate the Nogitsune and trap him in a prison within the roots of the Nemeton, which had yet to be cut down at this time.

In the early 2000s, a summit between four werewolf packs was held in Beacon Hills, which was led by Talia Hale and the Hale Pack and attended by Deucalion's original pack, Kali's original pack, and Ennis's original pack. After discussing the current threat of the Argent Family of Hunters, who had recently killed one of Ennis' Betas in retribution for the Beta accidentally killing two of their own, Ennis voiced his opinion that they should get revenge on the Argents. Though Deucalion argued for peace, Talia reminded Deucalion that it is Ennis' right to seek justice. Despite this, Deucalion tried to convince Gerard Argent, the Argent family patriarch, to a truce by summoning him to the abandoned distillery, but instead of a parley like he was hoping, Gerard betrayed them all by killing his own men with a spiked mace before killing the two Betas who accompanied Deucalion, as he would later claim that the Betas staged an ambush so he could justify this violence. He then proceeded to blind Deucalion with flash-bang arrows, a devastating blow to both Deucalion and his pack.

Upon learning that Deucalion's sight would likely never return due to the immense damage caused to his eyes, another of Deucalion's Betas, Marco, tried to kill him and take his Alpha status, leading Deucalion to realize that he had managed to retain his sight in werewolf form despite his injuries. Overcome by the rage caused by both Marco and Gerard's betrayal, Deucalion furiously and viciously killed Marco, leading him to learn a new fact about Alpha werewolves-- that when they kill their own Betas, they become more powerful due to the Beta's power being added to their own. Deucalion, who had become corrupted by the rage he felt after being blinded and the rush that he felt from killing Marco and taking his power, then went on to kill the rest of his remaining Betas in order to steal their power, which ultimately led him to be known by the moniker "the Demon Wolf."

Concurrent to the summit, Peter Hale, then in his mid-20s, managed to convince his teenage nephew Derek to have Derek's girlfriend Paige Krasikeva turned into a werewolf, arguing that it would prevent Paige from breaking up with him upon learning what they were, and that it was the perfect time due to the number of Alphas currently in Beacon Hills. Derek ultimately agreed to Peter's plan, and Peter arranged for Ennis, who was in need of a new Beta to replenish his ranks after losing a Beta to the Argents, to give Paige the Bite. However, Paige immediately began to reject her transformation after receiving the Bite, and Derek, not knowing what else to do, brought her to the root cellar of the Nemeton and summoned Peter to find out what was happening to her. Paige, who was in a great deal of pain, begged Derek to end her suffering by killing her, which he did, much to his devastation. However, Derek did not realize at the time that by killing Paige, a virgin, on the roots of the Nemeton, he was giving it a spark of power again that it hadn't had in years.

Some time later, after Deucalion had killed his pack, he decided to start an Alpha Pack that would be comprised of other powerful Alphas like himself. He invited Ennis and Kali to join him, though he required that they kill their Betas and their Emissaries before they could do so. Ennis was the first to comply with Deucalion's wishes and join them, followed by Kali, who killed all of her Betas without a second thought. However, she was conflicted about killing her Emissary, Julia Bacarri, whom she loved dearly; though she did maul Jennifer so severely that she was near death, she was unable to give the killing blow, ultimately deciding to leave her for dead in the Beacon Hills Preserve.

However, Julia had enough strength to crawl to the Nemeton and use the spark of power it had recently gained from Paige's unintended sacrifice to stay alive long enough for the police to find her. In the hospital, she used her Druid powers to cause hundreds of crows to commit mass suicide by flying into the windows while she was in surgery to give her the power necessary to ensure her survival. She became incredibly insecure by the devastation Kali's attack had wrought on her face and body, and while she physically recovered, she began to make plans to get her revenge against Kali and the Alpha Pack for what they had done to her.

In late 2004 or early 2005, the Hale House Fire occurred, killing between eight and eleven members, both human and werewolf, of the Hale Family, including Talia Hale. The fire was set by Kate Argent, a werewolf hunter from the prominent Argent Family, and nearly a dozen co-conspirators, and though there were suspicions that it was an arson, the case was not investigated further after a corrupt insurance adjuster, Kate's co-conspirator Garrison Myers, fraudulently declared the fire to be caused by faulty wiring. The only survivors of the fire were Peter Hale, who remained in a coma for the next six years, Laura and Derek, and Cora Hale. Derek and Laura, who were at school at the time of the fire, immediately fled to New York, not realizing at the time that there were any other survivors. Cora, meanwhile, who was eleven years old at the time, had escaped the house during the fire and went on the run (as she, too, believed that everyone, including Derek and Laura, had died in the fire), ultimately ending up with a werewolf pack in South America.

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