Hellhound
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Hellhound
{{hellHound|size: large; margin-left: 10px; float: right}}In the Teen Wolf universe, the hellhound is a spectral supernatural creature, a shapeshifter and a harbinger of death. They are also known as "the Black Dog."
 
Series
Two hellhounds appear in the series, [[Deputy Jordan Parrish]] and [[Halwyn]]. 
 
In [[Season 3]], Jordan Parrish arrives in [[Beacon Hills, California]] to join the [[Beacon Hills Sheriff Station|Beacon County Sheriff's department]][[Beacon Hills Sheriff Station|Beacon Hills Sheriff's department]]. Parrish later learns he is supernatural and was in truth, drawn to the town via the [[Nemeton]] and his hellhound nature. In [[Season 6]], Halwyn is whom built the closed unit in [[Eichen House]] back in 1912, and is tracking an ancient evil that escaped [[the Wild Hunt]].
 
Supernatural Rules
Hellhounds are initially amortal spirits who inhabit a living or deceased human host on Earth, giving life to the shapeshifter. They have the power of thermokinesis and pyrokinesis, and produce flames from their form.
 
They are also participants of [[the wild hunt]], alongside and can be command of the spectral [[ghost rider|Ghost Riders]]. 
 
A hellhound's eyes glow the colour of fire when they activate their powers or their supernatural alter-ego comes forth. When they under the command of a ghost rider, riding the wild hunt, their eyes and flames will glow the colour of teal.
 
They are also death omens, giving them psychic connections with other harbingers of death.
 
Nature & Personality
The hellhound is called as "Guardian of the Supernatural". They are instinctively driven to safeguard various elements of the supernatural world, such as supernatural locations of massive power, the secrecy of the supernatural as well as the creatures and beings that inhabit that world.
 
In Series 
In [[Season 5]], Beacon Hills is being terrorized by the para-scientists: [[The Dread Doctors|the Dread Doctors]]. The Doctors genetically convert teenagers into imitiations of supernatural creatures, [[Chimeras]]. Parrish's hellhound side manifests out having a seemingly instnctive reaction to these creatures' existence. As the Chimeras are killed off, Parrish instinctively abducts and takes their paranormal corpses to the Nemeton.
 
Lydia surmises that because of the corpses' shapeshifted features, Parrish is keeping the secret of the supernatural safe from the general population.
 
In [[Season 5|Season 5B]], Parrish is repeatedly shown to be in conflict with and have instinctively become a foe of [[La Bete du Gevaudan]] after the legendary vicious werewolf is resurrected by the Doctors.
 
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Lydia found a book that described a mythical Hellhound:
 

“Woden’s Hunt, also known as the Wild Ride or Wild Hunt. A myth of devilish riders in the sky accompanied by black dogs, spectral beasts whose eyes glowed with fire... A Bearer of Death and Guardian of the Supernatural, the black dog is also known by its more common name, the Hellhound."