Bitten

Pack - a powerful, organized werewolf family based in the grand manor of Stonehaven which is the werewolves’ ancestral domain, the place where Elena's life as a werewolf began. She also holds an important place in the pack as their tracker.

Elena is the only female werewolf in existence unwillingly - lycanthrope curse to become a werewolf one is either born or bitten. The process is truly dangerous and doesn't mean that one will survive. In fact, the reason that there aren't alot of werewolves around is because not alot of people survive the transformation. Even a person that would be considered strong could die. Werewolf males have kids with human females and the girls are human while the boy are werewolves. This is how werewolves born. Like the above said, there has never been a known female werewolf before. Keyword: known

The werewolves themselves are more akin to real wolves than the werewolves of the Wolfman legacy. The humans transform into wolves that share hair and eye color but no other “super” powers.

These werewolves can control the transformation & it is not tied to the moon at all ; it's like a bodily function that can't be avoided ( holding off for a long time would make the change more difficult to control ) & they can retain who they are when they change although their animal instincts are more prevalent when they are in wolf form

Because Elena has always try to put off turning as she doesn’t embrace her wolf side, she almost loses control and turns while having sex with her boyfriend in ep 1