Board Thread:General Grimm Discussion/@comment-27523265-20170814223835/@comment-27523265-20180408034232

I love the idea of Zerstorer being a Grimm! The idea that grimms are the origin of everything is something I hardly considered. I alwasy imagined them as being a constructed species to answer to the wesen threat. We really don't know what the actual value of royalty is. There isn't really any clear indication as to the nature of their power beyond the political. As for the staff being originally from the world, that isn't necessarily the case. the largest part of it was in the mirror world, and we know that zerstorer's species is invasive, but it is possible that time spent on earth sort of bound it to that world. Going off your idea, you could argue Nick's ability to weild the stick is the result of a sort of master lineage. The grimm line may have originally gained control of the staff's power and been corrupted by it while others avoided it. So allow me to amend my theory in this context. A superior race of humans, grimms, acquires access to the staff in its original form. The power it radiates corrupts some of the species, turning them into zerstorer (zerstoren?), and giving them supernatural powers. Some zerstorer spread out and lose the staff, but retain some of its powers. We know grimm can do this as we have seen Nick develop enhanced hearing and super strength upon contact with certain wesen stressors, as well as the lingering effects of the stick on both Nick and eve. These zerstorers, without the staff's imediate power and radiation, reproduce with humans, creating a corrupt strain called hexenbiests who retain a vestige of the staff's power. It would be like a baby being exposed to radiation in its mothers body. This may account for the difference between hexenbiest and zauberbiest. As zauberbiests can only contribute sperm, their offspring might be weaker than if the mother was a hexenbiest in the instance of cross breeding. this is because the fetus would have a much lower exposure to the power as it gestated in a powerless human. When we see adalind the first time, she had very little non-potion magic. This may be traced to constantly dilluting power through the generations. Her mom had the same issue. the contaminatio ritualis changes this. It even has the word contamination in it. Exposure to the radiated energy so directly supercharged Diana as she gestated in it and took the bulk, gave eve her powers, and even enhanced adalind beyond what she could previously do. this would explain why made hexenbiests are stronger as the radiation is fresh and potent. Now I add this; hexenbiests are corrupted members of the grimm lineage and seperate from any other wesen. They are even identified as different in the strength of blood spell. Grimm power, not contengent on radiation, does no dillute through reproduction by virtue of being dominant, and exposure to the original blood shocks the hexenbiest system enough to revert them, sort of exorcising the magical power rather than changing the dna. Other wesen may still be the result of deliberate or accidental crossbreading with animals and humans through spells or radiation of a different sort. Also, the inability of grimm blood to overide new hexenbiests may be related to the sheer volume of power they are exposed to. We could consider every supernatural species in the grimmverse to be an actual alien hailing from an alternate dimension or reality. The staff and its origin are key to all of this. Its abilities are tied directly to breaking the boundaries of different worlds. I still can't really explain why the stick wouldn't go through the mirror, but since the staff existed in the other world, we know it doesn't necassarilly have to come from out world.