Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-79.66.191.26-20160316021014/@comment-180.191.119.148-20160831110920

My own theory for the stick was that it was part of the cross Jesus was crucified in, and Jesus happened to be a Koschie with his healing abilities boosted through as of yet unknown means, kind of like how Ziegevolk boost their pheromone abilities by eating those rare toads. When the spear pierced his side, Jesus' blood was absorbed into the wood of the cross, giving it a fraction of the powerful healing he was capable of, a fraction of which the Knights found and sacked in Constantinople, and then later buried in the Schwarzwald.

That being said, I cannot help but have the nagging feeling that Sean's mother Elizabeth will play a vital role in the events to come. She is, after all, the last remaining mother of what I like to call the threefold embodiment of paradoxical destiny: Nick, Adalind, and Sean. The actions of those three, both alone and together, have started a chain of events that each lead to outcomes all three both desire and fear.

I'm probably not making any sense. Nick, Adalind, and Sean are the threefold figurative embodiment of Oedipus Rex, albeit without the incest, the patricide, and the unhappy ending. Their destinies were written, and everything they did and have done only leads them to it.