Board Thread:General Grimm Discussion/@comment-27523265-20160103230339/@comment-26520629-20160105012634

like it or not, hexenbiests are, if you observe very closely, on top of the wesen food chain so to speak, or at least on the first and second tier, almost equal in power to if not totally surpassing wesen such as the manticore, the siegbarst, the rat king etcetera. but i understand what you mean when you say hexenbiests cant be responsible for the existence of every wesen species that existed, especially since most, like the aswang, the genio innocuo and the jinnamuru xunte, are not even native to europe, let alone germany. it could be possible, if we actually go with this theory, that when the primordial wesen  that the hexenbiest somehow successfully created are released back into the wild (lol) or escaped and interbred with humans that their genetic diversity branched out, much like early evolution. but because of the potency of the hexenbiests "magic", the evolution of wesen didnt take millions of years, but could be achieved in the span of a few millenia. if you learn the grimm myth closely, you start to see that there are four or five basic archetypal wesen species: mammalian, reptilian, amphibian, fish and bird and invertebrates (insects). each of these six primary species could have branched out into other more diverse wesen species. but if we were to take the grimm comics as canon, this theory wont hold much relevance. refer to this:

"Pureblood Wesen are the most basal of all Wesen and have their roots in ancient times. Many have been worshiped as gods due to their superior traits. All Wesen are descendants of the purebloods."

i have no idea witch ancient egyptian wesen were the ancestors of the hexenbiests, but if it were my guess, Isis.