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

This has probably been addressed previously, but there is a lot of evidence suggesting the possible origins of wesen and magic as coming from zerstorers race enitrely. We know that there are many of them all possessed of great power, and it is the nature of this power that makes them particularly insteresting.

The blood potion used to combat him requried the blood of a grimm, a hexenbiest, and a wesen, drawing a clear distinction between hexenbiests and other wesen. With that in mind, there are numerous similarities between Zerstorer and the hexenbiests, from the decayed and monstrous appearance and glowing eyes to the use of magical powers and objects. Given the ability for hexenbiests to be manufactured and the choice of Diana as a mate, it seems very much a possibility that hexenbiests are a dilluted, but directly related species. This would explain their capacity to travel to the mirror dimension and the blood potion to harm but not defeat Zerstorer.

Consider this theory. A powerful race with few members looking for a means to reproduce (Zerstorer), breed with humanity creating a race of beings with similar but more limited powers (Hexenbiests). This race is bred to produce higher quality breeding material the next go around. In Diana a perfect mate, a Hexenbiest at the hight of the races potential. Her offspring would allow for a new generation to be bred, possibly to repeat this process over again for a yet more powerful race. The magical force that resparked Adalind's powers coming directly from Zerstorer or his kind, the fresh and undiluted power gestating withing her and limiting the human taint in her daughter, a small portion of this accidentally passed on to Juliette during later conflicts.

Now consider the staff, at the very least a major source of power for Zerstorer, but possibly his origin. A race of people exposed to the power of the staff like radiation (possibly at this point a tree, perhaps the Tree of Knowledge or Ygdrassil), mutated into the decayed monsters that they are while developing great power. Nearby fauna similarly effected gaining hightened intelligence and gain the capacity to evolve beyond mere animals into semihuman beings. Alternatively, a lower cast of people are actively crossed with animals to be used as servants. Certainly the wesen in the mirror world were subservient to Zerstorer. Their inability to actively interact with the staff/tree and its power prevent them from developing the magical abilities Zerstorer and Hezenbiests demonstrate. Direct acts of manufacturing living weapons and tools result in monsters like vulcanalis and the tree monster.

The woge is the result of temporarily reassuming their original form, masking the other and truer form, and allowing for procreation with humanity. From this, the originals are greatly dilluted over time resulting in offspring who are increasingly human.

This is all conjecture and i would greatly appreciate thoughts and challenges to the idea. 