Board Thread:Grimm Fanfic/@comment-6770938-20140520030804/@comment-6770938-20140718141715

Well, de Valois never got a chance to inform Vik of the... complication, and Nick and Vik operates on... rather isolated channels, and Adalind was in Vienna during the Naiad and Krampus cases. So I guess they don't know about it, and never took that into consideration.

Eric wasn't died in close combat like Red John in The Mentalist, so I don't think he tecchnically qualifies in the catagory "Deceased". Maybe he was only faking his death, taking the lesson from the earlier dead Royal, and was keeping tabs on the whole thing... Waiting, in the darkness, to return as the season 5 big bad.

The Royals are like the hybrid of Templars - operating in the shadows; top-notch yet elusive, with the Hydras of Lernia(I dunno if I spelled it correctly) - with one head cut off back grows two, making it difficult to eradicate by killing leaders.