Board Thread:General Grimm Discussion/@comment-27523265-20160103230339/@comment-27523265-20160106112704

I'm just gonna say it. i love hexenbiests but I think where Kelly is concerned that we are going to be looking at a super Grimm and not a super Zauberbiest, not only because I maintain my belief that the Grimm side would naturally prove more potent, not removing the other side but certainly dominating it, but also as a matter of plot and narrative. His sister has the subtle, feminine side of things with her powers and he will likely have the more brutish physical side. Simply to balance one another out rather than being a repeating plot element. In response to the earlier statement about underlying magical properties, I really hope that you are wrong. I don't think you are, but i fear outright saying it is magic rather than the pseudo science they favored in the beginning will open them up to lazier plot and saying "cause its magic" as the reason that anything gets acomplished. What we need to figure out for certain, and I think this will clear thing up greatly, is the exact nature of spirits in the Grimm universe. Are they souls, astral projections, energy beings, life forces, essences, or some other variant on this? Should we consider them from a religous standpoint or strictly scientific? If creating a potion was draining I would say they are tied to life force in some way, but also possibly bleeding some of the essence of their power away. That could explain why Juliette has had little issue with her power up to this point as she would have plenty in reserve. We know that some hexenbiest related force lingers in the terrestrial plane, so they endure in some way after death. As it is capable of conscious decision we can conclude that it is sentient and possibly the bestial side of them. Given that this is what Adalind's woge was tied to, i think it is likely the source of all woges, different spirits in different bloodlines, Not necassarily a soul, but rather a metaphysical essence that manifests. We know about various natural spirits and demons of non human origin, and  I think the native American spirit caused physical change but I could be mistaken as its been a while since I watched the episode. It is unlikely that hexenbiests are the source of wesen, but I think that they are one of the central species along with non-chimeric mythical wesen. Hexenbiest tools and the extreme nature of woges makes me think that science has gone right out the door, but we know for a fact that this is ot just inherited spirits but manifests in the DNA so this is outright shapeshifting to such degrees that I would be surprised if it didn't bordeline on breaking the laws of conservation of mass and energy. Realisticly, they shoul be drained of energy if the process occured through biological mechanisms.