Board Thread:General Grimm Discussion/@comment-24.150.82.174-20150425155115/@comment-82.21.236.214-20150504202708

Yes, we have only seen 2 keys the Kessler and Porter keys. Renard said the royal families had 4 of the remaining 5. That's the one I think the wesen council has and is in the Spice shop.

Renard did say families. I think Elizabeth Lascalles had help from another royal family, which demanded King Frederic's key in payment. In typical hexenbiest treachery Elizabeth kept the key. King Frederic wouldn't admit they'd lost the key and the other family wouldn't admit they either helped or didn't have the key. The key passed in Sean Renard's care. He announced to the resistance that he had a Grimm, but Nick would not be in Sean's corner without being entrusted with that key - probably now in Porter's cane that everyone knows Nick removed a key from. I admit this is speculation.

As for the keys themselves, the timeline suggests the 7 knights created the key maps in 1285. There's only one problem with this. Constantinople fell in 1204 to the Venetian and Latin Crusaders. That would make the knights rather old. Renard said in 600 years only another 3 keys were recovered after the first was forced to turn his key over. That would suggest in 1885 the royals shared out the keys and stopped trying to kill each other for them. They haven't stopped trying to find the other 3 killing as they went about their business. They've certainly known about the Kessler and Porter keys and are going after them. Renard did say thay an alliance formed between Nick and himself would lead to something historic. Some of that is speculative, too