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IGN: You guys did things both ways in this finale where you had Nick lose everything and also gave him a happy ending. Was there ever a point in which you were going to have those deaths be permanent? Or did you always want to test him as far as he'd go while still ending with our favorite characters still alive?

KOUF: When we created this powerful staff, if it really had that much power, it had to have some power beyond the death of the Zerstörer. It had to be some reward for not letting the world turn bad.


IGN: What were the logistics of Nick coming through the portal at the end? Was that another instance of him going through to the Other Side and leaving behind the reality where all these characters are dead, or did he get a hard reset?

KOUF: Yeah, it was a hard reset. When the Zerstörer died, it was as though he never came through, so it reset to that point.
(04-06-2017, 05:14 PM)WispyWillow Wrote: [ -> ]http://ca.ign.com/articles/2017/04/01/gr...-questions

IGN: You guys did things both ways in this finale where you had Nick lose everything and also gave him a happy ending. Was there ever a point in which you were going to have those deaths be permanent? Or did you always want to test him as far as he'd go while still ending with our favorite characters still alive?

KOUF: When we created this powerful staff, if it really had that much power, it had to have some power beyond the death of the Zerstörer. It had to be some reward for not letting the world turn bad.

Am I naive when I was really hoping the stick was a piece of the True Cross? After all, the Crusaders buried it.



IGN: What were the logistics of Nick coming through the portal at the end? Was that another instance of him going through to the Other Side and leaving behind the reality where all these characters are dead, or did he get a hard reset?

KOUF: Yeah, it was a hard reset. When the Zerstörer died, it was as though he never came through, so it reset to that point.
Ending the series by making such a declaration would be a sure fire way to offend at least some potential streaming or DVD customers.
People have buried all sorts of things in the past, perhaps the crusaders thought it was a part of the cross due to its healing qualities but clearly they would have been mistaken.
One of the big unanswered questions at the end is what the seven grimm knights thought the stick was when they buried it. According to what Renard told Nick they apparently believed it was something too powerful to allow the royals to control, but is it possible the symbols on the cloth were more legible back then and they figured out that if the stick wasn't kept hidden some day some idiot might start using it and end up bringing about the return of the big bad staff wielding skull guy and the end of the world?