02-24-2017, 02:48 PM
(02-24-2017, 06:47 AM)speakeasy Wrote: The laws of humans do not apply with justice to most wesen crimes on Grimm. So the Wesen Council was the authority charged with enforcing Wesen law. The two simply do not, almost without exception, cross boundaries in their application.
(02-24-2017, 01:57 PM)FaceInTheCrowd Wrote: I don't think this is accidental, either. We know that wesen and grimms have worked for the royals at various times, so neither are unknown to kehrseite authority. We also know that royals, wesen and grimms have signed charters in the past.
So I think what probably happened at some point was a formal agreement in which the royals, who at the time were the kehrseite authority, agreed to keep their people in the dark about wesen (because humans have a tendency to reach for the pitchforks even if their leaders tell them not to) and the Wesen Council agreed to keep wesen from using their woge to prey excessively on kehrseite, with the grimms doing most of the field work and reapers being used to keep grimms from going off the rails.
A practical arrangement for keeping civil order that must have worked for centuries. Monroe said that most kehrseites could not process the existence of the wesen world and he was right, when we consider the trauma Hank and Wu underwent during their initiations. Lucky they had Monroe and Nick and others to ease them into it; most folks would just lose their grip on sanity because of having to face the reality of wesen on their own. And you're right; there would be blood in the streets shed by terrified kehrseites, typical human response to the perceived outside threat.
(02-24-2017, 01:57 PM)FaceInTheCrowd Wrote: Somewhere along the way this arrangement got fuzzy, possibly when royals lost their power, but the bones are still there. Even today's non-royal governments, when facing a wesen uprising, continued to keep the existence of wesen secret and tried to recruit grimms. Wouldn't surprise me if the Wesen Council and HW had maintained a communications channel before the Council was massacred.
If past is prologue, they did. What seems different now, though, is those wesen who are revolting are no longer willing to move around in kehrsiete communities under cover of secrecy. But we'll most likely not see the outcome of that uprising, too little time left.
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