01-27-2019, 01:39 PM
(01-27-2019, 11:20 AM)FaceInTheCrowd Wrote: Based on Aunt Marie's books and Kelly's account of the family history to Nick, being a grimm appeared to be a fairly structured life prior to the Crusades. Their ancestors had served the Roman Empire, then the royalty that replaced it, by riding herd on and otherwise controlling the wesen in their military ranks.
After the seven knights broke with the royals during the Crusades, grimms appeared to become "knights errant," traveling the countryside and exterminating troublesome wesen at the behest (and, most likely, in the paid employ) of various lesser nobles or provincial governments.
Sometime in either the 19th and 20th centuries, the Kesslers appeared to have become members of a network of fellow grimms acting as some sort of underground vigilantes. Kelly was "chosen" by an unnamed someone to guard the Keys of Zakynthos, and there are no accounts of any of Nick's modern relatives being paid to take care of someone else's "wesen problem," yet they were still going out on "hunts," and someone was aware that Nick had become a grimm and communicated that information to Josef Nebojsa so he could keep the Kessler family tree updated.
Accounts of the family's reaction to Marie's relationship with Farley Kolt, Kelly's initial reaction to Monroe and Rosalee and the reaction of wesen in general and the Wesen Council in particular to the idea that Nick wasn't going to kill every wesen he met strongly suggest that a grimm not killing wesen on sight was still a pretty recent development.
Tanks for all that information Face.