03-06-2019, 03:13 PM
(03-05-2019, 06:38 PM)irukandji Wrote:Family joke--my aunt traced our family back to Adam, I am sure everyone on this forum is related to at least one king, just a give a genealogist enough money and you are related to St Peter. There could be pockets of Grimms around the world, breeding true, passing their Grimmness and their books and accumulated knowledge to the next generation. For a species to survive enough new members are required to replace those who die and a surplus to spread out. The buffalo got down to 500, the whopping crane 80(their status is currently so-so). Truble did not know what a Grimm was due to being an orphan--she did not have any books or know how to avoid being killed. The lost boys could have been wiped out by a bad tempered wessen or Grimm and never know they were not freaks. MY guess about the total Grimms worldwide would be way more than 50, maybe 50,000. Conrad had heard rumors about the book, he did not know if all Grimms were on it.(03-05-2019, 12:27 PM)FaceInTheCrowd Wrote: Yes, it seems unlikely to me that when there appear to be wesen from all parts of the world that seven families of in Germany were all the grimms there were. However, we know nothing about the global population numbers of either wesen or grimms. It would have been interesting to see some non-seven-families grimms, especially if some of them didn't hew to the European model of grimm/wesen relations and saw themselves as more akin to wesen than to kehrseite.
Nick can (supposedly) trace his ancestry back to the first grimm. It's also conceivable to assume that those grimms mated with true humans along the way and had no issue with diluting the gene pool. Yet it seems the grimm genes are strong enough to continue the species. So why then would grimms be rare do you think?