05-03-2016, 11:16 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-03-2016, 11:18 PM by FaceInTheCrowd.)
They can never really know for sure what the stick is. At best, they could figure out what the people the seven grimm knights took the stick from thought it was. And if, as in the story Nick was told, the knights found it in Constantinople, they probably didn't take it from some pagan potentate, but from a church of the Eastern Orthodoxy (the crusaders were equal opportunity sackers who pillaged anyone who wasn't Roman Catholic, including other Christian sects).
Stories about the miraculous healing powers of known relics of the TC are all anecdotal, and although many of them have had scrapings taken for carbon dating, none has ever been objectively demonstrated to have any special powers. John Calvin is said to have commented that if all the claimed relics of the TC were gathered together there would be enough wood to build a bridge. Which in the Grimmiverse would lead to the conclusion that they're all fakes and the little piece the seven grimms decided to box up and bury is the only real one there is. I don't think we are supposed to believe that the seven grimms found the stick in that chest. They had the chest and its seven keyed lock made and then sealed it so only they could open it.
One of Nick's books relates the tale of one of his ancestors meeting a Japanese grimm, who would probably not have been one of his relatives. The seven grimms were probably the ancestors of the Kesslers and other grimms of European extraction, not the only grimms there have ever been, so grimm powers would not come from the stick.
Stories about the miraculous healing powers of known relics of the TC are all anecdotal, and although many of them have had scrapings taken for carbon dating, none has ever been objectively demonstrated to have any special powers. John Calvin is said to have commented that if all the claimed relics of the TC were gathered together there would be enough wood to build a bridge. Which in the Grimmiverse would lead to the conclusion that they're all fakes and the little piece the seven grimms decided to box up and bury is the only real one there is. I don't think we are supposed to believe that the seven grimms found the stick in that chest. They had the chest and its seven keyed lock made and then sealed it so only they could open it.
One of Nick's books relates the tale of one of his ancestors meeting a Japanese grimm, who would probably not have been one of his relatives. The seven grimms were probably the ancestors of the Kesslers and other grimms of European extraction, not the only grimms there have ever been, so grimm powers would not come from the stick.