08-21-2015, 06:27 PM
(08-21-2015, 12:26 PM)jsgrimm45 Wrote:(08-21-2015, 10:16 AM)Elkhound Wrote: [quote='irukandji' pid='16232' dateline='1440092760']I had wondered that also I would add this looks like and I could be wrong a zauberbiest has strength but no abilities to make potions as most of the potions require blood maybe only female blood has potion powers. I add this because Sean the only one we know and his mother is a hexen so I've been thinking (no jokes) she would have taught him potions if he could make them. Rosalee implied the they lack some of the powers of a hexen.
Good point, one that makes sense to me. A hexenbiest could rob their Grimm victim of strength and agility by sleeping with them.
Sean was able to brew up the antidote when he realized what Adalinde had done. We don't know if it would have worked because Trubel wasn't able to get it to Nick.
But, yes--some of what Hexenbiest do seems to be learned and some innate, and we don't know how much of what Zauberbiests can't do is because the actually can't and how much is a matter of it being against their cultural taboos to teach boys these things. (There are SOME things that are clearly beyong Zauberbiests' abilities, but there is a grey area.) Some of the potions Adalinde was able to brew up even after she was de-powered, so in some cases it may just be a matter of knowledge and access to the ingredients. There is probably a bit of overlap--some thinks that a Zauberbiest could do, but because of cultural conditioning he would believe himself unable to do, so wouldn't try. (Just as until relatively recently human women/girls thought they couldn't do, that they were 'boy's/men's things' simply because they were brought up to think that way.)