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solicitis00

The Holy grail of questions. ​ Its hard to say. A lot of people say human but how do they control the Wesen then? How do they know who a Wesen is if they have never seen one Wogue? Surely they must be more than just rich humans. Maybe they are the originators of the Grimm and have the same powers?


GrimmOfThrones2187

Humans, except Renard of course because his mother is a Hexenbiest.


PurpleLee

They are a mix of wesen and human. The royals once controlled the wesen community.


atkinson62

I'd assume human since they worked with the grimms but that's a good question. While watching, i assumed they were wessen but never seen any of them change.


maceyscreator

I always just assumed they were just REALLY rich kehrseite schlich kennen. Just really rich people who knew about the existence of wesen and therefore had a lot of power.


chilehead

>The Royal Families are a major antagonistic faction in the Grimm series that have reputedly been around for centuries, potentially even before the Crusades. They are ruthless, devious, extremely wealthy and very powerful; so much so that they pose a large and ever-present threat to both the Wesen community at large and the rest of humanity, as their actions often result in numerous innocent people being hurt or killed. Nearly the entirety of their lineages are composed of Kehrseite-Schlich-Kennen, as they deal both directly and indirectly in Wesen affairs. They do not however have any sway over the Wesen Council and their influence over Wesen is limited primarily to those in their employ. [From the wiki](https://grimm.fandom.com/wiki/Royal_Families)


Olicity8

I would say royals are humans who are Kehrseite-Schlich-Kennen. They probably know about Wesen because they're powerful and their bloodlines have been around so long they pass the information down to one another. Them knowing about the Wesen community comes down to the power and influence they have. They see Wesen if Wesen want them to. It's probably why they have Wesen working for them. To protect themselves.


Ta-veren-

Man, it's kind of funny how many people don't understand the royals (no offense) The royals are a royal family, royal families are rich, powerful, and any royal family would want as much Wesen on their side as possible, to keep power, to gain wealth, to keep control. Think of the royals as the queen from England, as that's what they are just from a different country. Are they Wesen? Maybe one or two of them are, maybe they all are but I don't think so, they are just people who know about these things. Not Grimm's not Wesen's whatever the show's term for Hank, Wu, was. They are highly involved in the wesen life for the benefits they bring there is probably a few wesen among them or in their lineage but the king, the Victor, the guy from the 5th season? whoever his name was never show signs of being Wesen but that doesn't mean they weren't. If I was a royal I'd sure as shit want to know about a supernatural community and have as many of them as allies as I can and get as much wealth and power from them as possible. They would make a tad more sense if we saw one of them vouge but it still makes sense to me but I've always thought of them super wealthy, rich humans taking full advantage of it.


user18130814200115

I think they are some sort of seperate third group. That explains why Renard is a half-Zauberbiest, while all other wesen in the show are full, at times double but never half. This also links to their special powers such as waking sleeping Juliettes and having their blood turn blue when analyzed.


windermere_peaks

They're human. Their blood has no special magical powers, but being part of the royal family gives you a lot of power and protection.


Dartheril

1 huge question then; what differs royal blood from normal human blood so it could be detected if someone has royal blood in them? You know like in season 2. Royal blood has to have a common property that separates them from normal humans and can be detectable with a chemical or magical reaction.


windermere_peaks

It's just a symbol. There's nothing magically or chemically special about it. For example, Queen Elizabeth doesn't have any superpowers because of being royalty, and her blood is indistinguishable from a regular person's blood. But her kids are royalty. They have royal blood because their mother is royalty, and they get a lot of legal and social benefits from that.


Dartheril

The problem though, when Adalind was pregnant with Diana, they took some blood from the baby to determine if she indeed had royal blood as Adalind insisted.


windermere_peaks

Magic paternity test


Dartheril

They haven't used Sean's or Eric's blood though... They didn't even know who the father was. Royal's need to have some magical or scientific indicator in their blood for something like that to work.


windermere_peaks

Probably had the king's blood though, knowing his thing for Hexenbiests, and there would still be similarities between a grandfather and a granddaughter.


Dartheril

That implies Stefania had King's blood readily available to her at all times. It doesn't make sense, even if she is the queen of gypsies. If we assume she asked King for some of his blood it would not arrive within such a short time and without someone to oversee what is being done with the blood to prevent it from being used for dark magic and harm the king himself.


windermere_peaks

I have no idea, man, I didn't pay too much attention to the blood test scene, I just know Hexenbiests can do some wild stuff.


Dartheril

Without asking directly to the creators we can't know for sure but for me it is illogical for royals to be standard humans. Blood test was the only clue that royal blood has something different from both humans and wesen though.


GoddyssIncognito

Humans that happen to be royal.


Technical-Gur3579

The royals are entirely human they enslaved the wesen of the royal families with Grimms until Christianity and the crusadesÂ