After viewing the Volcanalis and Endangered episodes, some things have emerged:
l. Stefania is Queen of the Schwarzwald gypsies. She said her family roots in 'these woods' went back even further than the Schade family's very old ones.
2. Monroe's greatity-great grandfather was a cartographer (Monroe inherited his grandpa's maps and other records) and he showed Nick that the map printed on his key was the exact same, very distinctive style of one of his granddaddy's maps - and guess which one. It was a map of Schwarzwald, or the Black Forest, in Bavaria.
3. In a deleted scene from the Volcanalis episode, Frau Pech stops the car before entering the gypsy camp to warn Adalind to be very careful. She said that they were very dangerous and would go to any lengths to mix their blood with a that of a Royal.
4. So I'll be a six-fingered, one-legged Austrian zitherist if this doesn't seem to point to Stefania wanting to buy the child for herself to perhaps marry it to a member of her clan. She did, after all, make a money offer straight out to Adalind, but at the time, I thought she was referring to a figure she could secure on the black market.
5. And it supports pale boy's suggested premise that anyone of royal blood may be able to start their own branch of a royal house (maybe not a new house, per se, just an extension of the existing houses); - if the baby marries into Stefania's family, for instance, then they may be able to attain royal status (if Stefania is already a member of the seven houses, then it would reinforce her position).
Most of this is far-fetched musings. Except for this: we may have been given a valuable clue as to the location of the 'most powerful item in the world' that the seven Grimm-Knights hid away from the seven Royal houses. The Black Forest. Maybe this has been discussed here before; it's just the first time I noticed it.
Last thing I'd like to mention is that the scroll type page of an old Grimm diary that Kelly and Marie took pains to hide in the trailer probably contains at least one clue about the whereabouts of this mysterious item. Since it was written at the time of the Crusades, why not.
l. Stefania is Queen of the Schwarzwald gypsies. She said her family roots in 'these woods' went back even further than the Schade family's very old ones.
2. Monroe's greatity-great grandfather was a cartographer (Monroe inherited his grandpa's maps and other records) and he showed Nick that the map printed on his key was the exact same, very distinctive style of one of his granddaddy's maps - and guess which one. It was a map of Schwarzwald, or the Black Forest, in Bavaria.
3. In a deleted scene from the Volcanalis episode, Frau Pech stops the car before entering the gypsy camp to warn Adalind to be very careful. She said that they were very dangerous and would go to any lengths to mix their blood with a that of a Royal.
4. So I'll be a six-fingered, one-legged Austrian zitherist if this doesn't seem to point to Stefania wanting to buy the child for herself to perhaps marry it to a member of her clan. She did, after all, make a money offer straight out to Adalind, but at the time, I thought she was referring to a figure she could secure on the black market.
5. And it supports pale boy's suggested premise that anyone of royal blood may be able to start their own branch of a royal house (maybe not a new house, per se, just an extension of the existing houses); - if the baby marries into Stefania's family, for instance, then they may be able to attain royal status (if Stefania is already a member of the seven houses, then it would reinforce her position).
Most of this is far-fetched musings. Except for this: we may have been given a valuable clue as to the location of the 'most powerful item in the world' that the seven Grimm-Knights hid away from the seven Royal houses. The Black Forest. Maybe this has been discussed here before; it's just the first time I noticed it.
Last thing I'd like to mention is that the scroll type page of an old Grimm diary that Kelly and Marie took pains to hide in the trailer probably contains at least one clue about the whereabouts of this mysterious item. Since it was written at the time of the Crusades, why not.
"The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation." Bertrand Russell - printed on a beer mat in "Shaun of The Dead".