Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20181110034633/@comment-5430952-20181111101242

Phantomlink959 wrote: Here's a theory for you; the reason Salem picked specifically Cinder to become her maiden is that Cinder is one of her own blood descendants, and carries some degree of the Grimm taint Salem picked up from the big black pool of death (tm), making her compatible with the grimm transplant.

Other humans wouldn't be able to use it at all.

Think about that one for awhile. It's a half-assed random thought so shouldn't be hard to dismiss or disprove. Mm, hard to say, though I'm starting to think that due to the dark magics (and of course Grimm parts) that Salem gave her, Cinder is now immortal. That would be the only reason I could see her surviving one month encased in ice, and then not drown when the ice melts away. And it also explain her egomania and overinflated sense of entitlement. Something like this anyway.