Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-6493589-20150619172544/@comment-26018514-20150626053903

Mercen-X wrote:

I'm obviously losing something with my choice of verb. The statement "Size/Strength correlates to Age" is equivalent to A = B, while the statement "Age is correlated to Intelligence" is equivalent to B = C. Correlation does not imply causation. The older Grimm being perhaps stronger and larger is coincidence and not directly nor even implicitly causatively linked to their intelligence.

My quote does not prove your case. You can't prove your presumption at all, and that is exactly what it is. You read the quote as if power is a necessity to the longevity of a Grimm, but I read it as the Grimm survived in combat, learned from its experience and then grew to power by avoiding conflict.

Until such time that someone in-universe or at RT states explicitly that Size/Power = Intelligence, I suggest we go with what is known based on what has been stated. Age = Intelligence. That much we know. Perhaps a better way of stating it is A = Size/strength, B = Age, C = experience, and D = intelligence, where D is generally informed by A, but is actually based on a combination of B + C, while A generally = B, but could also be informed by environmental factors such as E, which makes something as simple as that equation of inequality irrelevant.