Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-85.130.101.225-20130816112245/@comment-14909251-20130918233502

BenRG wrote: I'm sure that it's possible to kill a Grimm without a Dust-enhanced weapon, but you need luck and a lot of skill. Otherwise, you're probably in trouble. Oddly enough, that's the lesson that I think Professor Port's 'demonstration' with Weiss as a 'volunteer' is going to teach.

Look at the carvings outside of the Death Stalker cave. There must have been a dozen tribesmen involved in that and the most they were able to do was trap it in the cave. That's the sort of odds pre-Dust humanity were facing. So, what Dust and Aura makes possible is that only a moderatel-trained soldier can kill a Grimm where, without it, the kill/loss ratio probably turns the monsters way with several human soldiers being lost for every Grimm killed. That Deathstalker is a more powerful Grimm than others and it took several Dust users working together to bring it down, even then having to use a part of the creature's own body against it. Younger Grimm or weaker variants such as the Beowolves and Ursas could be taken down without the need for Aura or Dust. What the Grimm have over humanity are their sheer numbers and the more powerful types.