Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-1292715-20181223044830/@comment-14909251-20190428225534

73.Anon.52 wrote: What's to translate? the dark pool is literally liquid Grimm, Cinder has a grimm in her body, the only differences are concentration and/or potency, fear is the control, no cool-aid required, unless we are to assume Cinder was also immortal before becoming a maiden, which is the condition of surviving the pool. We don't have any indication as to what the dark pool consists of per se, only that Grimm are created from it, and there is a difference between keeping a single Grimm from killing you and being able to command them all like an army. My point there, though, is that if Salem is already commanding the Grimm then the fact one isn't killing Cinder isn't reasonably indicative of how Salem is able to command them. It may well be struggling between Salem's expressed desire for it to help Cinder and its inherent nature of killing human life.