Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-216.239.28.98-20140422001233/@comment-24901923-20140504185604

An experiment attempting to purge corruption by a lost civilization is perhaps the most likely way the first Grimm came into being, giving that they appear to be constructs. An pure strain of Faunus, with an humanoid animal appearance, could've been the test subjects and experimenters. The corruption could've infected all but the hybrid Faunus seen today, whose human blood rendered them immune. This would explain both why the Grimm hate humanity so much, and why the Faunus, who possibly emerged before humanity, are hated as well by both Grimm and humans. If the Grimm were originally spawned by the Faunus, then it's possible that the same Proto-Faunus who made the Grimm also made Humanity from Dust, who were thus "born into an unforgiving world", in search of a cure for the corruption consuming them. Humanity could've then been abandoned, used as breeding stock to make modern Faunus, or suffered some other fate at their progenitors' hands, leading to thier dislike of Faunus. Heck, humans could even be devolved/mutated Faunus, with the hybrids now resented because of an ancestral memory that the hybrids are closer to what they once were. Both humanity and modern Faunus could've then lost all records and technology in the struggle to survive as the lost civilization fell. New Creatures could be born from the Original Grimm as it feeds on the corruption of both races.