354 354. Ymir Fritz, the first Titan

[SPOILER ALERT: This chapter includes some real info from Manga that will be shown in the new season.]

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Alexander traveled nearly the whole world in a matter of a few minutes. He looked around and checked the level of civilization.

He could officially say now that the world was in the Mid industrialization phase. He looked around for the different kinds of ethnic cultures and couldn't find many.

There were mainly Europeans, Asians, and Arabs. That was it. There were no Africans for some reason, even though the whole Marley empire spanned Africa.

Alexander then went to the capital city of Marley and looked for an important-looking residential building. He went in and looked for books and started reading.

Surprisingly, the house had books with detailed world history. Details of even the first titan were there. He quickly started reading them.

It all started about 2 thousand years ago with a girl named Ymir. When the world's dominant kingdom was the Marley Empire. They were strong and considered themselves superior to all other races. They killed as pleased, pillaged as pleased.

There was a tribe called Eldians that was one of the suppressed classes. Then the Fritz family came into power as the ruling family of the tribe of Eldia.

Around 2,000 years ago, Ymir's village was attacked and enslaved by the Eldians, who then cut out their tongues. One day, after a pig got released mistakenly, the tribe's ruler, Fritz, questioned the slaves on the culprit. The slaves gave up Ymir, who was released only to be hunted down for sport.

Wounded and desperate, Ymir found an unusually large tree with a chasm at its base. Seeking shelter, she stepped inside and, not knowing of the sinkhole beneath, fell down into a pool of water. There, a mysterious spine-like creature fused with her and turned her into the first Titan.

With her newfound power, Ymir returned to serve Fritz and used her Titan form to cultivate the land, build bridges, and amass wealth for the Eldians. Under his command, she also vanquished the armies of Eldia's rival, Marley. But, in her heart, she was a broken girl who was just a tool for King Fritz to exploit. She was a slave even after so much power.

She was forced to commit horrible crimes that broke her mind. The killing of entire ethnic communities because they were considered impure and lesser. Forced to kill children on whose shadows she felt her own image.

~No wonder I couldn't find any African or other ethnic groups originally hailing from this region. These eldians killed them all~ Alexander realized.

However, due to all this destruction, human civilization regressed to an even worse stage.

To "reward" Ymir for her service, Fritz took her as his concubine; she didn't have a choice anyway, and together, the two had three children. Maria, Rose, and Sheena. Thirteen years after acquiring the power of the Titans, Ymir died while thwarting an assassination attempt on Fritz. Ymir could have lived if she wanted but she let herself die and be free from the miserable life.

King Fritz then forced his daughters to eat their mother's corpse in an attempt to preserve the power of the Titans. He commanded his daughters to continuously reproduce, to have their children eat their spines upon their deaths, and perpetuate this ritual from child to child so that Ymir's blood would not die out and Eldia could rule forever with its Titans.

Ymir's power was eventually divided into the Nine Titans.

The Nine Titans continue to wage war against the nation of Marley, taking control of the continent and gradually transforming the Eldian tribe into the Eldian Empire. Eldia conquered countless other civilizations as well, using Pure Titans as cheap weapons of mass destruction. This resulted in massive casualties and entire cultures being wiped out.

They eventually took over most of the known world. They also allied with the Hizuru kingdom.

According to the Eldians, Ymir's existence was hailed as a god-given miracle. Meanwhile, Marleyans believe she received her powers from a deal with the "Devil of All Earth" and used this to ostracize the Eldians.

For years, the Founding Titan power remained with the Fritz family while the eight remaining Titans were inherited by lesser Eldian families subservient to the Founding Titan and the royal bloodline.

Those who inherit the power of the Titans are destined to die after 13 years as Ymir did due to a phenomenon called the "Curse of Ymir."

In the book, Alexander found that the Eldians enacted various atrocities on the people they conquered, supposedly killing roughly three times the world's population at that time. Making human civilization regress even more. Most of the ethnic groups not allied with them were considered third-class citizens. Marleyans lived in very bad conditions at that time.

Then, an epidemic took the world like a storm. The epidemic led to a significant drop in the worldwide population. With the power of the Founding Titan, the King of Eldia altered the biology of the Subjects of Ymir to give them immunity, and no Subject of Ymir died to the epidemic. The world was seemingly going backwards in terms of development.

Then about a hundred years ago, the 145th King of Eldia, Karl Fritz, decided that his people had hurt the rest of the world too much and had become the very thing they fought. He took the vow to renounce the war and made it so that his ideology passed down to each new King who inherited the Founding Titan and also made sure that only the one of royal blood can truly use the powers of the Founding Titan

To that end, he retreated from power, leaving the noble families with the other eight titans to tear each other apart. This gave time and strength to Marleyans to rise up and start a revolution.

Meanwhile, Fritz himself retreated with as many Eldians as possible, as well as some representatives of other ethnicities, to Paradis Island(Madagascar). Once there, he created the Walls using millions of Colossal Titans, erased the Subjects of Ymir's memories of life before the Walls, and made the ethnic minorities (whom he couldn't mind-control) the new nobility; as far as the world knew, only two of these groups resisted, the Ackermanns and the Asians, and both were hunted to extinction within the Walls as a result.

The Eldians left on the mainland were captured by their former subjects, now freed Marleans, and made second-class citizens, only spared extermination because their ability to be turned into Titans was useful in warfare.

In the present day, the only free Eldians in the world live within the Walls. Marley is the world's foremost superpower, thanks to its liberal use of Titans in warfare, which spread the hatred of Eldians to unprecedented levels worldwide, but conventional technology was catching up.

*Sigh*

~So, the whole world hates Eldians now. Even though they are just being used at this point. But I wonder, from what I know, I have already captured eight out of nine titans. This means only the War-Hammer titan is left. It is under the Tybur family. The Tybur family was the first of the Eldian houses to side with Marley in the war. Ah, I feel bad for that little girl Ymir. So much hardship because of others.~

Alexander closed the book and walked out of the building. But when he came to the door, he found the name of the person who owned the house. The name plaque showed Tybur as the surname.

~No wonder they had such a detailed history of titans. Well, I might as well take the war-hammer titan with me.~

Alexander spent some time trying to find the person. It turned out, it was a female. She was an Eldian noble living in Marley.

Knocking the woman and putting her in Phixheim, he went to look for where the Ymir girl found her powers. From what Alexander theorized, the world was somewhat similar to Earth. But the history diverted around the time the Roman empire was on earth. Of course, instead of Roman, there was the Marley empire.

The Eldians were a group that suddenly got lucky. Alexander wanted to find the underground pool of water where Ymir found her powers.

So, he looked for the place all across Europe. He meditated a lot to feel the flow of energy. He felt something like strings connecting to the Eldian people but they were invisible. Alexander found out these things were called paths in the Marley government's research facility.

It seemed that the Marley government had done a lot of research on it. They had found out that the Paths serve as channels for the transportation of several things, such as memories and wills from other Subjects of Ymir, flesh, and bones that make up a Titan's body, commands from a Titan's scream, and the power of the Titans.

"Ah, I should just ask father. I don't have time for all this," Alexander growled.

He looked up at the sky and spoke. "Father, can you hear me?"

In just a millisecond, he received a reply, "Ah, hello my favorite son. I thought you had forgotten about me, I was just having a party, you should come too?"

"You already know why, you are omniscient and omnipresent. Well, can you tell me what this whole titan thing is here? How did humans get this power?"

"Oh, let me check" God replied in his always cheerful manner.

"Hmm... ah, I found it. That damn Zeus, I'll spank him to reincarnation this time. Son, as it turned out. This planet was supposed to be a normal earth.

"A million years ago, Zeus was fighting a monster turned sentient who called himself a titan. Zeus took the challenge and fought him across the multiverse and eventually slew him here. But the fool left the body to rot. As it was a cosmic monster, bodies don't decompose that fast.

"That girl Ymir stumbled across that corpse. She probably touched that corpse and automatically received its inheritance. She got connected with the Path and touched on the source of all living matter.

"The poor girl was mentally broken and even while living in the Middle land(The land between living life and death where all the paths converge) she follows the will of her captors." God genuinely sounded sad.

"WAIT! Ymir is still alive?" Alexander asked.

"In a way she is. She is the mother of all titans. She can never die. She lives in the Middle Land and is connected to the paths leading to all Subjects of Ymir and Titans. It is her who lets all the titans have their power." God explained.

"Poor child, can you send me to her? I want to help her?" He asked.

"Ah, good plan. Yes, here you go."

In an instant, Alexander found himself standing on sandy land. As far as he could see there was sand. Above him was dark sky but many thin threads were traveling through it.

Alexander looked around and finally saw a little girl sitting on the sand with a bucket near her.

"Hey, little one," he called out warmly. She suddenly got up and walked away slowly. She did peak at him for a moment though, but all he could see was the depressed and pain-filled face of the girl.

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