Board Thread:Manga/@comment-5774380-20170508180431/@comment-14745711-20170521051607

The year listed on the wiki for Grisha receiving the Attack Titan is 832, exactly 13 years prior to the Fall of Wall Maria and Eren gaining the Attack Titan. There is no reason to suppose Grisha bypassed anything. Of course, its possible that the Curse may take a more varried amount of time to kill its host, but no one waits around to see, not wanting to risk the power ending up in somebody random. There must be evidence for the existence of the Curse, otherwise people would have become suspiscious that there wasn't any. Marley have been studying Titan chemistry for decades now, so I imagine if the Curse was made up they'd know about it by now. I see no good reason to suppose that there isn't a side effect to Titan Shifting that kills you after 13 years.