Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-45683175-20200504080825

Now that the story has revealed the true history behind the Titans and how they came to be (for the most part), there was something that occurred to me regarding the Royal Blood restriction formerly imposed on the Founding Titan.

As we all know, the Titans started with Ymir Fritz, a slave to the Eldians who gained the power after coming across a mysterious creature in a pool beneath a huge tree. Once she gained the power, she returned to Eldia with her slave mentality intact, and used her power to help Eldia flourish, albeit against her will. 13 years after gaining the power, she dies saving her king (Fritz) from assasination, and he then forces their 3 daughters to canabalize her to pass the power on. Another generation or 2 later (presumably), the power is then split into 9 distinct Titans.

Eventually it is revealed that the Founding Titan's powers are uniquely activated by directly commanding the soul of Ymir Fritz in the realm of the paths at the coordinate. She will only follow orders if she is commanded by a Subject of Ymir who possesses "royal blood," or descends from the original King Fritz. This is due to her still believing she's a slave to King Fritz and all his descendants (unless they were a mindless Titan at the time like Dina Fritz.) The only thing that bugs me about this is: aren't all Subjects of Ymir his descendants too?

Subjects of Ymir are the only race of people that can transform into Titans because they contain Ymir's blood; all SoY descend directly from her. Ymir only had 3 daughters though, and all were fathered by the original King Fritz, so by extension, all SoY also directly descend from him too, meaning all SoY contain royal blood. With that being said, how is it that only one family was able to control the Founder under the notion that they directly descend from King Fritz, when all SoY descend from him and contain his blood? Am I thinking about this too hard, or is there something I'm missing? Either way, I found this to be interesting, and would love to hear anyone else's view on this.  