Board Thread:Theories/@comment-27441457-20151225042055/@comment-29958651-20160918105501

As for the true villain of the series, I would choose the First King and his successors (with the exception of Historia, of course). There is clearly some hidden history about the origins of the Coordinate power and how was even the First King able to gain it. The manipulating with the inhabitants' memories also seems to be quite similar to the whole Void century issue from One Piece.

The Hometowners seems to have more information about this, since one of their original goals was to steal the Coordinate power. Maybe the power was (at some point in the past) stealed from the Hometowners and they just want it back (the whole thing about the Warriors and their mission quite fits this idea). As for now, we don't exactly know why they also want to destroy the Walled Humanity, but (as I hope) we will discover this soon.

To me, it seems that Grisha Yeager and his past are the bridge between the hidden history of the Royal Hamily and the Outside World. He was clearly also interested in stealing the Coordinate, but he choosed to use it for different purpose than the Hometowners would.

Was Grisha also the Hometowner? Was he even Warrior, choosed to infiltrate the Humanity and to steal the Coordinate, until he had changed his mind and had used it for the defense of the Humanity? The next chapters would definitely answer some interesting questions ...