Board Thread:Theories/@comment-27441457-20151225042055

Ever since the last few chapters of the Uprising Arc, I've been wondering which of the two antagonist forces we've seen in the story so far is in the right.

On one hand, we have the First King who is responsible for caging humanity in the walls, allowing the Titans to roam free beyond them, attempting to eliminate or silence all races and unaffiliated groups outside of the white European majority population, and withholding humanity's pre-wall history from public knowledge for reasons he and his successors refuse to explain.

On the other hand, we have the Warriors living to the far south beyond the walls who are responsible for sending four children to commit genocide on the people of the walls and steal the Coordinate from the Reiss family.

All of this has some questions running through my head. What events could have happened before the walls' raising that convinced the First King that humanity cannot know of them, events dire enough to cause fits of rage and depression (e.g. Frieda Reiss) in the holders of the Coordinate? Was the First King appalled by the deeds of a society willing to send children off to war, or did the First King commit deeds so unspeakable that those beyond the walls were willing to resort to child soldiers to put an end to his family line and his nation for good?

Between the First King and the Warriors, which is the true enemy of humanity? 