Board Thread:Theories/@comment-26495049-20170114062950

I've been thinking about the First(or 145th) King's motivations, especially in the light of the new information about him in the recent chapters, and I realized that it seems to be pointing towards a possible revelation about Ymir Fritz and the creation of the Titans.

At first, I thought that the 145th King was just a pacifist who was sick of the constant warfare between the Eldian clans, and decided to end it by raising the Walls and issuing the threat of the Wall Titans as a deterrence against Marley, thereby allowing Marley and Eldia to coexist in peace.

However, Chapter 89 showed us otherwise. Apparently, the 145th King wanted the Eldians to "perish as we are meant to", and according to Kruger, he "agrees with the desire for Eldia's collapse". It seems he was aware that the truce will not last forever, and when it breaks, it would mean the end of the Eldian race. Given that the monarchy was stifling progress within the walls, it was only a matter of time before Marley overtook them in technological advancements and launch an invasion, wiping the Eldians out.

So I asked myself, if he wants the Eldians to be wiped out so badly, then why didn't he opt for a more direct approach? Being the Coordinate holder, he could have first wiped the memories of all Eldians to render them incapable of fighting back, then commanded the mindless Titans to kill all the Eldians on the continent.

So why didn't he?

I can only think of one suitable explanation: it's because he simply couldn't. My theory is that when Ymir Fritz died, she wanted to ensure that the power of the Titans were used to the benefit of the Eldian race. To this end, she imposed what I call "The First Ideology" onto the Coordinate, similar to the ideology of the 145th King, to ensure that future Coordinate holders must always act to ensure the prosperity and survival of the Eldians.

As such, even though the 145th King hated the existence of the Titans and wanted to wipe the Eldian race out, he was bound by this ideology as the Coordinate holder, and therefore was unable to kill all the Eldians outright.

However, he discovered a loophole in Ymir's ideology. Instead of attacking them outright, he decided to relocate the Eldians to Paradis Island under the pretense of creating a "utopia" for all Eldians and ending all war, and made his own agreement with the Coordinate to ensure his will was carried out by his successors, all supposedly for the "survival" and "prosperity" for the Eldian race.

But we know what his true intentions really are. 