Board Thread:Manga/@comment-27321453-20191008222936/@comment-37493549-20191009084752

Marco1995mega wrote: Initially, like most I imagine, I believed that when she gained the power of the Titans, she could exert her powers on all Eldians due to no other connection than ethnicity, which, honestly, I found a little weird. However, this chapter pretty much shows that Ymir could only exercise that power on herself or her blood, as we saw when the coordinate first appeared with three protruding branches after her daughters ate her corpse. All Subjects of Ymir are related to her by blood, so why does the royal family specifically have so much power over her? Easy. It gets down to two things. I think you're misinterpreting the branches of the thing in Ymir's world. My impression is it doesn't represent Ymir's family tree, but the lineage of titan inheritence. We didn't see it until her daughters had already eaten her. I think before that it would have been just a single column.