Hometown

The Hometown is a mysterious land located outside of Wall Maria, presumably to the south. Several antagonistic Titan Shifters originate from there. Those who are sent on a mission on behalf of the Hometown are referred to as warriors, apparently led by commanding war-chiefs.

History
In the year 845, the Hometown sent four Titan Shifters to the Walls with the mission of wiping out humanity, taking the Coordinate from the Reiss family, and putting an end to the cursed history of the people of the walls. These four Titan Shifters were Bertolt Hoover, the Colossus Titan who would destroy the outer gate of Shiganshina District; Reiner Braun, the Armored Titan who would destroy the inner gate; Annie Leonhart, the Female Titan who presumably called forth the Titans who would invade Wall Maria; and Marcel whose Titan form and purpose are currently unknown.

Annie, in particular, faced grueling combat training in her early childhood, supervised by her father. However, before she departs on her mission, her father gives her his heartfelt apologies, assuring her that even if the world comes to hate her, she will still have her father by her side. All that he asks of her is that she would promise to return home.

When they arrived at Shiganshina District, the warriors succeeded in breaching both gates and sending the Titans swarming into humanity's territory. However, before Marcel could succeed in whatever task he was given, a mindless Titan attacks Reiner. He sacrifices himself to save the others, being consumed by the Titan. As the other warriors flee, this Titan inherits Marcel's Titan shifting power and returns to her human form, Ymir.

Two years after their successful attack on Wall Maria, in the year 847, the warriors enter the 104th Training Corps in the hopes to achieve the highest ranks possible and entering into the Military Police Brigade, giving them easy access to the Interior, and by extent the Reiss family, the holders of the Coordinate. Reiner, Bertolt, and Annie succeeded in earning ranks within the top ten of their Training Corps.

Story
When the time comes for their graduation, Bertolt and Reiner change their plans of joining the Military Police and instead join the Survey Corps, Eren's chosen military branch. Annie Leonhart proceeds with her original decision to join the Military Police Brigade in the Interior. However, when the Survey Corps embarks on the 57th expedition beyond the walls, Annie invades the expedition as the Female Titan in order to locate and capture Eren for the Hometown. With the help of Reiner she nearly succeeds and manages to wipe out the Special Operations Squad, but is foiled by Mikasa Ackerman and Captain Levi. Because she spared Armin Arlert in the attack on the expedition, she is found out to be the Female Titan. A few days after the expedition, Annie battles with Eren in Stohess District and is ultimately caught by the Survey Corps. However, she uses her specialized hardening abilities to conceal herself in an ultrahard layer of crystallized skin, preventing interrogation. Annie's comatose body is kept in the custody of the Survey Corps.

On the same day as the battle within Stohess District, a new warrior makes his move within the walls. War-chief Zeke, an old and powerful warrior of the Hometown, invades the Wall Rose, turning the people of Ragako village into mindless Titans, perhaps in order to test humanity's strength, before leaving Wall Rose later that night. During the ensuing efforts of the Survey Corps and Garrison to deal with the event, the Survey Corps receives family records from the chaos of five years ago and begin to suspect that Reiner and Bertolt were in league with Annie. A day after the beginning of the Ragako event, Reiner and Bertolt are indeed discovered to be the Armored and Colossus Titans. Throwing all secrecy away, Reiner and Bertolt battle with the Survey Corps and capture Eren and Ymir, who they learned earlier was the Titan that ate Marcel. Over five hours later, a combined effort of all three military forces embarks on a rescue operation, and Eren is retrieved. In this battle, Eren seemingly unleashes the Coordinate upon Reiner and Bertolt, confirming their worst fears. The warriors flee with Ymir to Shiganshina District to recover and formulate a new plan. Ymir eventually leaves the group, and her fate is unknown.

Two months after their arrival at Shiganshina, Zeke reunites with his warriors. They express their desire to save Annie from the Survey Corps, but Zeke prioritizes the retrieval of the Coordinate. They lie in waiting in Shiganshina District for the Survey Corps to arrive in search of Eren's basement, which is believed to hold secrets of the Titans. When the Survey Corps arrives, a battle ensues between the soldiers and Zeke's warriors and Titans. Though they had an early advantage with the new technology that the Survey Corps had gained post from the revolution, Eren's mastery of hardening, and the strategies of Erwin and Armin Zeke Reiner and Bertolt are defeated. Zeke, having escaped Levi with aid from the Quadrupedal Titan breaks through the debris that had before blocked Shiganshina and makes his way to Eren and the defeated Bertolt. Eren puts the unconcious Warrior at sword point and threatens to kill him if Zeke comes any closer as opposed to letting him take back the Colossal Titan's power, Zeke tries to calm Eren down by saying that both he and Eren are "victims of Grisha" and Eren notices the similarities between the two, but before Zeke can elaborate Levi arrives having finished off all of the titans that Zeke had sent after him. Zeke is at first horrified and calls Levi a "monster". Seeing that he cannot defeat Levi as he is still regenerating Zeke decides to call the battle a draw and leaves Bertolt with nothing but condolences and a vow to one day "rescue" Eren. Levi ran out of gas and could not persue further enabling Zeke the opening to rescue Reiner and flee the ruins of the city. Atop of the wall Zeke notes that Reiner was "lucky"

Bertolt is left unconscious and at the mercy of those who he had betrayed, Eren, Mikasa, Levi and Flocke debate over who to use the serum on to transform into a titan and allow to eat Bertolt. Despite Levi initially wanting to inject Erwin with the serum at the last minute he chooses Armin Arlert to inject and Bertolt wakes up just in time to see a mindless titan grab him and in his fear begs his former friends to save him but can only watch on as they silently cry and he yells the names of his comrades as he is eaten. Armin having eaten Bertolt gains his titan shifting abilities and turns back into his pre-disfigured appearance robbing the hometown of a warrior and allowing Humanity to gain a new Titan Shifter.

Mission
The mission that the warriors were sent on is to retrieve the Coordinate (座標 Zahyō?), valuable presumably because of its ability to control mindless titans. But its other abilities such as the modification of human memories could also be a factor. While exact details on the Coordinate's past with the homeland remains a mystery, the Coordinate sought by the Titan Shifters is spoken of as a possession, and mentioned to have been taken from them. However it is shown to be a titan power. The Coordinate's retrieval is top priority with the Warriors going to suicidal extremes to complete their mission, with Annie even crying when Eren was rescued, despite their initial skepticism that Eren was indeed the possessor of the power.

Secondary components of the mission was the elimination of the People of the Walls, and to rondevu with War-chief Zeke. However when Reiner and Bertolt saw the War-Cheif in his titan form they took it as an opportunity and attempted to strike a deal with Eren saying that if he left with them they would never harm the walls again. However when Eren refused they resorted to kidnapping him instead.

Annie's actions in eliminating the captive titans Sonny and Bean could also imply that another aspect of their mission was to make sure that the People of the Walls did not learn the secrets of the Titans. Alternatively it could simply be point to not let the humans discover to much about titans as it could potentially uncover unwanted information leaks about them, as at said time Eren was discovered to be a Titan Shifter and humans discovering too much could mean that their cover would be blown. Ironically this was what tipped the Survey Corps off to their presence in the military.

Alive
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 * Image = Zeke character image.png
 * Name  = Zeke
 * Status = Alive
 * Group = Civilians
 * Image = Reiner Braun character image.png
 * Name  = Reiner Braun
 * Status = Alive
 * Group = 104th Training Corps
 * Image = Annie Leonhart character image.png
 * Name  = Annie Leonhart
 * Status = Alive
 * Group = 104th Training Corps

Unknown

 * note these are individuals with a known connection to the homeland but it is unknown if they are considered to be warriros themselves.