Board Thread:Manga/@comment-25228560-20170402150806/@comment-31655854-20170403073715

NephilimGear wrote: Junior0124 wrote: Yah that 1700 year cleansing never happened Are you telling me it didn't happen? Well, I am not sure it completely didn't. Maybe, Ymir Fritz didn't do any damage but I am sure the nine titans did. They completely conquered Marley. No, seriously, was it just propaganda? because it is cited as something that did happen. And, no, I don't agree with Grisha Jaegar at all. Nor do I agree with Marleyan government mistreating Eldians. Nor do I agree with how Paradis treated its Asiatic citizens. They were persecuted and exiled. The socio-politics of Paradis are as bad as Marley. The Reiss family were okay if Eldians from Marley had hurt their citizens as long they can keep the coordinate. That is also oppression.

To be honest, maybe you are right. There may have been some sort of ethnic cleansing which explains the lack of diverse races e.g. Asians etc. But during the conversation between Grisha and Kruger, Kruger states that if there really was a 1700 year period of ethnic cleansing then Marleyans would not exist - they would have been wiped out also. This implies that cleansing never really happened especially now that the Middle East are gearing up for war means that there are still more races out there.

Given the power of the Eldians, Ymir's Titans could easily have wiped out all other races in less than 100 years let alone 1700. In fact they wouldn't have needed to lift a finger. The fact that the Wall King said that if the Marleyans disturbed his Paradise then he would release the millions of wall Titans and lay waste to the world. This shows just a glimpse of the power of Ymir's people and Ymir herself could probably accomplish even more.

One thing I am curious about is the real truth of the Titans, because during that conversation Kruger discredits everything that had been discovered thus far. As Owl, he sent false historical documents to the Eldian Restorationists to boost their morale as when Grisha confronts these facts, Kruger simply says that in this world there is no such thing as the truth, anyone can make up a story and claim it as the truth. It seems that the nine Titans are real but how did Ymir actually obtain Titans power. I'm not sure but the story of Ymir's soul being split into the nine Titans may have been one of the false historical documents which makes it even more confusing.