Board Thread:Theories/@comment-28194879-20160412194627/@comment-90.26.19.113-20160413044856

The control of the coordinate over humanity's sanity must be inconsciously performed (not necessarily by a Reiss), and the control would be lost when the coordinate disappears for good - that is, when it dies without a new host. In that case it could work! But yeah, I'm probably wrong on the details anyway, we don't really know much about the coordinate's nature after all. Maybe it's unrelated to the dormant monsters, and they are just a timebomb scheduled to be activated after a little more than a century.

The gist of the theory is, humanity is locked inside the walls and targeted by the Warriors because there is a terrible weapon of mass destruction hidden deep inside their bodies. There is no "true enemy" in this show aside from the situation itself. It's the only way Bertolt's words in chapter 78 make sense to me