User blog comment:Gourgeist/Shingeki no Kyojin Chapter 64 Review: Welcome Party/@comment-149.24.72.33-20141215170859

The big reveal about the titan shifter who created the walls is not surprising. Even before we knew anything about the royal family, I figured that each of the walls was named after the person who used the Coordinate to create the wall in the first place. Also, Kenny's attempted betrayal is not surprising either given his depicted nature. It was clear he was going to pull something like that to begin with.

But I have a couple of observations:

-The Titan shifters who live outside the Walls are probably led by a Reiss relative. While they wanted to take Historia, it was clear that Eren was the primary target and now we know why. They had to have known that they couldn't have Annie, Marcel, Bertholt, or Renner devour Eren because they would have ended up in the same problem. If they wanted the power, then they could have had one of their operatives eat Eren. Annie even had the chance to take the power and didn't, so they had to know exactly what they were dealing with.

-I think Eren does have the ability to access the memories and powers of the Royal family. This is because Grishna could use those powers without any trouble. Recall that he managed to ensure that Eren wouldn't remember becoming a Titan shortly after he took Frieda's powers? I don't know if Grishna was royal or not, but I suspect he is descended from a split branch. He knew everything about the royal family and even knew who to devour. Rod probably knows more about Grishna than he is letting on as well.

-Rod Reiss is tell half-truths about what is happening. I believe he knows more than he is letting on to Historia, in order to convince her to devour Eren. He is a man who spent most of his life hiding from the people and doing several things in secret and he claims he doesn't know why Grishna came and killed his family?