Board Thread:Manga/@comment-39898841-20190622181312/@comment-46041199-20200612215517

Jumbernaut wrote: TinyHargreaves wrote: I thought the Founding Titan possessed control over all people of Ymir Fritz's tribe (Eldians, subjects of the royal Eldian King Fritz), and Ymir follows the will of her descendants (Reiss family) because they have the blood of her enslaver. Zeke and Uri are descendants of King Fritz, meanwhile anyone else like Armin is a descendant of an Eldian subject. That's what I thought. Anyways, as many have said, blood is null. I don't see why Ymir would have power over regular human eldians. I don't really like to use the Paths Realm as a concrete source for anything, but in chap 122 we see only 1 pillar when Ymir dies and then 3 branches as her daughters eat her remains. Based on that, and on the world knowledge of the story, that only eldians descendents can be turned into titans, only they are connected through the paths. I assume the humans have tried injecting spinal fluid on regular humans and, at least, in most cases it doesn't work. The human eldians, if there are still any, just don't matter.

One important aspect of the "royal bloodline" is that, alegendly, when the Founding Titan is passed down to a titan of royal blood, it will be bound to the will of Karl Fritz, to renounce war, and will stubbornly not answer any questions about the past. Now, even though technically all eldians, even Connie, are descendents of royal blood, for some reason only those who have the last name Reiss or Fritz count as royal blood (actually, as stupid as that sounds, it kinda works. So, yeah, Ymir is a dumb girl and maybe the right last name is enough for her...). So, only those with Reiss or Fritz last name would be bound by the will of Karl Fritz. I feel this complicates things because it legitimizes this broken bloodline that doesn't make much sense.

Honestly, it just doesn't make any sense that Zeke counts as royal blood. I understand Ymir, kinda "holding ghost hands" with the current King, who ever has the Founding Titan, and only recognizing those who this last King recognizes as legitimate heirs to his "crown", but the Fritz family branched off from the King who stayed inside the walls like 100 years ago. There should be like 50 people like Dinah Fritz, secretly hiding their Fritz heritage outside of the wall. Do all of them count as royal blood? Without a King outside of the wall, who counts as the "head of the family" to determine how far you have to branch out to not count as royal blood? The murkiness of these mechanics really upset me. I completely understand your confusion; what you're saying didn't make sense to me either which is why I chose to believe Ymir just had control over all the regular human Eldians. But if that's unlikely, it's quite possible she literally will only follow the commands of her descendants based on their surname, like you said... very murky.