Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-29752445-20180827202712

I'm not an expert in biology but there is something I don't quite get.

I assume the royal family are the only ones capable of using the founding titan power because they are the direct descendants of ymir, but then aren't all of the eldians descendants of ymir?

on the wiki it says ymir was the progenitor of the eldians.

the definition of "progenitor" is: progenitor n. distant ancestor, forefather; father, male parent; sire, procreator, begetter

so if she really is their progenitor then they are all supposed to be her long descendants.

but lets say they aren't, and that she was part of a clan already when she got her powers, and the whole clan got shafted by her and her control, if that's the case, that means the clan already existed, she wasn't the one who created it, nor was she the one who made the eldian empire, the empire was built by her 9 successors who got her titan power that was split to 9 souls.

so if she was just someone among the eldian clan, and wasn't even the one to build the eldian empire afterwards, why does she get the title of the "progenitor"? that doesn't make sense to me

is that just a bad choice of words? or am I missing something

also if you search the "subjects of ymir" which are basically the eldians, it clearly says they were her descendants, so I really don't get this  