Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-39463658-20190515010536/@comment-39665740-20190601215720

To be honest, that makes a lot of sense about titan powers being transfered during conception or at least directly after. There's A LOT of Norse (and other) mythology underlying much of the overal plot of AoT. If you've ever read the Tibetan Book of the Dead, it tells of various routes of reincarnation for a dead soul. The red, smokey light is the path back into reality through the womb, the bright, white light is either the way to higher realms of existance or the path out of reality and into satori or nirvana or whatever (i'm not exactly clear on that). Still, it stands to reason that considering the amount of borrowed mythology in the series, it would work something like that. As for the children making it to 13 years or beyond remains unclear. Perhaps the power is aquired during gestation, but remains dormant until adolescence or maybe just until the inheritor has the physical endurance to accomodate the transformation.