Board Thread:Manga/@comment-5774380-20160908231942/@comment-29945764-20160912213657

Ymir is supposed to be an important person (and very old, she even understands some dead language lol), evidently by how the Talking Titan was able to overcome its hardwired instinct to devour humans to the point of not only being able to speak to Ilse, but bowing down to her afterwards, mistaking her for Ymir.

Ymir herself has said "Being a goddess doesn't feel so bad."

Whatever that means. I think we can all assume that Ymir will have a large role to play later, I'm curious to know who she truly is and what she'll do, if she's not dead already but I very much doubt she is.