Board Thread:Manga/@comment-27938131-20170808181809/@comment-7278867-20170814071017

My Name is Historia wrote: This chapter was fantastic. I enjoyed seeing the Fall of Shiganshina from Reiner, Annie, and Bertolt's perspective. I like the direction the series is taking, portraying Reiner as a secondary protangonist and no good or bad side, just gray shades of morality. But in the end, it turns out that the two sides that you call "neither good nor bad" are the sides of the same coin, which is the Fallen eldian empire. The one being shown as the real antagonists are Marley. They have mistreated Eldians for 100 years and there is no proof whatsoever about what happened 100 years ago, it's just that the king Fritz moved his people to the walls. We don't know yet why the war happened. My theory is : the Great War was between the eight titan houses of eldians, excluding the founding titan. I think that the Tybur family started the war, and their real motive was to gain the progenitor titan's power. The war couldn't possibly have been from all sides, one strike started it. Marley took advantage. They joined with tyburs and finished off the remaining Eldians titan houses. then came the icky shit. Marley gave Tyburs supreme power and their own land. The remaining Eldians who werent from the Tybur family were made into slaves, and put into internment zones. What Kruger referred to as 1700 years of ethnic cleansing, I think never even happened. Eldians ruled for 1700 years but never killed Marleyans, instead, as the manuscript Greisha was reading said : Ymir gave her people everything, money, bridges etc. But also never cleansed any other empire..... So, according to my theory, Tyburs and the Marleyans are the real antagonists.