Ymir Fritz

"1,820 years ago, our ancestor, Ymir Fritz...made a contract with the Earth Devil for power. The power of the Titans."

- Mr. Yeager tells his son of Ymir's tale

Ymir Fritz (ユミル・フリッツ) was the progenitor of the Eldians. When she was a young girl, she awakened the power of the Titans and became the first Titan, the Founding Titan. Thirteen years later, she died and her soul was split into the Nine Titans.

Despite her death, Ymir continues to roam the path creating Pure Titans and bestowing the power of the Titans on to those who seek it over the course of endless time.

Illustrations
In all illustrations depicting Ymir Fritz, she is shown as a young girl wearing white robes. In the book Frieda Reiss reads to Historia, Ymir is dark-haired, whereas in the book Mr. Yeager reads to Grisha, she is fair-haired.

Titan
In her Titan form, Ymir appears to have had light colored hair. Little else can be said about her Titan form, since all depictions of her in old books and illustrations appear to be highly romanticized.

Personality
Being a subject of ancient history, little is known about who Ymir truly was as a person. When reading about her story to Historia, Frieda Reiss describes her as a kind girl who is always thinking of others, as well as lady-like. Additionally, Eldians, such as Grisha Yeager in his youth, speak of Ymir with great reverence, praising her accomplishments for their people. On the other hand, the Marleyan propaganda maintains that Ymir was a pawn of the Devil, whom she had made a deal with and caused her and all her subjects to be despised by much of the world.

According to Zeke Yeager, Ymir remains in the path as a slave with no will and submits to those with royal blood as her masters.

History
Over 1,820 years ago, Ymir Fritz lived as a slave to the Eldian tribe. One day the tribe's ruler called all of the slaves and announced that one of them released the villages pigs. Under threat of punishment if the culprit did not come forward, Ymir was singled out by her fellow slaves as the culprit.

As punishment, Ymir was released from her servitude and subsequently hunted down in the wilderness by the village's warriors for sport. Wounded and desperate, Ymir took shelter in a nearby tree, only to fall into an underground pool of water housed inside the tree. While in the water, she came into contact with a mysterious creature which attached itself to her and triggered her first transformation into the Founding Titan.

After gaining her ability, Ymir returned to her former master and served him again, using her Titan to cultivate land, build bridges, and destroy the forces of Eldia's rival, Marley. To "reward" Ymir for her service, Eldia's ruler took her as his concubine and together the two had three children: Maria, Rose, and Sheena.

After serving the king for 13 years, Ymir died while thwarting an assassination attempt on his life. After her death, Ymir found herself inside a mysterious land, unable to do anything but obey the will of her descendants as they inherited her Titan abilities.

Mythology
Some time after her death, Ymir's existence was hailed as a god-given miracle. Many would claim that as the Founding Titan, she used her Titan power to cultivate barren lands, build roads across the lands, and raise bridges through the mountains of the world, though these claims could never be supported. On the other hand, after the fall of the Eldian Empire in the Great Titan War, the new Marley government would spread slanderous legends that Ymir's power was derived from the "Devil of All Earth."

Many centuries later, Frieda Reiss, a descendant of Ymir, would visit her half-sister Historia on the farm where she was raised. During some of her visits, Frieda told Historia the story of Ymir's deal with the Devil; however, in this book, Ymir was named "Krista." Frieda advised Historia that she must be lady-like, as "Krista" was. She spoke of "Krista" as being an altruistic girl, and urged Historia to be loving and beloved like her when she is grown. However, Historia did not remember these visits, since Frieda always used the Founding Titan to erase her memories after every encounter. Historia would only recall vague images of "Krista"'s story in the years to come.

Return to Shiganshina arc
Some years later, when the Survey Corps discovers Grisha Yeager's basement, they find three journals. Within Grisha's writings, he recounts his childhood when he was told the story of Ymir and her people by his father. Grisha writes of joining the Eldian Restorationists in the nation of Marley several years afterward, learning of the supposed great accomplishments achieved in Ymir's time. Together with the resistance, Grisha declares that they must venture to Paradis Island, where Ymir's descendants had fled eighty years ago, in order to retrieve the Founding Titan and bring back the nation of Eldia.

Unnamed final arc
While on the verge of death, Zeke Yeager would awaken in an unknown land to discover Ymir molding his damaged body with earth.

During the assault on Shiganshina, Zeke and his younger half-brother Eren Yeager are able to make contact with each other before awakening in the path. As Ymir approaches, Eren demands she lend him her strength but his pleas are ignored. Zeke subsequently reveals he has nullified the vow to renounce war through Ymir who only obeys her own descendants before using her to restrain Eren. After Zeke shows Eren the memories of their father Grisha, Zeke realizes that Eren was responsible for Grisha's actions against the Reiss family and that his ultimate goal is inevitable. In a desperate panic, Zeke orders Ymir to sterilize the Subjects of Ymir, and Ymir approaches the Coordinate of converging paths to fulfill Zeke's will.

Trivia

 * is a primeval being in Norse mythology who is the progenitor of all jötnar (giants). "Ymir" also means "the scream." Both are appropriate to Ymir Fritz, as she was the progenitor of all Titans ("giants" in the original Japanese) and possessed the power of the Founding Titan, which is used by screaming.
 * In Frieda's storybook, Ymir is named "Krista."

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