Board Thread:Manga/@comment-27321453-20180708204808/@comment-1327106-20180710033516

Randomuser4 wrote: RuneLai wrote:

For instance, he didn't know Eren would someday get the Founding Titan. He didn't know there would be a loophole around the king's vow (I assume he figured it out from Reiner and Bertolt telling him about Eren punching a Titan, and Zeke guessed that Titan was Dina). So what was he going to do if none of that happened? Zeke's plan only exists because of unusual events that have happened thus far, none of which he could have counted on. Hmmmm, that sounds like a good argument, but then I just remembered the invisible "paths" that connect all Eldians; does that change anything?

I don't think it would, because the invisible paths don't seem to be an effective means of contemporary communication. Eren only sees the past as seen by previous wielders of the Attack Titan. Porco only wants to see the past of his Jaw Titan (specifically hoping for memories of Marco). And neither of them have much control over it.

For Zeke to get knowledge about the Founding Titan and the loophole to use it through the paths, he would have to obtain contemporary knowledge from a still living person with an unrelated Titan.

The closest thing we've seen to that is Kruger reciting a "memory" telling someone to protect Mikasa and Armin (I think it's Grisha talking to Eren, but some people think it's Eren talking to someone else), which is the only instance of someone seeing something from the future through the paths. But again, Kruger and whoever's memory he's tapping into are connected by having the same Titan. Zeke doesn't have that benefit.