Board Thread:Theories/@comment-27441457-20151225042055/@comment-27702860-20160401194607

Trying to avoid vomitting a page of theory which will be contradicted in a few manga issues, but I think the critical question is what is the setting of AoT. Is it "our Earth" and history or a different world like Game of Thrones? If the later, all bets are off obviously. If the former then "something" happened to depopulate the Earth--war/disease/a release of a really bad hip-hop album.

Either way I get a sense that one of the motives of the ruling class is to keep the population down. Too many people? Not enough food? You get a lack of control. You get rebellion.

I also get the sense that the Titans existed as a "common threat" to prevent conflict between groups.

I will stop there.

--J.D.