Wall Titan

"Karl Fritz used the power of the Founding Titan...to give birth to massive Titans. These were to act as both his shields and his spears."

- Willy Tybur recounting the past

The Wall Titans (壁の巨人) are Abnormal Titans similar in appearance to the Colossus Titan, one of the Nine Titans. They possess the ability of crystallization and exist in vast numbers composing the three Walls, before Eren Yeager freed them in the year 854.

In the year 743, King Karl Fritz used the power of the Founding Titan to create and command "tens of millions" of these Titans to create the three Walls and protect the last Eldian territory on Paradis Island. The lack of sunlight inside the Walls has rendered them immobile ever since, although King Fritz "threatened" to release them and use them to flatten the Earth should Paradis Island come under attack.

Their existence was discovered when the Female Titan tried to climb Wall Sheena to escape from Eren Yeager and the Survey Corps.

Appearance
These Titans are similar in appearance to the Colossus Titan in that both their surfaces are covered primarily in muscle tissue and lack skin (although the Colossus typically has bony tissue around its face). Like the Colossus, they all share the long arms and elephantine feet necessary to support their structures. Each Titan varies slightly, most noticeably around the face; some possess defleshed faces, while others exhibit all the muscles in a human's face. Their exact heights are unknown- and likely vary somewhat- but they are about the height of the Walls, which are 50 meters tall.

Abilities
Like other Titans, Wall Titans generate great amounts of heat, enough to emit large plumes of steam not unlike the Colossus Titan. They can also use this ability both offensively and defensively, creating smokescreens and flash-boiling seawater to incinerate an entire battleship. Their speed on land is estimated to surpass that of a galloping horse. All Wall Titans possess the ability to harden, although it is probable that they only did so because they were commanded by the Founding Titan. This hardening was used to mold the surface of the Walls, with the Wall Titans acting as their central pillars. The Wall Titans can swim effectively, the entire horde crossing the ocean between Paradis and the mainland within a few days. The Titans are resistant to bombardment by artillery, although very large naval cannons may dismember them.

History
In the year 743, after King Karl Fritz abandoned the conflicts of Eldia causing the Great Titan War, he fled overseas with the main branch of the Fritz royal family and remnants of the Eldian populace to Paradis Island, Eldia's last remaining undisputed territory. He used the power of the Founding Titan to create and to order tens of millions of Wall Titans form the three concentric Walls to protect the Eldians. The King sent a message to the people of Marley, demanding that the Eldians on Paradis Island must be left alone or else the Wall Titans would "flatten the entire Earth."

Over 80 years later, Dina Fritz explained this story to the Eldian Restorationists.

The Female Titan arc
During the battle between Eren and Annie Leonhart in the Stohess District, Annie attempts to escape by climbing the Wall but is stopped by Mikasa Ackerman. She damages part of the Wall, however, and a huge chunk is torn off, revealing the face of a mysterious Titan.

The missing chunk of the Wall is immediately noticed by Mikasa. The Titan within the Wall follows Mikasa's gaze, and Minister Nick calls for the immediate covering up of the Titan, as the sunlight eventually might eventually awaken it. After Nick ignores Hange Zoë's questions about it, he is nearly thrown off the Wall by her, but still refuses to reveal any details he might know because of the Church of the Walls' secrecy.

The Uprising arc
In the Reiss Chapel, Rod Reiss explains how the First King used the power of the Founding Titan to form the three Walls which surround humanity's territory, though the Wall Titans are not mentioned.

Return to Shiganshina arc
After the surviving Survey Corps reach Grisha Yeager's basement, they learn from his books about the story of the formation of the Walls as it was told to the Eldian Restorationists by Dina Fritz.

Marley arc
Reiner Braun recollects his past and remembers how he had infiltrated the Walls in order to take the Founding Titan and save the world by eliminating the threat of the Wall Titans.

During the festival hosted by the Tybur family, Willy Tybur tells the world of the truth about the Walls, the Great Titan War, and King Karl Fritz. He reveals that due to the King's vow of pacifism preventing the Founding Titan from being used for war, the Wall Titans were never a true threat; however, due to coup d'état in recent years, the military of Paradis Island have overthrown the previous royal government and the King's ideology of peace ineffective. Now that the Founding Titan belongs to Eren Yeager, who is seemingly capable of using its powers despite not having royal blood, and without interference from King Fritz's will, the world is truly in danger of the Wall Titans for the first time. Eren himself admits this to be true.

War for Paradis arc
As the Royal Government discusses Zeke's requests which were brought to them by the Anti-Marleyan Volunteers, Eren reveals he is able to activate the powers of the Founding Titan by coming into contact with a royal-blooded Titan. He also states that this method can be used to awaken the Titans within the Walls without invoking the vow of renouncing war.

After Kiyomi Azumabito arrives on the island, she divulges the rest of Zeke's strategy to save Eldia which involves unleashing some of the Titans inside the Walls to demonstrate its destructive power. The island would then need to keep that power in reserve for the next 50 years as Eldia advances technologically.

Following Zeke's encounter with Eren, Yeager successfully frees Ymir from her enslavement and invokes the Founder to begin the Rumbling. The Walls crumble, and the Wall Titans begin to march under Eren's command to eradicate all life outside the island. Within days, the last of these Titans have left the cities of Paradis.

Hange predicts that the Titans were able to reach the coast of Marley and annihilate cities closest to Paradis in the span of a few days. The Titans nearing the Marleyan coast eventually encounter a naval blockade: The Global Allied Fleet. The battleships begin bombarding the horde, whom are swimming just below the surface. Few shots land, and fewer still do lasting damage. The Titans easily swim under the warships, and as they pass under the vessels they unleash bursts of heat, instantly boiling the seawater around them.

A thick haze obscures the harbor, hiding the coast from the views of the artillerymen defending the land. As the smoke clears, the Wall Titans rise out from the water and the remains of the fleet. The land artillery begin their barrage; to the soldiers' shock it is even less effective than the naval attempt. As the artillerymen desert their posts and flee towards higher ground, they spot Eren's Titan overseeing his army and the destruction. As Eren reminisces of his mother's death, the Titans make landfall, and the Rumbling truly begins.

The Science of Attack on Titan
In Rikao Yanagita's analysis of the Attack on Titan manga, an estimation of the amount of Wall Titans residing within the Walls is given. Using the dimensions given in Attack on Titan: Before the Fall, Rikao estimates that, if the Wall Titans are all approximately 45 meters in height with a proportional 13-meter shoulder width with all Titans lined up shoulder to shoulder, there are approximately 246,000 Wall Titans within Wall Maria and a total of 585,000 Titans within all three Walls combined. This conflicts with information given much later in the manga in Chapter 86, in which King Fritz's ultimatum given to Marley states that he would unleash the "tens of millions of Titans that sleep inside the Walls" if war was declared against Eldia. It is unknown whether the King's claim was accurate to the Wall Titans' numbers or was mere hyperbole. Furthermore, Paradis Island's evident correlation with the real world island of leaves no room for Walls of the sizes given in Before the Fall, meaning there may be even fewer Titans within the Walls than Rikao's estimate and Karl Fritz's claim.

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