Board Thread:Manga/@comment-34196931-20190708230504/@comment-35822279-20190730200944

The themes mentioned above can be from any number of religions or myths but after some thought they match Norse stylings the best as sacrifice (Ex. a recurring theme in this mythological set with sacrifices for love, knowledge, and duty all occuring), brotherhood (Ex. every god seems to have a equally important sibling), and fate (Ex. Ragnarok) are core tenets of that mythology and all these themes either appear in this chapter or in the series at large but I'm not a big enough buff on Norse mythology to say much else from a thematic point of view. To further back up the series nordic roots are visual identifiers like the Titans looking like trolls & Jotnar (giants) rather than Greek Titans, old Eldian woodcuts having them wearing Viking like armour vs Marley's Roman look (I have a creeping suspicion that Marley is a composite of Italy and Germany with the Italian side being dominant),  and Paths looking visually similar to the Yggradsil. Of course the biggest hint though is that Ymir Fritz shares a name with the progenitor of the Jotnar, Ymir.