We see later in the series that the nation of Marley have been turning people into titans and dumping them on the shore of Paradis. But why? King Fritz warned the world that if the citizens of the wall were ever threatened by an outside force he would send the colossus titans inside the walls to flatten the Earth.
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Marley was a powerful nation in ancient times; however, around 2,000 years ago, a slave of the Eldians named Ymir gained the power of the Titans. King Fritz used her abilities to defeat Marley and force their surrender. One of the Marleyans attempted to assassinate Fritz several years after their defeat, but Ymir intervened and was killed instead.
Overtime, due to viewing the Eldians as nothing but devils, the Marleyans ended up becoming just as bad as their former oppressor. 2000 years ago, a girl named Ymir gained the power of the Titans, becoming the first Titan to ever walk the earth.
In the year 845, Marley sent Titan shifters to the Walls with the mission of wiping out its inhabitants, taking the Coordinate from the Reiss family, and putting an end to the cursed history of the people of the Walls.
Marley, for as long as they could, have been punishing people by turning them into Titans and sending them off into Island Paradis, where the main story takes place. They usually do this to the subjects of Ymir, who was a goddess of ancient time, and who granted them the titan powers.
A full-blooded Marleyan cannot become a Titan. Only Subjects of Ymir can become Titans. If a Marleyan or any other non-Eldian were injected with the Titan serum, absolutely nothing would happen.
When Eldia surrendered, Marley possessed the majority of the Titan powers. They had 7 out of 9 Titan powers with the exception of only Founding Titan and Attack Titan. The 7 Titan powers are (in the sequence they were introduced in the series): 1.
Marley has a historically poor relationship with the Mid-East Allied Forces. By the year 850, after it had become known that Marley lost two Titans in its operation against Paradis Island, the Allies finally declared war against Marley.
They wanted Eldians to destroy the other Eldians and hence ,turned them into Titans and filled Paradis Island with titans to keep them inside. Marley was once conquered by Eldia but during great titan war,the marleyans rose up and subjugated all of Eldia's territory with the exception of Paradis Island.
EldianSo, yeah, Mikasa is an Eldian, regardless of her heritage.
Eren is an Eldian, so was Grisha and Eren's mother. Being an Eldian is more to do with race than nationality. It doesn't matter if they're living on the Marleyan land if they have her blood then they are Eldians.
As you can see, Zeke is far from Marley's side, but he is not a supporter of his own people either. The Eldian race was enslaved by the Marley people after the Titans wreaked havoc on the world, and Zeke cannot reconcile himself to either the side.
So technically the Marleyans are kind of the good guys and remain that way until the end of the story but their kind of justice is a little extreme. (They treated Grisha so bad he was moved to join and anti marley group and steal the founding titan.)
During the 830s, the nation of Marley had become aware of the diminishing power of the seven Titans obtained during the Great Titan War. In order to meet the coming need for technological progress, the authorities of Marley turned their attention to Paradis Island and the plentiful fossil fuels it possessed.
After battling with Frieda in her Titan form and slaughtering most of the Reiss family, he reunited with his son, Eren Yeager, and injected him with a serum, transforming him into a Titan.
Speed. The Cart Titan also possesses great speed, similar to the Jaw Titan, which was exercised during the Battle of Shiganshina to retrieve a defeated Zeke Jaeger and Reiner Braun while also catching Levi and Hange, two of the Scout Regiment's most talented soldiers off guard.
P – Power – Power is the primary reason why Marley seeks the Founding Titan. If Marleyans can dominate and subdue the Founder, they can bask themselves in Titan Creation, mind manipulation, and the ability to see visions of the future and the past.
Culture. Marley is notorious for its adherence to militarism and colonial expansion. However, the general populace has since lost touch with the reality of war, both due to the abolition of the conscription system in the past and the extensive use of Eldians as rank-and-file troopers.
Marley offered Eldians in the internment zones the chance to become Warriors and honorary Marleyans. Following the collapse of the Eldian Empire, the remaining Eldians of the mainland would then be forced into internment zones, where they would be treated as second class citizens.
Marley indeed launches a major attack against Shiganshina District on Paradis in a desperate but determined bid to recapture the Founding Titan from Eren Yeager, but this course of action only leads to the awakening of the Wall Titans.
The battle was a calamity for Marley because of numerous casualties including multiple Marleyan military executives alongside the destruction of its primary ports and fleets. In addition, Marley's War Hammer Titan was taken by Eren Yeager.
Marley was a powerful nation in ancient times; however, around 2,000 years ago, a slave of the Eldians named Ymir gained the power of the Titans. King Fritz used her abilities to defeat Marley and force their surrender. One of the Marleyans attempted to assassinate Fritz several years after their defeat, but Ymir intervened and was killed instead. After Ymir's death, her power was split and passed down to her descendants in the form of the Nine Titans, who subsequently built the Eldian Empire. Using the Titans, the Eldians waged war against Marley and many other nations, utterly destroying them and obtaining complete rule over the continental mainland. This is considered to be the start of the Dark Ages.
While the nation's territory before or immediately following the Great Titan War is unknown, by the year 854 the nation of Marley had conquered territory across at least three continents, including overseas. Marley has a historically poor relationship with the Mid-East Allied Forces.
Marley ( マーレ Māre?) is a nation located beyond the Walls and across the ocean from Paradis Island. Marley was once conquered by Eldia in ancient times, but during the Great Titan War, the Marleyans rose up and subjugated all of Eldia's territory with the exception of Paradis Island.
Despite the battle being won, Marley realizes that the age of the Titans has come to an end. Accordingly, they plan to show the world their strength by planning an attack on Paradis, using the world's united hatred against Eldians as a way of uniting the nations.
However, the Marleyan government informed its citizen that King Fritz had made the ultimatum that if Marley made any move against the remnants of Eldia, the Founding Titan would be used to unleash the countless Colossus Titans which made up the three Walls surrounding Eldia's last territory.
The warriors flee with Ymir to Shiganshina District to recover and formulate a new plan. Ymir is later taken prisoner by the Marley military and executed by being eaten by Marcel's brother, Porco Galliard, who inherits the Jaw Titan's power.
Ymir, however, willingly put herself in the spear's way and saved the tyrant's life.
All Titans originate from Eldia.
While Tybur holds his speech, surprising and convincing the ambassadors and envoys to join Marley in declaring war on Paradis, suddenly Eren Yeager himself appears in his titan form behind the stage, smashing and murdering Tybur in front of everyone. While most of the audience flee the slaughter, Eren moves on and annihilates the assembled military leaders of Marley - who have been deliberately sacrificed by Willy and Magath so that Magath, now the highest ranking military official, could build Marley's military anew. Meanwhile, Willy's sister is revealed to be the real Warhammer Titan and transforms and attacks Eren. While Magath's soldiers attempt to shoot Eren with Anti-Titan-Artillery, they are suddenly attacked and killed by the Paradis Scout Regiment, leaving Magath's fate ambiguous. Although she manages to defeat Eren, the Warhammer Titan is taken down by Mikasa Ackermann.
Commander Magath of the Marley military leads a siege against the fort alongside an 800-man unit of warrior cadets, with their Titan shifters kept on standby, as Magath is unable to use them due to the anti-Titan defenses implemented by the Allies.
If you have gotten to the episode/chapter where they go into Eren's basement and it reveals everything about Grisha's (Eren's dad) past life, it says that the Marley people had possession of 7 out of the 9 titans, and there was no story about mindless titans anywhere.
However, after 1,700 years, the Marleyans stole seven of the nine Titan Shifters and waged war against the Eldians.
According to the Marleyans, the Eldians were the ones who started all the trouble, due to their ability to change to titans. Putting the Eldians in those camps were seen as a safety precaution. I was able to see and understand the Marleyans somewhat.
After the death of Ymir, the nine Titans made use of the Titans and their own powers to conquer the peoples of the world, known collectively as the Marleyans. Upon conquering the world, the nine Titans established the nation of Eldia, led by the Fritz family who held Ymir's Progenitor Titan.
Kenny explained how he could have, but for one he would turn into a mindless titans which he wouldn’t want, and if he injected himself the wrong way with the Titan spinal fluid, he would ““Turn into a freak like Reiss”, which he also didn’t want.
Zeke is special in that when it’s his Titan’s spinal fluid that’s used, the transformation isn’t instantaneous: instead he triggers it at will with a scream. Moreover, he can control the Titans produced that way, and only those Titans. This is because Zeke is of royal blood.
PARADIS is the setting to Attack on Titan and where the walls are make up of thousands of titans that can be seen on wall Sheena when Annie cracked the wall while climbing. In the aftermath of the destruction of Ragako, the true nature of the Titans is discovered.