Oksus
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To all of you who read the manga, here is a theory I found on some other forum. This is one of the most plausible theories I've read.
All credit goes to user "Potato Sprout"
1. All the human-titans except the "ape-titan", also with the possible exception of Ymir, are from the same place.
2. The humans inside the walls are not protected so much as imprisoned, the losers of a centuries gone war.
3. The human-titans were also on the same side of that war as the wall-bounded human race. The titan transformation was the prime weapon of both sides in the long-ago war, and after their clear loss, with little hope, someone in a position of power decided, or perhaps made concessions, leading to eradication of knowledge and the destruction / expatriation of all titan-changers.
4. Unintelligent, people-eating titans are a weapon that only the "other side" used - this is how they won. They turned the other sides' civilians into giant people-eating zombies. Sheer numbers overpowered the intelligent titans.
5. The "ape-titan" is the only 'person' we've seen clearly from the "other" faction. This is demonstrated by his total lack of expectations about what the people within the walls were like. He'd never seen the aerial maneuver gear and wasn't entirely sure if the one guy he talked to understood him (because he wasn't sure what language he spoke). Ymir may be from his culture, due to being able to read something that Ryner couldn't.
6. He's also almost certainly the perpetrator of turning people inside the second wall into titans without breaching it.
7. The human-titans are the remnants of the titan-form army of the losing side. They have little respect for the wall-bound folk or their lives, since they were abandoned, and the people in charge inside the wall made giving up on escape and burying their collective heads in the sand their only plan. They may also want to take the walls away from them because they feel that in the end this will result in allies. People with a defensive wall can cower; people without have to fight or die.
8. There may be a 4th wall which restricts the movement of the unintelligent titans, beyond which the rest of the world belongs to the winning side of the big war. I'm not sure of this one because that wall would have to be immense, and that leads to the next point...
9. It's pretty clear, but obviously the wall is full of titans because titans BECAME the wall. My guess was that these were the currently wall-bound humans ALLIED titans. This was possibly not a choice they were given but a sentence imposed, judging by the fact that the Wall-cult priest didn't want to let the uncovered titan be touched by sunlight.
10. Leading finally to Eren: I think he's important because the titan-people outside the wall have lost the secret of MAKING titans. It's most likely passed down genetically, but perhaps becoming rarer or weakening as small numbers of titan-transformers breed into a larger population of normal people. Or maybe they're just dying off. Either way, I think Eren's dad unearthed the secret of turning people into intelligent titans all over again.
All credit goes to user "Potato Sprout"
1. All the human-titans except the "ape-titan", also with the possible exception of Ymir, are from the same place.
2. The humans inside the walls are not protected so much as imprisoned, the losers of a centuries gone war.
3. The human-titans were also on the same side of that war as the wall-bounded human race. The titan transformation was the prime weapon of both sides in the long-ago war, and after their clear loss, with little hope, someone in a position of power decided, or perhaps made concessions, leading to eradication of knowledge and the destruction / expatriation of all titan-changers.
4. Unintelligent, people-eating titans are a weapon that only the "other side" used - this is how they won. They turned the other sides' civilians into giant people-eating zombies. Sheer numbers overpowered the intelligent titans.
5. The "ape-titan" is the only 'person' we've seen clearly from the "other" faction. This is demonstrated by his total lack of expectations about what the people within the walls were like. He'd never seen the aerial maneuver gear and wasn't entirely sure if the one guy he talked to understood him (because he wasn't sure what language he spoke). Ymir may be from his culture, due to being able to read something that Ryner couldn't.
6. He's also almost certainly the perpetrator of turning people inside the second wall into titans without breaching it.
7. The human-titans are the remnants of the titan-form army of the losing side. They have little respect for the wall-bound folk or their lives, since they were abandoned, and the people in charge inside the wall made giving up on escape and burying their collective heads in the sand their only plan. They may also want to take the walls away from them because they feel that in the end this will result in allies. People with a defensive wall can cower; people without have to fight or die.
8. There may be a 4th wall which restricts the movement of the unintelligent titans, beyond which the rest of the world belongs to the winning side of the big war. I'm not sure of this one because that wall would have to be immense, and that leads to the next point...
9. It's pretty clear, but obviously the wall is full of titans because titans BECAME the wall. My guess was that these were the currently wall-bound humans ALLIED titans. This was possibly not a choice they were given but a sentence imposed, judging by the fact that the Wall-cult priest didn't want to let the uncovered titan be touched by sunlight.
10. Leading finally to Eren: I think he's important because the titan-people outside the wall have lost the secret of MAKING titans. It's most likely passed down genetically, but perhaps becoming rarer or weakening as small numbers of titan-transformers breed into a larger population of normal people. Or maybe they're just dying off. Either way, I think Eren's dad unearthed the secret of turning people into intelligent titans all over again.
