[SPOILER ALERT: This chapter includes some real info from Manga that will be shown in the new season.]
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Alexander traveled nearly the whole world in a matter of a few minutes. He looked around and checked the level of civilization.
He could officially say now that the world was in the Mid industrialization phase. He looked around for the different kinds of ethnic cultures and couldn't find many.
There were mainly Europeans, Asians, and Arabs. That was it. There were no Africans for some reason, even though the whole Marley empire spanned Africa.
Alexander then went to the capital city of Marley and looked for an important-looking residential building. He went in and looked for books and started reading.
Surprisingly, the house had books with detailed world history. Details of even the first titan were there. He quickly started reading them.
It all started about 2 thousand years ago with a girl named Ymir. When the world's dominant kingdom was the Marley Empire. They were strong and considered themselves superior to all other races. They killed as pleased, pillaged as pleased.
There was a tribe called Eldians that was one of the suppressed classes. Then the Fritz family came into power as the ruling family of the tribe of Eldia.
Around 2,000 years ago, Ymir's village was attacked and enslaved by the Eldians, who then cut out their tongues. One day, after a pig got released mistakenly, the tribe's ruler, Fritz, questioned the slaves on the culprit. The slaves gave up Ymir, who was released only to be hunted down for sport.
Wounded and desperate, Ymir found an unusually large tree with a chasm at its base. Seeking shelter, she stepped inside and, not knowing of the sinkhole beneath, fell down into a pool of water. There, a mysterious spine-like creature fused with her and turned her into the first Titan.
With her newfound power, Ymir returned to serve Fritz and used her Titan form to cultivate the land, build bridges, and amass wealth for the Eldians. Under his command, she also vanquished the armies of Eldia's rival, Marley. But, in her heart, she was a broken girl who was just a tool for King Fritz to exploit. She was a slave even after so much power.
She was forced to commit horrible crimes that broke her mind. The killing of entire ethnic communities because they were considered impure and lesser. Forced to kill children on whose shadows she felt her own image.
~No wonder I couldn't find any African or other ethnic groups originally hailing from this region. These eldians killed them all~ Alexander realized.
However, due to all this destruction, human civilization regressed to an even worse stage.
To "reward" Ymir for her service, Fritz took her as his concubine; she didn't have a choice anyway, and together, the two had three children. Maria, Rose, and Sheena. Thirteen years after acquiring the power of the Titans, Ymir died while thwarting an assassination attempt on Fritz. Ymir could have lived if she wanted but she let herself die and be free from the miserable life.
King Fritz then forced his daughters to eat their mother's corpse in an attempt to preserve the power of the Titans. He commanded his daughters to continuously reproduce, to have their children eat their spines upon their deaths, and perpetuate this ritual from child to child so that Ymir's blood would not die out and Eldia could rule forever with its Titans.
Ymir's power was eventually divided into the Nine Titans.
The Nine Titans continue to wage war against the nation of Marley, taking control of the continent and gradually transforming the Eldian tribe into the Eldian Empire. Eldia conquered countless other civilizations as well, using Pure Titans as cheap weapons of mass destruction. This resulted in massive casualties and entire cultures being wiped out.
They eventually took over most of the known world. They also allied with the Hizuru kingdom.
According to the Eldians, Ymir's existence was hailed as a god-given miracle. Meanwhile, Marleyans believe she received her powers from a deal with the "Devil of All Earth" and used this to ostracize the Eldians.
In just a millisecond, he received a reply, "Ah, hello my favorite son. I thought you had forgotten about me, I was just having a party, you should come too?"
"You already know why, you are omniscient and omnipresent. Well, can you tell me what this whole titan thing is here? How did humans get this power?"
"Oh, let me check" God replied in his always cheerful manner.
"Hmm... ah, I found it. That damn Zeus, I'll spank him to reincarnation this time. Son, as it turned out. This planet was supposed to be a normal earth.
"A million years ago, Zeus was fighting a monster turned sentient who called himself a titan. Zeus took the challenge and fought him across the multiverse and eventually slew him here. But the fool left the body to rot. As it was a cosmic monster, bodies don't decompose that fast.
"That girl Ymir stumbled across that corpse. She probably touched that corpse and automatically received its inheritance. She got connected with the Path and touched on the source of all living matter.
"The poor girl was mentally broken and even while living in the Middle land(The land between living life and death where all the paths converge) she follows the will of her captors." God genuinely sounded sad.
"WAIT! Ymir is still alive?" Alexander asked.
"In a way she is. She is the mother of all titans. She can never die. She lives in the Middle Land and is connected to the paths leading to all Subjects of Ymir and Titans. It is her who lets all the titans have their power." God explained.
"Poor child, can you send me to her? I want to help her?" He asked.
"Ah, good plan. Yes, here you go."
In an instant, Alexander found himself standing on sandy land. As far as he could see there was sand. Above him was dark sky but many thin threads were traveling through it.
Alexander looked around and finally saw a little girl sitting on the sand with a bucket near her.
"Hey, little one," he called out warmly. She suddenly got up and walked away slowly. She did peak at him for a moment though, but all he could see was the depressed and pain-filled face of the girl.
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