Path

道
*Michi*

### Purpose

Connects Subjects of Ymir and Titans to each other, transfers memories, wills, flesh, bones, etc.

## Overview

**Paths** (道 *Michi*?) are channels that connect all Titans and Subjects of Ymir together.

## Unknown land

Although paths are invisible in the physical world, they can be seen by entering an "unknown land" (知らない場所 *Shiranai basho*?).[9] There, light-colored soil covers the ground and paths manifest as trails of light in the sky, similar in appearance to an aurora. Time is irrelevant and conflicting there. Zeke Yeager says that it felt like he was there for years, but it was also all over in an instant.[9][10]

Ymir Fritz inhabits the land as a little girl, often carrying a pail of water.[11] She is capable of creating anything out of the earth.[12] She is the cause of Titan transformation and regeneration, as she is the one who molds their bodies whenever the power of the Titans is invoked.[13][14] Those with royal blood are able to command Ymir Fritz; Zeke considers her a slave with no free will of her own.[15]

Ymir entered this land after she gained the power of the Titans.[16] While dying, Zeke Yeager also enters the realm when a nearby Titan shoves his body into its belly.[17] Eren Yeager enters this land when his decapitated head touches Zeke.[18] Zeke speculates that those who inherit the Founding Titan enter the land in order to command Ymir Fritz.

## Coordinate

When paths cross, the point is known as a "coordinate" (座標 *Zahyō*?). The Founding Titan is the Coordinate where the paths of all Subjects of Ymir and Titans cross.[1] It has the ability to alter the memories of Subjects of Ymir,[20] change the body composition of Subjects of Ymir,[21] transform Subjects of Ymir into Titans (even Colossus Titans),[22] and command all other Titans.[23] According to Tom Ksaver, the Subjects of Ymir are like a part of the Founding Titan's body, no matter where they are.[21] In the unknown land, the Coordinate is manifested as a giant pillar of light that branches out like a tree.

### Other Coordinates

While the term "Coordinate" is most commonly used for the Founding Titan's Coordinate, Zeke Yeager also uses it to describe his own abilities with the Beast Titan. If Zeke's spinal fluid enters the body of a Subject of Ymir, that Subject of Ymir becomes connected to Zeke's Beast Titan by a path and is marked with a "coordinate." Zeke's Beast Titan can act like a faux Founding Titan to those connected to him: He can transform them into Titans, and he can give those Titans commands.

## History

At some point, Ymir Fritz came to inhabit the unknown land where paths are manifested. Throughout history, she molded the bodies of the Titans and sent them along the paths.[14]

According to Eren Yeager and Eren Kruger, one of their predecessors saw paths.[1]

During the year 845, after Ymir devoured Marcel Galliard and gained the power of the Titans, she awoke in the unknown land. When she saw the paths in the sky, she called them "freedom" spread out before her. She vowed to live a life without regrets afterward.

## Story

### War for Equestria arc

As Zeke Yeager is dying from the wounds inflicted by a Thunder Spear explosion, he has a vision of Ymir, in tattered clothes, in a world full of sand. A Titan approaches him and opens its abdomen to put his body inside.[17] Zeke awakens inside the unknown land to Ymir Fritz rebuilding his body using the surrounding earth, and he sees trails of light in the sky above. Zeke later comes out of the Titan, fully recovered, and speculates that what he just saw are paths.