Founding Titan

* Frieda Reiss
* Uri Reiss
* Karl Fritz
* Ymir Fritz

The **Founding Titan** is one of the Nine Titans that was once in the possession of the Reiss family, who passed it down from generation to generation. Its screams can alter the minds of both humans and Titans, but in the case of the former, some bloodlines are exempt from its power, but this power had historically only been able to be used by members of the royal family.

The Warriors seek to recover the Founding Titan's power for Marley, and they call it the "**Coordinate**", because it is the point where all paths intersect.

## Abilities

The Founding Titan's power is used by screaming. Whoever is in possession of the Founding Titan does not have to transform in order to use its abilities, and the screams of a human would suffice. Furthermore, the screams do not have to be loud or even "screams": Frieda Reiss was able to use the memory alteration ability by casually talking.

### Titan control

By screaming, the Founding Titan grants its user the ability to control Titans at will and make them follow virtually any order. This is only effective on Pure Titans, although those with the power of the Titans can still feel its influence. It was also used by Karl Fritz to build the Walls, commanding many Colossal Titans to harden their bodies and confine themselves into the resulting structures. In ancient times, Eldia used to use this ability to command an army of Titans for war; however, once set loose, these Titans became indiscriminate weapons of mass destruction that would slaughter Eldia's enemies. This ability has no known range, although Karl Fritz used it to command Colossal Titans that span across a large portion of Paradis Island. Rod Reiss claimed the power has the capacity to control and wipe out all the Titans, if used to its full potential.*[citation needed]*

### Memory manipulation

The Founding Titan is able to modify the minds and memories of the Subjects of Ymir, even entire populations at once. This ability is related to the Titan control ability. It was used by Karl Fritz to make the Subjects of Ymir inside the Walls forget the history of the world before the Walls' installation.

### Anatomical manipulation

The Founding Titan is capable of changing the body composition of any Subject of Ymir. An Eldian king from 600 years ago once used this power to make the Subjects of Ymir immune to a rampant epidemic.

Additionally, the Founding Titan was known to have a height of around 13 m. However, it was possible that this size restriction is not as definite as it is with the other eight members of the Nine Titans; two examples of this can be seen with a life-giving anomaly that Ymir Fritz encountered via physical contact, which granted her the Power of the Titans, while gaining the immense form of the Founding Titan. Her Founding Titan body was far larger than any of the 9 Titans that succeeded her, including the Colossal Titan.

## Bloodline necessity

Only those with royal blood—the Fritz or Reiss royal families—are able to use the true power of the Founding Titan. However, if the Founding Titan is inherited by someone outside of the royal family, the power can still be used if the inheritor is in physical contact with a Titan, either Pure or Intelligent, with royal blood.

If the inheritor touches a human of royal blood who has no Titan power, although the full power of the Founding Titan is still locked, some snippets of the previous inheritors' memories can be realized. However, these memories are erratic and do not always come.

## Vow renouncing war

Despite having the ability to control the Titans, no Founding Titan of royal blood after the Great Titan War expressed any desire to get rid of the Titans outside the Walls, even if the inheritor had expressed that desire previously. This is because these Founding Titans inherited the ideology of Karl Fritz along with his memories.

The vow "possesses" the King's successors and greatly changes their personality: They become compassionate, desire to create a "paradise" inside the Walls, and preach about peace and love among mankind.

### Circumventing the vow

The vow only applied to members of the royal family; therefore, the vow could be bypassed if the inheritor of the Founding Titan was not related to the royal family and was in physical contact with someone of royal blood.

## History

Nearly 2,000 years ago, Ymir Fritz's village was attacked and enslaved by the Eldians, who then cut out their tongues. One day after a pig was released, the tribe's ruler, Fritz, called all of the slaves and asked for the culprit. The slaves all began to point at Ymir, who was then "freed" only to be hunted by dogs and men.

Wounded and desperate, Ymir took shelter in a nearby tree, but as soon as she stepped in, she slipped and fell into an underground body of water. There, she came into contact with a mysterious spine-like creature which attached to her back and triggered the first Titan transformation.

With her newfound power, Ymir returned to serve Fritz and used her Titan to cultivate land, build bridges, and amass wealth for the Eldians. Under his command, she also destroyed the forces of Eldia's rival, Marley. To "reward" Ymir for her service, Fritz took her as his concubine giving her his name and, together the two had three children: Maria, Rose, and Sina.

After these seventeen centuries, the Founding Titan was inherited by Karl Fritz, the 145th Fritz King. King Fritz chose to abandon the conflicts of Eldia and relocated the capital of Eldia to Paradis Island where he used the Founding Titan to create many Colossal Titans in the building of three Walls: Maria, Rose, and Sina. In the absence of the Founding Titan, the Great Titan War continued. Over the course of the war, Eldia lost all its territory on the continental mainland to Marley and its people fled overseas to Paradis Island where they entered into the Walls.

Some time after the people were gathered within the Walls, Karl Fritz used the Founding Titan to erase the memories of the outside world from most of the population's minds, leading them to believe they were the last remnants of humanity in a world overrun by the Titans.

Upon the closing of the gates of Wall Maria, Karl Fritz announced to his relatives who chose to remain across the sea that a pact had been made with the **Founding Titan**. In order to secure peace for Eldia while simultaneously arranging for the nation's eventual destruction, Karl Fritz ensured that all successors after him would be overcome by his will if they chose to use the Founding Titan for Eldia's sake. Some time afterward, the King passed his power over to his descendants in the royal family, now known as the Reiss family.

For generations, the Reiss family passed the Founding Titan down from successor to successor.