Founding Titan

Historia Reiss' TItan Form

Cardel I Reiss

Uri "the Unfaithful" Reiss

Frieda "the False" Reiss

The **Founding Titan**, also known as the **Coordinate**, or the **Queen-Founder** (during Historia III Reiss' reign) is the first, foremost, and greatest of the Nine Great Titan Powers. Whomever holds the Founding Titan reigns supreme over the Eldian world, and every Subject of Ymir, save a few exempt bloodlines, are bound to it's will. From the founding of the Old Eldian Empire, the Coordinate has been passed down through the Fritz Royal Family for two-thousand years before it was replaced by House Reiss.

Traditionally, the holder of the Founding Titan inherit the title it holds-- God-King of Eldia.

It's current Shifter-Holder is Historia III Reiss, King of the Walls.

## Abilities

The divine power of the Founding Titan's is one that, when used properly, can be used through thought alone. Whoever is in possession of the Founding Titan does not have to transform in order to use its abilities, and the wishes of its Holder would suffice. However, the further away a Subject of Ymir is, the less complex an order can be given.

### Titan Control

By simply commanding it, the Founding Titan grants its user the ability to control Titans at will and make them follow any and every order. It was 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 many hosts of Titans for war; however, once set loose, these Titans became indiscriminate weapons of mass destruction if not directly controlled by the Founder. This ability has no known definitive range, although Karl the Coward used it to command Colossal Titans that span across a large portion of Paradis Island.

### 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: As noted by Erwin Smith, Titans are simply transformed humans (specifically, the Subjects of Ymir); therefore, the screams that control the minds of the former should be able to affect the latter as well. 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. It was also used by Frieda Reiss to remove Historia's memories of her visits. Anyone who is not a Subject of Ymir is unaffected by this ability, such as the Ackermann family and the Oriental clan.

### Divine Power

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.

Above all, the Founding Titan is the sole God of the Eldian people-- It is able to control all facets of an Eldian's life, from the very biology of a Subject to an Eldian's mind. It is theorized that, if the Founding Titan wished for the instant Titanization of Eldians around the world, it need merely wish the thought into being, and it would become so.

## Royal Blood

Only Eldians with Royal Blood in their veins can fully use the powers of the Founding Titan. In it's two-thousand years of existence, it has never fallen outside the direct Fritz Lineage.

## History

Nearly 2,000 years ago, Ymir Fritz gained the power of the Titans and became the first of all Titans, the Founding Titan. After holding her power for 13 years, Ymir died by unknown means, and her power was split between nine inheritors, each one having one of the Nine Titans. For the next 1,700 years, the Founding Titan presumably remained within her direct descendants in the royal Fritz family. The Eldian Empire, founded by the Nine Titans after Ymir's death, possessed a history of strife for control over the Titans between the various familial houses subservient to the royal family, but the order was nonetheless maintained thanks to the Founding Titan.

After these seventeen centuries, the Founding Titan was inherited by Karl the Coward, the 145th Fritz King. Karl 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. Eventually, the Founding Titan was inherited by Uri the Unfaithful from his father. Early in his life with the Founder, Uri protected himself from Kenny Ackermann using his Titan, and he would later become a close friend of his would-be assassin.

Sometime later, in the year 842, Uri Reiss passed on the Founding Titan to his niece Frieda "the False" Reiss, daughter of his older brother Rod Reiss. Frieda presumably made little use of the Founding Titan for the next three years, though on occasion she visited her half-sister Historia Reiss and used the Founding Titan to erase her memories of each visit.

Follow the Paradisian Succession Crisis, the Founding Titan was seized by Historia Reiss.

## Religious Symbolism and Revived Cult Following

### God-Monarch

Though the official religion of the Old Eldian Empire was centered around Ymir-Worship, the Founding Titan, and thus, the Fritz Royal Family, gained a religious following as gods on earth.