The Rumbling

*Hear me, Subjects of Ymir. My name is Eren Yeager. I'm adressing my fellow Subjects of Ymir, speaking to you directly through the power of the Founder. All the walls on the island of Paradis have crumbled to the ground, and the legions of Titans burried with in have begun their march. My only goal is to protect the lives of the people of Paradis the island where I was born. Right now, the nations of the world are united in the desire to exterminate my people, and it won't end with our island. They won't be satsified until every last Subject of Ymir is dead. I won't let them have their way. The Titans of the walls, will continue their march until every trace of life beyond our shores is trampled flat, and the people of Paradis are all that remains of humanity.*

Eren's message to all Subjects of Ymir

## Stats

### Name

Rumbling
地鳴らし
*Jinarashi*

### Location

* Paradis Island
* Marley

## Overview

The **rumbling** (地鳴らし *Jinarashi*?, also translated as **earth-shaking**) was cataclysmic event involving Karl Fritz's Wall Titans marching across the earth, destroying all life upon it. It was a key deterrence factor for the Subjects of Ymir on Paradis Island until the year 854 when Eren Yeager unhardened the Walls, freed the Wall Titans, and began the Rumbling.

## History

During the final days of the Great Titan War between Marley and the Eldian Empire, King Karl Fritz used the power of the Founding Titan to raise three Walls on Paradis Island: Maria, Rose, and Sheena, each named for the three daughters of Ymir Fritz. These Walls were constructed from the hardened flesh of countless Colossal Titans created with the Founding Titan's power.[2]

Upon gathering the remnants of the Eldian Empire into the Walls and closing the gates to the outside world, Karl Fritz issued one final declaration which assured the enemies of Eldia that if Paradis were to come under attack, the Founding Titan would unleash the Wall Titans to trample the earth into ruin.[1] However, Karl Fritz secretly confided with the Tybur family and the remaining Fritz family on the mainland that this ultimatum was an empty threat of deterrence. In truth, Karl Fritz made a "vow renouncing war" with the Founding Titan ensuring that none of his successors would use the Founding Titan to threaten the world again, allowing for Eldia to live in a brief paradise before their enemies would arrive to destroy Eldia as Karl Fritz believed they deserved to be.

As Karl Fritz had hoped, no open declaration of war or act of aggression was made against the people of the Walls for over a century, though Marley would use the lands beyond the Walls on Paradis Island as a penal colony for criminal or undesirable Subjects of Ymir transformed into Pure Titans.[5] However, over eighty years after the end of the Great Titan War, Marley's declining military industry turned the nation's attention towards Paradis and the fossil fuels hidden beneath Eldian lands. Despite the vow renouncing war being known to Marley through the Tybur family, the threat of the rumbling was too great a risk to attempt a full scale invasion. Instead, Marley began training the Warrior Unit in preparation for the Paradis Island Operation, an infiltration of the Walls with the power of the Titans that would not provoke the attention of the King of the Walls with military force. Likewise, the Eldian Restorationists led at this time by Grisha Yeager attempted to use this Warrior program to infiltrate the Walls in the same fashion in order to steal the Founding Titan to restore Eldia.[6]

In the year 845, the power of the Attack Titan causes Grisha Yeager to inherit future memories from his son Eren, revealing the Fall of Wall Maria later that day. Grisha flees to the chapel of the Reiss family where he is influenced by the will of Eren in the distant future to steal the power of the Founding Titan and slaughter the Reiss family. The future memories of the Attack Titan reveal to Grisha the sight of the rumbling that Eren will create.

## Story

### Assault on Stohess arc

During the Survey Corps's attempt to capture Annie Leonhart, a portion of Wall Sheena in Stohess District is damaged by Annie's Female Titan, revealing the face of a Wall Titan within it. This revelation causes great confusion among the Survey Corps and panic in Minister Nick of the Church of the Walls, demanding the Corps to cover the face of the Titan before sunlight could reach it. The presence of the Titan in Wall Sheena leads Squad Leader Hange Zoë to quickly deduce that all of the Walls must contain Titans within them. This creates unease among soldiers such as Armin Arlert, who wonders at the possibility of all Titans within the Walls emerging to walk.

### Gala arc

In Call of the Cutie, Apple Bloom has a vision of The Rumbling

### Amber Eyes arc

Upon discovering the journals of Grisha Yeager in the Yeager family's basement in Shiganshina District, the Survey Corps learns of the nature of the rumbling as a deterrence factor that has kept enemies of Eldia away from Paradis Island for over a century until five years ago. During a gathering to discuss the findings of Grisha's journals, the leaders of the military in the Walls discuss how the power of the Founding Titan to release the Wall Titans may be achieved despite the vow renouncing war. Recalling his encounter with a Titan whom he later realized was Dina Fritz, Eren Yeager realizes he can still bring out the Founding Titan's power despite his non-royal blood as long as he is in contact with a royal-blooded Titan, though he keeps this realization to himself for the sake of Queen Historia Reiss.

Shortly afterward during a ceremony a moment of contact between Eren and Historia opens a glimpse into Eren's future memories where he sees himself influencing the decision of his father Grisha in stealing the power of the Founding Titan and slaughtering the Reiss family. At this time, Eren sees the sight of the rumbling that he will cause in the future.

### Twilight's Kingdom arc

After reaveling their Titan forms to Equestria, Reiner tells Twilight about The Rumbling.

### Struggle for Ponyville arc

The Princesses of Equestria have a disscusion about the rumbling, and the effect it would most likely have on Equestria.

### Raid on Manehatten arc

Reiner Braun thinks back to his time spent spying on the Eldians within the Walls before his entry into 104th Training Corps. At this time, Reiner reminded himself and his fellow Warriors Bertolt Hoover and Annie Leonhart that the threat of the rumbling and the fate of all humanity depended upon the success of their mission. After the conclusion of The Lynch King's Assualt, Willy Tybur is recruited by Zeke Yeager to announce to the world the threat that Grogar posess in order to remove global hostility towards the Subjects of Ymir, and other Equestrian speices as a whole. During his speech before the international ambassadors and journalists, Willy reminds the audience of the many Wall Titans present on the island and the possibility of Eren Yeager unleashing these Titans upon the world. Willy suggest that this may be the only way to defeat Grogar.

In the aftermath of the Raid on Manehatten which soon followed Willy Tybur's declaration, Armin Arlert recalls Paradis's first encounter the Anti-Marleyan Volunteers, a secret organization of Marleyan soldiers conscripted from foreign nations who all wish to aid Eldia against Marley with the help of Zeke Yeager. Through the Volunteers, Zeke proposed cooperation with Paradis to bring Zeke into contact with Eren Yeager to begin a small-scale rumbling which will further deter enemy attacks until Paradis can reach a point of technological advancement sufficient enough to no longer rely on the power of the Titans for protection. While the various military leaders of Paradis were openly against cooperation with Zeke, a former enemy, Eren revealed his discovery of a royal-blooded Titan acting as a potential loophole for the Founding Titan's power, thus making the rumbling a possibility for Paradis, and Equestria to use in self-defense.

### War for Paradis arc

While Eren is imprisoned for his reckless actions taken during the raid on manehatten, Commander Erwin discusses their past introduction to Kiyomi Azumabito, ambassador from Hizuru and ally of Zeke. When discussing the requirements to make Eldia a self-sustaining nation on Paradis Island, Kiyomi had proposed the use of the rumbling as deterrence for at least a period of 50 years while Paradis, and Equestria caught up technologically with contemporary nations. Despite his foresight of the rumbling which would occur two years later, Eren refused to comply with Zeke's plan to use the rumbling and pass his Beast Titan to Historia to ensure the perpetuity of the process, deciding instead to pursue diplomatic solutions for Equestria. Regardless, the rumbling would become a key factor in the military alliance between Eldia, Equestria and Hizuru.

One year later, Hizuru's trade proposals for Paradis Island failed, once again leaving them with only the rumbling as deterrence. As one final alternative, the Survey Corps embarked on an undercover survey to Marley in order to gauge global sentiments towards Eldia for themselves. Despite public favor increasing for Subjects of Ymir worldwide, Paradis Island remained a point of high hostility at this time, causing Eren to abandon the Survey Corps in order to pursue his own agenda.

Shortly after Eren escapes imprisonment, Grogar launches an assault upon Canterlot in order to take the Founding Titan from Eren. Having kidnapped Annie Leonhardt, Porco Galliard, and Fluttershy and placing microchips inside of them, three ponies began to destroy the captail as the Female Titan, the Jaw Titan, and The Colossal Titan. When Zeke arrives upon the battlefield, Marleyan forces desperately try to prevent Zeke and Eren from coming into contact and unleashing the Wall Titans. After learning of Zeke's true plan to use the Founding Titan to sterilize the Subjects of Ymir, Armin speculates on Eren's true motivation for conspiring with Zeke. Deducing that Eren would instead use the Founding Titan to unleash the Titans in Shiganshina's Walls, Armin trusts that Eren is on their side. When Eren, and Zeke come into contact, an instantaneous moment in time occurs where Eren comes to understand that Zeke's will as a descendant of the royal family supersedes his own will as the Founder's carrier. Eren learns that the Founding Titan's power is dependent on the will of Ymir Fritz, forever enslaved to obey the will of the royal family who enslaved her in life 2,000 years ago. When Ymir prepares to carry out Zeke's will to sterilize the Subjects of Ymir, Eren urges her to reject her duties and act in her own will.

Breaking free from her enslavement to the royal family, Ymir instead sides with Eren's will, unhardening all the Walls on Paradis Island. With the full power of the Founding Titan, Eren telepathically declares his will to all Subjects of Ymir that he has unleashed the Wall Titans upon the world to crush all life beyond Paradis Island. Eren then leads the Colossal Titans on a northward march, unhindered by the Marleyan and Eldian soldiers preoccupied with Zeke's Titans throughout the city.

After several days, the last of the Wall Titans begin to leave Eldian territory on Paradis Island.[8] By this time, the remaining Marleyan Warriors on the island join forces with Eren's former friends in an attempt to pursue him and stop the rumbling.[9] While the allied soldiers are left to confront Floch Forster and the Yeagerists guarding Paradis Island's port, Eren and the Colossal Titans approach the Marleyan mainland,[10] crossing the sea by swimming.[11] Hange Zoë estimates that in the half a day it would take to prepare the Azumabito family's flying boat to pursue Eren, the rumbling will have already destroyed up to 600 kilometers inland, the entire continent to follow in as few as four days.[12]

While the allied soldiers are en route to Odiha in pursuit of Eren, the rumbling arrives on the northeastern Marleyan coast, completely bypassing the fleet of the global alliance and shrugging off all artillery fire during their advance

Many civilians were left behind in the slaughter as the Marleyan military fled ahead of them without providing warning to the masses of the incoming Rumbling. The Titans advanced southward, trampling cities into ruin and climbing over mountain ranges to outpace the fleeing populations on the roads.

During his genocide, Eren remained unfazed by the deaths of millions, seeing instead the sprawling sight of a free world ahead of him, the sight he had forever long for.

Although the allied soldiers arrived in Odiha with enough time to adequately prepare the flying boat for flight, the Rumbling arrived at the city shortly before they were able to fuel the craft. To provide the engineers enough time to get the flying boat underway, Commander Hange stayed behind to kill the Titans closest to the hangar bay, appointing Armin Arlert to be the next Commander of the Scout Regiment shortly before dying to the Titans' heat.

As the soldiers flew from Odiha, the city was annihilated under the Titans' feet.

Any survivors of the Rumbling on the continental mainland of Marley regrouped at Fort Salta in the southern mountainous regions of the country. When the Founding Titan and the force of the Rumbling approached the fort, the Marleyan military sent out a fleet of airships to drop an arsenal of explosives on the Titans to halt their advance.

Despite their best efforts, Fort Salta's bombardment was largely ineffective, and the Founding Titan formed a husk of Zeke Jaeger's Beast Titan to assault the airships, rapidly destroying Marley's last offensive. Not long afterwards, the flying boat arrived and deploys the Scouts alongside the Cart Titan and Armored Titan to halt Eren's advance.

## Participants

1. Eren Yeager/Founding Titan
2. Mikasa Ackerman
3. Armin Arlert
4. Twilight Sparkle
5. Applejack
6. Rainbow Dash
7. Rarity
8. Pinkie Pie
9. Fluttershy/Colossal Titan
10. Spike
11. Princess Celestia
12. Princess Luna
13. Princess Cadance
14. Shinning Armor
15. Starlight Glimmer
16. Sunburst
17. Apple Bloom
18. Sweetie Belle/Warhammer Titan
19. Scootaloo
20. Sandbar
21. Yona
22. Gallus
23. Smolder
24. Silverstream
25. Ocellus
26. Theo Magath
27. Tempest Shadow
28. Rico Brenzska
29. Cozy Glow/Jaw Titan
30. Tirek
31. Queen Chrysalis
32. Bertholdt Hoover/Colossal Titan
33. Grisha Yeager/Attack Titan
34. Reiner Braun/Armored Titan
35. Annie Leonhart/Female Titan
36. Jean Kirstein
37. Connie Springer
38. Histoira Reiss/Beast Titan
39. Sasha Braus
40. Ymir/Jaw Titan
41. Hange Zoë
42. Levi Ackerman
43. Erwin Smith
44. Mr. Leonhart
45. Zeke Yeager
46. Marcel Galliard/Jaw Titan
47. Ymir Fritz
48. Pieck Finger/Cart Titan
49. Tom Ksaver/Beast Titan
50. Eren Kruger/Attack Titan
51. Lara Tybur/Warhammer Titan
52. Falco Grice
53. Gabi Braun
54. Porco Galliard/Jaw Titan
55. Karina Braun
56. Kiyomi Azumabito
57. Yelena
58. Onyankopon
59. Ramzi
60. Halil
61. Muller
62. Thunderlane
63. Rumble
64. Samuel Linkie Jackson
65. Daz
66. Mr. Pieck
67. Coconut Cream
68. Pipsqueak
69. Wind Sprit
70. Flash Magnus
71. Starswirl The Bearded
72. Mistmane
73. Mage Medowbrooks
74. Sonambula
75. Rockhoof
76. Berryshine
77. Lyra Heartstrings
78. Sweetie Drops
79. Diamond Tiara
80. Princess Skystar
81. Hitch Dreys
82. Dot Pixys
83. Marlo Freudenburg
84. Big Macanitosh
85. Granny Smith
86. Babs Seed
87. Braeburn
88. Double Diamond
89. Party Favor
90. Night Glider
91. Nile Dok
92. Udo Bock
93. Zofia Reitsch
94. Petra Ral
95. Eld Jinn
96. Oruo Bozad
97. Gunther Schultz
98. Moblit Berner
99. Ian Dietrech
100. Mitabi Jarnach
101. Keith Shadis
102. Kitz Wooreman
103. Marco Bodt

## Deaths

1. Sameul Linkie Jackson
2. Daz
3. Sorian
4. Spitfire
5. Suprise
6. High Winds
7. Theo Magath
8. Tempest Shadow
9. Ramzi
10. Halil
11. Mr. Yeager
12. Mrs. Yeager
13. Thunderlanes
14. Rumble
15. Hange Zoe
16. Zeke Yeager