Founding Titan

Annie's titan form

"God"

"King of Titans"

### Abilities

Titan creation, Titan behavioral control, memory manipulation of Subjects of Ymir

### Current inheritor

Annie Reiss

The **Founding Titan** is one of the Nine Titans, and the first of all Titans. Its Scream can create and control other Titans, and modify the memories of Subjects of Ymir, but this power can only be used by the royal family under normal circumstances. It is currently in the possession of Annie\_Reiss

According to Marley's Titan Biology Research Society, the Founding Titan is the point where the "paths" that connect all Subjects of Ymir and Titans cross. Because of this, those who hail from Marley sometimes call it the "Coordinate".

## Abilities

The Founding Titan has several abilities that are activated by screaming. The inheritor of the Founding Titan does not have to transform in order to use these abilities, and human screams would suffice. Furthermore, the screams do not have to be loud or even "screams": Frieda Reiss used the memory alteration ability by casually talking, although her target was only Historia who was right in front her.

### **Titan creation**

The Founding Titan can transform Subjects of Ymir into Titans, and can even make them as massive as the Colossus Titan. Karl Fritz used this ability to create the thousands of Colossus Titans that make up the Walls.

### **Titan control**

By screaming, the Founding Titan grants its user the ability to control Titans at will and make them follow virtually any order. It appears to be 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 Colossus 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 Colossus Titans that span across a large portion of Paradis Island. Rod Reiss claimed the power has the capacity to wipe out all the Titans, if used to its full potential.

### **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. These memories, however, appear to be accessible in dreams, as Historia would sometimes be able to dream about her encounters with Frieda, although she would forget about them once she awoke. Anyone who is not a Subject of Ymir is unaffected by this ability.

## 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 with royal blood. It is implied by Zeke Yeager that it does not matter if the Titan of royal blood is a Pure Titan or one of the Nine Titans, such as the Beast Titan.

If the inheritor touches a human of royal blood, although the full power of the Founding Titan is still locked, some snippets of the previous inheritors' memories can be realised. 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. Even before he inherited the Founding Titan, he believed that the Eldian Empire committed too many atrocities towards the world, and the Eldians should be locked up inside his "paradise" within the Walls, segregated from the rest of the world; the Titans sent by Marley help prevent the Eldians from leaving the Walls, fulfilling this goal. He made a vow renouncing war to stop Eldia from ever using the Founding Titan again to devastate the world.

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. However, Frieda Reiss called the people inside the Walls "sinners," and used to suffer from fits of madness and depression. Frieda, who is normally kind to Historia, once became furious at her for attempting to go over the fence surrounding her farm.

The vow also prevents them from using the Founding Titan's true power for combat, even for self defense. Karl Fritz knew that the paradise he made for the Eldians is only temporary, and that one day, Marley or the other nations of the world will invade. He accepted any form of retribution the world decides for the Eldians, even extermination, and his vow forces any inheritor of royal blood to comply. No matter what, they will not fight back against any attack against the Eldians, and if the Eldians are slaughtered, so be it.

The vow only applies to the royal family; therefore, the Founding Titan can still be used for war if it is inherited by someone outside of the royal family, and then that person touches a Titan of royal blood.

## 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 order was nonetheless maintained thanks to the Founding Titan.

After these seventeen centuries, the Founding Titan was inherited by Karl Fritz, the 145th 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 Colossus Titans in the building of three Walls: Maria, Rose, and Sheena. In the absence of the Founding Titan, the Great Titan War began. 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. Once the people were gathered within the Walls, King 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, King 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, King 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 Reiss from his father. Early in his life with the Founder, Uri protected himself from Kenny Ackerman 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 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. When three years had passed, the fall of Wall Maria began. After hearing of the attack on Shiganshina District, the Reiss family gathered in the underground cavern beneath the chapel where the Founding Titan had been passed on for generations. In the year 845 Grisha Jaeger attacked the royal family and failed to steal the Founding Titan. A year later, Annie Reiss became queen and in 848 she ordered Frieda to be chained down in the Reiss chapel so she could possess the founding titan's power.