#i guess this is exile but the original concept i wanted was post revival so maybe ill come back to the idea

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[SPOILERS] The unresolved plot points of SNK

Hello friends,

I collected the unresolved plot points of “Shingeki No Kyojin”. And I translated it into English.

Warning: It’s a very long post.

I am happy to share it with everyone. :D You are welcome to point out mistakes in it. Thanks!

◇Updated on May 13, 2018: ◇The unresolved plot points:

◆The Riddles of the situation: 1. Before Eren was born, there was an epidemic sweeping through the inside of the wall.   How did the pathogen of this epidemic spread into the wall? 2. From the experience of Eren acquiring the ability to harden skin, it is known that a certain type of liquid is needed to be assimilated if someone want to get the ability.   Is Survey Corps still looking for the information about the certain type of liquid? 3. "No. . . They (——the things same as which found in Rod's bag) could still be somewhere. " said Levi.   Where will they be found? 4. As the human can only destroy each other, what can we do for our friends? 5. What's people's response after Wall Maria was recaptured? Does People believe they will live on? Can Survey Corps make them believe that humans can determine their own destiny? (Ch. 73) 6. At the meeting, Hanji heard Eren suddenly shout, and then she said, "Ah. . .  I see.  So this is it. " Why did Hanji give Eren cover? Was this only a cover, or did she get Eren's idea? At that time, Armin was aware of Eren's unusual reaction.   Will he try to guess Eren's idea, and then find the way to use the coordinate?(CH. 89) 7. Why did the 32 warships which sailed to Paradise have accidents? Where are the warships now? What will the ships be used for? 8. What will the fossil fuel on Paradise be used for? 9. Is the army that the original Survey Corps soldiers are now participating in still Survey Corps? Has the system changed? 10. Since the other countries are far more hostile to the Eldians than Marley, what will happen to the Eldians who are staying in the other countries in future? 11. Marley soldiers got a confession from Grisha, "(Owl) seems to be even using the lure of the Progenitor Titan Power to acquire additional support from the hostile country to the east of Marley, and pushing for the establishment of the place of exile. " What were the hostile country to the east of Marley intending to do? 12. In the past, human beings were divided into many races.   After the time and space of the work have expanded, what are the existing races of mankind in detail? 13. What will Levi ask Eren? 14. What did Eren write in the letter? 15. Has the Eldia Empire really be rebuilt? Who want to rebuild the empire? 16. How will Gabi and Falco be treated?

◆The Riddles of the Liberio Internment Zone 1. Karina Braun, and Annie's father, how's them going? 2. Before the war, the two soldiers who were guarding the gate of the Liberio Internment Zone, one of them was tall and the other one was fat were monitoring Falco's operation.   What danger would Falco face? Since Falco sent a letter, will it be suspected by the Marley authorities that he is a remnant of the Eldia Revival Faction? 3. Before the war, did Eren arrange with Mikasa? 4. What did Zeke plot? Was he heading the conspiracy with someone? 5. Who sent the baseball and glove? If they were from Zeke, what did Zeke and Eren plot? 6. Whose conversation was Zeke listening to? (At the end of CH. 97) 7. Where was Zeke going? What was he going to do? (CH. 100) 8. Who are the people who helped the power of Paradise? 9. Are there Marley Warriors' names on Magath's book? If so, how will the demolition plan be pushed forward? 10. What are the origin of the men in black hats and clothes? What were they doing? 11. What's Kiyomi's position? What's her purpose of coming to ceremony? Why did Kiyomi pay a visit to Willie before the show? Where was Kiyomi going and what was she going to do after visiting Willie? 12. Why did Kiyomi help Udo out and prevent him from being severely punished even though she knew that he was Eldian.   13. Why is the Internment Zone named for Liberio? 14. How did the soldiers of Paradise get the ship? 15. Will Colt hand Lobov's omni-directional mobility action in to Marleyan for research?

◆The Riddles of Eren: 1. In CH. 01 of manga and EP01 of SE01, why did Eren dream of Mikasa and some strange happenings, wake up in tears? Which period did the memory that Eren dreamt about belong to? Why can he dream about what would happen in the future?

2.  Why did Eren's titan attack Mikasa during Eren's third transformation? At that time, why did he fail to understand and not recognize Mikasa when Mikasa called his name? Why did he fail to understand the combat target, and continue to attack Mikasa? 3. When will Eren disclose an available method of using the coordinate is making the man who have the royal blood become a titan, and then touching the titan? Will Eren turn Histria into a titan, control other titans by touching her? 4. When Eren recalled and retold owl's words, why did he touch right wrist? (CH. 88)

◆The Riddles of the Arlart: 1. In the animation, why is the narrator Armin? 2. Why did Armin's grandfather have banned books about the outside world?

◆The Riddles of the Braun: 1. What's the relationship between the Armored Titan, the Braun, and the soldier Moses Braun in CH. 01? 2. Reiner can transfer his brain function/consciousness to the whole body's neural network.   Why? 3. In CH. 47 of Vol. 12, Reiner said to Ymir, "I promise! Only Christa, I must get her out of this war! We. . .  mark our words! " He also reaffirmed in CH. 77 that, "I promised to Ymir that I must get her out of the way.  Yes, it must be. " Will he fulfil his promise?

◆The Riddles of the Leonheart: When will the crystal which covered Annie be lifted?

◆The Riddles of the Springer: 1. Will the way to turn Connie's mother back to normal be found? What's the method? 2. "I have to kill that Beast Titan," Connie said.   Will he do that? 3. Connie said he want to return the favor of Reiner and Annie.   When and how?

◆The Riddles of the Ackerman: 1. How did the Ackerman, a by-product of the Titan Research, come into being? 2. Some of the Ackerman had a moment.   A force suddenly awakened.  The powerful force suddenly gushed out of the body.  At that time, Ackerman knew exactly what to do.   Why did that happen? 3. Why can't king brainwash the Ackerman? How will it affect the future plot? 4. Levi promised Erwin to kill the Beast Titan.   Will he kill Zeke by himself?

◆The Riddles of the Eastern Nation: 1. When Mikasa suffers from the death of family member, or recalls the death of family members in the past, she always will have a headache, even feel pain from tattoo.   Why? (Is it because of memory?) 2. Why did the ancestors of Mikasa's mother come to Paradise? 3. There is a tattoo on the Eastern Nation people's right wrist.   What's the use of it? 4. Owl asked the hostile country to the east of Marley for help, pushed for the establishment of the place of exile.   Will the Eastern Nation help Eldians now? (CH. 87) 5. What role did the Eastern Nation play in history? What plot will be caused by the Eastern Nation?

◆The Riddles of Zeke: 1. After Zeke brought the omni-directional mobility action back, what was the result of the research? (CH. 35) 2. "One day I'll get you out of here. " Zeke said to Eren.   Now Eren has come to the mainland, what will Zeke do? (CH. 83) 3. When grandpa Yeager said to Zeke, "You have successfully completed the task. . . ", why did Zeke answer him, ". . .  No, not yet. " What task does Zeke have to accomplish? 4. How did the scar on Zeke's left arm come from? Why couldn't he repair the scar after he inherited the power of titan? 5. Why can Zeke command and control titans by howling and thumping? Why is it necessary for Eldians to be injected with his spinal fluid? 6. Zeke always will take off his shirt, when he becomes the titan.   Why? 7. When Grisha and Dina were taken away, a man with a pair of glasses was crying on Zeke's shoulder.   Who is the man?

◆The Riddles of the Fritz: 1. Why did Ymir Fritz need the power of the Titan? 2. The real identity of the girl who described in the fairy tale that Frieda read to Historia, should be Ymir Fritz.   Is her real name "Christa"? 3. Why can Karl Fritz CXLV contract with the Progenitor Titan?

◆The Riddles of the Galliard: Why didn't Porco see the memory of his brother Marcel?

◆The Riddles of the Grice Why did Falco forget that the army of Marley were fighting?

◆The Main Riddles of the Titan: 1. Why are the subjects of Ymir all connected by something invisible? Why are there paths which connect the subjects of Ymir and titans? And the blood and bones of titans, the memory and the will of someone can be sent through those paths.   Why is that?   Where do the blood and bones of titans come from? 2. Blood relatives have a much better chance of inheriting memories along with one of the nine titans.   How will this concept design be reflected in the future plot? 3. What's the use of coordinate in detail? 4. What effect will the concept design of paths have on the future plot? 5. Why is titan's only source of power sunlight? 6. Why is titan's body unusually light? 7. Why are there mindless titans? Do the pure titans have the possibility of regaining the power of thinking and communicating with human? 8. When Eldian becomes a titan, the titan will burst out with a strong light.   Why? 9. In the experiment of Eren's titan, Eren's integration with the titan's body deepened as he became titan over and over again.   Would Eren be turned into titan completely if others left he to be unchecked? 10. After the pure titan absorbs intelligent titan's spinal fluid, the human body which has previously assimilated with the pure titan's body will reappear.   Why? 11. Titans eat human beings.   The Eldian who is injected titan's spinal fluid will become a pure titan.   The titan will gain the power of titan and be returned into human beings, if it eat the host of the power of titan.   What's the rational explanation for these phenomenons? 12. The host of intelligent titan must have a clear purpose if he want to become titan.   What does it have to do with the origin, the chemistry, and the principle of the titan? 13. If someone who holds the power of one of the nine titans dies without anyone inheriting that power, then the power of titan will be suddenly inherited by a baby belonging to the subjects of Ymir.   Why? 14. Why can Historia see Rod's memories when she killed Rod?

◆The Riddles of the Progenitor Titan: 1. There was a sound like the beep of an electric current, when the Progenitor Titan's host used power to remove memories, and when Eren triggered the coordinate.   Why? 2. Let someone with the blood of the royal family become a titan, and then let Eren touch this titan.  It's the only way to trigger the coordinate.   Why? 3. What's the coordinate positioning capability told by Reiner? (CH. 75) 4. The paths will intersect at the coordinate.  All titans and all of the subjects of Ymir will be connected to the coordinate.   Why is that? Why coordinate is the Progenitor Titan? 5. Why can the Fritz awaken the memories of the Progenitor Titan's host by touching the Progenitor Titan's host? When will Eren recall the whole things? 6. Why can the Progenitor Titan falsify Eldians' memories? 7. Which families didn't Karl Fritz falsify their memories?

◆The Riddles of the Attack Titan: 1. Why did Marley fail to bring in the Attack Titan? 2. How did the power of the Attack Titan wander about? 3. At the end of CH. 89, whose memory did Eren Kruger recall? Why was the future memories transmitted into previous time? Why did Owl have the thought that "saving Mikasa, Armin, and everyone. " in his memory? 4. Why didn't the Attack Titan have the ability to harden skin?

◆The Riddles of the War Hammer Titan: 1. Since the War Hammer Titan can make various things, and is it related to building walls, building the vast underground space of Reiss's territories, building the underground streets below the capital city? 2. What did Eren see after he inherited the War Hammer Titan?

◆The Riddles of the Jaw Titan: Marley and Paradise have learned the power of the Jaw Titan.   What are they intending to do?

◆The Riddles of the Titan Chemistry: 1. What's the Marley government's titan chemistry research society in detail? 2. Where do Marleyan produce the titan's spinal fluid for injection? 3. When the spinal fluid in the bottle is exposed to air, it will evaporate.   so how can it be protected from evaporation in the process from extraction to storage? 4. The Eldians who are injected titan's spinal fluid will become mindless titans.   Why? 5. Why can only Eldians turn into titans? 6. If the dosage of titan's spinal fluid is adjusted, people can be turned into the titan of a certain height.   Why? 7. The injection of titan's spinal fluid will cause damage to memory.   Why? 8. The host of the titan's power becomes the titan by self-injury.   Why? 9. What's the source of all living organisms? Why did the ancestor Ymir gain the power of the titan after she came in contact with the source of all living organisms? Now, what's the relationship between the titan chemistry and the source of all living organisms? 10. How did the nine titans appear? 11. How did titans appear?

◆The Riddles of Paradise's history: 1. The construction of three walls is huge.   Were the walls built by the 145th empire?

2. Why did the gates of walls have to be built? Why were the gates built in all four directions?

3. When and how did titans build the three walls? What's the original use? 4. Why was Utgard Castle built at the uninhabited regions near the wall? 5. Which raw materials are used in the vast underground space of Reiss's territories? How were the raw materials obtained? 6. When and how were Utgard Castle, the underground streets below the capital city and the vast underground space of Reiss's territories built? What were the original use of them?

7. Before the Trost district--the front-line district at the southern end of Wall Rose have been built, how did the giant boulder appear? 8. The Forest of Giant Trees is over 80 meters tall.   How did they appear? 9. When did the giant boulder at the Trost district and the Forest of Giant Trees appear? 10. Why is there so much fossil fuel buried in Paradise? How old is its history? (Will Paradise be the birthplace of Eldian?) 11. The map of Paradise which be held by Marleyan has many placenames. Since there were so many titans wandering on the island, how can Marleyan do such a detailed investigation of the area outside the wall? Was the information on this map really surveyed by Marleyan? (CH. 98)

12. How did Zeke and Pieck find Utgard Castle? If it was based on the map of Marleyan, when was the information on the map collected and by whom?

13. Why are the titans in the wall holding hands, facing the inside, forming a triple circle? What does it mean besides city's defense?

14. When the Order of the Walls perform a ritual, the congregations are holding hands, facing inward, and forming multiple circles.   Why? It's similar to the titans in the Wall.   Does it has any meanning?

15. Between the tales that Ymir Fritz made a contract with the devil of earth, and Ymir Fritz came in contact with the source of all living organisms, which is the original truth? 16. Is the history of Eldia as dark as Marleyans told? Did the ethnic cleansing last for around 1700 years? 17. Which histories are true and which are false?

18. Grisha's father told Grisha, "They(Marley) were able to put seven of the nine titans under their control, and were victorious in the great titan war 80 years ago. " Were the seven titans roped in by Marley, or captured by Marley? (CH. 86)

◆The Riddles about animation and manga: 1. Why the title of CH. 1 is "To you, two thousand years from now. "? 2. The top 10 of the 104th Cadet Corps that once appeared on the back cover, who among them will be alive still the end of story? 3. What's the meaning of some scenes in the ED02 of SE01? 4. What's the use of breaking apart and eating the carcass of Ymir Fritz on the plate by nine people? (in the ED01 of SE02) 5. In the last scene of ED01, SE02, some titans among the Nine Titans were big, and the others were small.   Nine Titans also arranged according to the order from top to bottom.   Why? What's the meaning of it?

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