Marley (Attack on Titan)

Marley is a country that features in Attack on Titan.

History

Marley (Japanese: マーレ, Hepburn: Māre?) was a powerful human nation in ancient times until an Eldian slave named Ymir gained the power of the Titans. With her abilities, King Fritz waged war against his enemies and defeated Marley forcing it to surrender to him. Several years later, a Marleyan attempted to assassinate King Fritz but Ymir intervened and she was killed instead. After her death, the Power of the Titans was passed down to her descendants creating the Nine Titans that were used to found the Eldian Empire. The Titans were used by Eldia to wage against Marley and the other nations where they were utterly destroying allowing the Eldians to rule over the continental mainland.

Around 1,200 years ago, the large Marleyan city of Lago was said to had been destroyed by Titans of the Eldian Empire over the course of a single day. The Titans would continue their advance and went on to commit other such attacks including the Devastation of Monte and the Ravaging of Valle which resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Marleyans. Eventually the Eldian Empire began to run out of enemies and the nine aristocratic families who possessed the power of the Titans grew resentful of each other, creating a state of constant bloodshed. This eventually led to a longstanding conflict that was known as the Great Titan War. According to Marleyan legend, a legendary Marleyan hero named Helos arose in this time who turned the tides of war to his people's favor by manipulating the Eldians against each other. This allowed Marley to claim victory in the war and even succeed in obtaining seven of the Nine Titans that were in Eldia's possession. The first of these Titans was the War Hammer Titan, held by the Tybur family, who had turned against their king and sided with the Marleyan uprising.

Over an unspecified amount of time, Marley gradually gained control of the continental mainland that once was ruled by Eldia until only Paradis Island remained as King Karl Fritz's undisputed territory. In the year 743, King Fritz moved as many Eldians as he could to Paradis Island, and used the Founding Titan to guide a massive number of Colossus Titans in the raising of three concentric Walls around Eldia's remaining territory. In order to force peace between Eldia and Marley, King Fritz gave the ultimatum that any further act of war against Eldia would be met with the releasing of the countless Titans within the Walls. With this, the Great Titan War ended. However, the truth of the matter is that Eldia's defeat during the Great Titan War was actually orchestrated by Karl Fritz himself, who took pity on the oppressed people of Marley. Believing that the sins of the Eldians were too heavy to justify his rule, he joined forces with the Tybur family and manipulated the other families against each other to destroy his own empire and reinstitute Marley. To that end, both the Tybur family and the King himself fabricated Helos to facilitate the myth that it was the Marleyan people themselves who won the war.

At that time, the king also took a vow renouncing war, forbidding the Eldian people from hurting the world again, as well as renouncing the right to defend themselves if Marley or other external powers grew strong enough to invade Paradis Island. The ultimatum was never meant to be enforced. Instead, its purpose was to allow him to spend the remainder of his reign in peace. To enforce this, he used the powers of the Founding Titan to wipe the memories of the outside world from most of the Eldians on Paradis Island. Karl Fritz wanted to ensure his vow would be followed by the future generation, so he made it so that his descendants—the only people who can use the Founding Titan's absolute power—will also inherit his ideology alongside his memories. Although it had surrendered sovereignty over the continental mainland to the Marleyans, the Tybur family remained the real seat of power behind the Marleyan state, but the house chose to withdraw from active politics, being content to observe events and allowing the Marleyans complete freedom of governance.

Overview

In appearance, Marley was a gigantic empire that stretched over one large continent to the west of Paradis Island that was a smaller continent to the south.

Locations in Marley included:

• Libero (レベリオ Reberio?, also translated as Rebellio) :
• Lakua (ラクア Rakua?) :
• Odiha (オディハ Odiha?) :
• Karifa (カリファ Karifa?) :
• Fort Salta (スラトア要塞 Suratoa-yōsai?) :

As an empire, Marley was comprised of an enormous continent as well as various oversea territories. Its entire population was unknown, but the main ethnic group were the Marleyans, leading the nation politics, economy, diplomacy and military. There were a considerable number of Eldians, contained in several ghettos around the mainland, and numerous other ethnic groups and nationalities, added into Marley over the past 100 years through military conquest and expansion.

Marley was notorious for its adherence to militarism and colonial expansion. However, the general populace had since lost touch with the reality of war, both due to the abolition of the conscription system in the past and the extensive use of Eldians as rank-and-file troopers. As its only knowledge of war came from newspaper stories, Marleyan citizens have little concern about the true cost of war. Out of patriotic sentiments, the Marleyans and the Eldians loyal to Marley refer to their country as the 'Motherland'.

The Marleyans built statues to honor Helos, a folk hero who was renowned for slaying the Devil of All Earth during the Great Titan War. He is described in legend as a brave and beautiful man who was unwounded in the struggle against the greatest Titan on earth. A Helos statue is erected in front of the Warrior unit headquarters in Liberio.

Organizations in Marley included:

• Public Security Authorities (治安当局 Chian Tōkyoku?) :
• Titan Biology Research Society (巨人化学研究学会 Kyojin Kagaku Kenkyū Gakkai?) :
• Warrior Unit (戦士隊 Senshi-tai?) : a sub-division within the Marleyan military that consisted of Subjects of Ymir who used the Power of the Titans for their nations benefit.

One academic discipline that the Marleyans came to specialise in was in Titan biology. A special institute even came to be founded that was dedicated to the research of Titans. One of their prevalent theories espoused by the society was that all Subjects of Ymir were connected by unseen paths from which the flesh and bones of Titan were sent to them. All these 'paths' came to cross at a single 'coordinate' that was centred on the Founding Titan.

Inhabitants

• Helos :
• Willy Tybur :
• Theo Magath :
• Zeke Yaeger :
• Annie Leonhart :
• Reiner Braun :
• Bertholdt Hoover :
• Falco Grice :
• Pieck Finger :
• Grisha Yeager :

Notes

• Marley was created by Hajime Isayama and featured in the setting of the Attack on Titan universe.

In other media

Television

• In Attack on Titan, Marley appeared in the setting of the anime television series adaptation.

Appearances

• Attack on Titan:

External Links

• Attack on Titan Wiki Entry

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