Attack on Titan · Story arc
Uprising
The royal government wants Eren and Historia. The Survey Corps, now outlaws, goes into hiding and fights Kenny's anti-personnel squad; Erwin organises the coup. In the Reiss chapel Historia refuses to devour Eren and becomes queen.
Rod Reiss reveals to Historia that his family keeps the Founder and that Grisha stole it. Eren, in chains, discovers he devoured his father. Rod drinks the serum, becomes a monstrous Titan and crawls towards Orvud; Historia deals the final blow in front of everyone. Kenny dies leaving Levi the serum.
- Position
- Arc 9 of 14
- Saga
- Within the Walls
- Period
- Year 850
- Canon status
- Canon
- Manga
- 51-69
- Anime
- ep. 38-49
Arc events(14)
- Grisha enters the WallsBefore 845Keith Shadis finds Grisha, apparently amnesiac, outside Shiganshina and brings him inside the Walls. The doctor cures an epidemic, marries Carla, a barmaid at the inn, and in 835 Eren is born.
- Uri Reiss spares KennyBefore 845Kenny Ackerman, set on avenging his bloodline persecuted by the crown, ambushes Uri Reiss. Uri transforms and grabs him — then kneels and begs his forgiveness. Kenny becomes his most loyal man.
- Kenny raises LeviBefore 845In the Underground City Kenny finds his sister Kuchel dead and her son Levi still alive beside her. He teaches him how to use a knife and survive, then leaves him without saying who he is.
- Grisha steals the FounderYear 845That same day Grisha reaches the Reiss family's underground chapel and asks Frieda to use the Founder. When she refuses he transforms, devours her and kills the family. Only Rod survives.
- Eren devours his fatherYear 845In the woods inside Wall Rose, Grisha injects his son with the serum. Eren, turned into a Titan, devours him and inherits the Attack Titan and the Founder, remembering none of it.
- The murder of Pastor NickYear 850Pastor Nick, who had revealed Historia's name to Hange, is found dead in Trost: the Central Military Police tortured him without him breaking his vow. It is the sign that the government is ready to kill.
- Kenny's ambush in TrostYear 850Kenny and the anti-personnel squad attack Levi in a Trost tavern. Rooftop chase, pistols against blades: the new Levi Squad kills humans for the first time, but Eren and Historia are kidnapped.
- The murder of Dimo ReevesYear 850Dimo Reeves agrees to help Levi against the government and is killed by the Central Military Police, who blame the Survey Corps. His son Flegel, having escaped, testifies to the truth in public.
- The coup d'étatYear 850Erwin, arrested and sentenced, has himself brought before the king. Zackly, Pixis and the Survey Corps topple the government without bloodshed, with proof of the nobles' crimes and the revelation that the king was a puppet.
- In the Reiss chapelYear 850Rod Reiss shows Historia Frieda's memories and asks her to devour the chained Eren to take back the Founder. Historia refuses and hurls the syringe away. Eren drinks the "Armor" serum, transforms and holds up the collapsing cavern with hardening.
- Kenny's deathYear 850Mortally burned by Rod's Titan, Kenny tells Levi about Uri and his dream, says everyone is "a slave to something" and leaves him the serum that could have saved him.
- The battle of OrvudYear 850Rod Reiss's Titan, enormous and unable to stand, crawls towards Orvud District. Eren blows up a wagon of gunpowder in its mouth; Historia, in front of the crowd, deals her father the final blow.
- Queen HistoriaYear 850Historia is crowned queen of the Walls and, as her first act, punches Levi, who had pushed her into a corner. She opens a farm for the war orphans.
- Shadis's confessionYear 850At the training camp Keith Shadis tells Hange and Eren that he brought Grisha into the Walls, that he loved Carla, and that he saw Grisha take Eren into the forest on the night of the fall.