Marley

Biodata

Geography and Important Locations

Government and Economy

Political Structure

• Tybur Family: Marley’s rulers behind the scenes. The publicly visible marshal is initially described as their puppet, although Calvi increasingly pursues his own agenda 291.
• Central Command and Ministry of Defense: Direct military affairs from the capital before relocating to Texi following its capture 154 386.
• Provincial nobility: Wields enough local power to obstruct conscription and threaten national stability. Magath suppresses resistant nobles in Texi to enforce reform 346 386.
• Willy Tybur: Uses his family’s international connections to secure attendance at the World Joint Conference and later supports Magath’s accession 304 346.

Industry and Commerce

• Texi’s transport economy: Its coastal position attracts goods and travelers from many countries. It remains busy even during the Middle Eastern war 204.
• Louis Family arms business: An old noble family sustained by arms manufacturing. When Marley orders equipment only for the Guard Corps, Ebson arranges covert sales to the Middle East through another company 155 197.
• Capital wealth: Confiscated factories, infrastructure, supplies, and noble assets become major resources for the Eldia Revival Army after the occupation 407.
• Postwar burdens: Military death benefits, reconstruction, and refugee resettlement strain the government after its costly victory over the Middle East 286.

Society and Treatment of Eldians

Armband System

Every Eldian must wear an identifying armband or face severe punishment. Its color establishes the wearer’s position within Marley’s imposed hierarchy 72.

Segregation and Discrimination

• Restricted movement: Returning Eldian veterans are escorted directly to Liberio under armed guard; leaving the prescribed route can result in being shot 287.
• Collective punishment: Marley dismantles Eldian religious groups and turns their members into Pure Titans on Paradis. Ymir experiences this punishment 108.
• “Devil” indoctrination: Marleyan soldiers are taught to regard Eldians, particularly those on Paradis, as devils. Humane treatment in captivity challenges some prisoners’ expectations 189.
• Conditional privilege: Warrior families receive better treatment to keep Titan Warriors willing to serve. Their red armbands can deter harassment, but do not eliminate ethnic contempt 216 250.
• Unequal military treatment: Eldian troops receive inferior equipment, absorb frontline casualties, and face Marleyan supervisory units prepared to shoot retreating soldiers 240.
• Dissenting Marleyans: Prejudice is not universal. An elderly Marleyan woman openly sympathizes with Eldian soldiers and criticizes people who ignore their sacrifices 203.

After Liberation

• Freedom in Hope City: Eldians can move without armbands, and people of Eldian descent migrate there from across the world. Marleyan civilians also seek refuge there as another war approaches 407 408.
• Civilian protections: Yago permits ordinary Marleyans to leave and rejects indiscriminate revenge. The occupation authorities punish serious crimes committed by both Marleyans and Eldians 339 345.
• Former Warrior families: Lose their privileged standing and face contempt from fellow Eldians, whose earlier envy turns into resentment toward families associated with Marley’s rule 408.

Military

Principal Forces

Titan Warfare

• Strategic foundation: Titan power sustains Marley’s global supremacy for roughly a century. The government seeks the Founding Titan to expand its control over Titans 192 261 314.
• Established weapons: Zeke’s Beast Titan is called the Spear of Marley, Reiner’s Armored Titan the Shield of Marley, and the Cart Titan serves as a mobile fortress 91 95 182.
• Artificial Titans: Ebson’s creations expand the available Titan forces beyond the traditional Nine. Porco’s Flying Claw Titan, Aili’s Sea-Swimming Titan, and the Red Fire Titan help reverse Marley’s fortunes against the Middle East 197 223 277.
• Divided allegiance: Some artificial Titan holders serving alongside Marley’s Warriors remain under Ebson’s control. His preparations create a separate armed faction rather than a reliably unified extension of Marley’s military 301 311.
• Marley’s Wrath: Airships drop Eldians injected with spinal fluid onto enemy positions. In the operation shown, Zeke times his roar to transform them during their descent 220 266.
• Warrior replacement: Military leaders consider stripping unsuccessful Warriors of their powers. Magath argues that experienced holders cannot be replaced without risking a loss of combat effectiveness 178 182.

Weapons and Limitations

• Infantry weapons: Rifles, heavy machine guns, and shoulder-fired bazookas. A bazooka used at Wall Maria leaves only a black mark on the Fate Titan’s facial armor 162 240.
• Garand Type II rifles: Issued to Marleyan supervisory troops and described as superior to the weapons given to the Eldia Forces 240.
• Airships: Used to deploy Titan weapons over enemy fortresses 266 280.
• Technological competition: Anti-Titan Cannons and other countermeasures increasingly challenge Marley’s reliance on Titans 250 261 382.
• Command failures: Many younger academy-trained officers fail in real combat early in the Middle Eastern war, forcing the leadership to recall veteran generals 262.
• Unreliable loyalty: Several Warriors serve primarily for their families or personal goals, while the Marley Volunteers seek revenge for homelands destroyed by Marley 196 381.

History

Rise and Overseas Domination

The Tybur Family helped Marley overthrow Eldian rule. Marley subsequently used Eldian Titan power to dominate other nations and maintain colonies abroad. Its conquests included destroying smaller countries; Sumer was targeted for nearby mineral resources, with alleged Eldian connections used as a pretext 196 280 293 421.

Campaign Against Paradis

Marley sends Annie, Reiner, Bertholdt, and Marcel to infiltrate Paradis and reclaim the Coordinate. Marcel is eaten before they reach the Walls, but the surviving Warriors continue, and Bertholdt breaches Wall Maria 77.

Repeated defeats cost Marley the Jaw, Female, and Colossal Titan powers. Senior officers demand the Warrior Unit’s replacement, but Magath and Zeke secure its preservation. A Middle Eastern declaration of war interrupts plans for another attack on Paradis, although Zeke receives permission to send monitoring warships 95 182.

War with the Middle East

The Middle Eastern Union attacks after learning that Marley has lost three Titans, capturing Heron, Wadin, and Gasharyak Fortress. Marley’s opening response exposes its conventional military weakness: more than thirty-five thousand attackers suffer over seven thousand casualties against a fortress defended by fewer than two thousand troops 182 192.

Titan assaults gradually restore Marley’s position. New artificial Titans are especially important, while Yago infiltrates the army as Loa Russell and works to extract the Eldia Third Regiment and Restoration Army members from the conflict 222 261 277.

The war ends after nearly two and a half years with the capture of Slava Fortress and the elimination of the Union’s continental strongholds. Marley wins, but suffers nearly two hundred thousand military casualties and extensive damage to its borderlands and colonies. Its navy is almost annihilated; only about a dozen old or damaged warships remain in the naval port afterward 286 304.

World Joint Conference

Marley invites almost every nation to a conference backed by the Tybur Family. Willy postpones proceedings until the following evening in Liberio, where he declares war on Eren Jaeger and Paradis’s radicals. His declaration redirects international hostility toward Paradis while Marley is weakened 304 310 316.

Willy also exposes Ebson’s creation of artificial Titan Warriors. The decision divides Marley’s leadership: Calvi regards the research as a strategic advantage and resents Willy’s unilateral action. Orders for Marley’s established Warriors to attack their artificial-Titan comrades turn the gathering into an internal confrontation 311 317.

Fall of the Capital

Eldian forces launch a coordinated assault during the conference crisis. Paradis’s navy destroys Marleyan warships and bombards military depots, while Floch’s Colossal Titan devastates the Shiobis garrison. The surviving capital forces are killed or captured by the Restoration Army and Paradis troops 325 330.

The Eldians seize the capital in a single night. Yago uses the occupation to liberate Liberio’s approximately one million Eldians, demonstrate Eldian military strength before foreign delegates, and establish a mainland base for international diplomacy 339.

Daily life gradually resumes under the new administration. The Restoration Army recruits more than twenty thousand defenders, markets reopen, and the former Ministry of Defense becomes its supreme headquarters 344 389.

Magath’s Government in Texi

Magath and Willy escape through the train station under Lara Tybur’s protection and establish a replacement government in Texi. With Willy’s backing, Magath assumes military leadership and introduces conscription for Marleyans 343 346.

Local nobles resist, and nearly one hundred thousand Middle Eastern troops gather at the border. Magath suppresses obstructive nobles, recruits tens of thousands of soldiers, and delays an attempt to retake the capital. The border pressure eases when the Middle East withdraws its forces to fight the Far East 386.

Far East War and Northern Settlement

The Far East’s rapid conquest of the Middle East overturns Marley’s strategic situation. Magath receives reports of Blood Titans, poison gas, and advanced weapons linked to Marley. Marley helps more than one hundred thousand Middle Eastern troops escape and joins its former enemy in organizing resistance 390 403.

Yago orders the Restoration Army to fight alongside Marley, provoking opposition among Eldian officers and soldiers. He later negotiates with Magath over nineteen northern cities after assembling more than one hundred thousand Eldia Revival Army troops near Marley’s northern border. Magath orders the garrisons to withdraw and encourages residents to relocate 407 421.

The coalition remains vulnerable to internal betrayal. At Light Harbor, Magath exposes Tiao’s collaboration with the Far East while a Tiao fleet threatens the allied headquarters. In the final rescue operation for Yago, two hundred soldiers disguise themselves as Middle Eastern resistance fighters and attack Marleyan and Far East garrisons to conceal their involvement 448 475.

Foreign Relations

• Paradis Island / Eldia — Initially targeted for the Founding Titan and dismissed as an “island of devils.” After Eldian forces capture Marley’s capital, their relationship develops into direct negotiations and contested wartime cooperation 77 189 407 421.
• Middle Eastern Union — Challenges Marley’s supremacy, loses a costly war, and prepares for revenge. The Far East threat later turns the two countries into military partners 192 286 386 403.
• Hizuru — Receives exceptional naval-port privileges, including permission for thirteen destroyers to escort its delegation. It also maintains spies within Marley’s officer corps and secretly assists Yago 261 304.
• Far East — Site of earlier colonial resistance and later a major enemy using artificial Titans and advanced weapons. Marley becomes a leading organizer of the coalition opposing it 161 390 403.
• Tiao — A former subordinate of Marley that allies with the Far East and betrays the anti–Far East coalition, using its fleet to threaten the leaders at Light Harbor 448.
• Marley Volunteers — Specialists from countries destroyed by Marley. They collaborate with Paradis, providing modern weapons, technical expertise, and a weapons-production line 196 224.