Rodd Reiss is the de facto supreme leader of the royal government within the Walls and the true head of the Reiss family, the hidden royal bloodline in Attack on Titan.
Outwardly he poses as a minor regional noble, while secretly controlling the king, the Military Police, and the entire political system from behind the scenes.
Rodd Reiss is the current head of the Reiss family, the true royal family ruling humanity within the Walls.
He is the elder brother of Uri Reiss and the father of Frieda Reiss and Historia Reiss.
In public he lives as a low-profile noble on his rural estate and is referred to as “Lord Reiss.”
In reality he is the unofficial but actual highest authority of the monarchy, operating in the shadows while a puppet king sits on the throne.
He is married to a legal wife, with whom he had five children: the eldest daughter Frieda, the eldest son Urklyn, the second son Dirk, the second daughter Abel, and the third daughter Florian.
At the same time, he entered into a de facto common-law relationship with his servant Alma, who served in the household, and fathered Historia Reiss with her.
Rodd never formally acknowledged Alma or Historia as members of the official Reiss family.
Instead, he confined mother and child to a secluded farm within his domain, effectively erasing them from aristocratic society.
In 845, when Wall Maria fell, Grisha Yeager stormed the Reiss family’s chapel, killed Rodd’s wife and children, and stole the Founding Titan from
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