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The Stohess District (ストヘス区 Sutohesu-ku?) is the Eldian city located on the east edge of Wall Sina on Paradis Island.
Description
As it is common in districts within Wall Sina, the city of Stohess is beautiful and rich, and is mainly inhabited by people from the upper class. The social classes in the city are segregated, with the rich living in elegant residential areas while the working class people live in poorer parts of the city, where even the Military Police will not go because of the criminality.[1]
History
At some unknown point in the past, the construction of an underground city was started below this district and others within Wall Sina, but the plan was abandoned during construction leaving unused tunnels below the city.[2] It is now used as a relief area in case of Wall breaching, but is said to not last more than a week with all of humanity within Wall Sina.
Story
Wall Sina, Goodbye: Part One
Annie subdues a knife-wielding man outside Kemper's residence
Tasked with finding Carly Stratmann, the missing daughter of Elliot G. Stratmann from Hitch Dreyse, Annie Leonhart visits the family's mansion with little success, though she notices a connection between her and a tavern in the same district; the Pit Lidors.
With the bartender directing her to the residence of Kemper Boltz, Carly's lover, Annie pays a visit to his home, only to find his corpse.[1]
Wall Sina, Goodbye: Part Two
Carly and Annie
Later on, Annie would meet Carly in person at her office; after a talk regarding her role in the production of coderoin and wanting to stop its production against her father's wishes, Annie decides to forge a pass to Wall Maria for her. Later meeting with Elliot at the family mansion, the two dispose of Kemper's body in a waste tank before parting ways.[3]
Assault on Stohess arc
The two Titans fight in the middle of Stohess
When a convoy takes Jean Kirschtein, currently disguised as Eren Jaeger, to the royal capital of Mitras for judgment, the Scout Regiment uses the opportunity as a ploy to expose Annie Leonhart as an enemy combatant. Stohess District becomes the prime location of the destruction caused by Annie after Eren, Armin Arlelt, Mikasa Ackermann and the Scout Regiment force her to reveal her identity as the Female Titan.[2][4] After a fight between her and Eren, she is ultimately captured and placed underground in the Military Police HQ building of the city, but causes considerable damage to the District, including opening up a crack in the Wall, revealing a Titan inside it. Erwin Smith takes full responsibility for the destruction of the District.[5]
Clash of the Titans arc
Marlo and Hitch views the destruction brought upon by Annie and Eren
At the instruction of Pastor Nick, the Scout Regiment quickly covers the Wall Titan with fabric to prevent the sunlight from awakening it.[6] Hange Zoë takes a fragment of Annie's hardened Titan skin and discovers that it is identical to the Wall's composition, revealing that the Wall was made using the Wall Titans' hardening ability.[7]
Erwin leads the Scouts out of Stohess
Meanwhile, Erwin receives word that Titans have appeared within Wall Rose. The bulk of the Scout Regiment is still within Stohess from the operation to flush out the Female Titan and they prepare to depart that same night. Erwin leads them out of Stohess and towards Ehrmich District in the south, which would be the safest route to any potential breach.[7]
War for Paradis arc
As the Walls crumbled and the Wall Titans after Eren enacted the Rumbling, multiple Eldians living in the city of Stohess right next to the Walls would be killed, injured, have their houses crushed by the debris, making the locals conflicted about Eren's decision to start the Rumbling to wipe out humanity beyond Paradis Island.
In the Military Police HQ of the city, Annie wakes up outside her crystal, resulting from Eren undoing all hardening on Paradis Island. She is found by MP officer Hitch Dreyse, who helps her escape the city.