User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 630 - The Twinned Twilight/@comment-24726378-20150611162918/@comment-24153155-20150612002706

Hmm, yeah, it's actually true that we only got the backgrounds of these Sternritter. Sometimes, I do read into things though. The Lloyd brothers didn't really come across as mentally stable to me (though they weren't really disturbing, like Äs Nödt for example). To me the indication was given when Royd got kinda emotional over Yhwach telling him he, as an "individual", did a great job regardless. Given the background of the twins, I kinda took it as that what they missed the most was having their own identity. While I think you're right about that some of the Sternritter seem to be hungry for power and others just didn't want to feel helpless again, I think that what Yhwach want(s)(ed) was different from that what his Sternritter wanted. Patching up mental health by granting powers, without addressing the real issue with a calm mind, seems to be a recipe for disaster. Then again. I am no shrink...