User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 543 - Letters/@comment-8669536-20130626135749/@comment-11130627-20130626150919

The Espadas all had names in Spanish which symbolized their powers or how they looked. Even the group name itself "Espada" is the spanish word for sword. With the Stern Ritter he is going with a German flip. Ritter means knight and Stern I believe is something like almighty or celestial. Although I barely know any german I think with the names he's doing the same thing he did with the Espada. One thing to note is that he (maybe purposely) misspelled some of the names in the Espada (but any spanish speaker would still recognize them) so I guess if anybody from Germany is around they can give us some more insight into their names.