User blog comment:Soulreaper1234/Is Vasto Lorde the 10 Espada or just another Hollow Being of higher capabilities?/@comment-1248963-20100531204950

I'm sorry, but I don't quite see the point in bringin up this topic yet again. This has been discussed over, and over, and over (and I could add dozens of overs) without getting anywhere because of one simple fact: We know nothing about Vasto Lordes. As Salubri said on my blog, they were just mentioned twice, early on the Arrancar arc, and since then, no new info has been added to the story about them. I think they were also mentioned during a Nnoitra-Nelliel flashback, but they were only searching for them, nothing new on it.

We know thre basic things about Vasto Lordes: 1) They have humanoid shape. Doesn't help much, we have never really seen one. Especulating whether Harribel's Resurreccion is very human-looking but Baraggan didn't look very human in his flash-back scene and this and that isn't going to take us anywhere.

2) They are the final stage of Hollow evolution: We don't know what kind of powers they have, so this doesn't help much either.

3) They are stronger than an average Gotei 13 Captain: This one leaves us in the dark since we don't quite know what an "average" Captain is. Maybe Kurotsuchi, Komamura? Would I dare say Soifon and Hitsugaya? But then, power levels in Bleach are just as twisted as heck, so, what use is it to speculate who's stronger and who isn't?

And then we have the Espada. We only know that Aaroniero was a Gillian and that Grimmjow's flashback showed him as an Adjuchas, we don't know if he evolved any further (unlikely, definitely). And that's it. We can say that Starrk had to split his soul in two, because he was so powerful in his Hollow form, or that Ulquiorra's Segunda Etapa looks exactly like the VL shadow. We can keep speculating, but I doubt we can come up with new speculation, honestly. This has been discussed a zillion times, I really don't see the point on going through it yet again.