User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 554 - Desperate Lights/@comment-4639012-20131023153257/@comment-11051098-20131023162900

Yhwach claiming to dislike conflict, while still killing Ebern and Luders, was always a contradiction to me. It was obviously a lie, for whatever reason he made it.

The gravestone-part and the panel showing half of BG9's mask torn, makes it look like they're finished, but I'm not so sure. BG9 was only shown in that one panel, so I'm most unsure about him. Either way, Baraggan took a direct hit from Sui-Fêng's Bankai and got half his face blown away, but he was a mere skeleton in his Resurrección. That could be the factor that made him survive it.

I didn't expect the Sternritters to go Vollständig already, but it makes for some interesting fights. I first thought Yhwach was disappointed with Bambietta and killed her, due to the thing that looks like it impaled her chest from behind. Either way, from what I've seen, I agree with those who think Bambietta's epithet is "The Explosion".