Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26815763-20141002235646/@comment-1387259-20141003173841

CoolJazzman wrote: Yhwach probably chooses the best ones for his guards, but that doesn't mean he can't replace the ones who were promoted with someone for the regular branch, Shaz and Unknown are probably replacements. I'm gonna spin a bit off of this, and offer up what a few of us (namely Xil, Sal, and myself) were discussing over Skype:

First of all, these four, while "promoted" seem to still be Sternritter, so no one would really replace them simply because Yhwach took them with him. Rather, one of the current Sternritter is a replacement for Shaz. Since Yhwach takes their Schrift back after they die, he most likely could give it back out. Shaz got his face pounded in. Assuming he died, Yhwach probably re-assigned his letter, and it could be to any of the Sternritter that weren't yet shown.