User blog comment:PcRetro/So are Sternritter Human or not?/@comment-26420452-20131007043515

I personally believe that they are Human (apart from BG9, of course). If you look at them, they're an extremely heterogenous group, meaning that either the Quincy families dispersed throughout the world in a millenium and that the ones we see today are the descendants of them (however, it's seems extremely difficult like that to maintain the blood purity), or what I like to believe, that they're chosen individuals throughout the world for having spiritual powers and have been "quincyfied", apart from the very rare descendants of noble families, what Haschwalth, Bazz-B, and the Ishidas seem to be. BG9 must have been an experiment whether a machine can be given life by quincifying it, and apparently it turned out so good, they made him a Stern Ritter.