User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 599 - Too Early To Win, Too Late To Know/@comment-3177945-20141002185014/@comment-24384892-20141002212730

It would make sense if they were summoned by shadow, considering they all seemed to just appear from out of nowhere.

Also, I wonder if Lille (The Exorcist) is the same Sternritter (or Sternlichter) as the one who appeared underneath the column of reishi at the very beginning. There was an unidentified Sternritter wearing a hood that obscured his face. I wonder if that was Lille.