User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 630 - The Twinned Twilight/@comment-24726378-20150611162918/@comment-5693502-20150611233958

We've only see Äs Nödt and the Lloyd brothers' pasts and the Lloyd bros didn't look mentally unstable to me. I think the Ritters were more enamoured with the allure of power (and the feeling of never being helpless again) more than anything.