As a general aside, since Estarra's post reminded me, Tahtetso are far from the only guild to have rough patches integrating into "the Light." As I recall, there was discussion of this being leveled against and toward the Aquas in their early days. Even now it's taking nudging, both subtle and significantly-less-than-subtle, to make sure that the Aquas coming in remember that we're about the Tides AND the Light, rather than instead of. As I recall, the Cantors tried the Lore-keepers route too, I'll need to ask Pectus how that's going sometime...

For what it is worth, I've always felt that Lumosis is one of the better wholly player-crafted guild backgrounds.

I don't think it's possible for you to be disrespectful.

In the world of player-crafted ethos, Lumosis was always one of the ones that fit best into their 'org ethos' (imo - the Spiritsingers too, really, are way up there. The whole ancestral spirits thing has been around for a while, so it's nice to see someone sort of 'focused' on it). It ended up fitting snugly with a basis for one of the aspects of Celestine history (and by proxy Celest) that would come into play later on - the Saints of Celestia (Tresalyne, Gathlyn, etc) all followed the same basic 'idea' - they perfected themselves bodily and spiritually and drew in the Light to meld it with their souls, becoming something more than mortal and coming to - at least spiritually - dwell upon Celestia with the Supernal's themselves. Certainly, Lumosis is really - ICly - a new label for a very old and somewhat forgotten goal to strive for. It was the highest honour any devout worshiper of the Light could hope to achieve in their wildest daydreams.

I've always held the view that they simply maintain the ideologies and strive for what everyone else does, they simply follow different methods - viewing the Light as a spiritual body and font of spiritual awareness versus five kingly entities that represent a series of righteous and goodly ideologies. While the end result is the same, the means is different - the Celestines and Paladins might see the five Supernals as 'people', the Tahtetso may take a more spiritual approach and simply view them as manifestations of the great and glorious Light. No less reverent of them, it's their nature (remember the Half-Formed became deeply attached to their creches with the loss of the Song, and they're semi-divine to boot) that probably draws the Tahtetso in their pursuit of spiritual enlightenment and growth.

Phew, mouthful.

Grandmother Scorpion was never a part of Glomdoring. That fact is quite explicitly stated through further conversation with the Wise Lady:



She is alone. She wishes to remain alone. This claim is further supported by the entire quest of the Old Ones (no spoilers here). Also through the Wise Lady's explanation of Tzaraziko's discovery of Scorpion:



And:



Not to mention foreshadowed through The Book of Elfenehoala where Scorpion runs away from Blooredi:



There is enough textural evidence that supports Grandmother Scorpion does not want to be found. She does not want direct contact with the world (examine the role of the Old Ones). Hence, she will not come and join the commune. In fact, that now-lost response to "Nekotai" was the only bit of evidence which would support that she was even aware of the Glomdoring Nekotai.

On a side note, please bring back the Nekotai conversation trigger for the Wise Lady. This action has the potential to unwind a tremendous amount of postulation and writing on the topic. In fact, this lack of response now has the potential to make my published work far more hypothetical, bordering on heretical...

Good thing the Nekotai does not outright worship Grandmother Scorpion. I've taken a great amount of care to orchestrate the Nekotai as a Cult intent on preserving the secrets of the Great Spirit Scorpion. Consider the very organization of the Cult: