User blog comment:Zathronas/Speculative author, Volume 3: Cinder Fall/@comment-186.45.68.166-20141203095832/@comment-24218038-20141204010007

For me, Mercury killing Tukson legitimize them nicely. His fight with Pyrrha did so too.

But they still remain Cinder's lackeys and since this is the end of the Cinder arc.

Something's gotta give.