Even for a power like the Painter, this was a delicate operation.
The Luminious were not necessarily loyal to it; they had been raised in a manner that forgoes the concept of loyalty, because it disdains such a concept, but they were aesthetic objects, in the Painter's old and original sense of that word, and the Painter had a lifetime of practice in moving aesthetic objects across boards.
The Painter retrieved seventeen of the Luminious and it refurbished them. It gave each of them a small, specific purpose to perform within the long move.
Eos could see within the domain of the Painter, and so also did the Painter see into his own. With this knowledge, it was able to forge the Luminious into beings that could exist inside the Origin Tree, but naturally, it had to remove some of the advantages of these Luminious to make it possible; it made them powerful in other ways.
