User blog comment:CorvusTheFeatherbrain/Regarding a Certain New Character/@comment-129.174.182.69-20170213170932

Here's how I figure it. In terms of how well he's accepted within the group, he's not considered a member of Vox Machina by the rest of Vox Machina itself.

However, he is a Player Character that is going to be sticking with the group for quite some time. We don't even have any definite confirmation that Scanlan's going to be coming back. I mean, for all we know he could meet the fate of a certain other major character whose player left and maybe might've wanted to come back later.

For the purposes of the wiki, obviously we should be patient and see what happens. But if we want to refer to the group as a whole when discussing it with another person, it's probably easier to imply his inclusion when we talk about the group.

Easier to type/say on a regular basis than "Vox Machina and Taryon Darrington" anyway. I mean have you tried to say that five times fast? Not a particularly easy thing to do.