Base on what was said,
It would seem to me that when using scorpion, you get full XP's (when not casting aura of command) as long as you are within a certain range of the scorpions, and get half the xp's when casting "Aura of Command", irrelevant of the distance from the scorpions.

Is my conclusion correct ?
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