In the immediate coda of the second passing of Reséa Chúkotía in 1029 lilpo, the nomadic Lilitai once again keenly felt the absence of their eldest stateswoman and primary religious mentor. As at the end of the Illeran plague some three centuries prior, the Council of Elders summoned the Matriarch to examine available options for ensuring continuity of societal order, and after a mourning period for Sarthía, the search began for a new figure to fill her role. Eyes fell on Fínanía, whom Atsha-Sithéa had briefly charged with the pompous title of Lergalsa in the ninth century, but Íora rejected the mantle of such an overwhelming responsibility, arguing firstly that their religion was a stable one, and had little need for an architect and an engineer content to make smaller adjustments would be better suited to the job, secondly that she was then and would always remain an atheist (although there are some songs in the eleventh-century Liturgy of Doisseia that are attributed to her), and thirdly that she was old and the Council should be looking for someone younger.

Indeed, the Council itself was showing its age, and at this time it was somewhat smaller than it had been during its initial appointment. Hitherto it had consisted of all the surviving Slokdtabasa from Ksreskézo, except the Deklina and the Matriarch and those who had actively abstained from participating. No new appointments had been made in three centuries, and with the metal-poisoned elders rapidly approaching the ends of their shortened lifespans, the body had lost more than 40% of its original membership. The architect of the Council, Súa, had not defined most of its rules, and as it was principally an advisory one, it rarely met except at the request of the Matriarch, and no one had thought much of its upkeep. Now, with Sarthía's passing, confrontation with mortality was unavoidable, and the Slokdtabasa began to worry about the future more intensely than they had since 40 lilpo, when the first child was born.

The era from late 1029 to early 1040 is known as the Blossom Crisis in English, a direct translation of the Ketalan term letemidta telíbekhtan, translated perhaps more literally as the "dilemma or problem of pubescence." During this period the Council of Elders met very frequently, and sometimes for days at a time, with the goal of ensuring that the civilization they had lived within for the past millennium would survive into the next generation. Records of past decisions by Matriarchs, the Deklina, the Council, military leaders, and juries were reviewed hastily, as were religious documents and literary publications of every variety, with an aim of codifying a societal "theory of everything" that would encompass their culture and its achievements at every level.