Summit Attendees

A composite presence of diplomats, guards, and bystanders assembled around the Gatherer summit table. They operate as collective witnesses whose frozen, stunned reactions register the moral weight of Riker’s revelation and the lethal choice that follows. Their simultaneous shock and motionless silence refract authority and vulnerability: the summit’s political choreography breaks, the human cost of vengeance becomes visible, and the attendees’ reaction converts private trauma into a public rupture that will echo through subsequent diplomatic fallout.