After that declaration, the entire meeting was moved away from the reverent Council Hall. A place like that shouldn't bear witness for what they were about to discuss.
Instead, they gathered in a gauntleted space simply, and intimidatingly, known as the war room.
The room was in the shape of a pentagon, with the ground made of black hard steel and humming silver circuitry. The five walls rose high into a tall ceiling where a chandelier of floating crystal shards gave blue and gold light across the chamber.
Each wall was not a wall at all, but a massive screen, and on each screen loomed the face of a Sovereign, their gazes filling the room with the weight of five kingdoms.
The table at the center was round and vast, obsidian inlaid was used for the surface and above it was a blue holographic map of the world.
