Forests committee filled up back when he still thought the convention didn’t matter, but Vidal cares quite a lot about dealing with the Barrowood. Forests also has three druids including Voshrelka on it, so the chance of it doing anything useful is rather low. It definitely won’t be making the right tradeoffs between the forests and the actual people of Cheliax.

A committee on natural resources is much more Arodenite. Hopefully he can help pass something useful here.

Imilce signed up.

Desnia is going to see whether this committee has room for her to join. 

Oh, look. It's a druid. She's here, politely ignoring Vidal, and drafting a letter. In Elvish.

He kind of expects that more than a dozen nobles alone are going to try to get onto this committee for basically the same reasons he is, but do those other people control the largest dwarven settlement in Cheliax? No. No, they do not.

Karrag is pretty sure that this is the thing that the Queen called him here to talk about, so he's obediently shown up.

Mines are important and lucrative.

Silvia's still pretty sure this is where people are going to end up killing fae if they do it anywhere. Unlike the druids, she hasn't made her stance there clear yet. She'll sign up and show up.

Dolor Rado also shows up to sign up. She’s not sure she’ll get picked, but making sure they have a supply of iron is important enough it’s worth taking on a third committee for.

The actual extraction of natural resources is not her usual practice area, commerce in them afterwards is, but it seems pretty cool!

Sergi will have intelligent things to say about fisheries and vaguely Andoren things to say about mining. Or he'll be left out of the committee. Either way.