Advocate Herron

Tribunal chief

Antagonistic but rule-bound, Herron represents a captured court that treats the model’s plausibility score as evidence against the observer. His rigidity is harmful, but it is also the seam through which the rules can later be forced to work.

Guild of Verification · Tribunal

Relationship record

Connections

Ansel RheeTribunal colleague and eventual witness against their shared practice Mara VanceAppellant whose evidence he first excludes and later must admit Theo KestProcedural alignment with the system Kest’s curation depends on

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When authentication precedence finally favors Mara’s chain, Herron surfaces the procedural key and corroborates the auto-fail record because the rules now require it. He administers the Tribunal’s dissolution with the same scrupulous discipline that once upheld it.