I have to admit that I feel like the large number of people who don't want to advise about dwarven matters should consider how to square that with being the advisor to a dwarven king.
If Mathilde is going to do her job properly she has to be willing to do that. It's literally her role, particularly as Learning adviser.
Also, this is something that Belegar will be making the decision on, whatever she said. We're not, as someone suggested, trying to take that choice away from him. Mathilde can be very helpful to him there by, at least, explaining the benefits to human and halfling morale of something like a reforging to create a symbol of the new Karak Eight Peaks.
This is an important factor. We're not just talking about a symbol for the dwarves here, but for all three races that call the new Karak their home. That's why I'd say that it should be reforged and something given to all three races to represent how humans, halflings and dwarves worked together to refound it.
Karak Eight Peaks is no longer a purely dwarf hold, and the only non-dwarven member of the council refusing to speak to inform her peers of the interests/nature of the non-dwarves here about something that impacts them is not a good precedent. It suggests that there are more 'dwarf only' matters that Mathilde should be recused from. That's something that other members of the Council could well expect on future, which we wouldn't want.
