The commotion took a little time to die down since Walker had to explain the extremely lengthy appraisal and the fact that he had broken past the skill that prevented appraisals. He also had to explain how skills that blocked appraisals worked and how they actually utilized some traits that people were born with.
Mostly though, it used a lot of maa from what Walker saw. It also was pointless against someone stronger who could enhance their skills like Walker could. Not that many people were capable of that. It would change though, as time went on.
He also made a very clear example of what the skills the high fiends could use. How they could change their bodies to appear more like another race. How they could gather information with a skill that didn't make sense to what skills people knew.
