You'd think raising kids in Cheliax would be sufficient to make them not stunningly naive but apparently it isn't, Elias Abarco mutters through the telepathic bond with his colleagues. The girls are hanging off Keltham's every word with a degree of conviction that they ought to realize is borderline dangerous - at best trying to figure out how everything else they've been told is compatible with what they're hearing now, instead of keeping in mind that maybe Keltham's just not Asmodean and won't teach them to be either. Or they're very good liars. Probably for at least some of them, it's the latter - though it's a very good presentation, optimized for Elias rather than for Keltham, who is definitely missing nearly all of its nuances.
Keltham won't teach them to be Asmodean. That's obvious. Presumably part of what they're here for is to figure out whether there's a variant of Keltham's teachings that will teach kids to be Asmodean, the obvious intelligence and societal competence distilled differently, presented in a way that preserves the awe-inducing sense of 'that's what it's like, for the world to be designed around principles that you'd have to be much smarter to even begin to understand' while also preserving the stuff that'd ideally go with it - a sense of smallness and irrelevance which dath ilan clearly does not bother inculcating...
Maybe some of the girls can be set to coming up with the synthesis, once they've been nailed down. The plan is to get them tomorrow morning, possibly excluding Sevar who might spend the night with Keltham and, if so, can be got at breakfast. This isn't Asmodeanism but it does seem like there's a better-crafted, more compelling version of Asmodeanism buried in it, once you strip out the stuff that's plainly aimed at advancing the art rather than awing children into submission with it.