Maillol is heading back to his office.  Once they're out of range of the security office - if not of security - he speaks again.  "Word of warning, Sevar.  Keltham is right that our usual schools teach people what to think, not how to think, and I should hardly need to say that the reason is that if they did their own thinking they'd fuck it up.  Unless your vision succeeds far beyond what any reasonable person would expect, a Chelish academy based on Keltham-style teaching is going to have two kinds of people in it:  Priests of Asmodeus and citizens valuable enough that they qualify for our very limited soul-sale slots.  If I'd seen it faster we could've brought in older women who'd already sold their souls, and not used up a hell of a lot of our project's slack on having a bunch of baby wizards do it, but what's done is done."

"I may be reading too much into Hell's instructions - we get told not to put too much weight on exact wordings that passed through three increasingly less intelligent devils on their way from Asmodeus to us - but it seems to me that Asmodeus gave you four instructions in order, and they may have been an order of priority.  Serve Him well in this world, don't fall to heresy, figure out the differences between yourself and an axiomite, and become the kind of being Asmodeus wishes mortals were and join His most treasured possessions.  If all we learn from Keltham is tricks for smelting vast quantities of high-quality metal, it will not, in fact, make this project a failure in the eyes of Church and State, even if that falls short of your own ambitions for it."

Maillol is heading back to his office.  Once they're out of range of the security office - if not of security - he speaks again.  "Word of warning, Sevar.  Keltham is right that our usual schools teach people what to think, not how to think, and I should hardly need to say that the reason is that if they did their own thinking they'd fuck it up.  Unless your vision succeeds far beyond what any reasonable person would expect, a Chelish academy based on Keltham-style teaching is going to have two kinds of people in it:  Priests of Asmodeus and citizens valuable enough that they qualify for our very limited soul-sale slots.  If I'd seen it faster we could've brought in older women who'd already sold their souls, and not used up a hell of a lot of our project's slack on having a bunch of baby wizards do it, but what's done is done."

"I may be reading too much into Hell's instructions - we get told not to put too much weight on exact wordings that passed through three increasingly less intelligent devils on their way from Asmodeus to us - but it seems to me that Asmodeus gave you four instructions in order, and they may have been an order of priority.  Serve Him well in this world, don't fall to heresy, figure out the differences between yourself and an axiomite, and become the kind of being Asmodeus wishes mortals were and join His most treasured possessions.  If all we learn from Keltham is tricks for smelting vast quantities of high-quality metal, it will not, in fact, make this project a failure in the eyes of Church and Queen, even if that falls short of your own ambitions for it."

Maillol is heading back to his office.  Once they're out of range of the security office - if not of security - he speaks again.  "Word of warning, Sevar.  Keltham is right that our usual schools teach people what to think, not how to think, and I should hardly need to say that the reason is that if they did their own thinking they'd fuck it up.  Unless your vision succeeds far beyond what any reasonable person would expect, a Chelish academy based on Keltham-style teaching is going to have two kinds of people in it:  Priests of Asmodeus and citizens valuable enough that they qualify for our very limited soul-sale slots.  If I'd seen it faster we could've brought in older women who'd already sold their souls, and not used up a hell of a lot of our project's slack on having a bunch of baby wizards do it, but what's done is done."

"I may be reading too much into Hell's instructions - we get told not to put too much weight on exact wordings that passed through three increasingly less intelligent devils on their way from Asmodeus to us - but it seems to me that Asmodeus gave you four instructions in order, and they may have been an order of priority.  Serve Him well in this world, don't fall to heresy, figure out the differences between yourself and an axiomite, and become the kind of soul Asmodeus wishes mortals were and join His most treasured possessions.  If all we learn from Keltham is tricks for smelting vast quantities of high-quality metal, it will not, in fact, make this project a failure in the eyes of Church and Queen, even if that falls short of your own ambitions for it."

Maillol is heading back to his office.  Once they're out of range of the security office - if not of security - he speaks again.  "Word of warning, Sevar.  Keltham is right that our usual schools teach people what to think, not how to think, and I should hardly need to say that the reason is that if they did their own thinking they'd fuck it up.  Unless your vision succeeds far beyond what any reasonable person would expect, a Chelish academy based on Keltham-style teaching is going to have two kinds of people in it:  Priests of Asmodeus, and citizens valuable enough that they qualify for our very limited soul-sale slots.  If I'd realized that faster we could've brought in older women who'd already sold their souls, and not used up a hell of a lot of our project's slack on having a bunch of baby wizards do it, but what's done is done."

"I may be reading too much into Hell's instructions - we get told not to put too much weight on exact wordings that passed through three increasingly less intelligent devils on their way from Asmodeus to us - but it seems to me that Asmodeus gave you four instructions in order, and they may have been an order of priority.  Serve Him well in this world, don't fall to heresy, figure out the differences between yourself and an axiomite, and become the kind of soul Asmodeus wishes mortals were and join His most treasured possessions.  If all we learn from Keltham is tricks for smelting vast quantities of high-quality metal, it will not, in fact, make this project a failure in the eyes of Church and Queen, even if that falls short of your own ambitions for it."

Maillol is heading back to his office.  Once they're out of range of the security office - if not of security - he speaks again.  "Word of warning, Sevar.  Keltham is right that our usual schools teach people what to think, not how to think, and I should hardly need to say that the reason is that if they did their own thinking they'd fuck it up.  Unless your vision succeeds far beyond what any reasonable person would expect, a Chelish academy based on Keltham-style teaching is going to have two kinds of people in it:  Priests of Asmodeus, and citizens valuable enough that they qualify for our very limited soul-sale slots.  If I'd realized that faster we could've brought in older women who'd already sold their souls, and not used up a hell of a lot of our project's slack on having a bunch of baby wizards do it, but what's done is done."

"I may be reading too much into Hell's instructions - we get told not to put too much weight on exact wordings that passed through three increasingly less intelligent devils on their way from Asmodeus to us - but it seems to me that Asmodeus gave you four instructions in order, and they may have been an order of priority.  Serve Him well in this world, don't fall to heresy, figure out the differences between yourself and an axiomite, and become the kind of soul Asmodeus wishes mortals were and join His most treasured possessions.  If all we learn from Keltham is tricks for smelting vast quantities of high-quality metal, it will not, in fact, make this project a failure in the eyes of Church and Queen, even if that falls short of your own ambitions for it."

Maillol is heading back to his office.  Once they're out of range of the security office - if not of security - he speaks again.  "Word of warning, Sevar.  Keltham is right that our usual schools teach people what to think, not how to think, and I should hardly need to say that the reason is that if they did their own thinking they'd fuck it up.  Unless your vision succeeds far beyond what any reasonable person would expect, a Chelish academy based on Keltham-style teaching is going to have two kinds of people in it:  Priests of Asmodeus, and citizens valuable enough that they qualify for our very limited soul-sale slots.  If I'd realized that faster we could've brought in older women who'd already sold their souls, and not used up a hell of a lot of our project's slack on having a bunch of baby wizards do it, but what's done is done."

"I may be reading too much into Hell's instructions - we get told not to put too much weight on exact wordings that passed through three increasingly less intelligent devils on their way from Asmodeus to us - but it seems to me that Asmodeus gave you four instructions in order, and they may have been an order of priority.  Serve Him well in this world, don't fall to heresy, figure out the differences between yourself and an axiomite, and become the kind of soul Asmodeus wishes mortals were and join His most treasured possessions.  If all we learn from Keltham is tricks for smelting vast quantities of high-quality metal, it will not, in fact, make this project a failure in the eyes of Church and Queen, even if that falls short of your own ambitions for it."