"By executing the compact with Asmodeus that transformed Cheliax into its present form, which did include the careful removal of many elements of the then-current power structure and their replacement with more sensible persons, which in turn did involve a certain amount of early departure for the afterlife.  But, Keltham, you really need to understand what Cheliax was like before that, before you suggest that we should have made any different choices there.  Dath ilan, unless I entirely miss my guess, would have regarded them as extreme criminals under whatever notion you have of criminality."

Isidre shakes her head.  "By executing the compact with Asmodeus that transformed Cheliax into its present form, which did include the careful removal of many elements of the then-current power structure and their replacement with more sensible persons, which in turn did involve a certain amount of early departure for the afterlife.  But, Keltham, you really need to understand what Cheliax was like before that, before you suggest that we should have made any different choices there.  Dath ilan, unless I entirely miss my guess, would have regarded them as extreme criminals under whatever notion you have of criminality."