"I might previously have had a different answer, but I now think we're not actually very Lawful compared to how Evil we are."
"If we are talking about the typical magic-shop owner, then I think they in fact just wouldn't have any grand ambitions of serving Asmodeus that we should be encouraging. Maybe missing a few Carissa Sevars into the mix is a problem we cannot avoid at our levels of Law. It would be a more plausible argument if you didn't have a native Intelligence of 18 or the Spellcraft that you did..."
"I think we're failing to pick up on potential Inner Ring members who'd serve Asmodeus better as more than shopkeepers. I don't have a good idea yet of how the new Cheliax could do better. Except that there could be a dath ilani track for people with native intelligences of 18, and then, something about Keltham strikes me as not the type to hide in his magic shop and never come to anyone's attention, but I could not begin to guess which portion of Law that represents..."
"I think a lot of the real answer is that the real Cheliax is just not very organized by dath ilani standards. We aren't sweeping peasant villages for alter-Pilars and training the most attractive and Intelligent ones for sale to the highest bidder, because we simply aren't rich enough to afford infrastructure like that."