She's pretty sure she did have a thesis on that, actually, but it's embarrassingly hard to think about it when the Chosen is in the room with them, which is stupid because the Chosen is going to have access to everything she says for the foreseeable future and in that sense the Chosen is actually always in the room.
Anyway. From the top.
" - so one of my thoughts here is that, uh, Taldor and Cheliax are different, right, they have different histories and different historical governmental structures and different cultures and different geography; what we want, ideally, is to extrapolate a future of the actual Cheliax of the past, starting with old Cheliax and then running it through what we described to Keltham, further development followed by a relatively recent civil war and a victory by the forces representing nice-Asmodeus. I suspect that some things we've said already come into conflict with that, and also suspect that it's going to be harder to find information on than what Taldor is like, but if we could manage it, that would have been the most internally consistent thing we could have done, probably, so I feel like that's where we should start, and then se existing e what things we have to alter to make it fit with our existing story."
"And one of my thoughts is - would Keltham help Taldor. If he had landed on Taldor. Because if Keltham would find Taldor abhorrent, too, find them so unbelievably actually-evil that they couldn't exist outside of storybook villainy and he needed to get away from them right away, too - then probably Cheliax of the past is too near that in some respects, too. And we have to keep that in mind when designing alter-Cheliax, too, make it realistic while also not making it a place that Keltham would immediately run screaming from, because it's not currently obvious to me that neutrality would even meet his standards. I assume that Sevar is the expert, there."