...Asmodia is going to put her own voice down as pleading very strongly that they just actually do this and don't try to elaborately fake it.  No, they're not going to be able to tell Keltham about countries' actual reactions to Cheliax, the Infernal Empire, making an announcement like that, but they can tell Keltham honestly how much progress was being made.  Lrilatha can swear things to him about it.

None of this is going to matter on the sort of military timescales that they're heading for with spellsilver production.  It may matter to keeping Keltham contained another week.  They don't want him looking outward from the Fortress like this.  Everything else should be secondary to Contessa Lrilatha being able to swear things to Keltham, and the progress reports they give him making sense, and there not being any delays while people try to figure out what to fake.

...Asmodia is going to put her own voice down as pleading very strongly that they just actually do this and don't try to elaborately fake it.  No, they're not going to be able to tell Keltham about countries' actual reactions to Cheliax, the Infernal Empire, making an announcement like that, but they can tell Keltham honestly how much progress was being made.  Contessa Lrilatha can swear things to him about it.

None of this is going to matter on the sort of military timescales that they're heading for with spellsilver production.  It may matter to keeping Keltham contained another week.  They don't want him looking outward from the Fortress like this.  Everything else should be secondary to Contessa Lrilatha being able to swear things to Keltham, and the progress reports they give him making sense, and there not being any delays while people try to figure out what to fake.  They cannot afford a repeat of the Pilar incident, the Asmodia headband incident, not when Keltham is looking outward like this, it all has to be real.

...Asmodia is going to put her own voice down as pleading very strongly that they just actually do this and don't try to elaborately fake it.  No, they're not going to be able to tell Keltham about countries' actual reactions to Cheliax, the Infernal Empire, making an announcement like that, but they can tell Keltham honestly how much progress is being made in which countries.  Contessa Lrilatha can swear things to Keltham about it.

None of this is going to matter on the sort of military timescales that they're heading for with spellsilver production.  It may matter to keeping Keltham contained another week.  They don't want him looking outward from the Fortress like this.  Everything else should be secondary to Contessa Lrilatha being able to swear things to Keltham, and the progress reports they give him making sense, and there not being any delays while people try to figure out what to fake.  They cannot afford a repeat of the Pilar incident, the Asmodia headband incident, not when Keltham is looking outward like this, it all has to be real.

...Asmodia is going to put her own voice down as pleading very strongly that they just actually do this and don't try to elaborately fake it.  No, they're not going to be able to tell Keltham about countries' actual reactions to Cheliax, the Infernal Empire, making an announcement like that, but they can tell Keltham honestly how much progress is being made in which countries.  Contessa Lrilatha can swear things to Keltham about it.

None of this is going to matter on the sort of military timescales that they're heading for with spellsilver production.  It may matter to keeping Keltham contained another week.  They don't want him looking outward from the Fortress like this.  Everything else should be secondary to Contessa Lrilatha being able to swear things to Keltham, and the progress reports they give him making sense, and there not being any delays while people try to figure out what to fake.  They cannot afford a repeat of the Pilar candy curse incident, the Asmodia headband incident, not when Keltham is looking outward like this, it all has to be real.