Cheliax does not, in fact, need roads right now, according to the Queen and Most High's actual probable priorities.  There's a version of the story Asmodia could tell, did tell, about how she's trying to figure out something genuinely new that Keltham didn't know at all.  But the real reason was that her mind considered medicine and electrical motors and explosives, and flinched away from everything that Cheliax could have used destructively.

Cheliax does not, in fact, need roads right now, according to the Queen and Most High's actual probable priorities.  There's a version of the story Asmodia could tell, did tell, about how she's trying to figure out something genuinely new that Keltham didn't know at all.  But the real reason was that her mind considered medicine and electrical motors and explosives, and flinched away from everything that could have helped Cheliax win a near-term war.

Cheliax does not, in fact, need roads right now, according to the Queen and Most High's actual probable priorities.  There's a version of the story Asmodia could tell, did tell, about how she's trying to figure out something genuinely new that Keltham didn't know at all, to challenge her own ilanism.  But the real reason was that her mind considered medicine and electrical motors and explosives, and flinched away from everything that could have helped Cheliax win a near-term war.

Cheliax does not, in fact, need roads right now, according to the Queen and Most High's actual probable priorities.  There's a version of the story Asmodia could tell, did tell, about how she's trying to figure out something genuinely new that Keltham didn't know at all, to challenge her own ilanism.  But the real reason was that her mind considered medicine and electrical motors and explosives, and flinched away from everything that could help Cheliax win a near-term war.