So i've just finished reading RotCG. I've read all erickson books so i started with the rest.
As i was finishing the book, when
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i started to wonder what the hell did the Talian League hope to achieve in the first place...Let me explain. The Crimson Guard had an objective - to depose Laseen and destroy the empire. But the majority of the "old guard" helped build that empire in the first place. I don't believe they would want the actual empire destroyed. We are told again and again how things were before the empire, just take the Seti vs Li Heng as an example. And yet, the old guard don't seem to have a game plan other than to depose Laseen. What then? Does Urko or Toc take the throne? Not in a million years, they appear to not wanting it and they don't possess the stature for it.
So one would be left to assume that if they were successful, the empire would be no more. We'd have Quon Tali, Seti, Wickans Plains, Dal Hon and the Kan confederacy again.
I always thought they that they wanted to depose Laseen more or less for what happened with Kellanved, not that they wanted to destroy the empire itself..