Artamon's Tears/YMMV


 * Family-Unfriendly Aesop: The last three pages of book 3 are, um, interesting.
 * Rooting for The Empire:
 * This is only to be expected when The Emperor is portrayed in a highly sympathetic light and the hero is only opposing The Empire for personal reasons.
 * He can also be highly dislikeable and unsympathetic, redeemed only by the fact that the other Empire is even worse. And by his henchman Kaspar.