I enjoyed Draguul and wish your quest had gone differently. You had some pretty interesting interactions going on I believe were going to lead to some pretty interesting inter-cabal strife.

For the rest, we likely have different opinions of someone you call weak and mostly absent (I voted for them for Emperor once upon a time, even though I did move to overthrow them later) and my actions were based off of previous interactions and arrangements that had been ongoing prior to Darvoderis becoming Emperor. Tiiga became anathema for attacking the Emperor which is pretty straight forward (I did not have a charm commune to force them to trip me). That happened before I could start any dialogue. They could have continued on as they had for the life of the character up to this point with pretty much no change to playstyle as an Elite Shadow with the opportunity to become Shadow Lord or possibly more again.

Based on player numbers, I will agree losing Tiiga is a big hit to the Empire, but things tend to change drastically over a few weeks anyway, so I think it is a stretch to say I ruined the cabal, especially since it has not been on very solid footing (as far as cabal wars go) for a while already (at least pretty much all of Darvoderis' life).

Lastly, I don't play safely. It just isn't what I do.