I am about to start City in the Lion's Eye. I was thinking of making Pythareus sympathetic to the point where he tries to convince the PC's to chose his side. Regarding his crimes: Pythareus will brush them off as necessarities... "welocome to Taldor" or "This is a Civil War" or "And you would return rulership to a blundering dynasty (the cite examples of Taldor decay sinec Staavian I).
Is this idea mad?
