Tavi political leanings from Milliways DE

Alera has two axes of politics: actual social/fiscal/legislative/military issues and the dynastic disagreements.

On the actual issues, Tavi is liberal. No, <i>really</i>. He was raised to it: anti-slavery, pro-enfranchisement of the freemen and women (as per Roman model, only 'citizens' aka not the proles get votes), pro-aristocracy actively and enthusiastically supporting the people who hypothetically depend on them, an insistence on valuing people by their skills and attitudes rather than their magical power. To this he adds a friendliness to foreign nations no one has before him and a thing for technological development which actually borders on a political issue (focus on non-crafting, which given the future includes government funding for the research, so...). Militarily he is supportive of and the instigator of some major innovations which are political issues thanks to the dynastic mess. By modern Earth standards he isn't quite so liberal, of course, but in-world he's approximately radical on issues. Also, the issue of the impending Vord invasion is a political issue thanks to Aleran stupidity, and seeing as Tavi and family are leading the "this is happening we need to prepare" thing, that's another facet of his liberality.

Dynastically Tavi is arguably conservative. In Milliways, Tavi might well have few ideological objections to a constitutional monarchy provided the monarchy be able to cut through the crap and stomp on everything if a crisis were involved. Despite some ideological fondness, he would not trust anything that doesn't involve a competent First Lord being able to cut through everything and just Fix The Problem. No one in Alera even considers breaking the Roman Emperor-Senate model, though, so it's really a "House of Gaius v. anyone else" matter. Tavi works directly for Sextus and is quite loyal. He hates civil war and is of the opinion that the First Lord is Gaius and people should bloody well listen to him. This opinion only grows with time.

Combine these two and you get a fairly strict monarchist supporting the House of Gaius who wants to revamp the entire way Alera runs without actually taking power away from the First Lord.

It's somewhat rooted in a 'he's First Lord, you're ripping Alera apart by arguing this, it's not like he's hurting anything and also you're all amoral,' especially as Gaius has no heir so it's a personal rather than dynastic opinion. Tavi carefully doesn't consider what happens when Gaius dies because it scares him.