The Hillthrone Gnolls have been pretty fun up untill the point where they make you start conquering into the empire
>Don't get to join the empire
>Mission to dismantle the empire happens after a mission where you first need to have 20 provinces in said empire (why)
>Get permacores on all of the empire of Anbennar and boatloads of temporary admin efficiency and coring cost reduction but no AE reduction so if you go for it you're either truce-juggling or looking at a coalition spanning from Reveria to the eastern coast of Haless.
I can't decide whether it thematically makes sense or not. The Gnolls going "pfffft retard humans killing themselves in a deathwar" and their solution is to start an even bigger deathwar.