I keep having this belief that Tarvek may have been manuevering to wasp sparks (like Othar) and troublesome/evil rulers (like the Knights of Jove, his family, etc.) in order to stop them from being evil/oppressing others. It's a common enough variety of magical thinking, even in ethics.

Tarvek is still portrayed as caring about people, in general. It's also been clearly laid out in the novelization that as long as rulers under the Pax Transylvania don't cause trouble beyond their borders, Klaus doesn't care if they oppress their own people. Is this what Tarvek wants to correct?

Or am I reading too much into it?