Why?

At least there's something more to it than all those fan-fiction theories about Ishamael subtly altering the the Prophecies. In any event, the BWB, written in a voice hostile to the Seanchan suggests other evidence supports that perception. IIRC RJ might have as well. There is no indication that this is solely one of those things solely told by the Seanchan.

Because it has frequently been very plausible. Especially in places conquered by the Paendrag

Hey, look what happened as soon as the rulers were killed off! It's like there's something WRONG with those people. And anyway, that was not the substance of my issue, which was that the Seanchan left no trace of the pre-existing polities or nations, which have no evidence of long-standing states or groups. Trying to restore the old order to Seanchan would be something like trying to repatriate former slaves in the US back to their ancestral homelands and tribes. Regardless of what you might think of this past, that is NOT the practice they seem to be employing in the wetlands, where they are leaving the nations and polities intact, but subordinate.

That was not what I said. My point was that if the Seanchan disappear soon, Altara, Tarabon and their other conquered realms can keep going on their own. The case of Andor suggests similar things happening with the death of Hawkwing. The first queen of Andor claimed her right to rule from her descent from a pre-Hawkwing monarch in the same area. Such cases may have been rare in that time, because Hawkwing deliberately supressed nationalistic dissent by making concentrated efforts to break up such foci. A policy the Seanchan are NOT carrying out.



What bigotry? They are the most multi-ethnic society shown, and have specific policies against discrimination, to the point that two generals dislike speaking of the differences in quality between the local auxiliaries and soldiers native to Seanchan. What persecution? Persecuting criminals and theives and other sorts that made Ebou Dar, even in a time of relative peace and prosperity, such a dangerous city as it was viewed in the middle books? Putting down rebellion as every single other nation that suffers such events does? Or letting their newly conquered subjects come and go as they please, bearing arms and conducting commerce with their enemies? Do you mean the way they tolerate the Tinkers and even subsidize their useless idiocy, allowing them to be parasites of the state?

Make no mistake - your absurd characterization of their treatment of channelers as bigotry is a complete misuse of the term, and an utterly mendacious attempt to smear the one people in the given world who are most innocent of that term as it is used in contempory application. The Seanchan are no more bigoted against channeling than any nation is bigoted against criminals who break their laws. The absurd mentality of comparing channelers to any sort of group whose members are guilty merely of a different set of human behaviors or physical characteristics than those approved of the establishment, is more disruptive of productive discussion or analysis of the books than any amount of vituperation between posters. People with an uncontrolable, impossible-to-regulate characteristic than can, and has, caused great amounts of destruction are simply not in the same category as people who have the same type of capabilities as the general run of humanity, but merely choose to behave differently.