For Liliana Rose her family is absolute.  Her loyalty is absolute, and if her mother or father demanded anything of her she'd give it to them without a thought.  Yet in the end she realized how little she'd given to her family, and how she was nothing in comparison to her parents. To that end Liliana chose to leave her family behind, setting out on a journey to find her own value, and a way to help cement her own legacy.  What she found was something beyond her imagination, and it would eventually lead to her discovering her own place within the Empire.