Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-178.167.187.236-20130614030201/@comment-28252216-20160525011346

112.198.82.159 wrote: Well i didn't kill him though, since if he hires me for even more jobs, it would be profitable. Motierre would be stupid if he even tried to betray me. As i can easily ruin his reputation in the Elder Council since you have evidence that he hired you to kill the emperor.

Do you really think that it would be a good idea to tell some of the most powerful people in Tamriel that you were paid to kill their boss, even if you had proof that someone else planned it? I killed him, and i see him as a loose string. Yes i know some people consider that an excuse, but let's consider this scenario. We killed the emperor and left Motierre alive. Somebody in Dawnstar notices that people wearing dark brotherhood gear are around the area. Amaund hears this and decides it's time to get rid of everyone who knows that he planned the death of the emperor. So he comes with a large force captures you and everyone else, proclaims that you killed the Emperor (while leaving out the fact that he hired you to do it), chops your head (and every other members head) off, and is then procliamed as the hero who found the person that killed the emperor. I could see him doing this because it would have the double effect of cutting off loose strings and making him a hero (something that could get him enough acclaim to get on the council). I see it as "one of us is eventually going to kill the other so i'll go ahead and kill him now".