Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-768817-20130817024153/@comment-16047389-20131014173131

I'm sure that if you were on the other side of an assassin's blade, you'd have difficulty finding a "good reason" as to why you should die. I don't know why you find it so difficult for someone to want the person responsible for their death dealt with.

And there is nothing preventing the Dark Brotherhood from killing someone just because they really want to. The Dark Brotherhood was founded on the idea of killing less for money and more for the sake of killing. Astrid's group had fallen away from the traditional values. So to me, the idea of killing Amaund, for no other reason than because you really want to, is more realistic toward the true intentions of the Dark Brotherhood than refusing to because you weren't paid to. Maybe that's how the Morag Tong handles things, but Sithis doesn't care about money.