Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-178.167.187.236-20130614030201/@comment-1403309-20140318042018

Let him live. In fact, throughout the whole Dark Brotherhood questline I didn't kill anyone but my targets, even if it meant having to squeeze past a lot of guards. Just sneaked past, killed without being seen, and left unseen.

Now, the reason behind this course of action is contracts. The Dark Brotherhood lives through contracts, which is a really... unstable way of sustaining themselves, since human lives aren't unlimited. If I were to kill people I wasn't paid to kill, I would be throwing away the chance of getting paid to kill those people in a future. Same applies to Motierre. He was a hateful bastard and with his attitude he would be really susceptible to driving people to ask for a contract against him. So why not just wait for that to happen and get a large sum of money for doing so?

BTW, to those who say Motierre has revealed their true identity... how so? You never say your name to him, do you? Just use the goddamn Shrouded Cowl and your identity should be protected just fine.