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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thomas Hobbes" data-source="post: 1535116" data-attributes="member: 8623">Perhaps the balance on poison is that people in the Kingdom of Harmony won't let you get away with it.  Kill a Samauri with it, and before you know it all the others ones are after you.  Tisk tisk.Ditto with Death Touch- he'll want to avoid being identified as a worshipper of the death cult.  Presumably people with Spellcraft or Knowledge: Religion could differentiate it from the normal Inflict X wounds spell.  Even if the Empire's secret worship was widely known, Hasako's job depends on him not being noticed.  A known assassin is not a terribly effective one. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Alignment and motivation wise doghead (to help you write the set up), Hasako is entirely loyal to the Empire and the Emperor, in that order (altough culturally I'm not sure they're distinct, but if they are that's how he would see it).  He's either Lawful Neutral of Lawful Evil; he'll do whatever it takes to accomplish the goals assigned to him (within the bounds of honor as he understands it: service to the emperor means not disgracing the empire.  What, precisely, the restrictions are on noble non-samauri priests are something you're going to have to inform me about. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />)</blockquote>

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