A closer look
Assassination is generally considered a shady, back-alley business, unless you were the Venetian government, in which case it required a formal committee vote and a meticulous paper trail. The Council of Ten, Venice's terrifying intelligence apparatus, treated political murder as an administrative duty. They kept exhaustive secret records detailing which specialized poisons to use on which enemy of the state, precisely how much the assassin was paid, and the overall success rate of the toxic concoction.
