>Now -that- might give the Council an excuse to let him off. >"Well, we had him done Morganti. That's punishment enough, eh? No reason to >rub it in by harassing the boy. No hard feelings, right?" Hmmm... No, I don't see that happening. In a world with revivification, you've got a few options. Dead. REALLY Dead. Obliterated. You use morganti when you want someone completely destroyed. It's not something where you can just go through the motions and say "There, we're even". If the target is up and walking around a week later then obviously someone failed and you need to hire someone better to do the job right. It's not like the casual "warning shot across the bow" style of killing. The Council can't afford to let up until he's verifiably obliterated. That's how they keep order in the ranks. The only way out is to somehow do something so legendary that people will say "Only Vlad could get away with that kind of betrayal" in the same way that they say "Only Mario could get away with that kind of assassination".