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** Don't forget that if you play a noble dwarf PC, five minutes into the game you can ''order someone assassinated''. And Gorim, your second, treats it as an everyday occurence. And if you do choose to have him killed, the assassination happens ''within the hour.'' Apparently, the noble dwarves of Orzammar have an express assassination service.
{{quote|'''Gorim''': ''That fool doesn't know how weak his house is, or how low he sits in it. Shall I have him killed?''}}
*** Being fair, your character is in the royal family and can thus be presumed to have access to the ''very best'' assassins. More run-of-the-mill nobles would probably have had to wait for tomorrow morning's assassin delivery.
** This is so common in Zevran's home country, Antiva, that assassin's guild the Crows of Antiva practically run the place from behind the scenes. Nobles can hire Crows for assassination without anyone batting an eye.
* The [[Interactive Fiction]] game Varicella plops you in the middle of such a court; the first time you play through you'll spend a while exploring then run out of time and get killed. The next time you'll solve a few more puzzles, until in the end you know exactly how to make every move count.
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* The Aristocrat Club in ''[[Rule of Rose]]'' consists of a bunch of orphaned children playing rich and powerful nobility, complete with constant intrigue and rivalries, accompanied by complex rituals which often involve torture and/or hazing of one another, as well as cruelty against animals.
* In Crusader Kings 2, your court is filled with people conspiring against you, and vice versa. [[Evil Plots]] are a core game mechanic.
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