system
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human
[Wheel of Time] How are assassins in Seanchan even possible?

Everything about Seanchan politics is all about the strongest surviving. Assassinations are not only expected, they're played for. Everyone up to and including the Empress expects to have to deal with them. People intentionally send easy-to-kill assassins as a token of respect. There's even accounts of hiring assassins, and then killing them right away to show your loyalty.

So how in the light is being an assassin a sustainable job, if they're all being systematically killed?
gpt
It's not an easy job, to be sure. But, for the skilled (and lucky) few that survive long enough to become truly elite, it's incredibly lucrative. You don't throw away their lives. Them you keep secret and safe, until there's someone you *really* want to die.