Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-30303676-20161023153004/@comment-28895263-20161025041237

SummerandBran wrote: Also didn't Robert Baratheon mention to Ned about hiring the Faceless Men to assassinate Daenerys but they're too damn expensive or something like that? I'd have to watch season 1 for the millionth time but I think he said it during their picnic on the way back to KL. So I don't know how those poor people afforded it unless it is a sliding scale as mentioned above but Robert thought it was too expensive. And no one hired a hit on Meryn Trant. She was supposed to kill the dude who bought her oysters on the corner everyday. Does anyone know if a Faceless Assassin can pay to have someone hit?

I don't think it was on the King's Road; I seem to recall it from the Small Council meeting when Robert and Ned argued about killing Daenerys. (I could be wrong.)  But I agree that it was Robert who was grousing about the price the Faceless Men would charge for the hit. That's why I brought it up.

So, their rate scale isn't fixed price. Maybe they would charge Robert more because he was a king; maybe because Daenerys, guarded by Jorah and Dothraki, was a hard target. Lady Crane, or the oyster-eating insurance guy, would be much easier targets; suitable first "hits" for an apprentice (Arya).

I'm starting to sound like a business school guy. (I'm not one.)