isnt't the deceased's killer unknown(supposingly) - like your own character(s) when being assassinated? so in theory the new fraction leader can make up excuses and improve relations? or at least more prone to ceasefire type diplomacy?

i've had AI suddenly gone mad with me on assassins. got two characters (one diplomat, one general) sent to heaven already. another was driven mad (paranoid +3 or something) before i send him to die, hence the pink elephants assault picture that i took earlier on. not counting a few deaths by the inquisitions before my overly pious armies hug those inquisitors to death (blocking 8-hexes method).

didn't happened in all my previous games. turtling or rampaging.