Gibby;238274 said:
The reasons I thought Cotillion wanted Pearl dead (some mentioned already in posts) could be any/all of the following
1. vengeance against Claw
2. purge it of Mallick Rel's influence
3. Pure hatred/desire to weaken Laseen
4. Cotillion thought Pearl would flip on Laseen and help Kalam, when he didn't, Cotillion had Apsalar kill him.
Also, remember Pearl used poison against Kalam, another assassin, which was against the code. Perhaps that was the straw that broke Cotillion's back and made him send Apsalar in. Without Pearl's "cheating" that way, Kalam may have made it to the fleet.
1. could be true
2.Pearl wasnt under mallicks influence, in fact pearl would probably have ended up killing both the upstarts
3. maybe but that doesnt seem like cottillion's style
4. that wouldn't make sence because the list came out at the biginning of the book, pearl was doomed from the beginning...there was really nothing he could do or not do to save himself by that time.