Knight-errant / Assassin

Assassins and knights-errant are people known from the histories for assassination or for the code of the knight-errant; the Records of the Grand Historian has a separate chapter of biographies for each. Their stories often turn on keeping faith, repaying a debt of gratitude and risking death for another, and they took on a legendary colour in retelling; later additions are marked as tradition, and the registry states what they did without praise or blame. They differ from uprising leaders in acting as individuals rather than raising a following.