Is there a chance for other people to die in an assassination plot?

[September]

I've found a few times that people related to those whose death I plot also died a "suspicious death". It happened to me once when I invited a claimant and plotted the death of his wife to marry him into my house, and far more fortuitously, as William the Conqueror, I pushed a demand for Elective Succession in France, ended up as the second most popular candidate after the King's son. Then at the same day as my plot killed one, the other died as well in a suspicious accident, leaving me with France to go along with England.

Is this supposed to happen due to the plot or is it just weird coincidence?

 

[Veetor]

Weird coincidence.

 

[JonStryker]

That sounds like a bug I've heard of before. I think it was discussed in GoT forum.
Could of course be a coincidence, too.

 

[gnark1ll]

Ai characters are also running their own plots as well, that may not necessarily be discovered by your Spymaster. I find often that say a 3rd in line Son might have a rather bloodthirsty wife who starts trying to kill off those at the head of the queue : ) Very often they are after the same people you are.

Might have something to do with it?

 

[unmerged(47028)]

Once I had a very unpopular child ruler. He had a Regent, evil spymaster. The Regent organised some 3 or 4 dangerous situations where my character was put at grievous risk each time but managed to survive. However, at the end he decided to take a knife and kill the poor child. Fortunately, some random female courtier caught the evil spymaster red-handed and he was put to gallows. She then became the regent of the child. I later married her to the King of Africa as a gratitude.


BTW, once I plotted to kill HRE candidate. I was so lucky that even 3 plans were offered by my co-plotters and three plans were executed at the same time

 

[Zireael]

OP - this is a bug. Already reported to the P-dox internal forums. It's especially bad in GOT, indeed. But as your example shows, it's not limited to the mod.