Well, she was in Lowtown for a reason, mainly the secrecy of it all - and randomly trying to pay for/Recruit lowlifes who would die when they got Ketojan where they were going. She wouldn't have let anyone know where she was, mainly because - I dunno, She had a Qunari Saarebas with her?
So, Her and Varnell would be subject to "Lowtown at Night Syndrome", which has a better Synonym. "Dead, dead, dead, deaaaaaaaad".
No such thing as Forensic evidence - if you'd have left behind something of yours as a calling card, Yeah, I could see why that'd be bad. But other than all the dead men you kill, no one else saw you with Petrice before she tried to dupe you.
She does *A Lot* Of things without the Chantry's knowledge, this would have been one that got her killed prematurely. Without her idiotic actions during Act 2, you might not have had a Qunari uprising.
She could have totally died in Act 1, and it would have made 100% logical sense if Hawke&Co. had done the murder Knifing.
*big exhale* The lack of how people can grasp this concept is beyond me.
There has been points proven all in the Dragon Age series everyone who is apart of mages, templars, Chantry, will go against and do secrecy.
Proven in Amell origin with Jowan and the Chantry woman's relationship. Does the First Enchanter know until you tell him? No. Secrecy.
When ya got Templars developing feelings for a mage, like Cullen and Amell for example of it, and go sleep together like countless Templars and Mages have done. Does the Knight-Commander know that these things happen? No. Secrecy.
Does a Grand Cleric know about the shit their sisters do like Petrice was doing? No. Secrecy.
The point of the secrecy is so they don't get caught - and they keep their titles. No one else knew what she was doing besides Varnell. So if Hawke just stabbed her, even though she deserves it for trying to get a thug killed to get the Saarabas out of there, it's murder in the eyes of everyone else.
Grand Cleric finds out she got murdered? Off with Mage Hawke or off with Bethany, and non-mage Hawke would of been killed or in prison.
So to *you* and House and I and everyone else it can be darn sure death that she deserved. But they would only have a Ferelden smuggler/merc off a boat for a year with a dead Sister, you tell me how that'd end well.
Of course this all hypothetical if she wasn't needed for Act 2.
That is the point I'm trying to get across but everyone is so dense and butt-hurt about that game they, House - in particular, just wants to stab her and thinks that should be it when it obviously *does not* work that way.