You are skilled at remaining unnoticed and surprising your opponents even after slaying one of them.

Prerequisite(s): Stealth 11 ranks, death attack and quiet death class features

Benefit: Whenever you kill a creature using your death attack during a surprise round, you get a +4 bonus to the Stealth check you make in order to escape notice by those in the vicinity. If combat begins within 1 round per three assassin levels you possess, opponents who failed to notice you are considered flat-footed against you in the first round of combat, even if they act before you, and you get a +2 bonus to your Initiative roll.