Adams, Robert - Horseclans 06 - The Patrimony by Adams Robert

Author:Adams, Robert [Adams, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: none
Published: 2011-03-10T05:00:00+00:00

The more bloodthirsty Middle Kingdoms burklords occasionally used the long stake to execute

rebellious peasants or bandits. But the short stake was reserved for only the most heinous of

crimes—high treason or crimes against the Sword Council. Short stakes were invariably of wood and were made to order, no higher than the victim's navel, and the point was rounded and sanded smooth so as to slowly rend and tear rather than quickly pierce guts and organs; from the usual two inches below the tip, short stakes tapered to six inches or more at ground level. Sometimes the victim's wrists were chained to a ring about his neck or waist, his legs wrenched apart and he was jammed down onto the stake. Djoy had seen strong men live for an hour or more in shrieking torment, first on their tiptoes, then on their heels, before agony and loss of blood made them too weak to stand, and even then, immediate death and surcease from pain were not certain, for the falling body might tip backward and the point of the stake tear up through the belly and out below the ribs.

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