[Shard] - Sosaria
[Type] - Reference
[Book] - Purple - 40 pages

[Title] - =Forms Of Execution=
[Author] - Lady Dhae Massirith

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- A black leatherbound
book fastened with a
silver clasp shaped like a
skull. -

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This is an overview
discribing several of the
possible methods of
execution available. It by
no means lists -all- the
varients or forms of
death possible. This is
simply a guide and a tool

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to aid Students of Death.


- Lady Dhae Massirith,
Order of the Ebon Skull

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=Boiled to Death=

Usually the victims are
boiled in a cauldron
containing water, though
some executioners use oil
or tallow. The methods
vary, from the prisoner


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+ An illustration of
victim's being boiled
in a large cauldron. +


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being placed in cold water
which is then heated up,
or forcing them into
already boiling liquid, or
suspending them from a
beam and repeatly dipping
them into the bubbling
cauldron.

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=Blown from a Cannon=

Prisoners suspected of
being spies can be blown
from a cannon: tied over
the muzzle of the
artillery piece, which is
then fired.

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=Buried Alive=

This speaks for itself.






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+ A detailed illustration
of a man buried
up to his head in the
ground as onlookers
watch. +

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=Burning at the Stake=

This method is used
mostly for people accused
of heresy, and is used in
two different ways. The
first one, most commonly
depicted, consists of

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using a heap of logs
with a wooden stake on
top where the
"unfortunate" prisoner is
attached with chains and
ropes. The other method,
consists of tying the
condemned on a pole and

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heaping up the logs
around him, so that he
or she dies inside of
the flames.





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=Decapitation by the
Sword or the Axe=

Decapitation (or beheading)
by the sword is a very
common method of
execution. The condemned
must kneel down and the

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executioner uses a
horizontal blow of the
sword to cut his or her
head off.
The Executioner's axe, and
others similar to it,
require considerable skill
and accuracy to be used


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+ Sketches of several
different axes with
short description's
under each. +

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by the wielder. More than
one blow was the usual
rather than the unusual.

The accessory of the axe
is the block. The block is
a section of an oak log,
rectangular in shape, and

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scooped out midway along
each of the longer sides.







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=Flaying Alive=

Where the victim is
actually being skinned
alive. This is a more
leisurely method of
execution, the skin being
peeled away from the top

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of the skull first, and
then down over the
shoulders and torso,
though few victims
actually survive once the
breast bone is exposed.




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=Hanging, the Gallows=

Self explanatory.






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+ An illustration of
several prisioner's
hanging from the
gallows. +

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=Impalement=

This is done by inserting
a sharply pointed stake
into his posterior, which
then is forced through
his body, emerging through
the head, sometimes

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through the throat. This
stake is then inverted
and planted in the ground.

There are several
different ways to
impalment victim's, this
just being the most

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popular and widely used.









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=The Death of
Twenty-one Cuts=

This entails the
executioner slicing away
pieces of the victim's
body, then cutting off
the limbs one by one,

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timing his or her carving
so accurately that by the
twentieth stroke, little
is left, other than to
administer the final blow.




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=The Guillotine=

Once again, self
explanatory. A popular
form of execution in
Nu'jelm.



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=The Iron Maiden =

Infamous as a device
used for both torture
and execution. The victim
is placed in the coffin
like container which has a
woman's face sculpted on

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top of it. By closing the
lids of the maiden, iron
spikes are driven
through the victims body,
the positions having been
selected in such a way
that no vital part is
hurt.


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+ A detailed illustration
of an Iron Maiden,
depicting both the
outside and inside
of the device. +

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Alternatly, the spikes can
be re-ajusted to grant
an agonizingly prolonged
death, or one that is
blessedly short.




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=Torn Apart by Horses=

This entails the limbs of
the body being pulled off
by bolting horses.




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+ An illustration
picturing a woman
being pulled apart by
four horses. +


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