Many moons had passed since Perceon had last seen so many men in one place. Rows upon rows of tents marked the ground beneath the mountains that the Golden Tooth called home, and above them flew all the banners of the West: Brax, Banefort, Lefford, Lannister, Crakehall, Swyft, Payne. All around the mountains could the sounds of blacksmiths working metal and swords dancing off each other be heard.
In the castle, where the festivities had been planned, another party had assembled to plan a war. Lord Lannister had issued the call for his lords to join him in a room high in the Lord’s Tower, a location offered by Lord Lefford to host the meeting. There was only one entrance or exit, and Perceon had made certain to post Ser Humfrey Heatherspoon and thirty Lannister guardsmen outside the room and along the halls to defend from spies.
A pair of braziers burned merrily behind the Lord of Casterly Rock and his two traveling companions as he sat at the head of the table-- Lora at his left hand, Prince Aerion at his right. A cool mountain breeze blew lazily through the windows, carrying to them the sounds of the host assembled beneath the walls. On the long table was a map of the Riverlands held in place by several rocks and an empty goblet. Atop the map were figurines denoting the King’s host, Tully’s, and Arryn’s.
The pieces for their rebellion were falling into place. Near on twenty thousand swords stood ready to march to the Riverlands, though it was their lords who worried Lord Lannister. How might Crakehall, the Master of War, react to his intentions? How might Marbrand, or Swyft, or Payne?
Events would unfold as they may. Even this lord or that might seek to revolt, they were hopelessly outnumbered. As the last of them filed into the room, Perceon cleared his throat and stood up to speak.
Hey guys! The title explains it for the most part. I'm wanting to make a broth/stock out of chicken but it seems like most videos I watch on how to do it basically discard the used chicken afterwards. Any way(s) to cook the chicken in water and then eat the chicken and be left with broth?
I don't think I've ever seen a more dramatic reversal in group think in the almost 6 years I've been frequenting that forum.
##Foreword
I’ve always been fascinated by the “judicial ingenuity,” if you will, of the Dark Ages and this question has now been bugging me for three whole weeks now, so perhaps this morbid subreddit can provide something to this gruesome, if not outright vile, topic.
##Stages
The method at hand is that of an English punishment directed at those whom were found guilty of high treason and it involved the following steps:
- Being drawn — as in getting dragged by a horse on a wooden frame to the place where one’s public execution was to be commenced, which was followed by;
- Being hanged — as in hanged by the neck for either a short period of time or to the verge of death (not really dead yet, but close to it), which was followed by;
- Being quartered — as in getting taken down from the gallows and placed down onto a table, still conscious as one’s abdomen is sliced open whereupon the genitalia and intestines are removed and the former of which is burned to a crisp just a few feet away, and then, lastly, being beheaded and neatly chopped up into four pieces.
##Case
Now, as we’ve gotten through the details of the punishment enacted, comes a fictive case.
Let’s say that a 35-year-old man is about to be executed in this way. As such, he’s drawn by a horse and hanged by the neck, both of which causing significant stress within his body. Still fairly conscious and having managed to outlive the first and second stages of his own execution, he’s being removed from the gallows, now crossing over into the third and final stage.
Although the experience of having one’s abdomen sliced open by a blade penetrating the gastrointestinal tract is unfathomable in and of itself, it’s not fatal at this point and, since death is either way imminent, sepsis is of no concern. Just as the abdominal cut causes profuse hemorrhaging, so, too, does the removal of one’s genitalia. A disembowelment, meanwhile, would by itself leads to death in a couple of hours, but given the fictive circumstance with the vital organs being spared as the intestines are getting ripped out, adds to the profuse hemorrhaging.
As can be seen, profuse hemorrhaging takes the cake in all three stages — the abdominal cut, the genital removal, and the disembowelment.
##Question
When being tortured in such a gruesome way, what happens internally until death finally kicks in?
We’ve already mentioned excessive blood loss and subsequent hypovolemic shock. Coma,
... keep reading on reddit ➡Okay so get this. I KNOW what the statistics say about how "smoking kills", but honestly, that's just gross discrimination. Listen, I GREW UP around two parents who both smoked in the house and I NEVER developed asthma. Also, three out of four of my grandparents smoked two packs a day from the age of 12 and lived to be in their late 80s to 90s, and all of which died from conditions that weren't related to smoking.
I smoked from age 15 to 27 and my lungs are 100% clear and healthy. I only quit because I believed a stupid doctor who told me I'm on the way to using an inhaler if I dont quit. What a bigot. He threw out "facts" and "statistics", but honestly based on my own anecdotal experience, I dont believe his lies.
Lastly, how big of a BIGOT do you have to be to blame the CIGARETTES for causing cancer?!?!?! Blame the USER, not the SUBSTANCE. Literally how do we know that all these people who smoked and died of lung cancer didnt also eat really unhealthy, or get enough sleep, or exercise enough?!?!? I'm just saying, smoking doesnt kill people, it's how you treat your body in other areas of life.
Dont spam me with scientific proof that smoking kills, because I wont read it.
I've been around cigarettes my ENTIRE life and have never known a single person who died from them. That's proof.
Maybe you should actually TRY smoking a pack a day before you judge it for being a "bad substance".
Sheesh.
