Skraevold

Skraevold is the village of the Aeslings, with a forest half a day's distance to the south east of it. Its women go about their daily chores across muddy lanes, tossing feed to black feathered chicken or gathering water from the well. A squat, cold building is used to butcher meat when not in use for torturing captives. Unlike most of the clans of Norsca, the Aeslings do not keep slaves, seeing the practice as a sign of decadence and weakness, instead taking pride in working their own fields, mining their own stone and felling their own timber.

Kennels
Where another clan may have a stockade to hold its captives, Skraevold has no such structure. Instead, such individuals are entombed within the village kennels, a narrow thick-walled timber building on the outskirts of the settlement. The building's interior is dark and dank, the thick smell of of the dozens of warhounds and hunting dogs making the air stagnant. A prisoner will be greeted by the snarls of these hounds, a din that pounds at one's skull as brutally as any fist or bludgeoning. Once inside a cage, the prisoner will likely stumble and crash against the neighboring cages, driving the dogs to press against the wooden bars, snapping at the newcomer's flesh. Jailers will smash the heft of their flails at the mongrels if intent on keeping their prisoners alive--some of whom may wish they hadn't.

Source

 * : Palace of the Plague Lord (novel) by C.L. Werner
 * : Chapter 1

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