readx;? Each of the intelligent races of Ferron has its own unique characteristics in dealing with criminals, the death penalty for halfling prisoners is the famous "death sentence", and the dwarves are like their daring, straightforward character, and the execution of prisoners appears to be clean and sharp, with neither performance nor public onlookers. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info and for elves, in a small, dark and lonely environment for thousands of years until the end of life, it is definitely a more terrible punishment than death, of course, the elves also have the death penalty elegant death (there is no death penalty in the dwarf society, exile is their greatest punishment).

But there is no more frenzy and madness in Ferren than the carnival of prisoners, and there is no uglier and more cruel and hypocritical method of execution.

From bustling cities to remote villages, from the hot and dry scorched earth of the south to the icy northern ice fields, wherever there is human society, there is almost a carnival of prisoners.

Of all the good races in Faeron, humans are the only race that uses the form of "carnival" to execute and torture prisoners, which is criticized by other intelligent races who have come into contact with human society.

The so-called prisoners' carnival is to put a person who is to be convicted in a large court, to be questioned and judged by the public, from lords and nobles to farmers and beggars, and to judge the crimes and punishments of the person to be judged according to the will of the public. It's just that this form of punishment seems to be fair.

In fact, it is a despicable drama that tramples on ethics, moral beliefs, and life in the name of "justice" and "axioms", and satisfies the deformed hopes of human beings.

Every year, innocent people who are brought to this stage at the Prisoners' Carnival, forced to make false confessions by humiliation, beatings, torture, and finally executed in a "gorgeous" way, almost abound. To quote a polymath who has specialized in the study of the prisoners' carnival season: "As long as you are drawn to" carnival, above,

Accept the judgment of the public, unless the secret desires of the bloodthirsty public judge are satisfied, even if you are as upright as the most righteous holy warrior, and innocent as the purest virgin, you will not be liberated and forgiven. ”

The reasons for this are manifold. In essence, the world of Ferren is a backward agrarian society based on agriculture, and the peasants of Ferren are a group of the most vulnerable people: "They are ruled by unscrupulous lords and landlords who often have strange ideas, no moral standards, and act unscrupulously, threatened by invaders who seem to never end, or goblins, giants, or even humans themselves, who trample on life at will and for no reason." The excitement of the onlookers' enthusiastic participation in the Prisoners' Carnival and the visual spectacle of watching others being horribly tortured and injured provides these unfortunate people with an attempt at power, a power that can influence the lives and deaths of others, and makes them mistakenly feel as if they are in control of their own destiny.

Compared with elves with thousands of years of lifespan, dwarves, halflings, and dwarfs with a lifespan of hundreds of years, "the lifespan of human beings is undoubtedly very short, and in terms of the theoretical lifespan of human beings of a hundred years, the average lifespan of ordinary humans in Faeron is not even forty years old. Ordinary civilians are faced with the possibility of dying every day, and a mother lucky enough to give birth to two or three children may experience the accidental death of at least one of their children.

The living environment so close to death makes people derive a kind of curiosity and awe, and even fear of the world of death. The inquisitors at the Carnival of Prisoners offered the most terrible means of execution to the judged, and in this way to witness death in its most horrific form compared to the death they themselves faced in real life, brought them a certain psychological comfort (unless they too became defendants before the magistrate, it was unlikely that they would experience that truly horrific feeling) "I have seen the worst of you, a terrible death! ”

The support and advocacy of the local lords was also an important reason for the popularity of the prisoners' carnival, and their insistence on holding the prisoners' carnival in their own territory was to maintain social order, and this method must be adopted to show justice and punishment.

Of course, this is only a high-sounding superficial statement, and the real reason why the Prisoners' Carnival is recognized by the lords is that this "carnival" can greatly relieve the unrest accumulated by the people under their harsh rule, "it provides an excellent outlet for the restless people, and at the same time warns those who are restless", which greatly reduces the possibility of riots in the territory. In order to consolidate their rule, many lords with a bad reputation will even find some "prisoners" to let their lords have several more prisoner carnivals (Luskan is a typical example).

Some experienced travelers, even by the mere frequency of the prisoners' carnival in a certain area, can tell if the local lord is a wise and tolerant good lord. One of the reasons why Silvermoon City is recognized as the best city to live in in the entire Northland is that the city has not held a prisoner's carnival for several years.

William really hasn't seen the situation of holding a prisoners' carnival with his own eyes, and the stupid William in the past is also the second monk who is confused about this situation, after all, the village of Nome back then was just a wild inn with a big fart, and the old Sairu didn't have the heart to engage in that kind of hypocritical farce, even if the passing merchants talked about the relevant topics, the stupid William couldn't understand, and now William is not interested in any messy carnival at all, if he has this spare time, he might as well find a place to hold the autumn knife and brew his mood.

William didn't care a little about the "Prisoner's Carnival", and Le Bosseri, who was obviously frightened by William's fist intent (which can also be called knife intent), certainly didn't bother to explain the inside story for him in detail.

In William's opinion, the prisoner's carnival should be similar to the assembly of the court in the previous life for a public trial, except that the protagonist of the trial was replaced by a civilian, in his opinion, Selise was completely deserved to accept the trial of the civilians of Locketown, who told her to be idle and bored to assassinate the lord of the family! What's more, if Selise's assassination is indeed in line with the so-called "justice" and "justice", I believe that the people who participated in the trial should forgive her, right?

In a word, William did not intend to meddle in this matter, as for the purple-robed warriors who were killed, who caused a misunderstanding between the two sides, and if they died, they would die, and he did not plan to engage in any tricks of killing people to pay for their lives, at most William expressed deep regret and a little guilt, there were many people who died in his hands, and William had long passed the period of entanglement for the dead. a。