9. Harrenhal Rat Torture
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Unfortunately for the denizens of Westeros, there is no Geneva convention in place to protect prisoners from inhumane treatment - a fact quite frequently made clear as the show progresses. At Harrenhal, Tywin Lannister's stronghold, prisoners are taken one at a time for questioning to a seat in general view of the others. They are then fastened in and interrogated. This being Game of Thrones, whether they know the answers or not is largely irrelevant, and the torturers take great pleasure in strapping an iron bucket containing a starving rat to the victim's abdomen, before heating the bucket with a large, fiery stick. This, of course, alarms the rat, which promptly seeks the quickest way out - and since it's not burrowing through iron with its little rat teeth, there's only one option. The utter depravity of this one lies as much in its obvious ghastliness as it does its creativity; I mean, whatever happened to fingernail pulling?