Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-208.102.128.79-20140103215834/@comment-173.61.208.96-20190824204645

Even if you consider execution justice (I do not,) drawing and quartering someone is a torturous and barbaric thing to do to someone; wrathful and nothing more. If he'd wanted to just have him executed, he could have stood him up against a stake and had archers fill him with arrows, put him on the block and have his head off, or hang him at the gallows. Or even just taken out his sword and run him through on the spot.

Drawing and quartering someone is nothing less than a barbaric expression of wrath; you kill so casually that merely killing someone is insufficient to express your anger at them, so you get brutally inventive.

Of course, The Elder Scrolls is pretty much full of people going full-barbarian on anyone they don't like, what with dungeons full of official torturers and all.