Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-3539474-20131127213414/@comment-3539474-20131212202620

In the TV show, by standards the Boltons are not particularly "that bad". All factions killing each other for power. They are cold bastards, but one can deal with the Boltons and they all have seen worse. Compare Roose to Tywin Lannister, then to Robert Baratheon abusing Cersei and ordering to kill Dany, to Stannis killing his other side of the family, to the Freys and so on...

But by definition; the Boltons is something else, they are wicked tricksters. They tortures people for fun, just because they can treat their victims like slaves. That is not normal in Westeros, where slavery is illegal/forbidden.