Fibis

While traveling through the town of Fibis during Balamung's War, Gerin the Fox, Van of the Strong Arm, and Elise came upon a row of crucifixes outside the town, suggesting the small hamlet was aspiring to cityhood. Children and dogs played beneath the crosses. Some of the condemned criminals were not yet dead, and begged for water or death through sun-baked and blistered lips. One, newly crucified or unusually strong, howled defiance at the gods and men. His roars annoyed the carrion birds who saw the dead and dying men as a feast, and patiently awaited their meal. Van was stony and unemotional at the sight, Elise looked in silent horror, and Gerin remembered how aghast he had been when first learning of this barbaric justice.

Gerin, in his rule of a large part of the northlands, refused to ever allow crucifixion into his judicial system. His neighbor Aragis the Archer did not share this principle, but used it only sparingly. During the attempt by the Empire to reannex the northlands, Aragis declared that he would crucify Imperial spies, but not otherwise make crucifixion a habit.