*Spoilers* The Torture Victims

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Ahem.

Before someone mentions Vlad the Impaler, note that (A) he had an army (B) he was fighting an invading army and © those numbers were written by a guy who wanted him to seem very violent.

For a related story check out what Vlad Tepes (Drakul) got away with in his own domain just becouse he saved his country from the Turks

Gah! I should have posted that here, too!

what a seemingly pious french guy called Gilles de Rais did in his own lifetime. Want more? Skip ahead to Germany in WW2 and the concentration camps, about most information got out only after the allied liberation. How did they get away with it for so long (more than a million deaths in about 4 years)?

Primarily because they had virtuallyliterally an army of thousands of people trained to kill with almost military precision. I've made a point that the events of Amnesia were in peacetime before. That's because if Alexander had an actual army which was fighting another actual army, this would not have been a realistic objection. Even if he commanded an army, an army attacking its own in peacetime would have resulted in civil war, since the external threat would not have prevented the populace from seeking out the king.

Partly becouse the people running the country were free to make their own laws and partly becouse the general population was kept in the dark about the truth; also the ones who asked too much were disposed of too so naturally noone asked much.

Alexander might have had a bit if a free hand, but once he started abducting the king's own men, that's pretty much it for that freedom. The population was not kept in the dark about it, either. You had hundreds of men kidnapped. The people would have noticed that.

2. Since Alexander is a supernatural being which lives for more than a couple centuries, he has probably adapted to the society surrounding him very well and made enough arrangements not to draw suspition to himself or his staff.

Except that we know this is not true. The king's men were investigating.

As a baron and jailer/peacekeeper he received a steady influx of real criminals, strays and war prisoners, besides that he steadily made his artificial servants which he put in to the surrounding woods, where they would occasionally kidnap some poor person which was unlucky to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Occasionally corresponds to at least a person per week in this case.

When questioned about this, he would simply have to reply: "I have no idea what those things are, but i don't have anything to do with them."

That doesn't work too well when you've got someone yelling at you for a sky-high murder rate in your region.

He also needed human servants like Wilhelm to kidnap people, but he always made sure to dispose of them before any of them would blabber out something incriminating.

The servants were given special credit and recommended for services to other noblemen. And then they suddenly disappeared? With alarming frequency?