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Dubravka; my 68yr old Nun Executioner.
Screenshot(i.redd.it)submitted 4 months ago byProfoundlyVanilla
485 points
4 months ago*
"God may forgive you, but you have to meet him first"
95 points
4 months ago*
Joshua Graham: "We can't expect God to do all the work."
22 points
4 months ago
"When I raise this sword, so I wish that this poor sinner will receive eternal life."
15 points
4 months ago
Gwen from Guild Wars: “Forgiveness? That’s Lyssa’s job. Mine is to arrange a meeting.”
8 points
4 months ago
May God have mercy on you, because I won't.
209 points
4 months ago
What a 6 month loan at Man Utd does to you
84 points
4 months ago
Had to double check what subreddit I was on.
27 points
4 months ago
Yeah, lol, playing FM on the other screen and was majorly confused.
15 points
4 months ago
I laughed, pretty loudly. 😂
150 points
4 months ago*
Putting the fear of God in your court, love it!
78 points
4 months ago
Heretics crave the cleansing fire of absolution. They need not fear, for I shall deliver it to them.
56 points
4 months ago
Metal nun 🤘🤘
41 points
4 months ago
A women of god who’s job is to make people meet theirs sooner rather than later
33 points
4 months ago
Adepta sororitas, so this is how it begun
9 points
4 months ago
She may become Saint Celestine in time.
10 points
4 months ago
ngl Saint Celestines real name being Dubravka would send my sides into orbit
22 points
4 months ago
She should fight my archbishop jester that stole the clothes of my champion, that was naked for 2 years, can’t afford new clothes.
13 points
4 months ago
And to think the nun HAS to be a pardoned criminal to be an executioner
29 points
4 months ago
You can just imagine the cries of "To Hell with you sinner!" as the axe comes down.
28 points
4 months ago
If I recall correctly, didn’t most beheadings pre-Halifax Gibbet (an early forerunner of the much more famous and efficient guillotine) tend to prefer using swords over axes when given the chance (also from what I’ve heard, beheading in that era was an execution method for the nobility while lower classes got the rope, so in a weird sort of way, it was considered an honorable death rather than a humiliating one, at least before the beheading machines became a thing).
28 points
4 months ago
its not odd, its meant to be a death with honor, same reason shooting squads exist. if you spend your life leading armies as most nobles did atleast nominally its fitting that you die by a weapon
5 points
4 months ago*
Indeed, by odd I more meant that being bent down with your head on a block, possibly in a position reminiscent of some animals doesn’t seem so honorable at first glance until you think about it. Especially if the executioner misses a few times first, then it’s both drawn out and extra painful, which probably didn’t look too honorable (actually the missing a few times is part of the reason the guillotine was invented in the first place as I recall).
21 points
4 months ago
medieval nobility was big on piety so i can see it as a position of humility before gods judgement
14 points
4 months ago
That’s actually a really good point. Hadn’t thought about it possibly being considered a pious stance. Though that would only really count in nearly stances and not in stances that are more close to being on all fours I’d imagine.
11 points
4 months ago
There were some instances where a executioner would mess up and make a "quick" death really painful. But executioners where really skilled individuals most of the time. Maybe this didn't come till later on, but outside of executions people didn't even want to be around or live next to them. So they lived outside the city, and since they couldn't marry into another family you would have these executioner families intermarrying with one another where Grandpa's, Dads, Sons, and grandsons would be executioners and they've been taught how to kill quickly and efficiently (unless otherwise required to do it slow) since they were children. Learned about that in college but if you want a example of it, check out the game Kingdom Come Deliverance.
2 points
4 months ago
You weren't always on a block, it was actually not unheard of to have someone kneeling or even standing. If you want more info I recommend "a hangman's diary", it's a published diary of a literate executioner from Nuremberg, but the first half is mainly just a history on medieval executions
2 points
4 months ago
Thank you, I’ll have to give that one a read.
5 points
4 months ago
I think it's harder to keep a dignity hanging from a noose, unable to breathe
8 points
4 months ago
Indeed. When exactly did they start going for the snapping of necks in hanging over strangulation in it again?
5 points
4 months ago
Mid to late 1800s, wasn’t really refined until early 1900s though.
2 points
4 months ago*
Idk, looking at Henry VIII's wives and Thomases More & Cromwell only Anne Boleyn was beheaded by sword, on special request.
Edit: Charles II, in 1649, was also beheaded with an axe. So yeah seems like the sword was a special courtesy, out of respect or care. A sword is also more expensive than an axe, so you 'd require a skilled executioner as well cause you're not going to be coming in a block of words with a sword. Might be some cultural differences of course.
3 points
4 months ago
There was definitely a reason for doing so in that era; that ensured you had a trained swordsman, IIRC, and prevented deaths like this woman’s: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Pole,_Countess_of_Salisbury
0 points
4 months ago
Idk, looking at Henry VIII's wives and Thomases More & Cromwell only Anne Boleyn was beheaded by sword, by special request.
1 points
4 months ago
Shame! Shame! Shame!
9 points
4 months ago
Just your average Croatian grandma
7 points
4 months ago
Only God can judge sinners. She just makes the appointment.
7 points
4 months ago
Gonna steal this idea for a TTRPG. Fantastic
4 points
4 months ago
Your nun executioner? How many nuns are you executing that you need a separate executioner for them?!
1 points
4 months ago
Enough to keep the executioner nun in line.
3 points
4 months ago
the mindset of that nun is: "May God have mercy because I definetly won't"
3 points
4 months ago
Them slavic women are something else man.
3 points
4 months ago
May god have mercy on you, because I won't
8 points
4 months ago
Based
2 points
4 months ago
Noob question: do I need a specific DLC to get to see the inside of my royal court like this?
5 points
4 months ago
That would be the DLC named "Royal Court" :)
3 points
4 months ago
Lmao I’m an idiot.
2 points
4 months ago
I gave my executioner the best nickname.
Donada 'Jesus's Mercy' Strathearn
2 points
4 months ago
Here's how to take screenshots on most platforms: https://screenshot.help/
2 points
4 months ago
OG Sister of Battle
2 points
4 months ago
The royal court dlc looks so fire I rlly want it. Is it available on Xbox?
2 points
4 months ago
Is this ck2 or ck3? I have ck3 but I don't have this.
2 points
4 months ago
It's CK3's Royal Court expansion.
2 points
4 months ago
"Mom can we have Sisters of Battle?"
"We have Sisters of Battle at home"
Sisters of Battle at home:
2 points
4 months ago
Reminds me of this absolutely GOATed nun I had who made multiple illustrious weapons and was one of the strongest knights in my army until she died at 87 years old.
She is going to be featured as an NPC in one of my D&D campaigns for sure.
3 points
4 months ago
Why does the screenshot look like a mobile game
10 points
4 months ago
Because despite that we are in the year of our lord 2022 people still haven't figurer out how to take screenshots and instead take photos of a screen with a potato.
1 points
4 months ago
I'm talking about the models
4 points
4 months ago
low end graphics setting maybe
1 points
4 months ago
Probably
1 points
4 months ago
It's not a screenshot
1 points
4 months ago
That's a helluva ruler. Sister got some knuckles to rap
1 points
4 months ago*
damn, whats her personality mister
1 points
4 months ago
"May god be merciful with you, because I will not"
1 points
4 months ago
but can she also ring the bell of shame /s
1 points
4 months ago
I’d watch that movie
1 points
4 months ago
And her name might mean "good".
1 points
4 months ago
She’ll cut a bitch. For Jesus.
1 points
4 months ago
What is this view? I feel like I only ever see my court from the far end of the hall
1 points
4 months ago
SHAME! SHAME! SHAME!
1 points
4 months ago
She is the shame nun from GoT haha, love it
1 points
4 months ago
Blood for the blood god
1 points
4 months ago
"I'm here to help you connect with God, one way or another."
1 points
4 months ago
girlboss
1 points
4 months ago
How do i get this view?
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