"It's definitely going to frighten anyone doubting them into stirring up more shit. Even zealots are probably afraid of being eaten like this." Religious fanatics are likely to take risks with their lives in the name of the gods, but this is over the top on purpose. He respects the symbolic value they're giving to keep their own people in line. It might be vicious, but after something like this, they had to do make it clear.

"Dying badly is always scarier than dying quick." He might put a bullet in someone's head before they even think of attacking. They'll never know how much pain could come first. That's why he thinks it's a mercy. "Solvunn's a fucked up place." Understatement.

The prison isn't in Solvunn either, it's in Nocwich or Luna, since none of the factions get to have possession of all the acolytes. "If they were in Free Cities, coins could've been exchanged easily." To kill them one by one, in an accident. "Don't know if the vamps and weres will be kinder about it."