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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tonguez" data-source="post: 7534700" data-attributes="member: 1125">Well actual dungeons weren't all that common and for Peasantry they weren't much used either. Fines, Stocks, mutilation and death were the most common forms of punishment used.The Donjon was the most secure part of a Keep, often a Tower and in Dark Ages was where the Lord lived. It was later that Nobles moved into more comfortable rooms and the Dungeon was used to store valuables and/or hold political prisoners (hence the Fairytales featuring Princesses in locked towers). It was later again that Prisons were transferred into the basements, becoming the Dungeons we usually think of. The point though remains, the inmates of those dungeons tended to be rebel and political dissidents, many being chained to the walls and the torture, maiming and starvation were all commonly used as punishments in those Dungeons - they weren't nice, sanitary places. Then of course you have things like the Oubliette, which is going to be as much trouble for an Elf as it is for a human (though possibly fine for a gnome)"O Pomfret, Pomfret ! O thou bloody prison, Fatal and ominous to noble peers Within the guilty closure of thy walls, Richard the Second here was hack'd to death" - Shakespear, Richard III </blockquote>