*Spoilers* The Torture Victims

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It took 80 fairly blatant kidnapping/murders to get the higher-ups to do anything about Elizabeth Bathory. I imagine it would take more if Alexander were being careful, using prisoners, and staging the kidnappings as the victims of supernatural forces. The Thirty Years' War was 200 years prior, the Gatherers could have been taking a lot of scapegoating for him.