I certainly didn't mean to imply having our necromancer torture various lowborn criminals to death was more ethical than having PoWs experimented upon, but rather that it accomplishes the same thing (providing Qyburn the flesh he desires for his projects) without the various practical and political consequences that doing so for defeated enemies entails, and that the "necessity" of indulging our defrocked Maester shouldn't be used as a rationale for this vote.
We're sending Aukar to Qyburn in this very specific case because of his claim of having Targaryen blood, something that the average criminal lacks. And our enemies won't know that we experimented on him; they'll just think that he died in the Black Cells.
Note that giving Aukar to Qyburn was a quester idea, not a QM-given option--though we were given an option to write in. We have been given no indication that giving Aukar to Qyburn will do anything, other than inflame our existing penchants for madness and tyranny.
I mean, I'm sure that Qyburn will come up with something. He came up with Mountain Frankenstein in canon after all. And I'm noticing that there seems to be a big revival in magic all over the world, which should make things easier.
Probably best not to chide other players for poor play, while playing poorly ourselves (as a collective - I have no idea of your voting record).
To be fair that is a very in character reputation to have, and we did choose wrath
Everyone that has played or QMed a quest on SV knows that "obtain magic" will always be voted. If I gave clear confirmation of "funky stuff if you pick this", I might as well skip the vote.
I agree that human sacrifices are not a pleasant concept, but without magic, I don't really see how we can counter Stannis and Euron. Not to mention whenever a Targaryen succeeds in hatching a dragon. We need weapons more than we need a extra boost in morale that a execution would bring us. As for the risk of the Faith rebelling, we just need to make sure that security around Qyburn's laboratory is airtight. Make sure as few people know as possible.
This doesn't work once his test subjects get up and start walking around.
Just because Qyburn is missing his chain doesn't mean he can't use chains.
That could be difficult. We don't even know for certain how Jaime met his end. It's possible the shadow creature slashed him into a bunch of tiny pieces. Regardless, I feel like far too much time has passed to bring Jaime back. Though who knows? I know nothing about necromancy. All aboard the mad scientist train to find out!
Have we been playing poorly though? I feel like most of the things that have gone wrong were out of our control: the multiple Targaryen pretenders, the Most Devout turning against the High Septon, Jaime dying, Stannis getting magic protagonist powers, etc.
We've [mutually, Tywin was the bigger dick to us, and quicker] alienated our family and its retainers in exchange for not much in return (a couple thousand soldiers and Edmure Tully's questionable command and administrative prowess), and are dependent for continued survival upon a bargaining chip we let loose into the world beyond our control. Granted, letting Joffrey go into battle, and sending Jaime on his errand, seemed like good ideas at the time. But we've been gambling with short resources against long odds, and our position is at the moment exceptionally precarious.
