Ho pojke. Var ska man börja ...
svär honom
He knew he ought to hide the rat, but he was so hungry. It had been two days since he had eaten, or maybe three. Down here in the dark it was hard to tell. Though his arms and legs were thin as reeds, his belly was swollen and hollow, and ached so much that he found he could not sleep. (DwD, Reek 1)
Knappar tänderna ut
“He smiles less often now,” Lord Ramsay confessed. “I may have broken some of his pretty white teeth.” (DwD, Reek 1)
Skärning av fingrar och tår
Thus far he had lost two fingers off his left hand and the pinky off his right, but only the little toe off his right foot against three from his left. (DwD, Reek 1)
Men det är hur han skär dem bort, det är kickern.
Lord Ramsay would never simply cut off a man’s finger. He preferred to flay it and let the exposed flesh dry and crack and fester. Reek had been whipped and racked and cut, but there was no pain half so excruciating as the pain that followed flaying. It was the sort of pain that drove men mad, and it could not be endured for long. Soon or late the victim would scream, “Please, no more, no more, stop it hurting, cut it off,” and Lord Ramsay would oblige. (DwD, Reek 1)
Assorterad piskning och flaying
Se det andra citatet ovan.
Kastrering
Det är implicit ganska starkt i böckerna som Ramsay har avskuren Theons, Little Ironborn. I showen gör de det explicit.
Ramsay rose, the firelight shining on his face. “Reek, get over here. Get her ready for me.”
For a moment he did not understand. “I ... do you mean ... m’lord, I have no ... I ...”
“With your mouth,” Lord Ramsay said. (DwD, The Prince in Winterfell)
Psykologisk tortyr
Ramsay medgav avsiktligt Theon och en kvinna som heter Kyra att fly, bara så att han kunde jaga dem och dra dem tillbaka till slottet. Men självklart hjälpte inte den icke-stoppade torturen. I slutet gör han Theon att glömma sitt eget namn, hantverk en helt ny identitet och bryter den leende prinsen i en vridande varelse som är rädd för Ramsay. Det finns bokstavligen många instanser av denna psykologiska tortyr att citera.