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Gotta love that Vix/Perdanese spindoctoring though. Besides, at this point Perdan is at a really bad place diplomatically. They've allied themselves to two realms that have no qualms about rape and murder, while also getting themselves bogged down in a war as Sirion has finished quelling Oligarch's rebellion. It basically leaves their back door open for Sirion and friends to reduce a potential threat like Perdan have been trying to do to Greater Xavax.
And yes Perdan is at a very bad place atm, that's certainly true. And well there are other realms who've used rape and murder as well, not that often prob though.
People rape and murder peasantry quite often during really heated conflicts. It's just that you're the only one to exaggerate the issue. No reasonable medieval monarch would place his realm at risk geopolitically because some peasants got raped. I mean, even normal looting gets peasants killed and in my humble opinion homicide is slightly worse than rape. So yeah... Selenia's idiosyncratic rambling generally fall on deaf ears.
The real medieval world operated on a system of salic law. The divergance with Battlemaster to have gender equality means that the attitude to rape will most likely be far more pronounced when women are seen as equals to men and not simply as chattels.
For the medieval world that prob would've hold true, but in BM generally around half of the rulers at least will consider it appalling enough to weigh it into their decisions.
Selenia was a peasant herself. Being both common-born and female are perspectives that thread her entire narrative.
As for which is worse, rape or murder, that is a matter of opinion.
Yeaaah.. Not buying that.