"We've got exile on the books, but it almost never comes up. And imprisonment, though that one is mostly relevant for labor sentences for spellcasters. There are also a few additional forms of punishment for members of the military, or members of the government."

"And then, uh, people'll argue a lot about whether it technically counts as punishment or not, but the magistrates have a ton of discretion about being able to make you do things that they think'll get you to stop doing crimes, like, they can make you go to spiritual counseling, they can say you have to get a different job, if the thing you did is fixable they can say you have to fix it, sometimes they'll make someone repeat something they said at their trial as a sort of... speech?... They've still got to follow the other rules, like the ones about not doing torture, but I'm sure there's all kinds of things that have happened once or twice that I've never even heard of."

He doesn't like the idea of magistrates having a lot of discretion, but if they can't torture you that puts an obvious bound on how badly they can use it.  He tries to focus on his planning.

He's kind of curious if they make the whippings worse if they know you are an adventurer with the extra toughness, but it sounds like they have enough options on punishments they can just give him a different one if it comes up.

"What is spiritual counseling?  I think in Cheliax that just means a priest lies to you a bunch, maybe while torturing you, and then demands something."  It wasn't that different in the cult either... except for the leader, who liked giving him puzzles and riddles to work on.  It is pathetic to feel bad about killing the leader when the leader was probably weighing the odds of needing to eventually maledict himself.

"—It can include a few different things but in Andoran none of them are torture. In general it's... when there's something you want advice about, and there's a priest who you think'll have a good perspective, so you talk to them about it? I think if a magistrate sentences you to spiritual counseling they probably... talk about why you broke the law, and then if you were confused about whether what you were doing was right they talk to you about why it was wrong, or if you did something wrong and you don't want to do it again they... give you suggestions on how to stop?... and if you did something wrong and you aren't interested in stopping I don't know what they do. And if you were actually doing the right thing then it probably depends on which god they're a priest of. But most spiritual counseling's for other reasons, like — if you're trying to do the right thing but you want help figuring out what that looks like, or you have questions about the gods and you're hoping they'll know, or you think you're about to die, or you're in a confusing situation and you want advice, or — if you know you've done something Evil, or a lot of things that are Evil, and you regret it, and you want to make up for it."