and yet the trenns had been too late to leave their home , and were captured by men and women brandishing bludgeons and axes ; and tellur , the tragic father and sole survivor , had been bound in chains and forced to watch as these savages raped , killed , skinned and ate his wife and seven children and once his inconceivable ordeal was over , hed been dragged on all fours before the leader of the slayers ; true to the claims , he was a mountainous ogre who , while gnawing on a bloody shinbone , told him his own pathetic life would be spared if he hastened to the castle and announced to that cowardly bastard of a king that feeriens one and only ruler was he , king velius the vast , and that unless he surrendered , his legion would see to it that every last resisting feere would be slaughtered and roasted on a spit .