I want to start off and say I enjoyed the season finale. I already knew going on that Tumbleton was already going to be different due to this whole standoff occupation plot they were going for. The amount of sexual violence this season, had me thinking since reading the book they were building to the tragedy of Tumbleton and the depravity but it ultimately didn’t feel like it besides Daemons POV. I feel like it focused more on the military aspect when it should have focused more on the common folk on the ground , Tumbleton people either had the choice of Burning to death, drowning to death, getting raped to death or killed by soldiers. Even with Hugh not taking part I expected Ulf to pull a Dany but it seemed rather tamed but maybe Daemons pov served that point

“Vermithor and Silverwing climbed into the sky and loosed their fires upon Tumbleton, those cheers changed to screams. Tumbleton went up in flame: shops, homes, septs, people, all. **Men fell burning from gatehouse and battlements, or stumbled shrieking through the streets like so many living torches.** Outside the walls, Prince Daeron swooped down upon Tessarion. Pate of Longleaf was unhorsed and trampled, Ser Garibald Grey pierced by a crossbow bolt, then engulfed by dragonflame. The Two Betrayers scourged the town with whips of flame from one end to the other.”

“The sack that followed was as savage as any in the history of Westeros. **Tumbleton, that prosperous market town, was reduced to ash and embers. Thousands burned, and as many died by drowning as they tried to swim the river.** Some would later say they were the fortunate ones, for no mercy was shown the survivors. Lord Footly’s men threw down their swords and yielded, only to be bound and beheaded. **Such townswomen as survived the fires were raped repeatedly, even girls as young as eight and ten.** **Old men and boys were put to the sword, whilst the dragons fed upon the twisted, smoking carcasses of their victims**. Tumbleton was never to recover; though later Footlys would attempt to rebuild atop the ruins, their “new town” would never be a tenth the size of the old, for the smallfolk said the very ground was haunted.” 

“King's Landing had fallen bloodlessly to Rhaenyra, thanks to Prince Daemon's cunning, but after the First Battle of Tumbleton, unrest spread throughout the city. Only sixty leagues away, Tumbleton had been sacked in the most savage fashion: thousands burned, thousands more drowned attempting to swim across the river to safety, **girls and women were ravished until they died, and dragons feeding among the ruins.** The victory Lord Hightower had won with the aid of Prince Daeron and the Two Betrayers sent terror through the city, as the Kingslanders were sure they would be next.“

“and the riverlords knew much and more of the horrors that had befallen Tumbleton.”

“The horrors of those days cannot be gainsaid. Seldom has any town or city in the history of the Seven Kingdoms been subject to as long or as cruel or as savage a sack as Tumbleton after the Treasons. Without a strong lord to restrain them, even good men can turn to beasts. So was it here. **Bands of soldiers wandered drunkenly through the streets robbing every home and shop, and slaying any man who tried to stay their hands**. **Every woman was fair prey for their lust, even crones and little girls.** Wealthy men were tortured unto death to force them to reveal where they had hidden their gold and gems. Babes were torn from their mothers’ arms and impaled upon the points of spears. **Holy septas were chased naked through the streets and raped, not by one man but by a hundred; silent sisters were violated**. Even the dead were not spared. Instead of being given honorable burial, their corpses were left to rot, fodder for carrion crows and wild dogs.”

“Septon Eustace and Grand Maester Munkun both assert that Prince Daeron was sickened by all he saw and commanded Ser Hobert Hightower to put a stop to it, but Hightower’s efforts proved as ineffectual as the man himself.”

Tumbleton is modern Westeros memorial in Jon/Danys time with the >!skulls of Vermithor and seasmoke as sign of remembrance of the destruction dragons did upon the city!<

The worst atrocity in Westeros history? Didn’t feel like it