Maybe it's just me, but doesn't seem that place a little but too sinister for a 'lovely and cultivated Countess Alessia Caro' to be doing her needlework? Are the Count and Countess of Bravil simply a pair of sadists? Don't let me start about the Skingrad Count and his... condition.
Listen to these people in the game, and what do people say about them? The Caros are horrible racist, veiwing Argonians and Khajiit, but particularly Argonians, as animals. If you look closely, you notice something interesting about that torture room, there are eating utensils. She very literally views them as animals, even to the point of eating them.
If only they had gone somewhere with this in-game. Then it would have been great.