[A written copy of the speech that was recently made at the Town Hall by Haldor Longhand, these copies are posted about in Upper Sanctuary]
Written Copy of the Speech Greetings to all of you, citizens of Sanctuary. My name is Haldor Longhand and I serve a Lord so great that he is known to all of civilized humanity, they speak of him in the courtrooms, they offer him prayer before any judgment concerning justice is made and they pray to him for assistance when injustice is committed against them; he is the magnificent and Holy Lord Tyr.But I have not come here to boast, I am here today to tell all of you here about what I shall do if I am elected for the Council and to tell all of you here about what Sanctuary requires and needs mostly.
For too long the people of Sanctuary have chosen the wrong Councilors, but I do not blame any of you. For how could any of you truly know who speaks the truth when so many boasts and claims are made every election, which are all unfortunately rarely the truth.
Do not waver though, for there is always a way to uncover the truth and these are my suggestion. All of you ought to question every one of these candidates, question them about their patron deities and question them about their true intentions. You may ask why we should care about whom they serve and to that my reply: it matters quite a lot and who they worship and serve shapes their character and their true intentions.
When the servants and followers of the dark and infernal powers make claims and boasts, do not head them. When the followers of The Black Lord promise freedom, it is clear that they deceive because it is Tyranny that their Lord wishes. When the followers of the Mistress of Disease promise a cure, they clearly deceive because it is Plague and Poison that their Goddess wants.
Now I could go on about many other dark and infernal powers, but there is little to say other then that it is simply utter folly to place your trust in these servants and followers of the dark powers. They may offer sweet words, but judge them as what they truly are; sadistic, corrupted and depraved zealots who strive only to further their dark deity’s true teachings.
You may ask of what makes me any different and this is my reply: Yes it is true that as a devout Priest and servant of my Lord my main goal is to further his teachings, but his teachings goes completely hand in hand with what I promise to do and to achieve. Lord Tyr wants nothing less than a perfect Society based on Justice, Order, Stability, Courage and true Liberty and I say to all of you here and now that at any moment that I act against these doctrines and lie I am committing heresy and that at any moment that I make Sanctuary any weaker, any more chaotic, any more like a dictatorial city may the Even-Handed himself strike me down and let me make it clear that I hold no intentions of committing heresy and betraying my beloved Lord so I shall do my best to achieve what I will say today and in the days to come.
Now, what Sanctuary truly requires now is strength, unity and a strong sense of moral code.
I say there is a lack of intolerance in the citizens of Sanctuary, not intolerance of the bad and hateful kind though, but intolerance of Evil, Depravity, Slavery and Injustice.
Lord Tyr himself is greatly saddened when Evil is called Good and Good is called Evil. When Injustice is called Justice and when Justice is called Injustice.
What I will do as Councilor to combat this lack of Moral Strength is this: propose stricter Laws against Torture, Infernalism, Necromancy regardless of who it is committed against; being lax on such actions only lowers Sanctuary to the standard of the thugs and criminals down below in Lower and to level of the vile slaving races that surrounds us.
I will also work towards reunification with New Dunwarren and being the one in charge of Public Relations for New Dunwarren this can be done easily and once reunited Sanctuary will be made even safer and stronger.
Even Sanctuary’s defense would be assisted by New Dunwaren which will make working with vile races such as the Kobolds of the Shadow Tribe not only unneeded, but utter folly and a waste of time.
This is but a part of my goals and plans, but this will be all for today. Further details and plans will be revealed in the days to come.
Haldor Longhand.