Baeron Galamoth BAERON GALAMOTH A voice for Security, Order, Unity and Prosperity in uncertain times! Citizens of Sanctuary, I am Baeron Galamoth and I am running for Council.

I will spare you the long-winded rhetoric others favour. If you vote me onto Council I will ensure that security, order, unity and prosperity become the defining characteristics of our city. Other candidates preach about ideals while not putting forth any real agenda. On the honor of my family name, I speak to you truthfully that this will not occur under my watch. If elected to Council, I shall pursue the following goals with an energy which shall never wain:

SECURITY The twisted city of drow unites beneath a single banner for the first time in our city's history, signifying a threat we've ever witnessed before. Chosen hordes descend on our city with a renewed vigour, overrunning the Sanctuary Below with claw and fang, killing wantonly. Lizardmen freely attack our city under the direction of fetid priests of heathen, cruel gods. Our city is threatened like it never has been, and we are weaker than we ever have been.

Citizens! We need to re-establish relations with our allies and work on improving our defenses. If you elect me to Council I will ensure that the Shadow Tribe and our City work together on an accord. I will see that the Great Shadow Death is honored with statues and other accolades, so that we might always rely on him. I will see that together as allies we defend our interests, our homes, and coordinate closely on security matters. I will see our gates finished, more gate defenses installed, more uniforms patrolling them. If this takes a great deal of money then so be it, it will be done. No matter the cost, I will -ensure- our city becomes defensible once again.

ORDER A great portion of our city has been enthralled and many more likely so, precipitating a period of chaos, murder and theft. Mindless monsters -once our friends and loved ones- stalk the streets raping, killing and pillaging. Order has been smashed in their wake and our defense organizations are short on the manpower and means to reinstate it. Our city is being torn apart from within even as it faces extermination from without.

If you elect me to Council I will work immediately and tirelessly to right these wrongs. The Watch will be given the funding it needs to recover from its losses, and a great citywide emphasis will be placed on recruitment to once again re-fill the ranks. Law enforcers will be granted increased powers until Order is restored. A mass enthrallment test to once and finally eradicate this internal weakness will be ordained. I will ensure chaos, criminality and disorder are rooted out with an iron fist, lest we become what Lower Sanctuary was in all but name.

UNITY Factionalism and infighting threaten our city like never before. The Watch has splintered. Council candidates once again threaten to oppose the Spellguard. Lower gangsters camp on our streets with the same disregard for authority that spurred them to a path of violence and crime. The sentiment on the streets is one of unsureness. There is no common cause, no singular purpose, no collaboration and friendship. Disunity is the sign of a sick city and we are terminally ill.

On the Council, citizens, I will repair this city. The Watch and Spellguard, along with non-government organizations such as the Society of the Ordered Mind and the Seekers, will be unified under one purpose as they were when the city was young. A mandatory conclave will be convened where commanding officers from the organizations can sit at the table in safety and work over difference, identify weak areas and coordinate a plan to counter the emergency foisted upon us by attacks from our foes. The Watch, Society and Spellguard will enforce anti-enthrallment measures together. The Seekers and Watch will work collaborate together to identify enemy movements and factor them into defense plans. The Spellguard and Watch will build gate defenses more powerful than we've ever had, together. Insurrectionists, firebrands and troublemakers speaking out on the streets, inciting rebellion and worse, will be driven out. Citizens, unity is something we cannot afford to not have right now, and if I am on Council it will be realized once again.

PROSPERITY Trade has been cut to a standstill and our city is on its last economic legs. Our buildings and defense structures aren't maintained, and are slowly crumbling away. Our bureaucracy is worked by overworked, underpaid men and women. Our defense organizations scrounge for finance to deal with threats we've never faced. Hundreds languish in unemployment and turn to crime. We have not even secured a reliable source of ore and we don't have any industries beyond simple food gathering. We don't use the excellent port we have and we've been too insular to make anything of it, never contacting outside entities with trade deals. We are closer to the brink of collapse than ever, and the truth is that we don't have enough funding to deal with it unless decisive action is taken.

As an officer in the Zhentarim -which, whatever the rumours say, is in fact merely an organized group of merchants intent on creating wealth and futures- I have had a great deal of experience in matters mercantile. Under my guidance on the Council, I will see that we create our own industries, employ our people and thus deal a blow to crime, negotiate trade deals with outlying settlements, re-enter trading with the Shadow Tribe, strike deals with them regarding the use of the Canal Port, re-commission the building of the Rapid Transport system that enabled us to move goods to the port from our city easily and reform outdated taxation procedures and laws. Citizens, if you vote for me your Council will be an energetic, focused institution intent on creating wealth and opportunity for the entire city.

Dark days are ahead. For us to navigate them from strength to strength, we need Security, Order, Unity and Prosperity.

Vote for BAERON GALAMOTH in Mirtul.