Please read through the mayoral platforms here and then make your choice below!Candidate: CragmarRunning Mate: Lil Willy (Half-Ogre Brewer)Platform: ExpansionThe Dragonborn standing before you goes by the name of Cragmar the Scaled. I am a young Paladin born of a clan of military leaders whose ideals were to follow and uphold the values of law and order no matter the cost. I come to you this day to ask that you elect me to be your leader and mayor so that I may use my military expertise and moral upbringing to help defend this town from any and all invaders as well as to help build this town into a city more renown than even Neverwinter!Obviously, this cannot happen overnight. We must set certain priorities in order to begin building this town into the city I know it can become. One of our first priorities needs to be our towns defenses. We need to train and recruit new guards as well as build new barracks to house them. That being said, guards alone will not defend this town. We also must fortify the walls in order to further defend the town from any future invaders. This will not come cheap, and for that, I have a plan.This town was once famous for its Tykel But’z Brew. People once came far and wide for our Brew and they paid handsomely for it. Thanks to the help of my running mate and infamous brewmaster, Lil Willy, they will again return to our brewery in search for our most famous Brew. With Lil Willy’s help, the doors to Tykel But’z Brewery will open again and return to its former glory.Admittedly, guards and beer will not help with our growing population. Many of our citizens are being forced to live in shanties outside the walls of our town due to overpopulation. This will not do. If I am elected mayor, I will employ these citizens to help begin a process of cutting down trees from the surrounding forest that encircles our town and use the lumber to expand the walls of our town as well as construct the homes, barracks, inns, shops, and any other buildings our expanding city will need. An added bonus to clearing the surrounding land of trees is it opens up the door for our local farmers to expand their farms and begin supplying our expanding city with more fresh produce.With the newly reopened brewery and our increased production of food, a new influx of trade can begin with our surrounding neighbors. These new trade routes open the door to opportunities for taxes to be applied to the goods we sell. Unfortunately, trade cannot be the only source for the city to earn money from its citizens. Providing safety and security will be my number one priority for the citizens of Thundertree but our citizens must be expected to help carry the burden of the costs for these defenses. If I am elected mayor, any citizens living in our walls will be expected to pay a defense tax in order to guarantee their safety from any future outside opposition.Lastly, I understand some of you may have a distrust for dragonkin running for mayor. This town has been bedeviled by dragons in the past and I have personally experienced the atrocities brought by both dragons and Dragonborn alike. But hear me when I say you will find no Dragonborn more loyal to this town than the one standing before you.Let my actions be the proof you need if you do not believe me:I helped free the town from a gold-stealing tax collector who turned out to be a gold-infused monster from another realmI helped obtain the deed to this city, thus allowing us the future opportunity to change the name of our town to the rightfully dubbed Tykel But’zI risked life, limb, and lung in conquering the Red Dragon in his fungus-infested cave and his bone-corrupted legionnaire, Julius Knight, in the Hall of Knight as they attempted to turn this town into a city of mindless possessed zombie fightersFinally, I risked my own life to save some of you who had been possessed by the Red Dragon by defending you from those of us too blind to understand that you were not in your right mind and were in fact under the spell of the Red DragonWith that, I have taken enough of your time. I hope you all make the correct decision. Together we can help build the greatest city this generation has ever witnessed!Candidate: AldrichtRunning Mate: Susan (Lil Willy's Grandmother)Platform: "Only the Finest"I’m Aldricht, a proud Dwarf who hails from Evereska and started out as an apprentice weaponsmith until I discovered the goddess Sune. Sune gave me direction and clarity, along with the gift of magic and I am one of her most devoted clerics. Along the Sword Coast, Sune is associated with debauchery, beauty and pleasure, all things that make life enjoyable. She has great temples built in her honor, along with an elite combat unit known as the Knights of the Ruby Rose, who protect her shrines from evil.My platform is to rebuild Tykel’Butz in the image of Sune, creating a religious and tourist destination that will bring prosperity to our town. As we are located 14 days travel from Neverwinter, our town is perfectly positioned to be a place one stays for a lengthy period. Therefore, I propose we build a massive temple to Sune, complete with public baths, vineyards, distilleries, breweries, guest houses and public halls. In addition, we will build a school to train master craftsman who make the finest furniture,textiles, clothing, metalwork, perfumes, stemware and all other crafts that are pleasing to the eye. When a tourist or townsfolk alike step into Tykel’Butz, they will feast their eyes on only the finest items and dine and drink only the finest of food and wine.For our newest residents who currently live outside our walls, they are the other townsfolk are welcome to work as lay persons at the temple, helping to run the day to day operations.Our funds will come in the form of grants provided by the larger temples that my good reputation will enable us to secure, as well as my own investment of 2,500 gold pieces. After we get started, our income will flow exclusively from tourists and travelers in the form of a sales tax. We’ll continue to use a large portion of the tax to reinvest and upkeep the town, as well as a percentage to pay for our own chapter of the Knights of the Ruby Rose who will defend our town from evil. Because we are a temple to Sune, we will also have the Goddesses protection.We will still enjoy all of our freedoms, religious or otherwise, as Sune is not a jealous goddess and does not impose on others.Transforming this town into a tourist destination will enable us to collect the funds we need without needing to turn to our own citizens, as well as keep at bay the evil dragons, demons and cultists who have plagued our town in the past. And as our town prospers, we will truly enjoy only the finest things in life.Candidate: GalindanRunning Mate: Jagmoth (Julius Knight Bone Demon Massacre Survivor)Platform: Make Tykel B'utz Great AgainFour swords and seven moons ago, my team and myself traveled from Heatherleaf to what was then known as Thundertree. We rid the town of many evils until we reached a decrepit castle, where we found a giant and menacing dragon. While this dragon was too powerful for us to attack, I, the great Galindan, had a magnificent idea. I summoned my grand Mage Hand and raised it up to the dragon's anus, whereupon I wiggled my index finger. As I had suspected, the dragon's butthole was indeed ticklish and away he flew into the night sky, ridding the town of malevolence. Thus came the name Tyckle B'utz and thanks to me, the great town was born again.Now, I stand before you, looking to become your leader once more. I believe I am perfect for the role of mayor and my reasoning is three-fold.Firstly, I will reinstate the name of Tykle B'utz. It is this name that speaks to our history and shows the outside world what we represent.Secondly, as I come from a noble family, I will launch our first Court, not to be confused with a room full of stuffy judges. No, this will be far more entertaining, for we will have a grand room filled with courageous (and handsome) knights, entertaining jesters and pretty little ladies in waiting. I know this is no monarchy, but hey, we still deserve to have some fun. I will be taking applications for these positions immediately upon entering office.Finally, I will build a bigger and better wall. One that will keep out dangerous mushrooms, bone dragons and tax collectors, the likes of which, have plagued this town.This barrier is absolutely critical to border security. It’s also what our professionals at the border want and need. This is just common sense. I will build a great wall, and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me, and I’ll build them very inexpensively, I will build a great, great wall on our southern border. And I will have Heatherleaf pay for that wall. Lightweights come up to me, and they say you can’t get Heatherleaf to pay for the wall. I said a hundred percent, not 99, I said a hundred percent. They’ll be very happy to do it. Very happy to do it.So vote for me, the flamboyant wizard who bravely tickled his finger upon that mean dragon's pursed anus. I did it once and I'd do it for you all a million times over. #maketyklebutzgreatagainCandidate: Big ReggieRunning Mate: Richard the Naked Tower WizardPlatform: Lollipops For AllMy nayme is Big Weggie. I bewieve in the powuh of wowwipops to save our deaw Tykew Butz, aka Thundotwee. Me n' my cuz Wiw Wiwwy took over wowking at da Bwewewy in town. We also bwing all da wowwies. Our bwew is so good, people kiwwed da owd bwewmasta. They kiwwed him!! Our town's so-cawwed hewoes went to get the wecipe on a boat. But I don't need the wecipe. I onwy need wowwipops and what I remembow.Cwagmow, Aldwick, Gawindan are no hewoes. Wet us remembow that they kiwwed all the people who were bwainwashed by Juwius, other than Jagmoth. Jagmoth is kinda dumb. I also heaw from my fwends in Heathoweaf that they kiwwed a fat guy because he was naked. I know, I know, it was Wykan. But Wykan was part of the pawty and they were thewe. Wykan was the weader of a band of bwigands cawwed the Wed Hand.Wykan was the one to give Juwius the mushwooms in the fiwst pwace! He caused the whowe pwobwem with the cuwt and the dwagoms in the fiwst pwace! And the other candidates twavewed with him for months!!!Aldwick is a big stupidhead. He wants evewyone to bewieve in Sune. Sune is a stupidhead. Only wowwipops are the finest!!!Cwagmow is a dwagom boy and i wike he wants to expand bwewewy. Howevow, he wanta to kiww the fowest. The fowest is where we get what we we eat other than wowwipops, and we need to eat.Gawindan seems pwetty wacist and besides how is a wall going to keep magical wizawds out?? Stupidhead too.I want to take the wowwies and the bwew to Nevowintew and show the peopow we are the gweatest town on the Swowd Coast. Then we can become Wowwipop Capital and we make gold fwom people wanting to try the different wowwies.If you vote for me, Big Weggie, I pwomise that evewyone will get bwews and wowwipops whenevow they want.