My PCs have just finished Secret of the Soul Pillars. I'm going to use an extra adventure first "Strike on the Rabid Dawn" and then play through Lords of Oblivion.
At the moment I'm reading up on Foundation of Flame. In the part about the council meeting, it says that one of the PCs might come forward as candidate for mayor. I know my players will not go with this, but they might want Alek Tercival to take the position.
One of the PCs is a cleric of Ilmater (= St. Cuthbert) and has brought Alek Tercival back to life after his terrible demise in the earlier stages of the AP. The PCs have been wanting Alek to make true on his earlier challenge of the captain of the guard, but I've been holding that off, claiming that Alek needed time to contemplate his own life and find inner peace and forgiveness for straying from his true path in the past.
I think it might be a nioce twist to have Alek run for mayor. The PCs can back his candidacy in the council and if Alek would actually fill the position, it would also further strengthen the PCs involvement with the future fate of the city.
I'm just wondering if anyone else has done this or if anyone has any thoughts on this.
If none of the PCs in your campaign are interested in running for Lord Mayor, then Alek makes a great candidate.
One of my players set that goal for himself when his PC was only 3rd-level. He just decided that he'd like to be Lord Mayor of Cauldron someday.
One of my players has become Lord Mayor. She traded political power for the Vhalatru mansion. She is a figurehead tiebreaker "face of the city" mayor.
If none of the PCs in your campaign are interested in running for Lord Mayor, then Alek makes a great candidate.
One of my players set that goal for himself when his PC was only 3rd-level. He just decided that he'd like to be Lord Mayor of Cauldron someday.
I know that one of my players will want to become mayor. She has declaired that her goal is to become a nobel as she's a scion of Suribar. Mayordom will be a quick surefire way of obtaining that.
I can wait to pull her aside and inform her that becoming mayor means that she will have to give up adventuring. The Mayor is to busy to be running off all the time. All the while snickering to myself that the town will not need a mayor once the vote is cast. At least not for many chapters.