The City Council

An elected body of citizens known as the City Council wields political power within their settlement and represents the various guild masters, religious leaders, and middle class. They supervise the collection of taxes which are used for public building projects and paying the soldiery to protect the citizens from threats. They also serve as judges in disputes and criminal trials. A Lord Mayor of noble birth is appointed to head the City Council. The Commander of the City Watch reports to the City Council.
The City Council is usually at odds with the self-appointing aristocratic oligarchy of The Regal Council whose authority can supersede their own. Only foolish nobles ignore the wishes of their councils, since the economic power of the middle class is often more important to the prosperity of a town or city than the hereditary authority of the nobility.
The larger a settlement, the more likely that other individuals or organizations hold significant power there as well. Even in a village, a popular individual - a wise elder or a well-like farmer - can wield more influence than the appointed reeve, and a wise reeve avoids making an enemy of such a person. In town and cities, the same power might lie in the hands of a prominent temple, a guild independent of the council, or an individual with magical power.

Ruled Locations

• City of Verfulheim