The Mayor

The Gentleman, or the Mayor, is an NPC and possible hostile encounter in Fear and Hunger: Termina.

Location
Can be found in the Mayor's Manor, after walking the stairs and entering the upper left room.

Lore
The current Mayor of Prehevil, or at least you're told. When the player arrives in the town, several characters that still seem to retain bits of their sanity may inform them that a new mayor has just arrived, with no prior elections, making the event seem quite suspicious.

Something drastic must have happened to him to change his appearance - it is speculated that this is a unique way he was affected by the moonscorch, as even his behavior is mostly strangely formal. He doesn't seem to want to be involved in the Termina festival itself or just doesn't want to get on the Bremen Kaiser's bad side, yet is against the Kingdom of Bremen.

While burnt by Rher's moonlight, he doesn't seem to go insane like the rest of the villagers. However, he seems to have channeled his madness into interpreting strange pieces of 'foodstuffs' as artwork - it is possible that these are body parts and pieces of flesh of those that have previously angered the mayor.

It is speculated that Henryk (the Chef), one of the major characters, might be the Mayor because of their similar clothing and enthusiasm for food - Henryk is also a contestant and the Mayor is counted as being one of the contestants if you kill him.

Strategy
Depending on the player's answers to the questions he asked while sitting with him, he will be either hostile or friendly. The most important is telling the mayor that you are not on the side with the Bremen army, or he will begrudgingly begin to battle.

And do not mention his antlers. He is sensitive about them.

If you do fight him, he is an extremely formidable foe. His uses both of his arms (fork and knife) to both stab the player and cut off limbs, even attacking with the fork twice occasionally. His entire body has a high amount of HP, meaning one only should face him if they are truly prepared.

Trivia

 * Killing him and then talking to Per'kele will result in the latter congratulating the player for finally killing a participant of the Festival of Termina and showing no remorse. Interestingly, killing either Levi or Marina will not trigger this exchange and he will keep saying that 14 participants remain.
 * There's a leftover file that shows what appears to be an earlier, different design for the mayor, found in the enemies folder. The file is named gentleman2.png which implies this is the case.Gentleman2.png