The Mayor

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

Lore
The current and former Mayor of Prehevil or at least you're told. He was a new arrival and the town doesn't hold elections, so his rise to mayorhood is quite suspicious.

Since he's a new arrival he arrived with the rest of the participants, something really terrible must have happened to him to drastically change in appearance.

Despite all this he still behaves in the most formal way. He's touchy about his antlers, best not mention them to him.

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, his form of insanity is different, as he seems to interpret his 'foodstuffs' as something completely different and like forms of art, while player sees them as mutilated pieces of genitals and flesh from others beings that might have angered the mayor, and some other foodstuff that are shaped like genitalia.

Strategy
Depending on the player's answers to the questions he asked while sitting with him, he will be either hostile or friendly. Just one important thing: do not say that you are on the side with the Bremen army.

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

If you do fight him, he does a lot of damage with his weapons. His fork can attack two times in a row though.

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.