Wehnimer's Landing Regional Envoy

Envoy Position, Application and Requirements

The Regional Envoy of Wehnimer's Landing will be a player-position and title that is elected every two summers by the player citizens of Wehnimer's Landing. Below are the details surrounding the position, the application process, and the expectations. Direct all questions to GM Kenstrom.

Regional Envoy Position (PC)

• There are 2 Envoy positions, each to be filled at all times.
• The roleplaying aspect of the Envoy position is expected that the individual will help craft and maintain a positive, outward perception and foster good relationships with other towns in-game and their leaders or other faction representatives. Envoys are expected to conduct themselves in an outstanding manner and know that their actions help represent Wehnimer's Landing. They may also work with the Town Council and Mayor on any number of initiatives for the betterment of the town.
• The Envoy position is open to all players who are a Wehnimer's Landing citizen.
• The Judge must review and approve of every application for Regional Envoy. (The Landing Town GM will review the player's in-game warnings, conduct, history of policy abuse, etc.)
• The term of each Regional Envoy position will be for 2 years. Elections will be held every other summer.
• There is no max term limit for players to hold an Envoy position, however they must sit out one election cycle before running again after their term is up.
• Players may be removed from the Envoy position at the request of the Mayor (NPC) and a 2/3 majority of the Stewards (NPC). Any removal request must be further approved of by the Town Judge (NPC). This is setup so that if any player is disruptive in the game or wracks up official warnings, they can be removed by the Wehnimer's Landing Town GM with an in-game explanation as well.

Application Process

• The character must be a full citizen of Wehnimer's Landing.
• The account must have been active for the last 60 days.
• The character must submit an application to Moot Hall. (GM Kenstrom)
• The character must pay the Envoy application fee of 500,000 silvers.
• The account must have had no official warnings in the last year.
• There are no restrictions based on membership in CHE's and MHO's or based on level, race, profession or Arkati.
• The elected term is for 2 years, with no limit to number of terms. There is however a one cycle waiting period after every 1 term. This allows for more people to run for office, while not preventing others from ever doing it again.

Application Questions

1. What does Wehnimer's Landing mean to you?
2. What do you feel you can bring to Wehnimer's Landing, if serving as a Regional Envoy?
3. What are the goals you would like to accomplish for Wehnimer's Landing? How would you do this?
4. Describe your approach to building good rapport and relationships, and why strong alliances are important?
5. Describe your connection to Wehnimer's Landing, your history with the town and its people, and why this makes you the best choice for Regional Envoy?
6. Do you belong to any organizations, inside or outside of Wehnimer's Landing?

Please complete the application and submit to GS4-KENSTROM@PLAY.NET with the title "Envoy Application - Character Name"

Regional Envoy Expectations

• The Regional Envoy is expected to have a clean in-game record as it relates to Policy. Official warnings of any kind can lead to the position being reviewed and possibly revoked.
• The Regional Envoy is expected to maintain full citizenship in Wehnimer's Landing during the course of their term.
• The Regional Envoy is encouraged to put forth ideas for the town, but it will solely be up to the discretion of the Town GM if these projects can be implemented.
• The Regional Envoy is encouraged to organize and attend public town meetings to engage the player base and collect suggestions and concerns of in-game topics.
• The Regional Envoy is allowed to help with smaller town projects such as food/drink design, creating ideas for citizen-only benefits, or other concepts to help improve or update Wehnimer's Landing.
• The Regional Envoy will have access to their own private office within Moot Hall.
• The Regional Envoy is not expected to have a high level of in-game hours, nor are they expected to attend specific events, or be online at specific times.
• The Regional Envoy is expected to serve as a voice of the community and help encourage inclusiveness in the player population. Additionally, the Regional Envoy is expected to represent the best traits and uphold the positive reputation of Wehnimer's Landing, both locally and when visiting other locations within Elanthia, even outside of official business.

Regional Envoy Restrictions

• The Regional Envoy CANNOT use their position to make false promises to other players outside of the scope of game mechanics, or against game policy.
• The Regional Envoy does NOT have any GameMaster on speed dial because of this position. They must use the same appropriate channels of communication as everyone else.
• The Regional Envoy title and position is designed primarily to be a "roleplaying" experience, and there remains an NPC Mayor, Stewards, and Judge to help maintain checks and balances.
• The Regional Envoy can collect and propose ideas for the town, but there is no guarantee of anything.
• The Regional Envoy cannot use their position to break game policy or harass other players for any reason.
• The Regional Envoy member can not use their position to arrest other characters or appoint deputies.
• The Regional Envoy member will lose their title and position if they close their account. If the character goes inactive for more than 60 days their position can be reviewed and replaced if there is no proper communication.
• The Regional Envoy cannot accept or agree upon any terms or pacts with other entities within the game without approval from the Town Mayor (GM NPC).

Election Cycle

Application Start: 5/16
Application End: 5/31
Campaign Kickoff: 6/2
Voting Begins: 6/30
Voting Ends: 7/10
Announcement: 7/11

Candidate Profile: Tennalnen

1. What does Wehnimer's Landing mean to you?
Wehnimer's Landing is the front line. A frontier city that has stood against all threats and overthrown them. It is a beacon of safety and strength in an otherwise hostile location.

2. What do you feel you can bring to Wehnimer's Landing, if serving as a Regional Envoy?
I hope to provide a fresh face, a fresh perspective, and an open minded view that attempts to provide a conduit for the peoples in the region to speak up regarding their circumstances and work towards stronger regional ties.

3. What are the goals you would like to accomplish for Wehnimer's Landing? How would you do this?
I have one goal, to hear the voice of the people of the region, and deliver it to the leadership of Wehnimer's Landing. I also hope to expand our regional ties with our neighbors, not only to the North and South, but east to Zul Logoth and the Elven lands, and west to Teras and the islands off the coast.

4. Describe your approach to building good rapport and relationships, and why strong alliances are important?
My strategum will be simple. Make myself available to the variety of peoples in the region, listen to their words and requests with neutrality, and present their requests to the leadership of Wehnimer's Landing. The region is torn with monsters, and enemies, from within and without, and stronger alliances with our neighbors can only serve to strengthen ourselves.

5. Describe your connection to Wehnimer's Landing, your history with the town and its people, and why this makes you the best choice for Regional Envoy?
I cannot say I would be the best choice, as "best" is a relative term, I simply ask to be considered for this role and have the people decide. I first walked these streets in 5120, and was recieved with open arms. After a short time I was recalled to Bourth, yet upon my return earlier this year I was again greeted with warmth and welcome. I am a member of The House of the Rising Phoenix and a member of the Landing Militia. My history may be short, but this city has a strong grasp upon my heart, and I can only hope to do my best to fulfill my duties if I am elected.

6. Do you belong to any organizations, inside or outside of Wehnimer's Landing?
I am a member of The House of the Rising Phoenix, and a member of the Landing Militia. I am also a Master in the Order of Voln, and a Guildmaster of the Warriors Guild.

Candidate Profile: Thrassus

1. What does Wehnimer's Landing mean to you?
To me, the Landing means an oasis of stability and order in the midst of a chaotic wilderness. At least, it should be that. It is my intention that it stay that way and not become a haven for chaos and brigandry that some are currently attempting to make it.

2. What do you feel you can bring to Wehnimer's Landing, if serving as a Regional Envoy?.
I feel that I bring a stable, rational, and non-antagonistic voice to the chaotic mess that relations with the Turamzzyrian Empire currently consists of. Being raised in New Ta'Faendryl before making my home here in the Landing, I understand the importance and above all *necessity* of maintaining good relations with other polities. If you isolate yourself from positive relations with others you invite stagnation and decay.

3. What are the goals you would like to accomplish for Wehnimer's Landing? How would you do this?
My first goal would be to reinforce and grow relations with the nascent Darkstone Barony. I would start by supporting the founding and stability of the barony, thereby gaining an ally that will in turn support and stabilize the Landing. This would consist mainly, at least at first, of mutual preferential trade and defense agreements. Later steps could include cooperation on regional infrastructure projects, research projects, and cultural exchanges.

4. Describe your approach to building good rapport and relationships, and why strong alliances are important?
The base foundation of a functioning political relationship is mutual respect. Other's systems may not perfectly or even partially match ours, but if they do not mean us ill will there is no reason to treat them as an antagonist. This foundation allows for mutual beneficial actions such as trade, and more importantly, defense. This importance of this is that having to face multiple blades instead of one is a much more daunting task for any potential enemies. Also, close cooperation ensures stability and prosperity for all involved. As they say, rising waters lifts all boats.

5. Describe your connection to Wehnimer's Landing, your history with the town and its people, and why this makes you the best choice for Regional Envoy?
I first came to the Landing some twenty-seven years ago in order to find an environment suitable for my personal growth away from some of the hidebound traditions of the place I was born. Throughout the years I assisted the town in taming and dealing with the myriad of threats the region contained... fethidmor, raids from monstrous tribes, the list goes on and on. In that time I have learned that the everyday people of the town (not including some 'adventurers') want *stability*, not constant battles for survival or even dying for a particular ideal. I believe that a large portion of we 'adventurers' lucky enough to be chosen by whatever forces (divine or otherwise) to get back up after death have lost sight of that, and only seek conflict simply for the thrill of it heedless of the masses of mundane folk that get ground underfoot in the process.

Candidate Profile: Kelfyr

1. What does Wehnimer's Landing mean to you?
The Landing is the collective will of a people striving for something better. It was founded by a man seeking escape from the overbearance of the world he left behind, to have something new in the wilds of Elanthia, and to allow for it to grow and prosper. The town is a haven for those with nowhere they fit in, a solace at the edge of the wild world beyond. It is a people living for one another, providing for each other, defending each other, and becoming a greater whole.

2. What do you feel you can bring to Wehnimer's Landing, if serving as a Regional Envoy?
The living dream described above is regularly tried and tested from without and within. Without a strong connection with the outside world, both to represent itself and to define itself, it is liable to be swallowed up or run over. As a Regional Envoy, I feel I can act in the town’s interests at home and abroad, to ensure that it continues to flourish without being subsumed within expanding empires or ostracized by zealous wills.

3. What are the goals you would like to accomplish for Wehnimer's Landing? How would you do this?
I would seek, as an Envoy, to change the paradigm the Landing lives under. Every visitor to the town thinks of it as quaint, odd, or unruly. A large portion of this belief is that the town has no representation out among the world and is seen as a place people run to rather than one that radiates outward. By taking on the position, I would seek to establish both regular and fruitful relations among our neighbors and across the Spine, to have the voice of the Landing speak through me, and to champion the town among the larger polities of the world.

4. Describe your approach to building good rapport and relationships, and why strong alliances are important?
My approach is one of kindness, empathy, and earnestness. Too long has our town been defined by voices from without staking claims upon its territories and waterways, and voices from within either hewing to or decrying outside forces as having influence upon us. We’ve developed alliances of convenience or desperation rather than of intent and mutual gain. By being both strategic and empathetic, we can build bonds across nations and continents, to ensure that mutual respect and kindness to one another build admiration and a defense of purpose, rather than one of fear and distress. By building with intent, we can lay a strong foundation both for the current existence of the town as well as its long term growth into a shining city in what may be the most strategically important position west of the Dragonspine.

5. Describe your connection to Wehnimer's Landing, your history with the town and its people, and why this makes you the best choice for Regional Envoy?
I first came to the Landing before there was a Landing, passing through the hills and forest as a young Sylvan seeking my destiny. I travelled much of the world before returning back to where Rone had raised up his Inn and the inklings of the town beside. I sat at the knee of the Thrak, listening to his lessons and taking his tutelage to heart. From that day forward I sought not only my own path but to aid the paths of those that travelled with me. I’ve travelled the whole of Elanthia, its mountains, its valleys, its deserts, its oceans, and have still found the Landing to be a unique and unrivaled place. I’m looking to continue my travels, representing the town on the world stage and seeking out its glory as my own mission, and to continue to aid the people of our town through this work.

6. Do you belong to any organizations, inside or outside of Wehnimer's Landing?
I am a member of the Silvergate Inn, having been inducted by Enegue himself. Aside from this, and membership in the Adventurer’s Guild, I hold no positions, titles, or ranks with any faction or force. This frees me to act as an ambassador to the will of the people and their chosen representatives, rather than be beholden to the whims of any foreign government or institutional power. As an elected Envoy, I would also continue to declare that I will take up no title nor role in any organization that would compromise my ability to act as an unbound representative of the town and its people.

Candidate Profile: Tikba

1. What does Wehnimer's Landing mean to you?
Wehnimer's Landing is a free city.

This has been said many times, by many different people. Perhaps each of those people meant something different when they said it. Perhaps they each came to the Landing, as so many people do, seeking that particular sort of freedom they imagined it might allow. Perhaps they even disagree as to whether the sort of freedom the other seeks is preferable or wise.

It does not matter. The Landing is large enough for all of them, and all their conceptions of freedom. We do not all agree, nor need we all agree. But we can come together, in this place, and live alongside one another, and protect each other, and perhaps in this way come to understand each other and be compatriots, regardless of our disagreements; and in those disagreements, we may find greatness arises from a hundred different views and approaches, each eager to aid when a problem rears its head.

Perhaps that is what being a free city truly means.

2. What do you feel you can bring to Wehnimer's Landing, if serving as a Regional Envoy?
As an Envoy, I will seek to provide Wehnimer's Landing with the calm and considered representation in other cities and capitals that a small town of great moment deserves. It is easy, in a town so full of strong wills, to be caught up in the challenges of politics within the walls. An Envoy's eyes must look outwards. I will always be ready to speak up for the Landing in any court, royal or republican, foreign or close at hand, and remind people that our gates are always open, that we wish nothing but peaceful friendship, and that opportunities grow in the streets of Wehnimer's Landing like flowers in a field, waiting for those willing to stoop to pluck them from the ground.

3. What are the goals you would like to accomplish for Wehnimer's Landing? How would you do this?
I wish nothing but peace for Wehnimer's Landing. When I leave office in two years, I would like those years to be remembered as the calmest and least eventful of our long history. I hope to bring this about by building relationships and forging agreements with powers both great and small, benevolent and malevolent. I will be happy to treat with any who seek to meet with us, whether they are a powerful kingdom or a plucky alliance of pirates, if doing so will leave the Landing more secure. Our enemies should quail before us, knowing the strength of our friends.

4. Describe your approach to building good rapport and relationships, and why strong alliances are important?
In my time as a priest, I have learned that a proper prayer should be three things: respectful, direct, and brief. The same applies to any form of diplomacy. We should be ready to meet with friends and foe, hesitant to give offense or to recognize it, truthful whenever possible, and devoted to finding the common ground on which we may both stand. It is hard to strike another when you see yourself reflected in their eyes. Instead we may offer our hands to help each other when we are in need, and take care of one another without counting the cost, knowing that the same will be done in turn for us.

5. Describe your connection to Wehnimer's Landing, your history with the town and its people, and why this makes you the best choice for Regional Envoy?
I have been in Wehnimer's Landing only a year. In that time, I have been a campaign manager, a militia member, a researcher, a mining teacher, and a defender of the Landing. I list only the opportunities I seized, not the countless others that presented themselves. I did not intend, when I first arrived, to consider this my home, but the year I have spent has taught me me that the Landing is a city where things are possible that can be done nowhere else. Perhaps it is a city where a citizen of only a year could rise to the office of Envoy. Perhaps this would show, more than anything else, that Wehnimer's Landing is a city where anyone can prosper and succeed.

6. Do you belong to any organizations, inside or outside of Wehnimer's Landing?
I am a member of the Wehnimer's Landing Militia and the Black Hand Trading Company. I am also a member of the Order of Eternal Light and the Beacon Hall Archive.

Candidate Profile: Faerinn

1. What does Wehnimer’s Landing mean to you?
It means freedom.At its best, the Landing is an alternative to monarchy where one’s birth has nobearing on what kind of person they are or life they can have. At its worst, aplayground for Imperial fugitives and conspiracy theorists. While Hendor infringingupon our self governance threatens this so does becoming a nationalistic cultdrawing a pretend line in the black sands between “outsiders” and those “fromhere.”But above all it is a home for folks that wouldn’t be accepted anywhere else.

2. What do you feel you can bring to Wehnimer’s Landing ifserving as regional envoy?
Focus, keen observation, insight, fashion sense, and the only head harder than Thadston's. As well as international rapport and cache. Not a member of a clandestine criminal organization.

3. What are goals you would like to accomplish for the Landing,how would you do this?

• Become an ally to the Northern Confederation
• Restore Wehnimer’s relationship with the Elven Nations.
• Mend the trust of the average citizen with their elected officials
• Distinguish Wehnimer’s Landing as an autonomous entity from the Empire

4. Describe your approach to building good rapport and relationships, and why strong alliances are important?
Food and asking questions. Let them underestimate you. No one can accomplish anything by themselves. You are only as strong as your relationships.

5. Describe your connection to Wehnimer's Landing, your history with the town and its people, and why this makes you the best choice for Regional Envoy?

• I was a refugee from Talador after its takeover by Jantalar. I was an officer of the old Wehnimer's Guard during the Jantalar and Vornavis conflict.
• I was Walkar's lawyer when Grishom Stone and Barnom Slim conspired to remove him and framed him for murder.
• Ran for Mayor in 5120 and 5121
• Identified and negotiated terms for the withdrawal of the enemy General known as the Fist. Not only getting the truth about Vlashandra known, but later a settlement from Socius Leiffen during his time as the Fist.
• Later, was one of those that pierced Vlashandra with a bane arrow sealing away her magic just moments after marrying Thadston to a Bleakstone statue of Lylia and the ghost within.
• Early investor into the mines where Baystone was discovered.
• Brokered Aslyum for Elves fleeing the Empire in Ta’Illistim for elves from all houses while Chaston’s Edict was still in effect.

6. Do you belong to any organizations, inside or outside of Wehnimer's Landing?
Editor of the Free North News, the Clean Old Lads bathhouse club, Caeriel Atelier, and The Darkstone Bay Consortium.