| rdfs:comment | - The corpulent mayor of Alhafra is a particularly abhorrant character. Scarcely a positive thing is said about him as a person and as a governor, both by people within his town and people outside it. Among the many less-than-flattering things he has been secretly described as are "greedy", "self-centered", "that bloated gasbag", "that oaf of a mayor", and "an awful person". His arrogant personality shows whenever he refuses to believe anything anybody says if it sounds the least bit farfetched, unless he can see it with his own eyes, and he is always thinking of ways to increase his own money pile and hates seeing anyone else make money. And everyone knows this about him in spite of his putting on a generous and kindred mayoral guise on the outside. Perhaps the only silver linings to his ch
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| abstract | - The corpulent mayor of Alhafra is a particularly abhorrant character. Scarcely a positive thing is said about him as a person and as a governor, both by people within his town and people outside it. Among the many less-than-flattering things he has been secretly described as are "greedy", "self-centered", "that bloated gasbag", "that oaf of a mayor", and "an awful person". His arrogant personality shows whenever he refuses to believe anything anybody says if it sounds the least bit farfetched, unless he can see it with his own eyes, and he is always thinking of ways to increase his own money pile and hates seeing anyone else make money. And everyone knows this about him in spite of his putting on a generous and kindred mayoral guise on the outside. Perhaps the only silver linings to his character are that he does not actually steal from his own people, and he begrudgingly distributes food to the denizens during tough times for the town. He also keeps a hoard of his most prized treasures - chief among them the enchanted armor called the Ixion Mail - in the cavernous tunnels within the hill underneath his large manor, the Alhafran Caves. And he has one of Alhafra's residents work the full-time job of guarding the entrance to the treacherous caves from possible intruders thinking of stealing his treasure. Not many details about his life history are known, but the mayor of Alhafra has been governing the town for at least twenty years, during which he and his town had achieved a prosperous trading relationship with the town of Madra at the bottom portion of the continent of Indra that is near Alhafra's home continent of Osenia. He had personally known the Elder and Mayor of Madra and had last seen them twenty years ago, when the future Mayor of Madra was merely a child. By the present day, the town had become wealthy and powerful enough that the Mayor had the townspeople begin working on a new design of ship that could allow the town to initiate large-scale trading with towns across the Great Eastern Sea (establishing this industry would net him more money). All sea vessels at the time were smaller ships powered by the rowing of oars, and the sails on their masts were merely meant for steering; this larger design of ship is propelled entirely by catching the wind within its sail. By the time Golden Sun: The Lost Age begins, the Sailing Ship is complete and has quickly become the prized possession of Alhafra and its opportunistic mayor.
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