Sovereign

The Sovereign, is the title traditionally used by the supreme leader of the Fairhaven Cartel. Whoever assumes the mantle of the Sovereign oversees all the criminal activities of the city's three gangs. Sovereign is also the person who negotiates with the criminal guilds, and pays out tithes to the Thieves Guild and Assassins Guild as well as bribes to the the Merchant's Guild and the City Guard.

When the cartel was taken over by Smiling Sullivan, he restructured and decentralized the criminal underworld in the city. Instead of ruling in the open, he has decided to rule from the shadows, and obscure his position and role in the organization. As far as the public, and the lowly gang members are concerned, there have been no Sovereign in Fairhaven for decades now.

Only the high ranking members of the 3 gangs, and high ranking Guild officials know about the existence of the Sovereign, and even they don't usually know his identity. Most of the dealings with the outsiders is done through the official representatives of the Sovereign, Rando DeButt, Cutthroat Jim and Smiling Sullivan himself.

After Sullivan and Jim were assassinated, and Rando imprisoned, no one in the city had enough clout to assume the title. Thus for the first time in decades the cartel has no central leader.