At this point, Havelock Vetinari, Patrician of Ankh-Morpork, resigns — apparently of his own free will — and Lord Rust takes command of the city.

Havelock Vetinari, Lord Vetinari, Patrician of Ankh-Morpork, is a fictional character in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, a series of over thirty books describing a parallel universe whose main world has reflections of-even more or less subtle jokes about-our ' Roundworld ' or Earth.

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* Havelock Vetinari was a member during the time period covered in Night Watch.

The ruler, Lord Winder, is effectively assassinated by the young Assassin's Guild student Havelock Vetinari, and the new Patrician Lord Snapcase calls for a complete amnesty.

The protagonist of the story is Moist von Lipwig, a skilled con artist who was to be hanged for his crimes, but saved at the very last moment by the cunning and manipulative Patrician Havelock Vetinari, who has Moist's death on the scaffold faked.

) It is, however, debatable whether-or-not the Patrician, Lord Havelock Vetinari, knows.

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The Patrician, Havelock Vetinari, considers him useful for this reason as well as others, as it means that a revolution under the claim of being true heir is impossible, and that if anyone complains that only a king has the authority to do something he does, he can simply refer to Carrot.

Angua is a member of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch, originally hired as part of an affirmative action plan by Havelock Vetinari.

He was at school with Havelock Vetinari, where he was a bully and something of an imbecile, with a propensity for calling everyone ' scags ', including Vetinari, whom he also referred to as dog-botherer.

Charlie, a man with an extraordinary physical resemblance to Ankh-Morpork Patrician Havelock Vetinari, ran a clothes shop there ( The Truth ).

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The two investigate the charges of embezzlement and attempted murder against Havelock Vetinari, and help vindicate him.

Pemberton portrayed Rufus Drumknott, personal aid to Lord Havelock Vetinari, ( the Patrician of Ankh-Morpork ,) to a gleeful degree in the cast of 2010's Terry Pratchett's Going Postal.

The Thieves ' Guild was established early in Lord Havelock Vetinari's rule of Ankh-Morpork.

* In Terry Pratchett's book Making Money, the Postmaster Moist finds Lord Vetinari, the Patrician and ruler of the city, wandering around the Blind Letter office of the Ankh-Morpork post office.

The story follows the members of the City Watch, as they attempt to solve murders apparently committed by a golem, as well as the unusual poisoning of the Patrician, Lord Vetinari.

Ironfoundersson is noted by Vimes to be one of the few people who actually like the Patrician, and Vimes, while adamant that he doesn't, shares the dedication to the city felt by Vetinari and Ironfoundersson.

Thus, when a visitor stands in audience with the Patrician, they can be assured that Vetinari knows exactly why they're there, even if the visitor-him / herself does not.

Currently in his late forties / early fifties ( Sam Vimes noted in Feet of Clay that the Patrician was about the same age as him, and it is shown in Night Watch that he was a student Assassin at the time of the main events of the book, when Vimes was 16 ), Lord Vetinari is tall, thin and dresses all in dusty black, including a black skullcap.

In The Colour of Magic, Rincewind is brought before " the Patrician " but it is not clear whether this Patrician is Vetinari or his predecessor, Mad Lord Snapcase, or possibly even Homicidal Lord Winder, although the description of this Patrician does not seem to tally with that of Vetinari, as the Patrician in question is, for example, described as obese – a trait his two predecessors did possess, but which he lacks.

Pratchett has stated on Usenet that the Patrician in this case is indeed Vetinari, and that he simply lost weight due to the stress of his job.

However, in the Colour of Magic TV movie, the Patrician was portrayed as Vetinari by Jeremy Irons, ' the bad guy from the other Die Hard ( with a Vengeance ).

* Created in the reign of Patrician Vetinari.

A subsequent conversation with Lord Vetinari reveals that the Patrician alone knows Vimes took Keel's place, also that he fought with Keel's men against Carcer's death squad.

Vetinari has refused to become involved in the war with Klatch, due to the fact Ankh-Morpork does not have an army to stand against any opposing forces ( the reason given being that killing enemy soldiers makes it difficult to sell them things afterwards ), but Rust declares Martial law and orders the city's noble families to revive their old private regiments.

Vetinari prevents an international incident by ostensibly declaring the surrender of Ankh-Morpork and offering war reparations.

Vetinari is returned to Ankh-Morpork, under arrest and in disgrace, but as Leshp has vanished back under the sea again, the treaty was to be signed in a non-existent territory and thus the charge of treason is invalid.

Since Carrot is, of course, very much not the King of Ankh-Morpork his reminding of Vetinari is all that is required for Vimes to get his new position and rank.

In his late teens, Vetinari was involved in the " Glorious 25th of May " ( Night Watch ), to which his most notable contribution was the non-assassination of the then-Patrician of Ankh-Morpork, Homicidal Lord Winder, at a crowded party.

For example, Vetinari still maintains an ancient department of the Ankh-Morpork government responsible for ensuring all figures of speech have a basis in fact, on the basis that people who seek this kind of employment must be kept busy, or else they just might do anything.

Vetinari banned all mime performances from Ankh-Morpork shortly after taking power.

Morporkians are, however, in no doubt that Vetinari is firmly in charge of the city ; the political system of Ankh-Morpork is described as " One Man, One Vote ," in which Vetinari alone is the Man, and he has the Vote.

Vetinari has seen Ankh-Morpork through many unusual events, including a great fire ( The Colour of Magic ), the appearance of a Sourcerer ( Sourcery ), a dragon ( Guards!

The Ankh-Morpork City Watch in particular has flourished, and is an excellent example of the adaptability which has kept Vetinari in office.

It is said that Wuffles is the only living creature Lord Vetinari actually cares about ( unless Ankh-Morpork is considered a living creature ).

To date, there are two people in Ankh-Morpork known to have had contracts refused on, and no longer be available for assassination-Lord Vetinari and Commander of the Watch, Samuel Vimes.

This coincided with the request by Lord Vetinari and the Ankh-Morpork Mission of the Überwald League of Temperance to Commander Sir Samuel Vimes to accept a vampire constable.

The fact that the Watch now has a werewolf has become common knowledge throughout Ankh-Morpork, but that hasn't affected Angua's privacy substantially, as, for obvious reasons, it is generally assumed to be Nobby Nobbs ; Carrot, Vimes, Vetinari and Angua herself all play along, mostly rather amused.

In Going Postal, Lord Vetinari, the Patrician of Ankh-Morpork arranged to have Lipwig survive his hanging.

Lord Vetinari convinces Commander Vimes to interview a vampire applicant to the Ankh-Morpork City Watch.

Vimes finds himself pressured by Lord Vetinari to solve the murder quickly, before inter-species war erupts in Ankh-Morpork.