Lord Havelock Vetinari, is the Patrician of Ankh-Morpork, absolute ruler of the city state in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series of books films and television adaptations. Though never definitively stated he is approximately fifty years old and succeeded to his position between twenty and twenty five years before the events depicted in the stories. He is a graduate of the Assassins Guild School, where he specialised in camouflage (a speciality for which he was considered unsporting and gentlemanly.) After 'inhuming' Lord Winder, a former Patrician, under contact from his benefactress Lady Margolotta von