Alan Sovereign

Clan

Ventrue

Generation

9th generation

Role

[Ballard](/npcs/ballard/)'s financial advisor / aspiring diablerist

City

Chicago

Alan Sovereign made his first million in questionable mortgages and loans to GIs returning from World War II. He made more money from the government’s home loan program for the soldiers than he did through his own efforts. In the 1950s he became president of a small bank in Southeast Chicago, and became richer by using the bank’s money to buy up land which bribed public officials told him would be used by the growing public transportation system. He then began investing in the stock market. No one could say he played the stock market, because that would imply an element of chance — Sovereign was a master of acquiring inside information.

For all his millions, Sovereign was helpless when the IRS caught up with him. Jailed for a year and fined more than $2 million for tax evasion, Sovereign left jail a bitter and broken man.

On his first night out of jail he was visited by a strange, obese man who promised him revenge if he would do as he was told. The fat man gave him $750,000 to invest. Sovereign doubled it within a year. Ballard was quite pleased, gave his Blood to the man for the first time, and put him in control of substantial assets. For the next five years Sovereign served as a ghoul retainer, helping make Ballard even more wealthy. When Ballard finally obtained permission from Lodin, he happily Embraced the banker. Sovereign then turned several IRS agents into missing persons. He feeds exclusively on IRS agents and other government financial lackeys.

Sovereign is Ballard’s primary advisor on all things fiscal, and is especially critical to the Prince’s plans to control the city’s economy. As Ballard privately says of his lieutenants, “Sovereign tells us what to do and Lawrence tells us how to do it.” During Maldavis’ attempt to gain power, Sovereign was instrumental in breaking some of her mortal allies.

He has heard that killing an older vampire and drinking its Blood could make one more powerful — actually, the story he heard was that one must kill one’s Sire. He intends to take that step as soon as it is feasible.