His position appears to be a figure head position with no actual executive power as his domain is effectively ruled by the Grand Vizier, Abrim, to whom the Archchancellor's Hat steers Rincewind and Conina. Unfortunately for him, he suffers from a sort of poetic dyslexia where he can see the shapes of poems which elsewhere in the known Multiverse have seared the soul, fired the imagination, and resonated down the ages, but he just cannot get the vocabulary right - it has been noted that he has the poetic sensitivity of a hyena. He is the son of Creosote and one of the richest men alive, attempting to spend his wealth on creating a Pleasure-dome, as per poetic instructions and according to the laws of the Narrative Universe, which are clearly based on the Roundworld poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Kubla Khan and Omar Khayyam's The Rubaiyat. He has a spiky turban and isn't very good at poetry. Creosote is a Seriph of Klatch from the city of Al Khali who figures in the novel Sourcery.
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