Waterdeep

Rising from the shores of its deep harbor to ring the great mountain standing tall out of the Sea of Swords is Waterdeep, the City of Splendors and the Crown of the North. To all of Faerûn, this great metropolis stands as the pinnacle of what a great city might be, in wealth, influence, and stability. Here, the citizens work, the nobles sneer, and the great masked lords plot and scheme, all while merchants dance between them to collect their coins and continue profiting as best they can. Waterdeep's shops and merchants offer goods of every sort from every corner of Tori!, and even the rarest of items can be procured, given sufficient coin and patience. Adventurers lacking one or the other can very easily find all manner of employment, from simple escorting of caravans, to guarding nobility, to investigating a ruin or rumor of monsters anywhere in the North. Though it has stood for hundreds of years, Waterdeep is only now returning to its status of a century and a half ago.

Government
Waterdeep was ruled by a council whose membership was largely secret. These hidden Lords of Waterdeep maintained their identities behind magical masks, called Helms, and while they ruled in public, none knew the true identities of most of them.

Open Lord
The Open Lord of Waterdeep was the sole member of the Lords of Waterdeep whose identity was publicly known. There is only one Open Lord at any one time, but when the previous one dies or steps down, he or she is .replaced by a new one.

By 1460 D.R The succession law changed with full support from the council to primogeniture succesion. Also the identities of counsil members were no longer secret. Counsil had the same power and they could vote for a new Lord if there was no rightfull heir or the heir was unworthy. This change was very popular to common people, They were no longer ruled by masked lords and they felt closer to the rulers of the city.

Current Lord
King of Waterdeep by 1497 D.R is King Nimhair Darkscale he reigned until his death where he was succeeded to the throne by his son Nirvanair after the great battle with Larlock the Lich king