Hasan al-Alawi

Formidable rural landowner who controls vast wheat fields and olive groves sweeping across the fertile plains of the Gharb basin. Stern, cold, and relentlessly pragmatic, Hasan governs his estate like a miniature kingdom. He views the tenant farmers and laborers under his hand not as citizens, but as naturally undisciplined subjects who require absolute discipline.

His authoritarian philosophy drives his fierce loyalty to his royal kinsman, Sultan Abd al-Rahman. To Hasan, the divine right of the Al-alawi line is absolute, without the autocratic rule of the Crown and the marching force of the Makhzan, Morocco would dissolve into tribal chaos and lawless rebellion. He views any defiance against imperial taxation by the mountain or desert tribes not just as lawlessness, but as sacrilege against the dynasty.