The Salt King is an enigmatic individual, or perhaps multiple individuals - none are quite sure as they carefully obscure their identity. The Salt King runs a salt-mining cartel on Khapesh's Salt Coast, both through the use of their own workers and through levying a "protection fee" on independent miners.
Since Y9965* the Khapeshan navy has carefully monitored a number of ships known to belong to the Salt King but has yet to apprehend them. Attempts to halt their operations are made more difficult by their ties to the Silver Falcon Company, with which the Salt King has forged an increasingly close relationship. Most material the Salt King sells moves through middlemen associated with the company and from there is sold in ports around the Chaska Sea.