Enver Gortash

Enver Gortash was the Chosen of Bane who played a role in the Absolute crisis during the late 15 century DR. He created the Steel Watch, an army of clockwork sentinels that would "protect" the city of Baldur's Gate, while at the same time scheming to ascend as its tyrannical ruler. "We will raise a Black Keep in Baldur's Gate. Then we will conquer the Sword Coast, and unite all its people under our rule."

- Lord Enver Gortash.

Personality
Gortash was an expert manipulator and cunning individual, having demonstrated exceptional intelligence from a young age. He was however extremely hateful, so much so that even his own mother wanted little to do with him.

He viewed others only for the value they could offer him, whether as allies or pawns to be manipulated.

Possessions
He wore a rather flamboyant suit and wielded the crossbow called the Fabricated Arabalest. Like his god Bane, Gortash wore over his right hand the powerful gauntlet of the Tyrant, within which was set one of the three nether stones.

Activities
Prior to his involvement with the cult of the Absolute, Gortash was a weapons merchant and known slaver.

Relationships
"A mad dog understands the yank of the leash and the hand of its master, but it cannot be an equal."

- Lord Gortash.

Enver Gortash was born to Dravo and Sally Flymm, proprietors of Flymm's Cobblers in Baldur's Gate. Like so many others, he placed an illithid tadpole in his parents' brain, turning them into puppets that could do little more than praise their exalted son.

In order to accomplish his goal of ruling over the Sword Coast, Gortash entered into an alliance with two of his fellow chosen, Ketheric Thorm a follower of Myrkul, god of death, and the individual known as the Dark Urge, a killer and faithful of Bhaal.

At some point, Gortash took into his employ the tiefling Karlach as a personal bodyguard. But he betrayed the young woman, by selling her to Zariel, the archdevil ruler of Avernus, who implanted an infernal engine in place of her heart. This infernal engine would serve as a prototype for the Steel Watch, recognizable to the clockwork sentinels.

History
"...and Ketheric—do try not to sulk. You're supposed to be the fearsome general, come to conquer the city. And I am the hero who will save it."

- Gortash, to his co-conspirator Ketheric Thorm.

Enver was given away as a child, sold by his parents to some unknown warlock, so that they could pay off their profound debts. Some time later, he returned to his parents demanding justice for the atrocity they committed.

In the, Lord Gortash and his closest ally―the Bhaalist murderer known as the Dark Urge―formulated a plot to enslave an elder brain that remained in the depths beneath Baldur's Gate. They stole a powerful Netherse artifact, the Crown of Karsus from the vault of the archdevil Mephistopheles along with a document entitled the Accelerated Grand Design. The Grand Design referred to the ideology of returning to existence the once-great illithid empire. To that end, they formed a cult dedicated to a being known as the Absolute, which was in fact an elder brain that dwelled in a mind flayer enclave beneath Moonrise Towers.

The Dark Urge carried out a series of murders in Baldur's Gate, creating great instability within the city and surrounding lands. Their new ally, the near-immortal Myrkulite general Ketheric Thorm raised an army of cultists, monstrous humanoids, and undead at Moonrise Towers, which then marched Shadow-cursed lands to Baldur's Gate. Gortash would be proclaimed the first Archduke of Baldur's Gate, and emerge as its savior, defeating the grave threat with his own valiant army.

Gortash and his allies managed to capture Duke Ulder Ravengard as he fled the city of Elturel, and imprisoned with beneath Moonrise Towers. The loss of the Flaming Fist's leader, along with the threat posed by the cult, threw the city into chaos. Gortash provided the Baldurian people a solution to their plight: the Steel Watch, an army of automatons under his command that would protect everyone within the city. He sought to be named the city's first Archduke, who would rule in place of the Baldurian Council of Four.