Orgauth

Lord Orgauth of Zhentil Keep was a veteran of 15 years of service to the Zhentilar. He had his own citadel in Zhentil Keep and 76 personal bodyguards at his command. When Manshoon decided to allocate some of his power over the Zhentarim to a small group of Lieutenants, such as Sememmon, Orgauth and others, Orgauth was awarded control over Zhentil Keep, the organization's main base of operations. It is unknown as to why Manshoon offered him the position as it was common knowledge that Manshoon viewed him as an opponent to the Zhentarim and Orgauth flat out refused to even be a member of the organization until this job was offered.

As a worshipper of Bane, Orgauth was courted by the newest high-ranking member of the Zhentarim, Fzoul Chembryl and secretly pledged Zhentil Keep's resources to Fzoul's machinations against Manshoon. With Orgauth's help, Fzoul succeeded in ousting Manshoon from power over the Zhentarim and was allowed to continue ruling Zhentil Keep as a reward.

Orgauth's plans included organizing the theft of Cormyr's list of liscensed adventuring companies so that he could use it to hire the more nefarious ones for acts agains the country, while keeping an eye on the more righteous ones.

When Zhentil Keep was under siege from Cyric he had only the small number of troops that hadn't fled the destruction and a few meagre reinforcements from Darkhold. Orgauth died during the siege but a pit fiend named Abarax that had been imprisoned by one of Orgauth's mages escaped from it's bonds and found Orgauth's corpse. The devil polymorphed into the fallen leader and effectively took up his life where Orgauth had left it.

Through some masterful rallying of the remaining troops he and these troops survived and Orgauth continued to rule the city unopposed, summoning an Erinyes who took the place of a courtesan named Desmonda who had disappeared during the siege. Together, they befuddled the remaining lords and took complete, unopposed control of the Keep. Fzoul, using information given by Khelben Arunsun found out about Orgauth's secret baatezu identity and bound Orgauth into his service before officially naming him ruler of the Keep under his command. Orgauth began to rebuild, establishing magical wards to protect the ruined city while it was being rebuilt while Manshoon plotted the betrayer's downfall. Manshoon and Sememmon eventually did attack and Orgauth nearly suceeded in killing Sememmon and aided in the killing of Manshoon. He then went on to help stop six clones of Manshoon from destroying the remains of the Keep.

Meanwhile, a Paladin of Tyr and champion of the Zhentilar, Scyllua Darkhope had targetted Orgauth as the first of her obstacles in the way of freeing the Zhents from their evil masters. She quickly cut through his meagre forces and cornered him. It was then, in 1370 DR that Orgauth used his powers as a Pit Fiend to corrupt his attacker, feigning apologies for his deeds. Over the next few months, he had caused her to fall from Tyr's graces and converted her to a Blackguard of his own god, Bane. Unfortunately for Orgauth, Desmonda had become jealous of his attentions and pushed Scyllua to betray and slay him.

With the death of Orgauth, Fzoul took personal control over Zhentil Keep and has ruled it ever since.