Orgauth

Lord Orgauth of Zhentil Keep was a veteran of 15 years of service to the Zhentilar and later became a Lord of Zhentil Keep.

Description
Dark-haired and generously mustached with hints of grey revealing his age, Orgauth kept his hair tightly pulled back in a ponytail. Weathered skin and a prominent scar on his chin are reminders to all who meet him of his military past, along with the cold, grey eyes. In spite of this, Orgauth pulls of a lordly look with his expensive black silk clothing and a striking silver chain clasp that displays his personal crest - a tower upon a scarlet field with the rising sun behind it.

Personality
On the surface a disarmingly blunt merchant and warrior but beneath it all Orgauth was a subtle and merciless plotter.

Abilities
A well-versed veteran of the Zhentilar forces with 15 years experience, Orgauth was tough and trained in the skills of both warfare and survival. In combat he utilized his bastard sword in the two-handed style and had capitalised on the properties of his light crossbow with his eyes of the eagle to take down distant targets.

Possessions
Being both a lord and a wealthy merchant Orgauth had access to a great variety of items but tended to keep a few personal effects upon him most of the time. Orgauth armed himself with his magical plate mail, bastard sword and light crossbow of distance. In addition he wore a ring of human influence and a kept a set of eyes of the eagle in a pouch, the latter of which worked superbly with his crossbow.

Relationships
Circa 1357 DR, thanks to their shared interest in slaving, Orgauth had a business relationship with fellow council lord, Marsh Belwintle.

Early life
Hailing from a wealthy noble house and the son of the noble Denuth, Orgauth made a name for himself as a member of the Zhentilar over the course of 15 years service. It was suring the course of this illustrious career that he earned his personal coat of arms.

Rise to Lordship
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.

In 1368 DR, when Zhentil Keep was under siege from Cyric Orgauth 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 on the doorstep of his home after succumbing to the wounds he'd suffered as he fought his way back. However, a pit fiend named Abarax that had been imprisoned by one of Orgauth's mages escaped from its bonds and found Orgauth's corpse. The devil polymorphed into the fallen leader and effectively took up his life where Orgauth had left it.

The Rule of "Orgauth"
Posing as Orgauth and through some masterful rallying of the remaining troops the devil survived and rose 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 influenced the remaining lords and the devil took complete, unopposed control of the Keep, all in Orgauth's name.

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.