| Category | Heroes | ||||
| Region | Grashakh | ||||
| Race | Mughorzan (Death Knight) | ||||
| Gender | male | ||||
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| Alignment | lawful evil | ||||
| Deity | Gruumsh | ||||
| Birthplace | Strumpktar | ||||
| Born | 5 Lunar 1426 | ||||
| Undead | 17 Witchrite 1501 |
Monty was born in the old dwarven ruins of Strumpktar. Claimed to have been abandoned at birth, raised by a hag, he has no family name.
During Black Banner's raid on the Eastern Shar, they came upon an unsavory display, giving rise to the name Monty the Mad:
The foul Mughorzan was having intercourse with a troll! Monty was garbed in the most cruelly spiked armor, which cut deep into the troll, yet her regenerative powers kept her alive. Meanwhile, trollhounds lapped up the blood like a kitten with a bowel of milk - a most startling sight at the time - now I grin, and salute Ole' Monty with a chalice of cold elven blood.
- Dax Jagg, from his autobiography - "My Encounter With Monty"
Long a mercenary to the Orchish Empire, Monty slowly overcame the stigma of being a Mughorzan; a people similar to the Gnoll, not to be trusted. Through the comradeship of conflict, he earned respect through leadership, terror he dealt out, and victories in battle.
In 1446, Defilnus and Monty began a long affair with years and decades as gaps. Even after Monty became a death knight in 1501, the pair were seen at grand ceremonies across the empire, decked out in regalia worth millions, and dangerously powerful.
In 1470, Monty and his mercenary force, Monty's Marauders, captured the cloud citadel of Avalkhirân.
On the field of battle, Monty proved himself a grand strategist and master tactician. In the Gimhak War (1475 - 1503), after accepting the colors, he was field promoted to lieutenant, member of the Fograth. In 1501, leading the second attack on Tharam-Khâl, Monty's unit broke into the Gimhak fortress. Battling a pair of slaughterstone behemoths, each armored with plates of mithril, Monty and his soldiers fell. At considerable loss, another attack followed that night. A team got into the chamber of the constructs, recovering Monty's crushed and eviscerated corpse.
Monty was taken to Úrwath. Necromancers pledged to Gruumsh, and under the watch of Defilnus, went to work, raising Monty as a Death Knight.
In 1660, Emperor Blac'drugulois approached Monty the Mad with an offer he could not refuse. The Emperor offered him the title Arch-Dragern of the Armies, but with a catch. Monty had to kill the one he loved to prove his loyalty to the emperor. Monty's lover, the powerful necromancer Defilnus had at her command, a guild chapter of the Rat Swarm. Wererat spies of this guild learned of the deal between Monty and the Emperor not long after his departure from Gháshulg. When Monty returned to Collossapolos, Defilnus was entrenched in her fortress, and little did he know that Defilnus had an underground labyrinth spanning four levels under the city. It took a year to finally track her down and carry out the Emperor's bidding. When Monty carried out the task of killing Defilnus, a powerful curse was activated. The weapon that was enchanted by Defilnus and then given to her former lover, a relic called Tiamats Spur, became the focus of the curse. Tiamats Spur, a weapon made by Defilnus, teleported away from Monty. He sensed it was near. He went looking for it, then teams went looking, then they began to dig for it. For two centuries, he had his soldiers routinely search homes of Collossapolos, digging new tunnels and exploring the subterranean level under the city. All of this led to the expansion Collossapolos's underside, The Twelve Tiers.
In the Year 1832, Emperor Blac'drugulois was slain. After a brief civil war (c.f Second Orchish Civil War), Monty became the second emperor of the Orchish Empire.