Zhents are a dull, blunt tool. Red Wizards are the creeping doom, the strangling grip on your throat, the killing cloud disguised in the morning fog, the invisible stalker in your bed chamber, the hidden purveyors of vice, muscle & usury. From Thaymount, they rule the Realms.

I'd need @TheEdVerse to confirm this, but the Zhebts we all know of were greatly watered down from eds original campaign - less ambiguous and more out and out EEVVIILL.