Been playing this game for awhile now, and a couple hours after having gained Zohark, I checked my inventory, and found that it wasn't there. Now, I'm fairly certain that I may have placed it somewhere, but I haven't the foggiest idea as to where that somewhere might be. Anyone have any idea or quickfix for finding key items?

I cannot directly help with that, but inventory management in Arx has always been an issue.


What I did myself was using the castle room and the kitchen as storage areas (2 chest in the room for most important stored items, 4 containers in kitchen: 2 for everything related to food and cooking, 2 for anything left).

You might have to retrace your steps and check back every single container you might have stored it in.
If you dropped something outside a container and left it a few hours, it is probably gone; in that case the only option would be to backtrack to an earlier save and do it again.