90482 Orcus given the designation S/2005 (90482) 1 before later being named "Vanth". It orbits Orcus in a nearly face-on circular orbit with an eccentricity of about 0.007, and an orbital period of 9.54 days. Vanth orbits only from Orcus and is too close to Orcus for ground-based spectroscopy to determine the surface composition of the satellite. Mike Brown suspects that like the Pluto–Charon system, Orcus and Vanth are tidally locked. Vanth does not resemble known collisional satellites because its spectrum is very different from that of its primary, and it may be a captured KBO. Vanth could also have originated as
Wand of Orcus reclaimed from the looters by its rightful owner, "as Master Blaise knew it would be". The booklet "The Dark of the War" in "" reveals that when Orcus was either deposed or slain by Kiaransalee, his "wand" was locked away in Agathion, the fourth layer of Pandemonium. Game statistics for the aspect of Orcus in the "Miniatures Handbook" (2003) on pages 53–54 state that the aspect "wields a weaker version of Orcus's famous wand". "Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition for Dummies" describes the "Wand of Orcus" as being part of what makes Orcus "the most monstrous evil in the game".