Othmar Garithos

This article contains lore taken from Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne, the manuals, and/or official bonus maps.

Garithos
Title	Lord Highlord Warlord Grand Marshal
Gender	Male
Race	Human
Class	Dark knight
Affiliation(s)	New Alliance, Detheroc's Forces (unwillingly)
Occupation	Leader of the New Alliance
Status	Deceased

Garithos was the Grand Marshal leader of remnants of the Kingdom of Lordaeron following its downfall during the Third War, and also de-facto leader of Alliance forces in Lordaeron, the New Alliance. Even in the situation the Alliance was facing after the Third War in Lordaeron, the Grand Marshal was very disdainful of non-human races of the Alliance, however, he cooperated temporarily with the undead that would eventually become known as the Forsaken.

Biography

New Alliance

See also: New Alliance

Garithos was a survivor of the Scourge's rampage across Lordaeron, he recruited what forces he could muster and appointed himself Grand Marshal of the New Alliance. Later, the healthiest blood elves led by Kael'thas Sunstrider, the elven prince of the ruined Quel'Thalas, joined him. Although the army was formed, Garithos was terribly racist and did not enjoy having to work with the blood elves or dwarves. And his belief was that the Alliance should never have accepted the elves in the first place, so Garithos dealt with his racist beliefs by putting those races to work at menial tasks.

Retake and defense of Dalaran

Garithos and his forces managed to retake Dalaran from the Scourge, and used it as their base. Later, Garithos gave Kael'thas the job of overseeing a caravan of supplies being ushered out of ruined villages, though Kael completed the mission, he wanted his people on the front lines with Garithos's main forces.

As they were in Dalaran, Garithos's scouting parties found that a large undead strike force coming through Silverpine Forest would attack from the south to retake Dalaran. Garithos was going to lead the armies to stop them at the mountain base, but, was worried that the undead would flank them, so Kael's forces were left behind to gaurd the eastern front. Garithos also ordered the prince to repair three observatories.

Kael'thas performed his duties but he had to accept the help from Lady Vashj and the naga. When Garithos got word of this, he immediately went to Kael and reprimanded him for consorting with the snake-people. He didn't trust the elves as it stood, but he wouldn't let them to betray his army.

The observatories repaired by the Alliance Remnants discovered that the undead strikeforce was coming from the west. Garithos returned to the front and left Kael'thas waiting orders. Then, an emissary was sent by Garithos to inform Kael'thas that he had to engage the strikeforce from the west, but also recalled all support, cavalry, and siege units to the front, leaving Kael with only blood elven troops and telling him to be creative.

Garithos defeated the undeads in the front easily with all the forces he had. However, Kael was surely to be defeated, and would have been, had he not accepted another offer from Vashj and her naga and enlisted their aid in the destruction of the undead forces.

Garithos returned and saw the naga leaving the scene, and, infuriated, said this was the proof he was waiting for to execute Kael and the blood elves. He arrested Kael and his servitors and locked them in the Dalaran dungeons to await their execution, under the guard of Kassan. But soon Garithos heard that Kael had escaped with Vashj's help and were fleeing through a mystic portal. Garithos sent his men, armed with explosives, to destroy the portal, but the elven engineers Kael had freed used their knowledge to construct strategic defense systems. Kael and Vashj defended the portal and eventually fled themselves.

Mind controlled

Garithos, though furious, turned his attention back to the advancing undead. He pushed them back into Plaguelands, but was soon faced with the dreadlords, Detheroc and Balnazzar. Detheroc's powers of mental domination made quick slaves of Garithos and his men. The human served as Detheroc and Balnazzar's pet for some time until they were attacked by Sylvanas and Varimathras. Sylvanas slew Detheroc and Garithos was freed from his bondage. Garithos was asked to join Sylvanas in the final attack on Balnazzar and he agreed, so long as Lordaeron was left to him. The banshee agreed - but secretly had no intention of keeping her word.

Death

Sylvanas launched a two-pronged attack on the Capital, with Garithos attacking from the rear as she and Varimathras attacked from the front. But as the battle commenced, Garithos received word that the dwarven reinforcements had gotten lost in the wilderness. Garithos, annoyed at the dwarves, quickly left to find them, and brought them back to his base.

Garithos is killed by Varimathras.

With the dwarves' help, the three allies were quick to dispatch Balnazzar's forces, and came upon him in the aftermath. Garithos watched as Sylvanas ordered Varimathras to kill Balnazzar. Despite their laws, which forbade the killing of another nathrezim, Varimathras did so. Garithos was lightly amused, but quickly changed his mood and ordered the duo to leave his land. Instead, however, Sylvanas ordered Varimathras to kill Garithos himself. Varimathras happily complied and casted [Rain of Fire] on Garithos, who was cannibalized by ghouls moments later.

Kingdom

Although Garithos lived in the continent of Lordaeron and one of his gag quotes is "In memory of Terenas", he has the Stormwind banner in his shield. As there is no concrete information, it is unknown what his kingdom is.

A possible explanation could be that he was once from Stormwind but chose to remain at Lordaeron after the Second War.

Quotes

For gag quotes, see Quotes of Warcraft III/Human Alliance#Lord Garithos.

GARITHOS: You are late, Prince Kael'thas. I thought you elves prided yourselves on punctuality.

KAEL: It could not be helped, Lord Garithos. We ran into a group of night elves from across the sea, and --

GARITHOS: I am not interested in your fanciful excuses! You elves are here to serve the Alliance: thus, you will obey my commands to the letter! Is that clear?

KAEL: Yes, Lord Garithos.

GARITHOS: Now, the undead have begun a new offensive to retake Dalaran. Their primary strike force marches south through Silverpine, but we managed to halt its advance at the base of the mountains.

KAEL: My men are ready to fight, milord! When shall we leave for the front?

GARITHOS: We will be leaving immediately. But, your people will be staying here. Our scouts report that a second strike force may be heading this way from the east. I need you to repair the outlying observatories so that we can monitor that region.

KAEL: But, milord, we are warriors, not--'

GARITHOS: You have your orders, Prince Kael'thas. I trust your elven ears heard them clearly enough. Move out!

(Garithos left)

KAEL: Insolent son of a... Let's get this over with!

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"I never trusted you vainglorious elves. It was a mistake to accept you into the Alliance in the first place. Now at long last, you'll be dealt with appropriately. Take them away!"

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LAST WORDS:

GARITHOS (to Sylvanas and Varimathras): There, your business is done. Now, I want you wretched animals out of my city before I--

SYLVANAS: Kill him, too.

VARIMATHRAS: Gladly.

(Varimathras casts Rain of Fire on Garithos killing him)

Statistics

Holy Light	Shockwave	Devotion Aura	Avatar
Garithos's abilities in Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne.

Statistics of Garithos Level 8 Dark Knight from Warcraft III

• 1250 HP
• 525 MP
• 42-52 hero melee damage (+6 item)
• 7 hero armor
• 40 Strength Primary Attribute (+6 item)
• 23 Agility (+2 item)
• 29 Intelligence (+6 item
• Abilities
  • Holy Light (instant ranged heal on friendly living / half damage to enemy undead)
  • Shockwave (line damage)
  • Devotion Aura (additional armor aura)
  • Avatar (caster receives more armor, HP, damage, and gets spell immunity)
• Items
  • Medallion of Courage (+4 to intelligence and strength)
  • Circlet of Nobility (+2 to all attributes)
  • Gloves of Haste (+15% attack rate)

Note: Garithos statistics are listed on character level 8 when the max level is 10, because he had been level 8 for most of the maps he was in.