Othmar Garithos

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Grand Marshal Othmar Garithos<ref>Othmar Garithos' Coin</ref> was the leader of remnants of the Kingdom of Lordaeron following its downfall during the Third War, as well as the de facto leader of the Alliance resistance in Lordaeron. Garithos was an ill-tempered and xenophobic man; even in the situation the Alliance was facing after the Third War in Lordaeron, he was disdainful of the non-human races in the Alliance, though he cooperated with the undead that would eventually become known as the Forsaken.

Background

At some point prior to the Third War, Garithos employed a clerk named Kristoff. In that role, Kristoff's organizational skills became legendary in the military.<ref name="CoH" />

The Alliance remnants

By the time of the Third War, Garithos had risen to the rank of Grand Marshal. As the highest-ranking survivor of Lordaeron's military after the Scourge's rampage across Lordaeron, he recruited what forces he could muster from both volunteers and conscripted civilians. In addition to his human army, Garithos' forces comprised forces sent as aid from neighboring non-human states such as Ironforge. The healthiest blood elves led by Kael'thas Sunstrider, prince of the ruined Quel'Thalas, also joined his army. Garithos did not enjoy having to work with the blood elves<ref name="A Dark Covenant">A Dark Covenant (WC3 BloodElf)</ref> or dwarves,<ref name="A New Power in Lordaeron">A New Power in Lordaeron (WC3 Undead)</ref> believing that the Alliance should never have accepted the elves in the first place.<ref name="A Dark Covenant" />

The defense of Dalaran

Garithos and his forces managed to retake Dalaran from the Scourge,<ref>King Arthas (WC3 Undead)</ref> and used it as their base.<ref name="Misconceptions>Misconceptions (WC3 BloodElf)</ref> Later, Garithos gave Kael'thas the job of overseeing a caravan of supplies being ushered out of ruined villages.<ref>Shards of the Alliance (WC3 NightElf)</ref> Though Kael'thas completed the mission, he wanted his people on the front lines with Garithos' main force.<ref name="Misconceptions />

While they were in Dalaran, Garithos informed Kael'thas that a massive undead army was marching towards the Alterac mountains seeking to reclaim Dalaran. While the Alliance army moved to the front to repel them, Kael'thas was ordered to repair the observatories near the city, as they were also being told that a second strike force was advancing through Silverpine Forest. Kael'thas, backed by Alliance troops, managed to defeat the undead and repair the observatories, and soon after received word that the second strike force was heading towards them. As he prepared to repel them, however, an Emissary sent by Garithos informed Kael'thas that all human and dwarven troops were to move to the front, abandoning Kael'thas and his blood elves to fend them off alone with no cavalry or artillery support. Garithos had hoped that the elves would fall before the Scourge, and no longer be his problem.<ref>WoW forums post by Caydiem, September 29th, 2005: "... The remaining Elves were placed under the command of a man named Garithos, who was grossly intolerant of other races and drove the Elves into near-suicidal situations in the hopes they would no longer be his problem."</ref>

Garithos defeated the undead at the front with the forces he had amassed. However, Kael'thas would have surely been defeated had he not accepted another offer from Lady Vashj and her naga to aid in the destruction of the Scourge forces. For this, Grand Marshal Garithos charged the blood elves with treason.<ref name="A Dark Covenant" />

Imprisonment of the blood elves

Garithos returned with soldiers and saw the naga leaving the scene. With proof that the blood elves were in league with the naga, Garithos condemned Kael'thas and all of his men to death. He explained that he never trusted the elves, and felt it was a mistake to accept them into the Alliance in the first place.<ref name="A Dark Covenant" /> He arrested Kael and his servitors and locked them in the dungeons of Dalaran to await their execution, under the guard of Kassan.<ref>The Dungeons of Dalaran (WC3 BloodElf)</ref>

Exodus of the blood elves

Soon Garithos heard that Kael had escaped with Vashj's help, and that the blood elves were fleeing through a mystic portal - the same portal Kel'Thuzad opened to bring Archimonde to Azeroth. 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.<ref>The Crossing (WC3 BloodElf)</ref> The portal took them to the shattered realm of Outland.

Mind controlled

Garithos, though furious, turned his attention back to the advancing undead. He pushed them back into the Plaguelands, but was soon faced with the dreadlords, Detheroc and Balnazzar. Detheroc's powers of mental domination allowed him to enslave Garithos and his men. The humans served Detheroc and Balnazzar for some time until they were attacked by Sylvanas Windrunner and Varimathras. Sylvanas slew Detheroc, and Garithos was freed from his bondage.

Garithos was suspicious of Sylvanas, but she explained that she was no longer a member of the Scourge. She offered to help Garithos and his men reclaim their lands in exchange for their assistance in defeating the final dreadlord, Balnazzar, who remained in control of Lordaeron's Capital City. Garithos accepted the banshee's terms - but she had no intention of keeping her word.<ref>Dreadlord's Fall (WC3 Undead)</ref>

Seven of Garithos' advisors (including Kristoff) warned Garithos against allying with the rebel undead, but Garithos would not change his mind. Fearing the undead would betray the Alliance, Kristoff left for greener pastures.<ref name="CoH" />

Assault on the Capital City

As Garithos and Sylvanas met to plan their attack on the Capital City, Varimathras pointed out that it was heavily defended. Balnazzar controlled a sizable undead army, and the battle could be won only through attrition.

Sylvanas chose to launch a two-pronged attack on the capital: her forces would make a front assault while Garithos' forces attacked the city from the rear.<ref name="A New Power in Lordaeron" />

The missing dwarves

As the battle commenced, Garithos received word that his dwarven reinforcements had become lost in the wilderness. Though he feared they were more trouble than they were worth, Garithos recognized that he would need them on the front lines (as none of his other troops had long-range weaponry or siege equipment). Garithos quickly left to find the dwarves and bring them back to his base.<ref name="A New Power in Lordaeron" />

At least one dwarven rifleman felt he wasn't being paid enough to put up with Garithos.<ref name="A New Power in Lordaeron" />

Death

The combined forces of the Alliance and the rebel undead succeeded in dispatching Balnazzar's forces and taking control of the city. With Balnazzar defeated, Garithos watched as Sylvanas ordered Varimathras to execute him. Despite their laws, which forbade one nathrezim from killing another, Varimathras did so.

Garithos was lightly amused, but quickly changed his mood and ordered the duo to leave his city. Instead, Sylvanas ordered Varimathras to kill Garithos as well. Varimathras happily complied and killed Garithos, who was cannibalized by ghouls moments later.<ref name="A New Power in Lordaeron" /> The survivors of Garithos' forces would later rally to the Tirisfal Uplands under the command of Captain Silas.<ref>Gheor from the Turtle WoW Community Discord - "The Tirisfal Uplands humans are what's left of his army."</ref>

Sylvanas would go on to name her followers the Forsaken, and would use the Undercity beneath the capital as their new base.

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