Galthran

Necropolis
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Charna
Tamika
Isra
Clavius
Galthran
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Necromancers
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Aislinn
Sandro
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Vidomina
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Towns

Galthran the Death Knight
Basic information:
	Class:	Death Knight
	Gender:	Male
	Race:	Vampire
Over the years, Galthran has developed new methods of creating and commanding skeletons which provides him with a distinct advantage in combat.
Specialty: Skeletons
Increases the Attack and Defense skills of any Skeletons or Skeleton Warriors for each level attained after 1st level.
Starting Level:
Level
Starting primary skills:
1 2 2 1
Starting secondary skills:
Basic Necromancy
Basic Armorer
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Starting troops:
Skeleton 20–30 Always  Skeleton 20–30 88%  Skeleton 20–30 25% [[File: Creature portrait {{{troop_4}}} small.gif|{{{troop_4}}}|link={{{troop_4}}}]] [[{{{troop_4}}}|{{{troop_4}}}]] Always [[File: Creature portrait {{{troop_5}}} small.gif|{{{troop_5}}}|link={{{troop_5}}}]] [[{{{troop_5}}}|{{{troop_5}}}]] Always [[File: Creature portrait {{{troop_6}}} small.gif|{{{troop_6}}}|link={{{troop_6}}}]] [[{{{troop_6}}}|{{{troop_6}}}]] Always [[File: Creature portrait {{{troop_7}}} small.gif|{{{troop_7}}}|link={{{troop_7}}}]] [[{{{troop_7}}}|{{{troop_7}}}]] Always
Starting troops :
Skeleton 20–30 Always  Skeleton 20–30 Always  Skeleton 20–30 Always
Starting spell:
	Shield
Starting movement points:
1630

Galthran the Death Knight is a Necropolis hero. Galthran starts with a spell book and the spell Shield.

In Horn of the Abyss, Ranloo replaces Galthran by default. You can read more here.

Specialty

Besides the ability mentioned in his description, Galthran also gives +1 speed to Skeletons and Skeleton Warriors. The in-game description "{{{herospec}}}" is erroneous in "each level attained" moment, and lacks the speed bonus information. (Description is fixed in HotA ).

Unlike the native terrain speed bonus, the creature specialty speed bonus can affect the hero's movement points in case the creature is the slowest one in the army.

Level	5	4	6	6	Level	5	4	6	6
1	+1	+1	+1	+1	37	+10	+8	+12	+12
4	+1	+1	+2	+2	41	+11	+9	+13	+13
5	+2	+1	+2	+2	44	+11	+9	+14	+14
6	+2	+2	+2	+2	45	+12	+9	+14	+14
7	+2	+2	+3	+3	46	+12	+10	+14	+14
9	+3	+2	+3	+3	47	+12	+10	+15	+15
11	+3	+3	+4	+4	48	+13	+10	+15	+15
12	+4	+3	+4	+4	51	+13	+11	+16	+16
14	+4	+3	+5	+5	53	+14	+11	+16	+16
16	+4	+4	+5	+5	54	+14	+11	+17	+17
17	+5	+4	+6	+6	56	+15	+12	+17	+17
21	+6	+5	+7	+7	57	+15	+12	+18	+18
24	+7	+5	+8	+8	61	+16	+13	+19	+19
26	+7	+6	+8	+8	64	+16	+13	+20	+20
27	+7	+6	+9	+9	65	+17	+13	+20	+20
28	+8	+6	+9	+9	66	+17	+14	+20	+20
31	+8	+7	+9	+9	67	+17	+14	+21	+21
32	+8	+7	+10	+10	69	+18	+14	+21	+21
33	+9	+7	+10	+10	71	+18	+15	+22	+22
34	+9	+7	+11	+11	73	+19	+15	+23	+23
36	+9	+8	+11	+11	75/88	+22	+18	+27	+27

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Skeletons are often the main power of Necropolis, despite their low level, and are unavoidably present in every native hero's army even if not, which makes Galthran's skeleton specialty incredibly useful. The speed boost alone is worth at least 70 movement points, assuming Zombies are not present in the army. Together with his good starting skill, this makes him one of the best Death Knights. The reason for the default replacement of Galthran with Ranloo was probably balance - the huge bonuses which Galthran provides for Skeletons made his Skeletons immensely powerful in mid- and late-game.

See also:

• List of heroes
• Hero class
• Hero biographies
• Hero specialty
• List of hero specialties