Zelos Spoilers

Zelos
Faction(s)	Cult of Zanatos
Title(s)	Hand of Zanatus
Default Affinity	Fire
Upgradable to Gold	No
Class Info
Class	Dark Knight
Archetype	Heavy Infantry
Movement Type	Infantry
Innate Traits	AoE attack, strikes foes to the north and south of his initial target in the same column. Guardian, reduces incoming damage during the enemy-phase by 25% Hand of Zanatus, doubles morale damage but prevents force surrender
Class	Dark Knight
Archetype	Dragon
Movement Type	Flying
Innate Traits	AoE attack, small diamond. Guardian, reduces incoming damage during the enemy-phase by 25% Hand of Zanatus, doubles morale damage but prevents force surrender Colossal, doubles morale damage but looses the ability to dodge

“	I see it in your eyes, you and I are nothing more than killing machines. We've lost everything else to become what we are. Is all this power worth it?	”
	– Zelos

Zelos is a story character in Symphony of War.

Story

Zelos is indeed the Dark Knight, or Hand of Zanatus.

After being captured by Casamir, he is freed (and his guard...disposed of) by Beatrix's adoptive father, Pendergast.

He then proceeds to be a one-man army for your opposition.

Strategies

Chapter 13 is more a playable cutscene than anything else, what with The Hand of Zanatus having roughly double the Armor necessary to take 0 damage from essentially everything, and the HP cap of 999 just in case. He's also followed by 4 rather beefy squads.

Until chapter 30 The Hand of Zanatus is more here for the story as an interesting plot device. Generally he tanks and kills everything.

As for chapter 30: Zelos enables another flying dragon squad, which can be quite powerful. Granted: at this point in the game Diana's ~999 HP is mostly just neat, and she still needs a full squad backing her up. Unless Zelos has 2 other dragonriders ready to back him up, his combination of low overall leadership at a point in the game were full squads of 9 are doing a lot of the heavy lifting can result in him being a weirdly mediocre unit. Of course: he has no qualms about disbanding his squad and just joining one of your existing flight-compatible Dragonrider squads as a 900+ HP behemoth; or any other squad where a bulky; magical AoE damage, morale-crushing machine is a good fit.

Initial Stats

Attribute	Value (Foot)	Value (Dragon)
Health Points	Near Max	Near Max
Weapon	Med	None*
Armor	High	Med
STR	High	High
MAG	Low	Med
SKL	Med	Med
LDR	Low	Low
Threat Rating	High	High

(*The Mixed Unit Tactic tech will give all Dragons some weapon damage.)

Zelos's stats also differ from appearance to appearance.

Chapter Availability

= Available in the chapter as controllable unit.
= Not available in the chapter.

Normal Chapters

Chapter Number	Availability	Note
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13		Under control, but part of the Cult of Zanatus faction. Will not join.
Chapter 14
Chapter 15		Encountered as an enemy, but as heavy infantry unit.
Chapter 16
Chapter 17		Encountered as an enemy, but as heavy infantry unit.
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29		Joins as heavy infantry unit only for this mission. Will join as a flying unit.
Chapter 30

Gaiden Chapters

Chapter Number	Availability	Note
Gaiden Chapter A
Gaiden Chapter B
Gaiden Chapter C
Gaiden Chapter D
Gaiden Chapter E

Legends Chapters

Chapter Number	Availability	Note
Legend Chapter 1A	?
Legend Chapter 1B	or	Raskuja is unavailable if the chapter is played between chapter 14 and 19.
Legend Chapter 2	?
Legend Chapter 3A	?
Legend Chapter 3B	or	Raskuja is unavailable if the chapter is played between chapter 14 and 19.
Legend Chapter 4	or	Raskuja is unavailable if the chapter is played between chapter 14 and 19.
Legend Chapter 5	?
Legend Chapter 6

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