Warhammer 40,000 Characters: List of Gaunt's Ghosts Characters, List of Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War Characters, Ciaphas Cain

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 43. Chapters: List of Gaunt's Ghosts characters, List of Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War characters, Ciaphas Cain, List of Horus Heresy characters, Chaos, Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka. Excerpt: This list is of characters featured in the Gaunt's Ghosts series of novels by Dan Abnett, which are set in the fictional Warhammer 40,000 universe. Biographical details are included. Alive Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt is the commanding officer of the Tanith First-and-Only during the Sabbat Worlds Crusade. Not much is known of Gaunt's past prior to his training under Commissar-General Delane Oktar, but several flashbacks in First and Only tell enough to justify his character. Gaunt served as a Cadet Commissar in the Hyrkan 8th under the command of Oktar. He was well liked by the men, and known as "the Boy" (a moniker which annoyed him greatly). Shortly before Oktar's untimely demise on Glyatus Decimus - after an incident involving tainted alcohol and most of the Hyrkan's celebrating senior officers - Gaunt is promoted to a full Commissar, although his spirits are dampened by the death of his mentor. He continues to serve in the Hyrkan 8th as a political officer for some time, and somehow enters Warmaster Slaydo's ring of favoured officers. After his participation in a key battle on Balhaut, Gaunt was awarded the additional rank of Colonel by the dying Warmaster and given command of three newly-founded regiments from a backwater world called Tanith. Slaydo also promised him the settlement rights to the first world conquered by his regiments. When Gaunt travelled to Tanith to oversee the Founding of the Tanith 1st, 2nd and 3rd regiments, a splinter fleet of Chaos ships slipped through the Imperial Navy's blockades and attacked six worlds, one of which was Tanith. Gaunt ordered the immediate withdrawal of the Tanith regiments before the attacks c...