Tanith First (And Only)
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The Tanith First (And Only) are a Imperial Guard unit, that originally hail from the planet of Tanith. Unfortunately, a Chaos war fleet fucks up their planet and they were the only survivors to make it off their planet. The Tanith are masters of stealth enough to make Creed envy them, and most of the Tanith are expert marksmen but they like to fix bayonets called "Straight Silver" to impale Chaos worshipers. The Tanith First speak Low Gothic with a Scottish or Irish accent and like to play bagpipes in battle= BADASS thus normally regarded as Scottish Ninja Assassins.
Made famous by Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt.
The Tanith First and Only are largely the subject of the Dan Abnett's acclaimed-better-than-any-story-you'll-ever-write Sabbat World Crusades stories as they are part of the massive campaign to blast chaos a new one in the chronicles. They are led by veteran commissar Ibram Gaunt, who rescued their regiment from their dying homeworld, thus making the less-than-4000-strong First Tanith regiment, the ONLY regiment (possibly the ONLY tanith left in the Universe).
The Tanith are woodsmen by heritage, and are excellent trackers/hunters/and pretty awesome in everything else that involves sneaking around and being better than your shadow one is probably right behind you right now...DON'T LOOK!. Every Tanith also has a remarkable sense of direction, as when wandering the woods of their homeworld, the trees (Nalwood Trees) themselves move every time they feel like it, fucking up every new map people try to make (what dicks).
Campaign of Manliness
After their world is destroyed, new promoted Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt vows to the Tanith that his mentor, late Sabbat Crusade Warmaster Slaydo, gave him a special gift. If Gaunt fought hard enough and was bad ass enough, the Crusade command would grant him a world to call his own (FUCK YEAH!), he tells the Tanith that if they fought for him, he would grant that world to them to settle on. The Tanith, still raw from having their entire fucking planet destroyed before their eyes, still hating Gaunt for not giving them a chance to fight for their homeworld, grudgingly accept. Gaunt then promotes three leader-ish soldiers to officers;
- Colonel "I AM FATHER FIGURE OF EVERYTHING, and I can stab you with the blunt end of a lasrifle" Corber
- Major "I'll Stab This Commissar in the back when he's not looking but develop a mutual respect for him after we save each other's my asses like 6 dozen times" Rawne, and
- Master Scout "1337 I Kill Chaos Dreadnoughts by Myself and Out-Stealth D'eldar Mandrakes, I am a fucking cloaking device on legs" Mkoll.
Thus begins 10 years (13 books and counting) of unprecedented balls, Liquid Awesome, unparalleled Manly Tear-inducing acts to win themselves a new homeworld. After the first few years of hard fighting, the Tanith nickname themselves 'Gaunt's Ghosts' (which is the Title of the Book series) because according to them, they are just remnants of tanith, ghosts that haunts the Imperium, slowly dying away (Abnett is his most douchest move pulls several G.R.R Martins by not being afraid to kill off any character when he goddamn feels like it. FUCK.).