Created by legendary Games Workshop writer Dan Abnett, Gaunt’s Ghosts is a series that spans 15 novels, 1 novella and several short stories. Gaunt’s Ghosts focuses on the Tanith First-and-Only, an Imperial Guard regiment founded on the world of Tanith; a world destroyed by Chaos. Originally Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt was tasked with raising three regiments from Tanith; however, a Chaos splinter fleet attacked Tanith on the day of the founding, and only 3,500 of the 6,000 Tanith guardsmen managed to escape the planet before it was destroyed. The surviving Tanith guardsmen were reorganized into a single regiment: the Tanith First-and-Only (nicknamed Gaunt’s Ghosts by Tanith Master Sniper Mad Larkins).
