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Gaunt's Ghosts

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The Tanith First-and-Only, better known as 'Gaunt's Ghosts,' are an elite Imperial Guard reconnaissance regiment and the sole survivors of their destroyed Forest World. Renowned for their uncanny stealth abilities, marksmanship, and woodland skills, they fight across the war-torn Sabbat Worlds under the command of Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt, carrying the memory of their lost homeworld into each desperate battle against the forces of Chaos.

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