History Characters / GauntsGhosts

* GeneralFailure: His incompetence is refered to by several characters.

* BladeOnAStick: Wields a power halberd to devastating effect.

* NotGoodWithPeople: Macaroth outright says this to his lord generals. [[spoiler:Which is why he appoints Gaunt as his second-in-command to liaise with them.]]

* WhatBeautifulEyes: Its eyes are blue, and very humanlike, as the pheguth notes, but [[UncannyValley positioned a bit too low on its face]].

** Gaunt is very protective of his soldiers. He's even ''more'' protective of his [[TheMedic medics]], Tolin Dorden and Ana Curth. [[ShootTheMedicFirst Trying to hurt his medics]] or trying to take advantage of them in any way is the one instance in which Gaunt will IMMEDIATELY take the lethal option, as some Aexe PDF soldiers learned the bad way in Straight Silver:

* AnAxeToGrind: During the attack on his home of Vervunhive, he switched between using a rifle and his mining axe-rake with ease.

* WeaponOfChoice: Is most commonly described using either a rocket launcher or lasgun.

* DirtyCoward: Events in ''Salvation's Reach'' show that he has become this. [[spoiler: He has a shot at Sirkle when the assassin is using Yoncy as a human shield, but doesn't take it, and near the end of the operation at Salvation's Reach, he gets in cover with his squad and doesn't budge. When the order to return to this ship is given, he just up and runs with his squad instead of falling back in an orderly manner. This continues in ''The Warmaster''. He conspires with Gendler, Jakub Wilder, and Blenner to kidnap Felyx and blackmail him for money. When the attempt goes wrong, he manages to put the blame on Gendler and Wilder, killing Eszrah in the process.]]

* LadyofWar: Elegant and precise.

* Ambiguous Situation: Whilst the being known as Anakwanar Sek is very definitely dead, the short stories around the Sabbat World's Crusade suggest that the "Voice" so often alluded to by Sek's follower's is still around..

* OlderThanTheyLook: Literally. Due to a combination of warp travel time dilation and growth acceleration, he looks like a teenager but is actually much younger.

* BlatantLies: When they were kids in schola, he told Gaunt that his father was a Space Marine, which is patently ridiculous -- Space Marines are sterile and usually [[{{Asexuality}} asexual]], and their utter devotion to Emperor and Imperium leaves little time for the procreative act. Besides that they are usually too young to have kids when they start transitioning to their super soldier bodies. When Gaunt re-tells the story to one of the Schola instructors, he is informed that Blenner's parents were actually Administratum clerks who died when the planet they were serving on was virus-bombed to deny it to the Tyranids.

* BadassMoustache: As part of his Nihtgane heritage.

* BadassBeard: Its easy to imagine him played by John Rhys Davis.

* {{Foil}}: To Generals Sturm, Ludo, and Dravere. The former was a traitor who tried to kill Gaunt and destroy the Ghosts because they got in his way, the second blamed them for his own incompetence, and the latter saw the Ghosts as dirt-born rabble and stole all of their glory in each of their shared theatres. Van Voytz is a loyal officer who genuinely appreciates and celebrates Gaunt and the Ghosts' successes, to the point where a chapter header quote in ''Guns of Tanith'' is from Gaunt saying he ''doesn't know how to deal'' with the fact Van Voytz ''isn't'' a bastard.

* {{Foil}}: To Generals Sturm, Ludo, and Dravere. The former was a traitor who tried to kill Gaunt and destroy the Ghosts because they got in his way, the second blamed them for his own incompetence, and the latter saw the Ghosts as dirt-born rabble and stole all of their glory in each of their shared theatres. Van Voytz is a loyal officer who genuinely appreciates and celebrates Gaunt and the Ghosts' successes, to the point where a chapter header quote in ''Guns of Tanith" is from Gaunt saying he ''doesn't know how to deal'' with the fact Van Voytz ''isn't'' a bastard.

* {{Foil}}: To Generals Sturm, Ludo, and Dravere. The former was a traitor who tried to kill Gaunt and destroy the Ghosts because they got in his way, the second blamed them for his own incompetence, and the latter saw the Ghosts as dirt-born rabble and stole all of their glory in each of their shared theatres, Van Voytz is a loyal officer who genuinely appreciates and celebrates Gaunt and the Ghosts' successes. To the point where a chapter header quote in ''Guns of Tanith" is from Gaunt saying he ''doesn't know how to deal'' with the fact Van Voytz ''isn't'' a bastard.

* Foil: To Generals Sturm and Dravere. The former was a traitor who tried to kill Gaunt and destroy the Ghosts because they got in his way, and the latter saw the Ghosts as dirt-born rabble and stole all of their glory, Van Voytz is a loyal officer who genuinely appreciates and celebrates Gaunt and the Ghosts' successes. To the point where a chapter header quote in ''Guns of Tanith" is from Gaunt saying he ''doesn't know how to deal'' with the fact Van Voytz isn't a bastard.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler: Considering how many Ghosts fething Lijah Cuu went on to murder, Daur strong-arming Gaunt into saving him from a firing squad for committing rape and murder is definitely this]].

Chaos general and leader of the Sons of Sek, another faction of Archon Gaur's army. Becomes the senior Chaos leader on the secondary flank when [Enok Innokenti is KIA. Currently at large after losing several planets to the Ghosts.

* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: Zigzagged for those looking at him. Sek appears to use his powers to appear more threatening than he actually is. We aren't told what chaos followers see when they look at him, but the Imperials looking at him see something different ; variously - a daemonic juggernaut, a power-armoured giant, a eldritch husk dripping in warp power. His real appearance is that of a comparitively fragile looking old man, albeit one with an endless void where his mouth ought to be.

* AGodAmI: Posesses a fragment of the Emperor's power. She uses it to great effect.

* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: Zigzagged for those looking at him. Sek appears to use his powers to appear more threatening than he actually is. We aren't told what chaos followers see when they look at him, but the Imperials looking at him see something different ; variously - a deamonic juggernaut, a power-armoured giant, a eldritch husk dripping in warp power. His real appearance is that of a comparitively fragile looking old man, albeit one with an endless void where his mouth ought to be.

* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: Zigzagged for those looking at him. Sek appears to use his powers to appear more threatening than he actuall is. We aren't told what chaos followers see when they look at him, but the Imperials looking at him see something different ; variously - a deamonic juggernaut, a power-armoured giant, a eldritch husk dripping in warp power. His real appearance is that of a comparitively fragile looking old man, albeit one with an endless void where his mouth ought to be.