History Characters / GauntsGhosts

* [[spoiler: UncertainDoom]]: the last time he's seen in ''Anarch'' [[spoiler: he ends up buried under a massive pile of rubble. It remains to be seen whether or not he makes it out.]]

* KillAndReplace: [[spoiler: Quite likely the fate of the original Yoncy Criid by whatever is inhabiting the name now.]]

* 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. McKoll, on the other hand, see's a comparitively fragile looking old man, albeit one with an endless void where his mouth ought to be.

* EliteMooks: The Sons of Sek are modeled after the Blood Pact, and as equally ruthlessly efficient.

* [[spoiler:RasputinianDeath: It takes a ''lot'' to finally put him down for good. At the time, Sek is still recovering from grievous injuries sustained by the feedback of the failed Warp Vortex trap unleashed to kill the Saint; and being set to address his followers, is unarmoured and unshielded. Getting shot several dozen times by small arms and a heavy weapon, caught in the explosion of an anti-tank mine, skewered through with a power lance as wide as a meat cleaver, and getting stabbed through the heart with a serrated dagger is little more than a series of minor inconveniences. Thankfully, shoving another anti-tank mine down his throat '''finally''' does the job.]]

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* [[spoiler:RasputinianDeath: It takes a ''lot'' to finally put him down for good. At the time, Sek is still recovering from grievous injuries sustained by the feedback of the failed Warp Vortex trap unleashed to kill the Saint; and being set to address his followers, is unarmoured and unshielded at the time. Getting shot several dozen times by small arms and a heavy weapon, caught in the explosion of an anti-tank mine, skewered through with a power lance as wide as a meat cleaver, and getting stabbed through the heart with a serrated dagger is little more than a series of minor inconveniences. Thankfully, shoving another anti-tank mine down his throat '''finally''' does the job.]]

* [[spoiler:RasputinianDeath: It takes a ''lot'' to finally put him down for good. Being shot several dozen times and skewered through with a power lance is little more than a minor inconvenience. Thankfully, shoving a land mine down his throat does the job.]]

* BigBad: Of most of The Lost, especially ''Traitor General'' and ''The Armour of Contempt''.

* EasyAmnesia: Loses all personal memories but can still walk/talk/pull a trigger.

[[spoiler: The surrogate daughter of Tona Criid and highly suggested to be a chaos abrration taking over the place of Gol Kolea's original younger son. Seems to be able able to summon and communicate with a demon called Bad Shadow]]

* [[spoiler: ChildrenAreInnocent: It's not very clear how much she is aware of her purpose and it seems to frighten her, at least at first. ]]
* HumanoidAbomination: [[spoiler: It’s very heavily implied that Yoncy Criid as we now know her is actually a denizen of the Warp playing pretend. The fact that she can summon and communicate with her own personal Daemon doesn’t help matters any.]]

* PutOnABus: [[spoiler:Accompanies Saint Sabbat on her journeys at the end of Sabbat Martyr.]]

* [[spoiler: LaserGuidedTykebomb: Like his sister, Dalin is a Woe Machine. Meaning that he was never actually Gol's child to begin with and avoided detection for years. He's only "activated at the very last moment of the seige of Urdesh]].

* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Mabbon is a triple defector, going from the Imperial Guard to Gaur's Blood Pact, then to Sek's new army, ''then'' back to the Imperium. [[spoiler:It may turn out he is a ''quadruple'' agent, if it turns out he rejoined Gaur or Sek.]]

* FriendlyEnemy: Develops a rapport with Varl, one of the soldiers assigned to guard him. When Mabbon is [[spoiler:taken away by the Inquisition, Varl tries to convince them to let Mabbon keep his reading material, and the two exchange friendly goodbyes.]]

* DysfunctionalFamily: A mild example. His mother had him growth accelerated so he could assume his hereditary title sooner but also shipped him off to a dangerous warzone to meet his completely unaware father and get some life experience. Said father is far from thrilled about finding out he has a son just as they are about to launch an incredibly dangerous cover mission. At the same time, Feylx's only companion for much of this is his lifeward Maddalena, a bodyguard / servant, who had her face engineered to resemble Lady Merity Chass. If that wasn't weird enough, Gaunt slept with her.

* LukeYouAreMyFather: His relationship with Gaunt is complex, having been raised all his life being told how great his father is without ever having met him. Gaunt, likewise had absolutely no idea. Felyx is aware of how awkward the revelation is for both of them.

* SoBeautifulItsACurse: Zhukova's reputation, both on Verghast and in the regiment itself, is that her rank was more a result of [[HelloNurse|her looks]] than her combat skill; even friends like Daur have made jokes about it. She's aware of it, and she hates it with a passion. She mentions to Mkoll at one point that she had hoped for a disfiguring shrapnel wound to the face during the Verghast war, in order to be taken seriously.

!!Major Elim Rawne

!!Scout-sergeant Oan Mkoll

* [[spoiler: DyingMomentOfAwesome]]: MAYBE. [[spoiler: he stays behind to single-handedly hold off a surprise Chaos attack on the crusade's headquarters in ''Warmaster'' and, when the dust settles, all that the Ghosts find is his broken Tanith knife. While ordinarily NoOneCouldSurviveThat]], this IS [[BadAss Oan Mkoll]] we're talking about so who knows.

* [[spoiler: DyingMomentOfAwesome]]: MAYBE. [[spoiler: he stays behind to single-handedly hold off a surprise Chaos attack on the crusade's headquarters and, when the dust settles, all that the Ghosts find is his broken Tanith knife. While ordinarily NoOneCouldSurviveThat]], this IS [[BadAss Oan Mkoll]] we're talking about so who knows.

The second Warmaster who takes control of the Crusade after Slaydo's death. Unfortunately does not hold Gaunt in nearly the same regard as his predecessor.

* HeroOfAnotherStory: Without Macaroth's leadership after Balhaut, the entire Crusade would have failed, making all of the Ghosts' sacrifices pointless, and without his relentless attacks, the Sabbat World Crusade would have lasted hundreds of years instead of decades. We never hear, at all, about the battles Macaroth led and won such as Morland: a Chaos held fortress world that saw more bloodshed than all of the battles the Ghosts were involved in ''combined''.

* OverrankedSoldier: Was quite young to be named Warmaster. Averted in that he is not a back stabbing, aristocratic idiot like many of the Generals in the Crusade.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: what he's ultimately presented as in ''Warmaster''. [[spoiler: it turns out he keeps tabs on ''everything'' that goes on on all fronts, Gaunt's regiment included; while the generals who plot to overthrow him accuse him of being distant and uncaring, it's mostly because he implicitly trusts them with day-to-day running of the crusade so that he can focus on the bigger picture; he acknowledges their grievances and vows to rectify them; and promotes Gaunt to his direct second-in-command, and anoints him as future warmaster, because Gaunt had the balls to seek him out and bring the generals' grievances directly to him rather than skulk and plot in the shadows.]] By Warhammer40000 standards, the man is pretty much a living saint.