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[[Major]] '''Gol Kolea''' is a member of the [[Tanith First and Only]] [[Imperial Guard]] [[regiment]]. A survivor of the battle for [[Siege of Vervunhive]], Kolea's career in the service of the [[Imperium]] has taken him from civilian volunteer to [[Guardsman]], [[Sergeant|NCO]] and beyond.

==Character Biography=={{Spoiler|source= Gaunt's Ghosts (Novel Series)}}A big, muscular man, it has been said of Gol Kolea that courage and determination ooze out of him like sweat{{Cite This}}; even [[Colonel-Commissar ]] [[Gaunt ]] has admitted that he would not like to get on the wrong side of the fierce ex-miner{{Cite This}}, a man who attacked the [[Chaos]] [[Chaos Lord|Warlord]] [[Heritor Asphodel]] with nothing but an axe-rake and lived to tell the tale. {{Fn|1a}}

Gol Kolea was an ore-worker in the Deep Mining shafts of Vervunhive up until the [[Ferrozoica|Zoican]] invasion. {{Fn|1b}} Trapped underground, Kolea discovered he was a natural leader when he managed to get the surviving miners up to the surface, where they fell in with a [[Vervun Primary]] Defence Unit under [[Captain]] [[Olin Fencer]]. {{Fn|1c}} When this unit was overrun and destroyed, the survivors looked to Kolea for leadership. {{Fn|1d}} This ‘"[[Scratch Company]]’ " would go on to play a very important role in ending the invasion, when it was selected to guide an elite Imperial Guard commando team into the objective areainfiltrating Asphodel's command vehicle. {{Fn|1e}}{{Fn|1a}}

Kolea has two children; , [[List of Gaunt's Ghosts CharactersDalin Kolea|Dalin]] and [[Yoncy Kolea|Yoncy]], both of whom survived the Siege. However, he has no direct contact with them as their father, even though they are present with accompany the Tanith regiment, Dalin in fact being a recently activated [[Guardsman]]. {{Cite This}} The children were just toddlers when Vervunhive was destroyed, and were considered orphans by the authorities – their mother, Livvy'''Livy''', was killed during the war{{Fn|1a}}, and Gol was written off as dead; unknown to the Hive authorities, Kolea (believing his family was deceased) had enlisted in the Tanith Ghosts as a Sergeant{{Fn|1f}}. It was not until the [[Hagia|Hagian]] Campaign campaign that Kolea learned that his children were still alive{{Fn|2a}}; he was not sure what to do at first, and eventually decided to leave them to be raised by their adoptive mother, [[List of Gaunt's Ghosts Characters|Tona Criid]] without disrupting their world further by making his presence known. {{Fn|2b}}

Kolea had a hard time finding his heart again after the experiences he had during the Zoican Invasion, despite the best efforts of his scratch-company colleagues and [[Colonel]] [[Corbec]]. Kolea remained withdrawn and uncommunicative for almost a year, performing his duties perfectly, but hardly showing any emotion. {{Cite This}} Colonel Corbec eventually decided to twin Kolea’s Kolea's [[platoon ]] with [[Imperial Guard Sergeant |Sergeant]] [[List of GauntVarl]]'s Ghosts Characters|Varl’s]]. {{Cite This}} Shortly, as Corbec had hoped, the garrulous and witty Sgt. Varl finally managed to get Kolea to laugh, and the two quickly became fast friends. {{Cite This}} Kolea also formed a connection to [[Medic|Surgeon]] [[List of Gaunt's Ghosts Characters|Ana Curth]] around this time, and found that he could speak to her with honesty due to her understanding nature and Hippocratic oath. She tried to convince Kolea to reveal himself to his family, but before he could act further on the matter, Sgt. Kolea received a serious head-wound during the [[Phantine (planet)|Phantine]] Campaign that effectively destroyed his personality; he suffered severe brain-damage and was reduced to the mental age of a pre-teen. Kept on the strength of the regiment, Kolea served as a standard Guardsman until the [[Herodor]] campaign, where he was apparently completely healed by the [[Beati]]. Kolea then reconciled his situation with Tona Criid. Criid, who had been looking after the children for several years by this point, would continue to do so. The children would apparently not be told their real father was alive. It seems however, that Dalin may now in fact know that Kolea is his biological father, but the topic still appears largely taboo.

Kolea also formed a connection to [[Medic|Surgeon]] [[Ana Curth]] around this time, and found that he could speak to her with honesty due to her understanding nature and Hippocratic oath.{{Cite This}}  Curth tried to convince Kolea to reveal himself to his family, but before he could act further on the matter, Sgt. Kolea received a serious head-wound during the [[Phantine (planet)|Phantine]] Campaign that effectively destroyed his personality; he suffered severe brain-damage and was reduced to the mental age of a pre-teen.{{Fn|3}}  Kept on the strength of the regiment, Kolea served as a standard Guardsman until the [[Herodor]] campaign, where he was apparently completely healed by the [[Beati]].{{Cite This}} Kolea then reconciled his situation with Tona Criid. Criid, who had been looking after the children for several years by this point, would continue to do so. The children would apparently not be told their real father was alive. It seems however, that Dalin may now in fact know that Kolea is his biological father, but the topic still appears largely taboo.{{Cite This}} A powerful presence in the regiment, especially to the [[Verghast]] element, Gol was eventually promoted to Major around the time of the [[Gereon]] mission, and serves as the senior Verghastite representative in the officer's mess.{{Cite This}}

*[[Known Members of the Tanith First and Only ]]

*1: [[Gaunt's Ghosts Necropolis (Novel Series)]] By by [[Dan Abnett]]**{{Endn|1a}}: Chapter Eighteen**{{Endn|1b}}: Chapter One**{{Endn|1c}}: {{Cite This}}**{{Endn|1d}}: {{Cite This}}**{{Endn|1e}}: Chapter Seventeen**{{Endn|1f}}: Chapter Nineteen*2: [[Honour Guard (Novel)]] by '''Dan Abnett'''**{{Endn|2a}}: {{Cite This}}**{{Endn|2b}}: {{Cite This}}*{{Endn|3}}: [[The Guns of Tanith (Novel)]] by '''Dan Abnett''', {{Cite This}}