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|Subsector=Unknown
|System=Unknown
|Population=Present Population Non-Existent0
|Affiliation=[[Imperium]]
|Class=[[Dead World]], former [[Forest World]]
|Tithe Grade=Unknown
}}
On his deathbed, [[Warmaster]] [[Slaydo]], commander of the [[Sabbat Worlds Crusade]], bestowed upon [[Ibram Gaunt]] — a [[commissar]] who had fought with distinction at [[Balhaut]] — the rank of [[Colonel-Commissar]] and dispatched him to Tanith to raise three regiments for the Crusade.{{Cite This}}
In the wake of their defeat at [[Balhaut]], a splinter fleet of [[Chaos]] slipped past the picket set up by the [[Imperial Navy]], thanks to the newly-appointed Warmaster [[Macaroth]]'s change of tactics. This small fleet attacked and conquered six worlds, [[The Circudus Offensive]], one of which was Tanith. The On the day of the Founding, the Chaos armada bombarded Tanith from orbit, and deployed ground troops to kill vital Imperial personnel before burning Tanith and its forests with the fleet's firepower. [[Colonel-Commissar]] [[Ibram Gaunt]] was one of the last people to leave the planet before its demise, and was saved by a youth called [[Brin Milo]], whom he took with him in gratitude.{{Fn|1b}} Milo later confirms that he was the only civilian to leave Tanith alive, being too young to join the Guard.{{Cite This}} In all, only around two thousand people survived the evacuation.{{Fn|1d}}
**{{Endn|1b}}: Part Two, Chapter Two
**{{Endn|1c}}: Part Two, Chapter Six
**{{Endn|1d}}: Part Three, Chapter Four
[[Category:Dead Worlds]]
[[Category:Forest Worlds]]
[[Category:Gaunt's Ghosts (Novel Series)]]
[[Category:Sabbat Worlds Crusade]]
