Daur

Daur is a Verghastite officer absorbed into the Tanith First-and-Only regiment of the Imperial Guard after the siege of Vervunhive.

Before his transfer, Daur served as a militia officer defending Vervunhive, the principal hive city of the industrial world Verghast, during its siege by Chaos-aligned forces. Following the city’s relief, Imperial authorities merged surviving Verghastite militia units with the depleted Tanith First-and-Only, a Guard regiment drawn from the destroyed world of Tanith and led by Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt. Daur was among the Verghastite officers retained and commissioned into the reconstituted regiment, subsequently commanding a company composed largely of former Vervunhive personnel as the unit deployed through further campaigns of the Sabbat Worlds Crusade, the sustained Imperial offensive to reclaim the Sabbat Worlds sector.

Within the regiment’s institutional history, Daur is recorded as a capable and disciplined line officer whose integration exemplifies the Tanith First-and-Only’s transformation from a single-world formation into a composite regiment drawing personnel from multiple origin worlds. His continued service under Gaunt’s command reflects the regiment’s broader practice of absorbing surviving elements of other units, a pattern that shaped its organisation and reputation across the crusade.