I like the tau, but the jadedness never really made sense to me. They've had space travel for thousands of years and have fought orks for thousands of years - given they've met a lifeform that literally can only partake in war, and have regularly fought it to the point of designing a lot of their weapons with ork physiology in mind (hence why pulse rifles are such overkill on humans), you'd think the tau would honestly be relieved to find out most lifeforms in the galaxy are possible to communicate with

@@bajscast Imagine thousands of years waiting to find civilization, and it thinks you're a piece of sh*t.

@@bajscast Agree, Tau are fundamentally "Optimism" unbounded and what havok that can wreak (hopefully!). The jaded, the cynical, the pessimist all good Imperial qualities!

I really liked how the ethereals were like 'this geller field thingy is just superstition' and ignored the warnings of the earth caste and just fucked up royally xD

Tau faced with grimderp GW writers: *"I am so tired"*

They did the same in the previous book…

​@@Tulkash01to be fair, that doesn't diminish Assassins point in the least

@@svenbrede6151 Sure, but it is a bit repetitive

​@@Tulkash01 or set up. This feels like payoff from an Alpha Legion presence revealed last time.

You should check out the Deathwatch RPG story where all the players are Alpha Legion, but none of them know that they are all Alpha Legion

Also this time, the Orks win!

Scence Khorne is asserted with physical combat, and despises warp sorcery I could see them being the most likely to take interest in the Tau. Or at the least take the least issue with their week souls.

We did see a Tzeentch daemon possess one.

@@t.z2359 Dude, they can turn people into steaming red paste with guns; Khorne cares not from where the blood flows, just that it flows.

What can you buy with 2 quid?

​@@LutherMahoney A Freddo

same, but maybe let's affix a "...yet" to that statement...

​@@ahoyturtle Farsight needed some inner conflict for narrative purposes. Falling to Chaos, however, would be too obvious.

Same, I do like that Khorne wants him tho

@@BARMN89 He's too incorruptible, but Chaos will try, as it did with all of the Primarchs.

Not ''YET''

It's great isn't it? Perfect for crushin' gitz!

The juxtaposition of the Ork names, and all the super serious names adopted by the other factions, is a fun part of 40k. 👍

Yep straight to the point, and no unnecessary stories that don't exist

Yeah. I'm gonna read it anyway, but that's disappointing.

I also thought they'd use the nexus to pop up in random places throughout the Galaxy tbh.

I still think that the Tau opening a wormhole straight to the Ghoul Stars has such huge story potential. The place has little Imperial presence and it's full with horrors for the Tau to react to. This way we could be discovering new lore alongside the Tau instead of waiting for them to catch up to existing lore. Not only that but this could also showcase the strengths of the Tau, by having them being able to eventually adapt to the region and even being able to negotiate with some of the nightmarish xenos there.

Admittedly, using the environment for genocidal warfare is a very farsight thing to do. Mont'ka indeed

@@svenbrede6151 I like the idea that just as the rest of the tau view deamons as weird aliens, farsight just views them as an environmental hazard XD. Both views are correct from a certain point of view.

More people insisted it they had a connection tho.

Not necessarily coïncidence but not necessarily causality either ;) In "Farsight" they describe the city on Arthas Moloch as belonging to a long gone alien race, never mentioning that it was a gue-la civilisation. There is even an inquisitor coming along the team Farsight in the cockpit of the broadside of O-blotai, and there is never a hint or a comment on her part showing that she would recognize the architecture, or the statues as being of human origin ! So it is strongly implied that the original Molochite civilisation was not human, but still were using these hexagrams. The sword that Farsight borrows was held by a statue, again not being described as being human, and the sword doesn't seem to be of imperial origin whatsoever, so I really don't think that the city on Arthas Moloch was not imperial, not even human, but the native Molochite civilization knew the power of those symbols. I think that the symbols related to Chaos, whether they are pro or against it, are kinda universal, so the Dark Angels came to use these symbols for the same reason the Molochite did, without necessarily being a link between the two. It is also showed in many books that many human cultures discovered the powers of the symbols linked to Chaos (the Davinite for example), so the Dark Angels are almost certainly NOT the only human faction to know about the power of the hexagrammaton ;) Although, the Key was indeed found on a Dark Talon as it seems, but the Dark Angels investigating symbols of Power along the galaxy and collecting every piece of knowledge in these domains is not a shocker ! :)

Sort of. The fact that they were infiltrating the Deathwatch didn't seem to mean much. If the plot was 'The Alpha Legion watched from orbit' nothing would have changed?

@@ArbitorIan the difference is, they were able to infiltrate group that has *extra* hypno-indoctrination compared to regular marines. Imho that's important.

@@nyekomimi Nah, that's dumb. More AL wanking, if they can do that they would take over High Lords and most of loyalist SM long ago but they only seem to use their cheese deus ex machina powers for stuff that doesn't matter at all in the grand scheme of things. Also, you'd think the ONLY imperial faction that routinely deals with insidious infiltrators possessing mind control abilities AL can only dream of would have a clue how to prevent corruption of their operatives...

Probably fighting daemons in the Warp. So, pretty alright for Orks. He'll probably turn up later. Maybe even as a surprise complication to the events of book 5.

Ork bosses like this never really die, they just fade out for a bit with rumor of them being orky elsewhere. Basically, once they bounce and end up somewhere else, they forget everything about where they were before.... Unless they Ghaz

fancy meeting you here!

I had thought that was what the Tarot were aiming towards. In the Codex they implied they were planning on using the same wormhole tech again for new Spheres of Expansion, creating a network of tunnels throughout the galaxy, and expanding the reach of the Empire. I was expecting the Fool to represent the Empire sending help through one of those, but of course it pokes a big hole into the warp and it releases a ton of demons out, killing even more. But I guess it just means "haha Ethereals are dumb and petty" again. Also "tree of life" is such an evoketive thing, and to hear it doesn't really amount to much is super lame. Even the Farsight/Dark Angels connections are kinda underplayed. Wanna see some weird allies dang it!

I m just happy Farsight didn't give in to khorne

Shadowsun is way too busy in the Nem'yar Atoll on the other side of the Startide Nexus.

Why would you want a grim dark setting not to be grim dark?

@@thedubstepaddict3675 I didn't say that. It's just a nice parallel

The big herbal for me when it comes to the Dawn blade is its size. Its taller then a human, and I struggle to think who could effectively wild it. On that note, I today agree that the blades not demonic. Keeping in mind that Tzich and Korn were after Farsighted before he discovered his sward, and it also looks like nothing from chaos.

Yeeah, I mean I kinda dig that Aun'Va is dead and all, but I feel like the Tau do get shanked by their characters age a fair bit. Aun'Shi is just too darn old by this point. O'Shassera being in Cryostasis 95% of the time to at least preserve some screentime. Same for Mon'tau Kais. As for the other characters. We have the one story about longstrike oneshotting that titan (which the imperials countered by oneshotting a hammerhead with a titan in the most petty bit of lore ever). Darkstrider who... Killed one vindicare assassin? I mean Aun'Shi's heroic last stand does sound epic, but it has been a while.

@@svenbrede6151 they could expand on Aun'shi since they stated he was in Commaragh by exploring what happened their after it got messed up by the events from the fall of cadia.

Nope. That's it, this is their involvement. Eldar and Necrons have taken the campaign off.

yeah , incredibly stupid. Make the Tau fall into chaos to make them no diferent than every other race and take the only thing that makes them special.

40k is no place for good guys

Honestly is kinda fitting for the setting.

Well, 😡KHORNE😡 is king........

​@@arcahmwinters70 It may be stupid (I don't agree with that, but I see your point), but it's one of 40k's setting-defining characteristics: good guys don't exist. Not that Farsight was one to begin with xD

I kinda hope we get more interaction between him and the now-psychically-inert traitor inquisitor

Please yes.

Do not. You're old enough to have seen all this before. (Not the arks!) Get some models to paint, sure, but don't collect to play until they sort their business practices out.

@@rantymcrant-pants9536 business practices? What exactly are you talking about

@@entropy2100 Do you want to be treated like a farm animal? Each codex gets a release about every three years. This isn't for the health of the game, its for shares.

@@rantymcrant-pants9536 Oh god, get over it. Every army gets a book every edition now, so what? It was worse pre-8th ed when some armies were waiting several editions for new books. And nobody makes you buy these things, you're not a goose being overfed for foie gras.

​@@MrStath1986 You're right, a book that isn't even correct on release. This is better.

I'm hoping that Farsight somehow shows up in the Lion book since Abbadon, Vashtorr, and Angron are all showing up for sure. It really wouldn't make sense to give him a whole book in the series then leave him out of the climax... but since the Xenos tend to get the short end, that's probably what will happen.

@@123CantCatchMe my guess is that Farsight is gonna be to the Lion what Yvraine is to Guilliman. Strained forced alliance between a primarch and a xeno in order to combat chaos. Which will then spawn a lot of "haha Lion has big brain sword Tau warrior bf" memes probably

@@torcaace I had that same thought. The Farsight Enclaves could be the Tau version of the Ynnari. Hopefully they don't disappear from the fluff the way the Ynnari basically have.

@@torcaace I could see that, and the lion is already perfectly willing to align w/ xenos considering he seems to be cool w/ the watchers. Would be especially funny to see a tau try and recruit a watcher into the greater good for sure

@@zrrion6the6insect6 also Farsight is wearing one of the Lion's old symbols on his armor lol

I bet it was "Cypher did nothing wrong".

Yup, funnily enough, death of some random Farsight mook was the most important thing so far because the dude actually had tabletop rules. Sad...

@@KuK137 Writer: So the Rock is being assaulted maybe we should kill off one member of the inner circl… GW CEO: **Grabs the writer by the neck** Nooooooooooo… No Space Marine Death… only Xenos because they aren’t as marketable…

​​@@KuK137 importantly, the dude that technically has died several times and has his name being passed on new dudes, so in fact no named characters really died

@@skaiaks8934 so he is the tau version of Cypher then

@@Komandie except Cypher is several times more important, Brightsword is just Farsights honour guard member with a name

I tried. But ended up fighting my computer. It's a common end point, the inner ork takes over.

I can do that right now: DEY IZ ALL ZOGGIN GITZ, BUT DEY IZ GOOD FOR KRUMPIN This is the opinion of the Orks on just about everything

@@justasplanned8023 He'd continue, but is fighting gitz (cpu)

To be honest it makes sense. Farsight realistically does not know much about chaos. He just has alot of encounters with them. Its not like he has any records that he can refer to regarding them. Hell most tau believe deamons to just be weird aliens. With that in mind, why wouldn't he release what to him is just an environmental hazard onto a planet he wasn't planning on sticking around on.

It reminds me a lot of humanity in the Great Crusade, who managed to spend 200 years using the warp for space travel while thinking that whatever lived inside it were just really weird aliens. Which, tbh, they kinda are!

Yes, exactly!

Yup, just lots of DA stuff floating around

Most of the Eight at least is either cryo/stasis frozen unless needed, but people like Brightsword their name is a title they pass on with death. Main Tau empire people like shadowsun as well are given the TV Dinner treatment and aren't unfrozen unless desperately needed.

@@cormack6492 but they're constantly on battle and most campaigns are what 18 months to a few years at a time? Counting that they reach command status at 20 something because tau mature at 15+, and assuming characters like shadowsun are super talented and can climb ranks super fast, even doing the cryo stasis thing, they would be like 90 years old or more... maybe I'm overthinking this xD

@@isawaryokage its a combination of the numbers not really adding up and tau technology. The have methods to expand their live like the Imperium, they use cryo sleep, some comanders are purley ai named after the person the ai is build of, some are clones that carry the same name but are actually multiple persons. And probably more ways. The tau carry their name as a title so there were multiple brightswords (i think it was brightsword) which are always referred to as the same persons, when it actually were clones of the original.

Would seem its a pointless side story instead of an actual part of the narrative.

Farsight x Lion was my biggest hope considering how tangental Yvraine x Guilliman is. they just need to be like, in the same room at some point and fanartists will do their job.

He has died muptiple times already. Its a title not a person.

Cause his blade adds life force from the enemies he kills with it to his own, it resets his aging.

@@m17wolfmeme50 Cool, thanks. I figured it must be something like that.

Yes firewarrior is canon

Yup, and the guy in it was best buds with Farsight and Shadowsun

@@ArbitorIan Amazing, great video as always

Also wasn’t the character the Tau Leader in one of the Dawn of War 1 campaigns?

@@InquisitorThomas yes he was very popular for a time