Great job! Love how Tau are like people just getting into 40k. "SciFi, aliens, adventure, wow!" and slowly learn about the warp, chaos, how the universe actually works and... grim dark... the poor naive new kid. Also they have cool models.

Thank you the great video suggestion I received on the last one definitely will see some of those topics soon, Some much needed love for Tau players so I hope you enjoy. I wont be covering zenos that often but every once in a while. For the next video I will be doing a remake/remaster of the Primarch Fulgrim, I feel like it deserves the quality I can produce now, it will be not a word for word redo but an extended remake. That will Followed by a loyalist Primarch video after that. Thank you for watching.

dude i've binged all of your videos and you're criminally undersubbed. please keep it up!

Brother it feels like your choices of tempo, video length and narration are made just the way i like it. Thank you for making these.

The best description of the TAU, period. 👏👏👏👏👏 For the greater good. 🤣

'Farsight swung the satchel from over his shoulder, releasing the strip that held it closed, and pulling out a disc-shaped cryocasket. He slid a finger around its circumference and it hissed open. As he gingerly took out the contents, a latticework device made of dangling wires and tiny circular pads, the device writhed slightly. It reminded Farsight uncomfortably of a Dal’ythan jellyfish. ‘This is a recording device,’ said Farsight. ‘You must wear it, master. It will capture your wisdom, the better to distribute it amongst the commanders of the Tau’va. We need your help, and we need it now.’ ‘So they wish to take my mind,’ said Puretide. ‘I knew this day would come. But I did not expect it would be you that brought it to me.’ Farsight made the gesture of the unworthy student. ‘In truth I do not know their full intent, master. I only relay it on behalf of the Shas’ar’tol.’ The ancient sage looked sidelong at Farsight, his expression timeless. ‘Do not bring me falsehoods, Shoh.’ The ugly sensation in the commander’s gut was getting stronger. He suddenly felt as if he wanted to choke out the contents of his stomachs, but clamped it down. ‘I only do as I am ordered,’ said Farsight. ‘As the ethereals have asked of me.’ Puretide turned in his hover-throne to face his student, his face a stoic mask. ‘Do what you must, then,’ he said. ‘In the name of the Tau’va.’ Taking the jellyfish device and spreading it out with his fingers as O’Vesa had shown him, Farsight draped it upon his mentor’s bald pate with the utmost care. It was a strange reversal, for the student to treat the master in such a fashion. In his mind’s eye, a memory flashed of the ceremonial ending of their training upon Mount Kan’ji. The master had finger-traced the crown of the new commander upon Farsight’s head in a mixture of blood and ash. Kauyon-Shas had been next, then Monat-Kais. It had been a day of joy, celebration and relief. The opposite to what Farsight now felt inside. Steeling himself, the commander began pressing the discs onto the neural sites as he had been instructed. All the while, the serpentine feeling of disquiet slithered in his gut. Puretide looked up at him, his eyes swimming with sadness and regret. In those dark pools were the reflections of a soul steeped in decades of contemplation. ‘Our race will walk dark paths, one day,’ he said. ‘Dark paths indeed.’ Farsight did not reply, but inside his heart felt as if it were shrivelling. He touched the device’s activation node, and a tiny needle behind it extruded, poised over his master’s brain. At the last moment his mentor shot a hand up and grabbed him by the wrist, pulling him close. ‘Do not trust them all, my child,’ whispered Puretide. ‘Do not trust them all.’[Etherals] Then Farsight pushed the node all the way in with the faintest of clicks, and Puretide’s eyes rolled back into his head, as white as the snowflakes drifting down from the troubled skies.' - Master's Puretide last warning.

I legitimately believe this is the single greatest tau video on KZfaq. Bravo!

This is awesome! Best lore presentation I have heard. Thank you for giving Xenos a bit of love.

You are now my go to guy while I'm building and painting. The pacing of your videos is spot on and so interesting. Fantastic.

Excellent work...... well narrated , amazing art work , suspenseful music , well edited and extremely informative !

Your definitely the best deep dice youtuber feels like im listening to a audiobook summarizing each character legion or faction

Man this was excellent, seriously. Best Tau vid on KZfaq. Subscribed, looking forward to more

These videos are getting me through my days at work, home, and are gonna come with me on my 3 hour drive next week. I love this stuff dude

A Warp Storm prevents the Imperium from purging them for 6000 years, then in that time strange leaders descend from the sky and unite them into a cohesive empire. Yeah, this has "outside manipulation" written aaaall over it.

I just found this channel and it's now one of my favourites!! Please keep up the good work !!

I love that you have longer relaxed tempo and your quality is awsome, you get me thru my workdays!

One of my new favourite channels. Same topics but done so differently. Thank you and keep it up 👌

Awesome 👍 I'm so happy to have discovered your channel, literally yesterday lol

Really enjoyed this. Didn't expect we'd get another video so soon. Looking forward to the fulgrim remake video as well.

I love your videos by the way and I'm moreso questioning the information you're relaying, not YOU. I know you're just the messenger and I greatly appreciate you for it you're my go to warhammer lore guy because of the structure of your videos, the way you read and WHAT you actually say, it's very captivating and really does a good job at making you understand the subject so thank you for these videos, I love them :).

What i'd give to be a fly on the wall when the Tau were trying to explain the Greater Good to the Orks.

Loving your videos! Thanks for doing a Tau video ~ I admit I love the Tau :D

By far one of the best tau depictions I've listened too thus far. Love to listen to your accounts of the 40k universe and it's inhabitants, would love to hear more xenos based ones as it's a refreshing change from the imperium of man... Especially maybe on the farsight enclaves or eldar factions. Keep up the great work dude. 😁👍👍👍

Top Quality Warhammer Videos! Please do more!

The Tau are in for a fun time when Morty and his boys really start to push into their area.

Great video!

The etherals are kinda like how primarchs and the emperor is to humans

Now this is a nice siggestion by youtube. This video is really nice. Time to add you to the lore channels, or in other words, congrats on getting a new sub :)

Been binging all of the videos on your channel, Gotta say they are brilliant, I have been painting for over a year and its good to acutlly listen to the lore so I might have a tiny idea of whats even going on in 40 k lol

Immediate sub... keep it coming bro👐🏾

That intro is really growing on me

Great video. Imagine how scary Tau science making Demon engines would be. I was think of Por Malcor , a water cast Tau possessed by a demon after being sprayed with the fluid of a Human Geller field. Something similar could happen again.

great job!

Great video. I wouldn’t of come to the same conclusion but it is a interesting one for where the empire will go

Seeing as the ethereals resemble the water and fire cast members makes me think that they might be a genetic offspring of some tau who decided to intermingle and created the first ethereals. though I also subscribe to the therory that the last old one has a bit to do with them seeing as how perfect everything seemed to be for them what with who was near by and so on.

The king is back, baybee! I've legit been checking every few days and started getting concerned for your health.

Really hope you do more on the tau

Don't know how old you are mate, but your intro reminds me of the start of the first Strider game :) Blast of nostalgia for me

The road to Hell is paved...

Great content as always! Do you have anything planned on Aeldria and Drukhari down the line?

The T'au is one of my most favorite factions of the warhammer 40k universe because they're a faction that caters to the Sci-fi fans which me personally I do enjoy science fiction. The tau started off as goody two shoe 👞 factions but eventually thier lore as been updated to be more fitting with the grimdark universe but at same time more realistic. The ethereal caste mind-control and power trip makes sense despite seemingly its dark and messed up, cause if you think about it the T'au was about to destroy themselves willingly and voluntarily then the ethereal swoop in and started to mind control them. Thier usage of mind control power reminds me of a anime call "Code Geass" in that anime the protagonist started off as regular college boy who is stripped from power and royalty wanted revenge from his own father and make the world 🌎 a better place but a task like that is realistically impossible, however he suddenly obtained an awesome super power which is mind control and eventually manage to achieve his goals. This story from the anime is similar to the story and progression of the T'au ethereal and it makes sense because if you want to make a proper society you have to be in position of power to reinforce your will to others, for the ethereal caste its mind control and threw that they made a star-spanding empire. Admittedly the ethereal caste is my most favorite caste (aside from the fire caste).

Hope you do more on the Tau as you grow! Excellent analysis! Question for a video: Wouldn't the Ethereals count as Psykers or Latent Psyckers given what they do to the other Tau races?

This may be an obvious comparison, but: Hearing how the Ethereals force their ideals on the surrounding galaxy and deny the Immaterium, I'm immediately reminded of the Imperial Truth during the Great Crusade. The Tau are making the same mistake as the Emperor did, though without the same degree of violent xenophobia.

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I think Farsight's mission to reclaim the world's beyond the Damocles Gulf was a way for the Ethereals to get rid of Farsight in a way that maintained his facade as the hero of the Damocles Gulf Crusade. Why else did they not treat the mission as the next sphere expansion for the Tau Empire?

You'd think the tau would be uniquely able to handle the deathguard. The tau are known to adapt tech and tactics to fight foes. The deathguard are the embodiment of stagnation

Time to learn more about the Greater Good ... here we go

Any chance of an episode that takes a closer look at Farsight?

damn you are on the same level as Baltimore and Occulus in terms of atmospheric nerattion! any chance of understanding Sangunius?

GW seriously needs to put more emphasis on the Tau that matter, the Farsight Enclaves.

Please cover some chaos legions.

Truly this channel is blessed by the mosquito in Amber as seen in jurrsasix Park

If I had to live in the 40k universe I would want to live with the tau regardless of the downsides I think it would be better than icing on a hive world.

Brother anyhing new brewing dont leave us hanging here

All your work is amazing more people need to give you love,

Ah, the Space Communists.

the tower just regular good when they first were introduced. then the endgelords complaining about them not being grim dark enough turn them into this. it was a nice having just a regular good faction for a little bit there.

For the Greater Good! Tau = good guys of 40k!

Why ever would the men of Iron turn against the Imperium of all people? I mean we all know how well the Imperium treats their human servants, I'm sure that they wouldn't treat the men of iron as lesser now would they.

Wow the Tau ethereal sound like evil.

alpha legion made the ethereals with the eldar for the shared greater good

Black Templars vs Tau.

The Tau Empire is literally the galaxy’s biggest Pyramid scheme

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I personally see the corruption of the Tau more under Slaanesh or under Nurgle.

*The Tau empire is the human imperium 2.0 .*

The greater good seems to be more based off of confuscian philosophy and traditional Chinese monarchism than communism

Lol they broadcasted empire wise themselves jumping into the warp with no gellar fields lol

Once you hit 10k subs u gonna explode. Brace eh?

So.... the T'au empire.... Who or _what_ is the T'au _Emperor_?

Its really interesting how, despite diferent, a paralel can be made between tau and humanity when it comes to mentality. Sure tau Live in a ignorant state of permanent forced compliance... But so does the empire through religious dogma. The average empire soldier doesnt have the level of understanding of how fucked the universe is a space marine would have and this is intentional... People in the imperium are as much as a cog in a hatefull, chaotic and dumb machine as the average tau citizen, not only that but also I could totally imagine a inquisitor making the same argument as the tau ethereal made "this is a heartless and uncaring world and being part of our system is the only thing preventing us to be decimated

The one 1vs1 are pretty good as a species due to thier tech not on par with Eldar, Necrons, Astartes, and such mut as a force they are small and probably the single weakest force in the Galaxy.

Huh, so the Tau are a mirror of Crusade era Humanity? The Greater good is the Imperial Truth, accept this truth or die for it. Farsight is Horus, the prodigal son who turned traitor after finding a warp tainted sword. The holographic leader being controlled by the Ethereal Council is like the Emperor being used by the Council of Terra. Without the presence of an Ethereal the Tau abandon the Greater Good, just like Humans do without a Commissar/Sister/Etc.

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I'm not sure where or how you got the idea that Communism empowers the individual. It is entirely the opposite. Under Communism nothing matters but the group. "From each according to ability, to each according to need." What you were describing Communism as in the video was actual Meritocratic Libertarian Capitalism, where proven ability and talent are the sole determiners of one's place in society. In this social classes tend to not so much vanish but become entirely fluid, with those who are incompetent and/or weak are left scrabbling for scraps while the most competent, talented, and capable enjoy all the privilege and call all of the shots. Communism is a collectivist ideology, where the importance of the individual is downplayed, and an individual's value is determined solely by what group that they belong to, like a hive mind.

And that my friends is communism 101

'For The Greater Good!' Sus... Sounds like a cookbook. The only good xenos is a burning one.

Tau and Imperial diplomacy be like: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/a9toqceQvrTGhKs.html

First 40k youtuber to get Communism right. If you look up it's wikipedia entry you'll see that it is definitely not about having a state or classes/castes within a society. So the Tau and their greater good are not communist in this regard. Sadly I feel the idea of what Communism is and can be is mostly dominated by Marxist-Leninist thought or a characterization of it. People equate communism with authoritarianism because of the USSR and China.

It wasn't REAL xenos communism though...

Did this guy just call communism individualistic?

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9:50 isnt that one big fat fucking lie 😆

9:40 this does not make any sense, how could they be unified if people do not have individual freedom to choose their own job? I do not see the logic trail of how a radical authoritarian socialist fascist regime was able to unify the entire planet under the fiat of job assignment and "the greater good" which is something that mao zedong himself said to the people that he ruled over.

Yeah sorry I'll take being forced to be nice over any of the other bullshit happening in the 40K universe

Great video, you need repetitions on your communism class though.

This video is tau propaganda

I would argue if the ehtereals are not in charge, then chaos instead of harmony would ensue. Just like in our world, we have the wrong system and the wrong leader and we have the results we have. Garbage in, garbage out.