What's your personal theory on the origins of the Ethereals? A pet project from the Eldar? An implement of the Necrons to bring about a suitable host species? Or did the Goddess T'au'va herself create them so that the Tau would grow into a mighty empire and she would be born in the future?
>>96639663They are the work of one of the Lost Primarchs, the entire race is.
Friendly reminder to wage unrelenting terrorist guerilla warfare against all tau
>>96639663GW told us in """""""""""plausibly deniable""""""""" terms in Xenobiology. The Eldar stole a Q'oorl queen and reverse engineered the pheromonal control system from that species into a failsafe for the T'au.Using basic logic building that this young adult property was made to foster you can extrapolate from surrounding lore that the T'au are not a case of "divergent evolution" resulting in segregated castes but a purpose built bioengineered species created by the Eldar doning their Old One creators mantle and crafting the next "bioweapon" to solve the problems created by the ongoing war in the 40k setting.The "bony" diamond shaped organ in the Ethereal is likely psychoreactive wraithbone adjacent and the means by which the Eldar "trimtab" the T'au at large. The creation of the Goddess T'au'va is an Eldar plot using their control over the Ethreal to precipitate the Numenar Point Tragedy to mass sacrifice T'au'va fearing psychically attuned auxiliaries to "birth" the T'au Goddess. The Goddess was likely, again, "reverse engineered" from the creation of Slaanesh as a privileged Eldar psyop hoping to form a psychic entity that they could project into the Realm of Slaanesh to regain control over the final Crone Sword to vanquish Slaanesh once and for all.
>>96639663>sisterDamn, what a flatty
>>96639663They were made by EldarBut not Craftworlders. Haemonculi, the masters of flesh, are behind them, hence no psykers among Tau too. Tau and their greater good philosophy were engineered to make a perfect, naive, goodish species to maim and torture. This is why so many their interactions were with Deldar. Spiky elves are simply harvesting their creations
>>96641676DIdn't they have exactly one interaction early on after which Deldar were thrown into the same group as Orkz and Tyranids, as species beyond help that should be shot on sight?
>>96639772The human is fucked in this picture. Pulling the trigger goes way faster than doing that full swing.>>96641711yes, but cause the 40k fandom is shit and lives off on repeating the same memes over and over again they will still endlessly repeat "haha, stupid Tau, they trusted the dark eldar, such retards xDDD"
>>96641762Do you really think coomers think logically?
>>96641762>The human is fucked in this pictureOnly if pulling that trigger fully stops the human in her tracks or outright blows her back. Momentum is a bitch and doubly so with adrenaline. Something that fires a very lightweight, high velocity round at that close with no tumble genuinely might not stop her before she gets a swing in.Plus you're assuming that tau has the guts to do it. You can see it in their faces, that human chick is fucking swinging and there's zero hesitation in it while the tau girl is panicked, struggled, she looks like she'd as soon bust into tears as she would pull the trigger.
Does the Imperium feel it weird that both the Elder and the T'au look so much like them? Every other alien species is monstrous by comparison.
>>96639663Tau are abhumans evolved from 20th century humans that kept eating on tables made from asbestos, Fiestaware plates and early teflon cutlery.>>96641816snatched the words right outta my mouth
>>96639772I think you're correct up to the point of the T'au'va. The goddess seems very unlikely to have been the plan, especially for Eldar whose keikaku never actually work out. I'd say it's more likely they just wanted an engineered, fast-breeding and spreading race they could plausibly co-operate with without any Warp dangers.
>>96639772If there was wraithbone in the Ethereals, it would have been noted in Xenology by the guy doing the dissections.Tau naturally had divergent castes, the Ethereals were created by the Eldar to unify and provide direction for the Tau, creating another long-term weapon against chaos.Now, the question is, do the Ethereals secretly take their orders from the Eldar?
>>96642666I like to think that Etherials are huffing their own farts, so to speak, and aren't fully immune to their own pheromones, with them genuinely believing in the Greater Good due to lacking immunity to their own pheromones
>>96639772Xenology needs to stop being quoted as canon. It's a 20 year old meme book where the in-universe author is just guessing.
>>96642813which part exactly makes it non-canon?
>>96642820What anon means is that you can't trust the fictional source of Xenology. It's not meant to be a canonical document from Games Workshop.
>>96639772>>96641762>The human is fucked in this picture. Pulling the trigger goes way faster than doing that full swingAnon this pic set ends in Lesbian sex.
>>96639663JUST LET ME FUCK THE BLUEBERRY TOMBOY AND I'LL BE FINE, OKAY!?!?!
>>96645806Hi Cyrus!
>>96642813Xenology has some of the best concepts in the entire BL shit.You don't have to accept ALL of it, but most of it is gud shit.>>96639663Yes, I go by Xenology assumption.Ethereals are the failed project of the Eldar.It's also notable that the Tau DON'T actually get along with the Eldar. So it's clear that while whoever collectively made them has done it's work to create a fully-functional society, they've either made a mistake or didn't mean to make them controllable.Which takes us back to the example of the Orks.Notably, Eldar themselves aren't fond of Tau, whom they seem to look down even worse than humanity for being high on their fart upstarts, and not doing what they're told.But also>Goddess T'au'va Kill yourself.
>>96641676Lolno! Tau are the absolute worst!They have pale, pathetic souls like a damn corpse starch for nourishment.They are weak, weak-willed and weak-bodied. They collapse under torture and are slow and unsuitable for the arena, except for blade polishing.They are only suitable for actual slavery, being obedient little wretches with techy know-whats and complacent minds.If Dark Eldar were participating in their creation, it was hardly more than for sport/obligation as the results are the blandest shit possible.
>>96639663>What's your personal theory on the origins of the Ethereals?Short answer: Xenobiology Long answer:The Tau, having evolved from a mostly herbivorous herding-animal, already possessed a strong natural enclination to niche-partition into co-habitating sub-species & species that "cut the grass at different lengths". If you want an Earth example: this is why the African Savahna has these big, cinematic, mixed-herds of herbivores, they all graze differently. When the Tau got into space they already had several sub-species castes, but sci-fi technology, and access/sampling Xenobiology, have allowed them to further exaggerate and refine these traits within their own species. Specifically, sampling from Kroot and Vespid must have been particularly useful for expediting this process for their respective responsive adaptation and eusocial qualities. In the specific case of the Ethereals they may have been shaped by genetic contributions from the Eldar.
>>96639663Guy who made this is a fetish artist btw
>>96646953>Eldar themselves aren't fond of Tau, whom they seem to look down even worse than humanity for being high on their fart upstarts, and not doing what they're told.There are a few Eldar though who have predicted that the Tau will rise to greatness
>>96647506Yeah, because Eldar prophesies are known for reliability, ayy lmao.
>>96647525I mean they warned Guilliman that he'd get his ass kicked if he went up against the Necrons and he did exactly that and he got his ass kicked just like they said.
>>96647565Considering the Necrons are back in force, it wasn't a very hard prediction.
>>96647575Well that makes them smarter than Guilliman at least.
>>96646953While xenology is based far beyond modern 40k, it's worth remembering that most of the book is a set-up to wank old-crons and the war in heaven stuff that GW was going hard for at the time. In books from that era pretty much everything was either pointing to necrons being the ultimate unstoppable evil or the eldar having a massive freak-out about it and doing anything they can (see tau, Lorn V/Kronus, the 3rd ed necron codex). Then GW got bored or something and nothing happened. This has limited applicability to modern 40k, where GW has spent an edition wanking necrons in the pariah nexus, before getting bored or something, and nothing happened.
>>96647495every artist is a fetish artist
>>96647592It's important to remember that GW is shit and his narratives are bad.I never got the impression that it was as great a wank at all. Curious and slightly disturbing twist story, but nothing special.In fact it WAS supposed to be right and for eldar to treat anyone seriously for a change.Modern 40k can go fuck itself with a chainsword.
>>96648081All I ask is another path of the dark eldar or Valedor.OK. How would tau be different if they were designed by the dark eldar? Harlequins? Necrons? Orks?
>>96648140>big stompy robots>lotsa dakkaHow do you know they didn't? Perhaps the ethereals report to an increasingly exasperated ork mek who keeps telling them they're "doing it wrong"
>>96648140>Lol, well...For instance, Tau already have certain traits, as their tech was reverse-engineered and scavenged from Imperial.They'll be the Farsight enclaves basically, who were influenced by the orks. Except global expansionists, braver and less agreeable. Also actual warp tech and speedy transport.The joke of making Grots out of blue cows went out of control.Necrons would probably be the same actually. Since it will also be a joke, because necrons need no help.I don't think Dark Eldar would even go for something like this. Too boring.
Kind of gay that everyone is so eager for there to be some big reveal of grander purpose and secret goings on, I'm pretty happy with them just being a bunch of aliens and they just work like this.Treating warhammer like a big mystery just waiting to be solved is half the cause of all the worst shit that goes on there.
>>96648233>Treating warhammer like a big mystery just waiting to be solved is half the cause of all the worst shit that goes on there.Wrong. It's actually giving out answers that's the cause of all the worst shit.
>>96643332Yeah, but who is fucked?
>>96648621Correct and based
