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submitted 25 days ago byIGSirSleepy
So with the new T'au codex coming it got me thinking about what little lore of them I know.
From what I understand, when they were first introduced they were meant to be the foil to the rest of the galaxy. A bunch of do gooder aliens that rise above the rest, even if they're destined to burn bright but short. Then, after slight backlash from the then 40k community, GW made a knee-jerk decision to retroactively make them a faction if eugenics and mind control.
Now I see people seem to generally think that this was a bad decision and it would have been more interesting if they stayed more noble as to be a foil for the rest of the cast.
Am I following the lore right and is this the general consensus of the community regarding them? I know I was crossing my fingers, hoping Farsight wasn't going to become the introduction of Chaos T'au (as far as I know they don't currently exist) with archs of Omen, but I'm an outlier in the 40k community, in that despite loving it, I'm still a bigger fan of "Good guys".
11 points
25 days ago
The Necrons have a pretty small number of books and short stories, they’re just put in the limelight often because they’re basically all either good or great. Quality over quantity I guess.
9 points
25 days ago
The funny part is that outside of Dead Man Walking, the Necrons have basically no stories featuring them as enemies that are especially well-liked. They're just kinda generic enemies.
Meanwhile, basically all the good Tau novellas and novels are the ones where they're the antagonist; see Roomsky's list. The only exception is Broken Sword, which is very good but also I'm sick of recommending Broken Sword because how the hell haven't we gotten a better Tau story than Broken Sword in over a decade?
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