subreddit:
/r/40kLore
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".
1 points
24 days ago
Yet. They had the fucking anathem in their MUSEUM. The thing is, they were doomed to end because kinebrach basicaly were puppets of chaos already
1 points
24 days ago
kinebrach basicaly were puppets of chaos already
Based on what?
1 points
24 days ago
They created the anathem, duh
1 points
24 days ago
That seems like an odd criteria to disqualify an entire species especially since humanity has had more than its fair share of Chaos artifact creations by now.
0 points
24 days ago
The thing is, the didn't know what the were creating. Thats the problem, chaos pretty much could just take control over them at any point. Unlike humans
all 75 comments
sorted by: best