FARSIGHT ENCLAVES - THE GREATEST GOOD | Warhammer 40k Lore

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The Farsight Enclaves, known as the "Forbidden Zone" in the T'au Empire, are a series of heavily-fortified T'au colony worlds that are independent and indeed opposed to the rule of the T'au Empire and its Ethereals. They are ruled by the legendary Fire Caste Shas'O Vior'la Shovah Kais Mont'yr, known to the Imperium as Commander Farsight, and lie on the far side of the Damocles Gulf region of the Segmentum Ultima in the Eastern Fringe of the Milky Way Galaxy.

[@alblup6860]

Farsight literally saw khornite demons spawn from the ground in the middle of a battle from rifts of warp that had torn themselves into reality. And he realised that the bloodshed fueled and excited them. So he ordered a general retreat.

[@leifbirgerolsen9167]

"Haha no skulls for your skull chair haha lol" -farsight probably

[@ananonymousnerd.2179]

Imp Guard: WE WILL DROWN THEM WITH THE BLOOD OF OUR FALLEN!!! WE WILL BURY THEM ALIVE WITH OUR DEAD BODIES!!! Khornate Daemons: (Literally happier than the Orks at this moment, despite being more predisposed to anger, rage and hatred)

[@Turk3YbAstEr]

Don't forget Farsight accidentally looked through the warp portal, Khorne showed him visions of him as a champion of Khorne and Farsight just said "oh man, that looked bad. My head really hurts. anyway, gonna go back to killing these orks and weird, physics defying aliens". Absolute gigachad

[@worf6715]

@@Turk3YbAstEr honestly the best reaction someone could have to being exposed to the warp.

[@Mrsalt7500]

@@Turk3YbAstEr and later he decided to go on an extra long vacation to sort out his life. Who knew…the key to beating chaos corruption is to take a break.

[@warhawk9566]

Oh god I just connected the dots. Farsight is basically Horus for the Tau. He discovered chaos which the leaders of his race (the ethereals) pretend doesn't exist. The discovery leads him to rebel against his leaders, fracturing his empire. He's a war hero and one of the most famed generals of the Tau which has earned him a lot of respect and support. And on top of it there's implications that his blade is chaos corrupted and may secretly be manipulating him. The only difference is rather than wage a full scale civil war with the greater Tau empire, he's excluded himself and is trying to deal with external threats

[@commmander64]

Ain't his blade necron?

[@latrodectusmactans7592]

To go even further: Have you noticed how similar the origin myth of the Tau is to the Unification Wars?

[@carlzerris6566]

@@commmander64 i thought it was Eldar

[@gumball6445]

Shir

[@Hawk_of_Battle]

And then they all went off and founded their own, very bizarre worlds that all perfectly fit their caste system, kinda like the Chaos Legions in the Eye of Terra, except all those worlds happen to all somehow be in just 1 system, almost like it was designed that way by a higher power... Very sus.

[@bootlegcrusader1773]

Commander farsight is easily one of the best written characters in 40k, mostly because he never has a magical power up moment (except when he gets his sword) and has to learn from his mistakes and gas to out think his opponents. Also I hope this episode mention shadowsun because they have a great rivalry

[@wiccanthropy1956]

And the third member of their trio! More lone wolf, vs melee master vs, blast queen

[@strongback6550]

Yes and no. Conceptually an interesting character with a good underlying story, but the writing is absolutely terrible as the author doesn't seem to know how space combat works or how to portray certain units in lore accurate way. Combat is the weak point of effectively every single book of Tau lore written, which is pretty bad considering this is 40k and everything usually is war stories, so there's lot of it. TLDR: Don't read Tau books, just read summaries and don't take powerwank as gospel. Lot less painful that way. If you wanna do it, you have been warned.

[@robberyproductions1363]

@@strongback6550 The T'au does have great potential for stories, but Damn does Phil Kelly do them dirty

[@strongback6550]

@@robberyproductions1363 There's a lot of bad writing in 40k, but Tau don't have very many stories so it's the whole situation of "How long does it take for you to get thirsty enough to suck the piss out of a hobo's dick?" for the Tau fans. Don't worry, eventually the Stockholm syndrome will kick in and you'll find it's really not so bad.

[@carlzerris6566]

@@wiccanthropy1956 Mah boi O'Kais be takin names in a Ghostkeel!

[@_NIKOS9_NIKOS]

To be fair, the Ethereals arent entirely wrong about the daemons being strange aliens. I mean Fabius Bile believes the same thing and he knows much more about them

[@fcomolineiro7596]

Well, technically they are aliens in the sense that they are created by aliens so, not entirely wrong

[@piratekingthaszar7912]

Flabby Bill?

[@KonradCurves]

@@fcomolineiro7596 how are daemons created by aliens???

[@fcomolineiro7596]

@@KonradCurves the warp creates demons using the power of the chaos gods, and the chaos gods are fueled by the psyke power of everything Whit a sould including aliens

[@angrysocialjusticewarrior]

Fabulous Bile is nothing more than a glorified stomach acid.

[@khoile4271]

What I expected: Farsight being a badass, Enclave info, some shenanigans from the other factions, and general AdRic silliness. What I got: D 'EEZ K 'NUTZ, L+ratioed+maidenless+touch grace+hold lady+get the clap, Shadowsun/Torchstar *_sweltering abs_* , and "I never should've trusted women!!!"

[@Adeptusridiculous]

welcome to adeptus ridiculous we talk about warhammer sometimes

[@SamueL-td7fb]

I love this channel so fucking much

[@jacsoslayer]

@@Adeptusridiculous Its alright Bricky I didn't know Fia gave the clap too

[@majormajorasic]

@@jacsoslayer Nah it ain't the clap, she just sucks a bit of life out of you until you take a long rest.

[@Ashtor1337]

@@Adeptusridiculous , and some of us don't care about Warhammer and are here for the shenanigans.

[@ramonaray4307]

I wonder if the tau naming convention comes from the fact that the ethereals are in total control and having names that amount to: Caste - Rank - Home System - Distinguishing trait. So the ethereals can just make use of their subservients at a glance.

[@jambamenome8481]

Almost certainly the case. It also sorts of destroys individuality - the first three parts are things which you'd share with a huge number of people around you, and it puts their caste and rank first; it's their most important details according to Tau society.

[@fatherpucci-madeinheaven362]

Pretty much. Tau Empire is basically a more subtle and realistic totalitarian dystopia (compared to the 'hitting you over the head' imperium) even without the mind control bit and the fact that 40k fans will unironically call them the good guys is hilarious

[@thenerfkid9228]

@@fatherpucci-madeinheaven362 well, compared to the rest, it ain't that bad. Does not mean I want to live under them

[@ananonymousnerd.2179]

@@thenerfkid9228 Agreed. Almost no 40K fans want to actually live in 40K.

[@Fourtytwo4242]

@@fatherpucci-madeinheaven362 Which is why farsight was created, he legit only good guy in ALL of 40k no doubts about it want play has the good guys you go with farsight.

[@arthurgomes5188]

I think that my favorite thing about the T'au is whenever the Imperial Guard or any other human faction interacts with them and they just get freaked out by how NOT grimdark every day life is in the T'au worlds. "Wait, so you guys dont live in a world completly overtaken by polution where the law is literaly written on a book made of human flesh? WHAT THE FUCK? Next you gonna say that your rations *arent* made out of the dead people from your on species"

[@ZyroShadowPony]

Wait they have books made out of flesh?! I thought that was a chaos marine thing!

[@arthurgomes5188]

@@ZyroShadowPony Nope, the Lex Imperialis/Book of Judgment pages are made of human flesh.

[@SamueL-td7fb]

@@arthurgomes5188 *FUCKING E W*

[@furiousdefiler7734]

@@ZyroShadowPony iirc Harvard has two books in its library that are bound in leather made from human flesh. Starting all the way back in ancient times it was common for doctors to bind medical tomes with flesh from cadavers that were studied and experimented on. This was done as a way to give credit to the person whose body was used to learn the knowledge that the book contained. I'm not sure when it really fell out of favor but considering how long it went on it wasn't too long ago.

[@arthurgomes5188]

@@SamueL-td7fb Welcome to the Imperium of Man. It only gets worse from here.

[@steelgreyed]

I'm of the opinion the Tao have had such a "light" interaction with Chaos because they "fortunately for them" aren't on the ready to eat menu. Its like expending soo much fuel, soo much ammunition, so many irreplaceable Chaos Space Marines, for .....Tofu... Yeah its still technically food however still not the best of rewards. The Nids however biomass is biomass bring on the Tofu.

[@waltuhgaming6523]

To be fair it would take about five chaos space marines to take down half the tau empire

[@Milk192]

@@waltuhgaming6523 just imagine if Khârn bumped into their borders 🤣🤣🤣

[@sulphuric_glue4468]

This is actually exactly why. To daemons, Tau souls are just tiny flickers of light. Humans are much brighter, and Eldar are like a whole lighthouse. They don't take on Tau because it just isn't worth it when there are much greater rewards available.

[@E100Omega123]

@@Milk192 Well the death eaters are implied to be taking a shortcut through tau space to get to the imperium. Hopefully we'll see what happens

[@Derenyx]

@@E100Omega123 tbf I believe it's the opposite; the Tau invented a warp drive that took them right to the middle of a region of space controlled by the Death Guard who decided "oh shit, new xenos to kill" and tried to invade.

[@Jack-0-lantern]

Commander Farsight, also known as Shas'O Vior'la Shovah Kais Mont'yr or just O'Shovah did in fact have an original name. When he was younger and of lower rank, his name was Shas'la Shoh with his personal name being Shoh. The name Shoh means " The Inner Light" because even as a child his teachers and mentors could see within his eyes the spark of destiny within him.

[@Lord_Wateren]

True, but that is still a name he was given quite a few years after his birth.

[@korstmahler]

This sounds alarmingly like Tau propaganda. My money's on his given name being Kais. It's a common enough Shas name.

[@Jack-0-lantern]

@@korstmahler Dude, just read the books.😓

[@brutalusgaming8809]

Nerds

[@apolloknight9521]

@@brutalusgaming8809 welcome to Warhammer…

[@christopherburke3821]

So, two things... The lore of damocles crusade came out years before the Ciaphus Cain book. Also while the tau suffered what they deemed to be astronomical losses, the kill ratio was likely 4 to 1 in favour of tau. It's just that the imperium had 10× what the tau could field

[@thisgoddamusernamestoodamnlong]

yeah, people don't give their forces enough credit, because the Tau are keeping up with crusades while working with like, a 100th of the people.

[@xenostyrant4118]

One of my favourite bits of Damocles Gulf Crusade lore is the fact that the Imperium deployed Titans for the first time against the T'au and after the T'au had finished shitting their collective pants they decided we are going to equip a large strike craft with a pair of the biggest "fuck off" railguns we can make airborne and used them to start taking down Titans.

[@CQBlitz0]

Lmao

[@dustinnabil798]

Based.

[@brightroot5719]

the best part is if i remember right is that it worked. and it worked so well imperial doctrine for tau later on declared that no titans would ever be deployed unless the imperium has 100% air superiority. they won't take any more chances throwing titans at tau unless the battle is pretty much won at that point lmao.

[@morganfreeman-sheehy842]

“What the fuck is that?” “A target”

[@thisgoddamusernamestoodamnlong]

@@brightroot5719 the empirium when the enemy uses tactics: 😯😱😡

[@Sup_ERS_Tar]

The new Farsight book is lovely and provides a good understanding of how the tau system works and how they view humanity.

[@dominickwagner7273]

Whats the books called?

[@Thedeadincursus]

@@dominickwagner7273 Farsight: Crisis of Faith. It's on audible. There is a sequel called Empire of Lies but it's not on audible yet

[@carlzerris6566]

@@akumaking1 The enclaves were missing some key bits from the new tau codex so theories are abound that FSE will get their own supplement and a new farsight model with it.

[@Zenn_Chan]

@@carlzerris6566 it's infuriating, such obvious price gouging

[@BuffiestFluff]

@@Zenn_Chan literally all GW does is price gouge lmao.

[@pathfindersavant3988]

"They're fish people!" Wrong, they're even toed ungulates closer to cows. Touch the cow Do it now

[@Trynt33]

T'au. Cow. *My god, it was in plain sight all along.*

[@dustinnabil798]

@@Trynt33 K'au

[@thisgoddamusernamestoodamnlong]

Tau milkies?

[@HalfTangible]

The Castes got their names in part from the regions where they originated (Fire caste from the hot plains, Earth caste from the mountains, etc); the Water Caste primarily inhabited river areas. It also fits with the fact that rivers allow for quick trade and transport. They're very adaptable, like how water can fit into any container.

[@davidfrancisco3502]

The ancestors of the air caste evolved their arms into bat like wings making them able to fly. That's the reason they have fragile bones and they're only confortable living on low gravity planets or space stations orbiting t'au controlled systems.

[@mojn4249]

Still wish they had wings, wonder why the ethereals weeded that out? Huge tactical advantage, especially for pilots, it'd help them understand aerodynamics better.

[@HalfTangible]

@@mojn4249 It's harder to use wings when inside a cockpit and they were more for gliding than full-on flight anyway.

[@yhormthemidget]

Farsight looking at a demon: Dude, what is that thing eating my men? Random ethereal: Dont worry pal, just a random xeno. Nothing to worry about. Damn... straight outta' BigE's book

[@funkmastaC]

From the goodest guns to the goodest boys. This month is really kicking off.

[@zenopssmdk]

"it's time we go get some maidens" That really does sound like code for "Hey lets hit up the strip club" Also I'm surprised Bricky didn't talk about the hole in their forehead that the Captain General is very familiar with. Or that Tau naturally have leathery skin but the water caste have a lot smoother skin and "softer" facial features to help them look more approachable. If I remember correctly the water cast is the most human looking caste.

[@mr.potato2223]

Thieves can't for "brothel time?"

[@thisgoddamusernamestoodamnlong]

that's actually Tau empire propaganda, everyone knows that the water caste are simply hiding all the moisturizer

[@YoBen100]

Everyone: For the greater good Simon Pegg: Shut it! Reference to Hot Fuzz

[@Irmarinen]

Hot fuzz but it's deathwatch. I recommend watching!

[@Fourtytwo4242]

Farsight enclaves is like the army of caeser, when Rome order them to return to Rome and leave ceaser to die, in theory they serve Rome not caeser. But caeser was such a good leader, such a hero, such a warrior, you rather follow him to ends of the earth. Also farsight enclaves give more freedom to the casts, so fire cast REALLY wanted to be engineer they can. This is why the eight actually have a warrior earth cast, also farsight allow cast mixing so a tau from the fire cast can marry a water cast with out the baby getting shot (tau empire does that)

[@phylippezimmermannpaquin2062]

who the fuck is ceaser. sounds oddly similar to Caesar

[@Fourtytwo4242]

@@phylippezimmermannpaquin2062 idk auto correct seems to like him.

[@phylippezimmermannpaquin2062]

@@Fourtytwo4242 must be a gaul if he kept miss typing it for you

[@90maducc]

@@phylippezimmermannpaquin2062 *Kaiser

[@phylippezimmermannpaquin2062]

@@90maducc qaizer

[@matiasyannuzzi9655]

After "Krieg", I strongly recommend the book "Cadian Honour" for the next book-reading. It has tons of references to our favourite cannid Ecclesiarch/foot-fetishist.

[@Leonix13]

T'au names are always fun, for example in the books O'vesa (the earth caste guy who pilots a Riptide) is known as the "stone dragon".

[@spacemonkey7972]

Torchstar isn't a pilot. She required a battlesuit to contain her gains.

[@clink-at-war2]

Damn straight

[@mat5977]

I'll consider that canon from now on

[@PheonyxJay]

Shas’Vre Oblitai is given one of the coolest terms in fiction to me. Since he’s basically the mind of his living self, a term given to him in the book is “War Ghost” which is one of the most kick ass names for an AI soldier I’ve ever heard

[@ArcturusMinsk]

Renna a Tau? She had her soul extracted and now resides in a construct body, she's obviously a Necron!

[@AsuraBoss]

Fool, that you are, she is actually a dead person occupying an artificial simulacrum. She is obviously a Dreadnought.

[@ShadowfireReality]

@@AsuraBoss Even in death she serves the Greater Good.

[@Nightmare_52]

nah youre all wrong, she is obviously a protoss immortal or dragoon duh

[@hinumayyyy]

@@Nightmare_52 yes

[@theoneandonlyquasarsaurus]

@@AsuraBoss you fools, she’s actually a wraith warrior

[@jeremy1860]

The most unambiguously heroic characters in the entire franchise with the exception of the Lamenters. Oh what I'd give for a team-up between those two 😊

[@elitemook4234]

Together they save the Galaxy and the Lamenters are branded traitors and forced to go on another punitive crusade. As is tradition.

[@YoBen100]

@@elitemook4234 Minotaur Space Marines breath heavily as they plan to wreck Lamenters again.

[@thorveim1174]

@@YoBen100 *angry mooing noises after witnessing cooperation with filthy xeno*

[@torinodeguzman4243]

No they're not

[@anshumanbose5132]

Yeah no. Farsight is quite casteist

[@jacobkaio-hanohano7951]

Can't wait for them to read up on how much Farsight bested the orks and nids, a master tactician isn't enough praise to how awesome commander Farsight is.

[@Fourtytwo4242]

Farsight did something that even smartest eldar, oldest necron, a custodies, primarchs and even THE EMPEROR OF MAN KIND failed to understand....how the orks think.

[@carlzerris6566]

Dude also wrote the mirro codex which is basically 'how to beat imprium forces for dummies'. What hilarious is that apparently one of the hints in it is to aim for the ones without helmets cause they are usually the ones in chargeXD.

[@mapleflag6518]

*looks at pfp* Ah I see you are a hooman of culture as well.

[@raptorxrise5386]

@@carlzerris6566 That is still one of the funniest things to me. The dude just reviewed the battles against space marines, reverse engineered the codex astartes and then wrote a book that allows any tau commander to completely body any space marine chapter that actually uses the tactics given in the codex.

[@carlzerris6566]

@@raptorxrise5386 does become a bit of an issue against non codex compliant chapters but at that point just a liberail application of rail rifle and plasma fire works

[@GeoffPG]

"those hexagons, that's the tau's doing" Yeah, and Forgeworld Mars has a massive metal skull built into their planet which has been converted into a massive manufactorum.

[@raptorxrise5386]

To be fair that one is also like a few dozen millenia older

[@PheonyxJay]

Also, there is one Ethereal who Farsight himself highly respects, the venerable Aun’Shi. This dude is an old man, however, he’s a master of utilizing his melee weapon. One time after they were besieged by Orks, Aun’Shi took his honor blade against the Orks, helping to defend his men, a standing before them cutting down Orks. The group was found atop effectively a corpse pile of Orks, Aun’Shi covered in Ork blood, his blade and garments soaked. You can see why Farsight likes this guy.

[@Fourtytwo4242]

Also believe he only ethereal allowed into the enclaves. Farsight knowing about mind control bullshit trust the dude so much he knows he won't abuse it.

[@BEESKIT800]

I've always been curious what the difference is between farsight enclaves and normal tau. Given my general lack of knowledge about tau. So I'm looking forward to this one

[@chadlandon2460]

I can only share two differences between the Farsight enclaves and the Tau in general. First of all, the Farsight enclaves are independent and are not generally a part of the Tau army. The Farsight enclaves are also significantly better in melee combat compared to the average Tau.

[@carlzerris6566]

Biggest the Enclaves have no Ethereals. That difference leads to alot of minor differences like the fact they are less rigid on the caste system (e.g. there is an earth caste engineer that pilots a riptide).

[@ananonymousnerd.2179]

@@carlzerris6566 The Earth Caste engineer in question is still considered a great personal exception made to the caste rule on the part of Farsight, but he is also part of the Eight - Farsight's personal team of mecha anime heroes. The Enclaves is, to the best of my knowledge, still fairly strict on the caste system (Farsight himself is sometimes considered to be a die-hard Fire Caste person), but the lack of Ethereals does certainly help things along.

[@cartershlds15]

@@ananonymousnerd.2179 in his second book I believe they say he is “between spheres” which is a taboo meaning he delves too much into the workings of other septs. He then meditated in areas where fire touched each of the other elements (volcano, underwater heat vent, I don’t remember the air one) and used his discoveries to wipe out some very nervous orks. All in all I wonder what made him go back to being strict and traditional on this?

[@ananonymousnerd.2179]

@@cartershlds15 It might sound ridiculous, but I don't know. The best of my current knowledge is not enough to draw any solid conclusions, and my library system doesn't seem to have much 40K available. Put simply, most of what I know about Farsight's take on the caste structure comes from a very angry nerd in the KZbin comments section who yelled at me for thinking that the Enclaves were "good" and "a better place to live than the mainstream T'au"; he also said that he was going by older lore (which haven't been retconned or decanonized, so his point still stands), and he believed that the new Farsight books were not being grimdark enough with the Enclaves. However, nothing he says can change the new books, either. To this day, he hasn't provided a source or a citation, so even I have to take his words with a grain of salt. However, the timeline would seem to indicate that Farsight is becoming more open to non-traditional ideas with the passage of time.

[@Xusmos]

I have to actually Bricky on the Damocles crusade. It was one of the SMALLEST crusades on the history on the Imperium. The fleet was small even for Battlefleet Gothic Armada standards, the number of astartes was lower than a thousand (even though they came from a variety of chapters) and there were only about 20 regiments of guard involved. The only way you can tell this conflict was massive is from the Tau perspective, whom got a big wake up call from this.

[@finn7497]

I gotta actually you on this. It's a small crusade. Keyword being crusade. That's hordes of guardsmen, tanks and guns with the support of space marines and titans. Which the T'au both beat back and have learned from. Though I still get your point with it not being something monumental to the Imperium

[@PheonyxJay]

Doesn’t matter the size of the Crusade, this is just a way to devalue the Tau story line and values. A crusade was stopped at ONE planet, beat back so heavily it effectively turned into open retreat for the imperium. It is a small crusade going across a small race. It’s proportional.

[@cncmne7404]

@@PheonyxJay So? Cadia was stopping 12 Black Crusades that were much more destructive than the Damocles Gulf one. Whats your point?

[@PheonyxJay]

@@cncmne7404 But Cadia is prepared for Chaos, it is arguably one of the most well defended fortress and military planets in the GALAXY which the Imperium has poured ungodly amount of resources into it. I don’t really get what the comparison is gearing towards? Just cause it’s one planet? Cadia was meant to be the stop gap against the forces of the Ruinous Powers, Dal’Yth prime was just a civilian world, it wasn’t built for war, but it was simply where the Tau stopped the Damocles Crusade. I’m just trying to understand the comparison as it’s more apples to oranges with that

[@finn7497]

@@PheonyxJay couldn't have said it better myself

[@lyroful]

how can bricky not mention that all the Ethereals that were with the farsight expeditions were dead?

[@michaeldimare3786]

Because then he wouldn’t be ridiculous

[@stalinsoulz7872]

Chaos oh bummer cause you won't believe me - Commander Farsight

[@GearShotgun]

He usually glosses over details like that when he talks about topics since the whole point is to abridge the hell outta them. The etherals dying also ties more into Farsights lore and the founding of the enclaves which they would rather cover in a dedicated Farsight video

[@jazzj2]

it wasn't just demons and shit, farsight was already super distrustful of the ethereals mainly for lobotomizing puretide, also i can't recall the exact name but i think one of the air caste leaders of the expedition survived an ork attack and then when farsight had a chat with the ethereals that air caste tau had misteriously been declared dead the demons were just the straw that broke the camels back, fortunate for him that all the ethereals were killed

[@trikk9964]

This band of ronin and technomancers in the Farsight Enclaves have grown on me in a way I never thought they would. I really enjoy that there is a small place in the 40K Universe where the sentient can look... and remember the Light in which they once walked. The Unseen Hand will only touch those embracing the intellectual-inheritance that "true-freedom" bestows. This dispensation is the exclusive metric by which a species is capable of measuring their "humanity"...

[@thenathanator6688]

Please, PLEASE do a commander farsight episode next week. That would be so much fun.

[@bigbossnickflynn]

I will forever love how I super chatted about torchstar and made DK a simp of her

[@ashardalondragnipurake]

the tau caste names come from before the ethereals back when the tau where medieval in tech and on one planet the firecaste lived in the desert where there was nothing to farm and once they figured out raiding was easier then hunting they became a warrior culture the aircaste had wings back then, they deevolved those in favor of more 0g specialized mutations, but that is also why they are messengers before radio, being able to fly makes you great messengers the watercaste was on the rivers, rivers for trade like was the main mode of transporting goods on tau just like it was on earth the earthcaste farmed and made cities, basically carrying the entirety of tau civilization back then they built stone walls to protect themself from the firecaste raids, so earning earthcaste title also you are massively underestimating the size of the dark eldar city its not really a city and more a hive world, but instead of a hive on a world the entire world is the hive there are more dark eldar then there are craftwordlers, exodites and corsairs combined it also has somewhere between 5 and 8 orbiting cities

[@Helm_hammer]

The book implies that the Tau in terms of military might inflicted way more damage on the imperial war machine than the opposite . But the Tau lost more lives, because the imperium was also focusing their efforts into holocausting Tau civilians and genociding their xeno allies.

[@Heidao623]

A Water Caste from Salash'hei: "Do you get to the cloud district very often? Oh, what am I saying - of course you don't"

[@enovos3138]

With Bricky bringing it up, I would love to see a Craftworld V Tau campaign. We could finally see the Tau try to counter eldar tech and the craftworlders can flex their legendary reverse plot armor again.

[@AnEnormousNerd]

Avatar of Khaine dies to Tau in melee. This is the way.

[@marielosvindas1247]

@@AnEnormousNerdomfg that would be so much-

[@therudecanadian8068]

Funnily enough, the Dark Eldar have actually been cleaning shop with the T'au. Apparently they kidnapped an entire world and only stopped once their ships were full?

[@AnEnormousNerd]

Yeah, but that gambit only worked because they pretended to be friends.

[@phylippezimmermannpaquin2062]

you mean the first contact^ where they had no experience with said hit and run faction^

[@pifilixxiv3192]

And with how tau work, next time they get shot on sight

[@matijasostojic4288]

Didn't the Tau at one Point get them into trap by enticing them with a entire very culturaly diverse but not heavily defended world And when the Dark Eldar started partying Like crazy the Tau just slaughtered them?

[@im2randomghgh]

As far as the Farsight enclaves, they have 5 sept worlds, different than five planets! Septs are like provincial capitals. As of the new codex, we know an individual sept capital worlds can have trillions of inhabitants.

[@Epsi743]

I’m pretty sure the original reason farsighted broke away was because the demons attacked his groups and durring the scuffle all of the Etherials in the group died while a lot of survivors remained. Once they happened he realized how most of his Comrades started acting very differently or stopped caring about the greater good as much.

[@lilgeezums]

Nah that's Imperial propaganda. In the Farsight books it explains how Farsight had grown to distrust the Ethereals. Back in his early days as a commander the Ethereals refused to give him reinforcements and allow him to keep fighting on an ork infested world, basically damning the Tau who had fought and died for that world to die in vain. Years later when the Deamons appear the Ethereals lie and are killed, Farsight requests reinforcements and the Ethereal caste once again denies him and demands he return to the empire, after being lied too and seeing history repeat itself, he decides "nah" and leaves to form the Enclaves.

[@jonathonmaxwell2973]

Oh basically they started piecing together there odd change of personality

[@falloutboy9993]

The Damocles war is often misrepresented. The Imperium was taking back lightly defended worlds during the beginning of the war and had decent losses as the Tau fought a running retreat. Dal’yth Prime is a Sept World and was heavily defended. The Empire was stopped dead in its tracks after a ton of victories. The Tau were only losing ground battles because of the Space Marines. The Tau were winning in space because of their superior range and firepower. The Imperium were going to start running out of ships large enough to carry the armies. They left because of the Nids and the Tau took back every world they lost and then some.

[@raptorxrise5386]

People always pretend that half the empire got destroyed. in truth the only planet that actually matterd was dalyth prime and that one got completely rebuild by the earth caste in like a few months

[@matijasostojic4288]

Yea thats the weird thing about peoples perception of the tau. Its almost always either 1) They suck their dick so much and say nobody could ever beat them and they will one day just snowball into the next galactic power (Thought the last part might be true if they survive what's coming) Or 2) They super underestimate them (or just outright hate them) and say that they are the weakest ever and they shouldn't even look in the general direction of any other faction. Like the tau are genuinely a pretty big power in their part of the galaxy that will probably never be wiped out unless a giant tyranid fleet just steamrolls them or GW just really fucks them over but they also probably won't ascend much higher than where they are unless something really big shakes up that entire part of the empirium.

[@leaguesmanoframsgate]

T'au naming conventions work like praise names and courtly names in the real world. They abandon their birth names when they earn or are accorded a praise name - Shovah is the one Farsight likes most, so he puts that first, and the other ones are other names. In truth, T'au names are probably a lot longer than in canon - they live full lives and it makes sense for them to accrue more than, like, three. Additionally, a Sept is a volume of space, but more specifically it's a colony that is able to send out its own colony ships.

[@vyanesh6487]

I’m SUPER hyped for this episode. The thumbnail looks absolutely fantastic.

[@parkermaisterra8532]

Man I really hope that if they have a book club on any novels Featuring farsight cause those are actually really good. Like Blade of Damocles is easily my favorite Tau vs Imperium book just because of its characters but also how well it compares the Tau and Imperium during their first contact war.

[@latrodectusmactans7592]

There's a fun scene where Commander Bravestorm cuts open a Dreadnought and is horrified to find something living inside. Which of course is foreshadowing for what happens to Bravestorm later.

[@patrickdees5256]

I have to say. Orks, and Tau (specifically the farsights) are kind of my favorite conceptually, because they bring a lot of levity (mostly the orks) to the Warhammer 4k universe.

[@simulation1158]

I would love to see a Tau story development where the ethereal cast gets mostly wiped out and a civil war breaks out, in turn several factions began to pump support different factions in the Civil War.

[@nothuman3083]

All factions have it with nidz, there was a chaos space marine fleet a custodie let pass because they where in route against the nidz.

[@atreides213]

I doubt that will ever happen, barring the tau getting a lot bigger and a lot more powerful. As it is, unity of purpose and common defense is the only thing keeping them alive in the grim dark universe. Even farsight understands this, which is why he goes to help in the Agrellan campaign and mostly keeps himself out of the Empire’s way.

[@stripeybag6977]

When it comes to Torchstar's lore I see it as she is the newest and youngest in a group of legends which feeds into her brash style. Also surprised no mention of how I believe Commander Brightsword is a clone, like number 7.

[@thatrandomsquirrel2924]

I love this pairing so much. Your natural conflicting yet equally chaotic chemistry is something you simply can’t fake. It’s such a wonderful, natural fit. I love it

[@khylerbane4523]

Farsight Enclaves: what happens when you let professionals be professionals.

[@AimlessSavant]

15:20 Tau names seem to be built like Japanese names. Where upon gaining a title of nobility they change their name to include a clan name, or status prefix.

[@wiiblii8584]

I imagine that the end point of the Earth Caste's planet is that eventually there isn't any actual Earth, it just gets turned into one very very big factory

[@wombatman5164]

I really wish they'd do a book club episode on the Eisenhorn books if they haven't already.

[@Driftingsiax]

So farsights name translated literally is fire-caste commander from viorla, farsight the skillful blooded.

[@germanmandalorian3514]

Ah... Yes... The Farsight Enclaves. *Look at his Farsight Army with the Eight* Yes... Good Boys.

[@ThisWayUpV]

The recent farsight book is pretty and gives a good insight to how the tau system works and how they see humanity.

[@alexvaraderey]

As well as thinking that the Ethereals were lying to him about the Daemons, they had an encounter with Khorne daemons in which the daemons purposefully went after the Ethereals, picked them out and killed them. Farsight and his men found that they now had a clarity of thought that they hadn't had before and realised that their minds had been clouded and controlled by the Ethereals. That's when he left.

[@thesatelliteslickers907]

"vegans never shut up about being vegans" Thirty seconds later "as someone who owns a tesla-"

[@carolpond3340]

The intro almost made me think of Jin-roh

[@gmanplaysgames256]

the implication of the Ethereals being aware of the Chaos Daemons existence prior to Farsight running into them, plus the fact the Daemons SPECIFCALLY targeted the Ethereals in Farsight's expedition leads me to believe the Ethereals' suggestive abilities are in fact very low-level psychic abilities, enough for them to just barely perceive the Warp but not enough for a full-on Chaos outbreak to occur in the Empire, which would also explain how it works on other races besides Tau.

[@555tork]

the ethereals ability has never been shown to work on species other than t'au as far as i know.

[@gmanplaysgames256]

@@555tork it's stated in the Tau codex that whenever the Water Caste hit a snag in negotiations with another race, things immediately go much smoother the moment an Ethereal shows up to aid them. Their powers of persuasion absolutely work on other races, just not to the same extent thu work on other Tau.

[@colemine1560]

Darn it, finally finished all the other podcasts and now I have to wait again

[@jakejutras5420]

"Touch Grass" is an old insult Bricky, it goes back to the 90's at the very least.

[@volatilesky]

I was wanting to paint some mecha, but REALLY am not feeling the crisis suit look (which hasn't been updated for like, over a decade? But I found piper and she makes some pretty damn good proxies for printing. At first I thought yeah, I'll print a couple and paint them up! Now I'm 9 mainline suits, 6 heavies, a couple dozen troops and a commander in...

[@Dragonspirit223]

If I may ask, where did you find them?

[@volatilesky]

@@Dragonspirit223 pipermakes on patreon. If you do go for it, do patreon THEN buy any past models through CG&T, it's discounted that way. She's on cults3d but is trying to not use that platform (it is handy to have a look through the galleries on cults to see if they're your thing, but it's not discounted on there at all).

[@Dragonspirit223]

@@volatilesky Interesting, thank you, I'll look into it, I personally don't like the look of the XV8, a bit to boxy for my taste, but the other XV suits look nice. Hopefully the look meshes well with the other suits, or it might even replace them entirely, who knows (I barely have anything as far as Mechs are concerned anyways, just a Ghostkeel really).

[@volatilesky]

@@Dragonspirit223 Yeah in terms of 3d files I think her prices are pretty good for what you get. Her style is...different, compared to official models, but it is very coherent. I like that most things are interchangeable and actually fit compared to other file sets I've bought, so there is that going for her system.

[@hunter5822]

31:29 I thought the tau species was actually composed of like 4 sub species that all were literally physically inclined only for certain jobs... more so for the air tau since they’re frail bodies can barely handle a normal planets gravity anymore and certainly don’t have the physical capabilities to do anything physical... like they’d literally break bones trying to lift heavy engineering stuff or running and fighting like the fire cast.

[@latrodectusmactans7592]

The castes could be seen as subspecies, but you have to keep in mind nurture too. Tau tend to grow up in a very controlled environment, but different experiences can make different Tau. In the book Fire Caste, a member of the Fire Caste primarily operates through spying and deceit, a member of the Water Caste commands all the ground troops, and a member of the Earth Caste manages to put up more of a fight against the Guard with a power tool than his Fire Caste brethren. The Tau on the planet Phaedra have been isolated from the Empire, and it has led to a situation where the caste boundaries are not as strict as the Tau believe they are. There is also a Tau who loves knives, prefers the company of humans to her own species, and eventually embraces the taboo idea of hatred for her enemies.

[@Hawk_of_Battle]

I imagine generations of selective breeding probably had a hand in it somewhere.

[@Maribro4]

DK got his second quote right!! Let’s fucking go

[@SkitariusNoKD]

49:38 53:10 I felt a great disturbance in the noosphere like millions of tech priest screamed in anger demanding for an exterminatus.

[@tasigin3815]

Ive always seen the tau as more like the covenent, so I'm glad they mentioned how the etherials are like the prophets because I've always thought that way

[@randommoron9892]

I can see that

[@Nostroman_Praetor]

They need to put more verniers on Farsight's crisis suit. He isn't using it for long range gun lines like other Tau so having more directional input for a close range machine would be a massive improvement for his style of combat as opposed to just reinforcing his frontal armor. This would make the Enclaves an even more unique force in the setting by making them even more mecha than normal Tau. It makes sense that they would favor faster machines and it would greatly improve Farsights melee prowess by giving him 360* thruster control, and assisted momentum from thruster output to swing his sword better, faster and more unpredictably, to get that anime level intensity when he fights. There's this really badass scene in my head where he dashes through a squad of space marines while turning himself into a whirlwind with his sword. They resist greatly but he narrowly avoids their attacks, cutting the entire squad into ribbons and ending in a dynamic stance, his blade covered in their blood. He turns around to see the havoc he caused and stops to briefly honor his opponent's brave attempt.

[@barkasz666]

The borkan these nuts line had me dying for a solid 30 seconds... It came out of left field, i wasnt ready

[@derskalde4973]

That version of Torchstar basically exists already. Just watch the Warhammer Idol series. Also, I don't know if there is anything in that way in the actual Lore for her, but I just love that in Warhammer Idols they made her kind of a "serial hugger".

[@raptorxrise5386]

I think the hugging thing comes from the fact that she is nice and a pyromaniac so a lot of people compare her to the salamanders.

[@giulianoilfilosofo7927]

As somebody who loves Mass Effect and regards it as the best sci fi saga ever conceived as much as the peak of story telling, Farsight gives me strong Commander Shepard's vibes. People are deserting to him in the face of authority because they know he truly fights for a far greater cause, ignoring the political dogmas as well as intrigues of a system who doesn't trust him and regards him as a liability in the first place. Farsight is officially 40k Shepard, Puretide being Anderson, Shepard's fatherly figure and Mentor.

[@davidblaising-wimmer9972]

I think it would be interesting if you guys did a Saint Celestine video since you have mentioned her a bunch of times but not gone into detail.

[@stalinsoulz7872]

They'll do that in the book club ep?.... She is more talkabout on our matyred lady with greyfox which by in case most of fanfics liven up

[@sebastijanglozinic8630]

Torchstar being ripped as fuck is my headcanon now. Instead of going into stasis when they are not fighting like other Tau commanders, Torchstar spends that time in the gym.

[@e-rankluck2594]

Farsight really do be the fusion of Char Aznable and The Arbiter

[@Zenn_Chan]

the new novel reveals how Oblotai died......O'vesa tried to do an autopsy on an Ork and accidentally brought it back to life inside their base.

[@Wanten-the-stormtrooper]

TMW you realise that Farsight is basically the Tau version of Horus, only without the Chaos...

[@PheonyxJay]

Except he doesn’t want to tear down the Empire, and the lack of dressing in lots of spikes.

[@carlzerris6566]

And not actively trying to take over the leadership.

[@winterwolfcr7]

Farsight was the reason I got T'au and lucky for me around the time I thought about it. His new model and Boarding Patrol came out. Very first T'au I got was two Boarding Patrols.

[@32krod]

Another good reasoning for water caste and trade is that ports of all kinds have always been major trade hubs. And where there's a lot of trade, there's a lot of diplomatic skill in making deals and maintaining records

[@ianlewis523]

Wait, so the Enclave basically call their Human majority planet "Human Helper Place"?

[@aordinaryperson8098]

The monkey world

[@matijasostojic4288]

@@aordinaryperson8098 Ok Friezer

[@sidknoop6381]

Okay so the earth caste's planet is Black Mesa and Apature combined into one combined facility, but planet wide. Sounds like a good time.

[@555tork]

there is an earth caste facility on Dal'yth Prime called Blackthunder Mesa.

[@Djarov1999]

What timing! Just sat down to paint my tau! 😄

[@exactinmidget92]

Fun fact: the Cain book in question took place after the crusade, and Cain never heard of it. his Inquisitor girlfriend hinted at some Inquisition shenanigans, and the crusade was top secret information.

[@pantherjoseph]

And there’s another Cain book that they haven’t read yet that actually starts off with the ceasefire being arranged because Cain just happened to be on an Imperial world being invaded by the Tau and was recognized by a drone, which let the Tau know that there was a reasonable officer that would understand that “the greater good” would demand they work together to fight the Tyranids.

[@exactinmidget92]

@@pantherjoseph i think it might be the same book.

[@pantherjoseph]

@@exactinmidget92 they read For the Emperor, I’m talking about The Greater Good.

[@donatedorb4094]

Man, I love Commander Carfreight! My favorite sword weilding blueberry.

[@CommissarMitch]

Top tier editing in this one

[@Wiesy48]

“The guard players are too busy smoking meats or learning about WWII history” *Me painting a Sherman while watching* .-.

[@Lord_Wateren]

Regarding the Tau naming conventions, I believe that Tau citizens are in fact not assigned personal names at birth. Their name is just [caste] + [ rank] + [Sept] until they achieve something that earns them a personal name. So for example, Farsight would just have been "Shas'la Vior'la". The polite way to adress a fellow Tau is to use caste and rank (so "Shas'la" or "Fio'vre" for example), emphasizing that their role in society is appreciated. Only very closefamily and friends use the personal name (if they have one).

[@clifdog100]

Ethereals discussing the farsight issue: “I don’t think we can mansplain, manipulate, or manwhore our way out of this one”

[@TheKingsPride]

You’ve gotta love that James Workshop loves to straight up plagiarize other IPs but god help you if you make a fan animation.

[@TheAshaVala]

Showed up for an episode on my favorite faction, got a bonus of relevant Revengeance memes. It's like getting two prizes in the cereal box! (Also the Max0r Revengeance video is freaking hilarious)

[@stalinsoulz7872]

Hello susy jack! Quite the cringe lord you are! - Sexy Sam (aka MGR Markiplier)

[@latrodectusmactans7592]

Before doing your Farsight episode, highly recommend you check out Peter Fehervari's novella 'Fire and Ice'. It presents a very different Farsight from his own novels, a much darker one still trying to find his way. Farsight isn't the focus and doesn't get much page time, but what he does get is very good.

[@DUCKDUDE4100]

I'm ready to see the red crewmate twerk at an ethereal. LET'S GOOOOOOOOO!

[@zombiemanjosh]

Huzzah! The real and actual only "good guys" in 40K. My apologies Inquisitor, I think Humanity has a better chance of survival if we team up with the few filthy xenos that DON'T want to kill us in order to purge the rest from our galaxy. Give Guilliman my regards. The Emperor protects!

[@NP3GA]

Man I want Rarsight and Guilliman to meet each other so much

[@zombiemanjosh]

@@NP3GA Same. It would probably be the best thing to happen in The Imperium in the last 10,000 years. Edit: I think Guilliman would just be delighted to find someone sensible.

[@NP3GA]

@@zombiemanjosh not entirely but the farsight enclaves would be a good way for them to starting establish more stable borders with the tau empire Not to mention that it would be an incredible interaction

[@DaddyVeo1911]

13:46 Bricky explaining farsights names: Me: "sauce?" Bricky: "The source is that I made it the f@ck up."

[@HexagonThatReallyLikesVinegar]

I like Farsight because he's in a cool big robot mech with a really big sword. It's that simple.😊

[@filleis6374]

Ah yes the only good guys in 40k

[@WalkingMarsiupial]

His name was just “shas’rank Vior’la Kais.” The rest of it was earned by his feats

[@shogunender8752]

Wish we had breachers lore cause pulse shotguns are badass and seems like a cool counter to the tau’s main weakness to blast your enemies advantage with a energy 12 gauge.

[@Th4tOn36uy]

HE DID IT, HE GOT THE QUOTE, THE CURSE IS BROKEN! LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[@OgreSayrone]

I agree with DK on muscle ladies.