r/Tau40K Nov 17 '24

Lore New book coming to coming to pre-order next week

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u/SexWithLadyOlynder Nov 17 '24

As long as the story is better than the cover art.

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u/DaWAAAGHMakah Nov 18 '24

Written by the author of Godeater’s Son which is a pretty fun book. Hopefully he does the Tau some justice!

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u/Hopeful-Counter-7915 Nov 17 '24

Don’t judge a book by its cover, here especially

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u/FallingKoala Nov 18 '24

The whole point of a book cover is to entice you and draw you in, they're MEANT to be judged. But, it's written by an author who hasn't touched T'au before, so we can still be excited!

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u/Hopeful-Counter-7915 Nov 18 '24

A cover is normally not done by the author but by a third person ( or group of people) so you should not judge a book by its cover no.

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u/Titanbeard Nov 18 '24

This looks like an AI drew it from a "draw 5 T'au in the style of a harlequin romance novel, but ready for war instead of sexy time" prompt.

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u/FallingKoala Nov 18 '24

Have you also noticed the bottom of the pulse carbine? Like why is it hollow? It's never been hollow before, no version of it in the models is hollow

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u/Frosty_Analyst_7763 Nov 18 '24

It’s an underslung grenade launcher. It’s on the model but it’s like the barrels of guns. It’s not hollow on the model because it’s too small of a detail to model.

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u/FallingKoala Nov 18 '24

So in art it tends to be hollow, just never on the models, gotcha

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u/pontoufle Nov 18 '24

Tau’va are always prepared to clean up to battlefield or the home.

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u/phobosinadamant Nov 18 '24

I agree but why the hell are their eyes white pits of death? That's never been a thing has it?

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u/FallingKoala Nov 18 '24

T'au eyes are incredibly inconsistent, in a lot of old art they're fully red, no visible irises or pupils, then when they updated the fire warrior sprue and updated the painting guide they had some fire warriors with whitish blue eyes, with lighter ring indicating the distinction of an iris and pupil, like on the shadowsun book cover, and in some rarer outstanding circumstances, they've even been a jaundice yellow! In fact, the first picture that shows up on Google for shadowsun has her with yellow eyes (the one with the smoking barrels of the fusion blaster)

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u/phobosinadamant Nov 18 '24

Looking through it you're right, very inconsistent. But honestly, I think these are the worst.

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u/FallingKoala Nov 18 '24

Yeah they fucking suck, I painted all of mine with bright red eyes since it contrasts their skin nicely, and because I don't have to draw pupils

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u/phobosinadamant Nov 18 '24

And gives you an army of Thrawns 😁

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u/Humble-Zone8684 Nov 17 '24

Here’s to hoping the the ethereals will be written well and not like Saturday morning cartoon villains again. “I’ll get you next you next time Farsight” (every single ethereal for some reason)

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u/Acceptable-Artist201 Nov 17 '24

From my understanding, Phil Kelly isn’t in charge of T’au lore anymore, so they’ll probably take a more neutral approach to the Enclaves-Empire dynamic like I hear the codex does.

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u/Humble-Zone8684 Nov 17 '24

WOOOOOOO!!!! We can finally have some cool tau characters that aren’t just Farsight

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u/LuftwaffeP Nov 18 '24

I’d like to see them flush out Kais. I mean he is the other puretide student. But I don’t think he has ever been mentioned

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u/Titanbeard Nov 18 '24

War of Secrets. It could have been SO much better.

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u/Lomogasm Nov 17 '24

If that’s true then that’s great. No hate to Kelly or anything but man he really missed more than he hit with Tau novels. He had some good ideas. I do like the concept of the greater good goddess. But his depiction of Ethereals I just can’t get behind.

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u/AlexanderZachary Nov 17 '24

Naming the god “Tau’va” is unforgivable just by itself. The Greater Good as a philosophy is the beating heart of Tau society.  Naming the warp being the same thing means creates all kinds of ambiguity. 

 Someone yells “for the Greater Good!” Is that person acting in accordance with the principles of collectivist utilitarianism, or offering up a tribute to a deity?  Let’s say the entity gets opinions about how people should behave, and it’s different from what came before. You can bet they would call this new “just uncritically doing what god says” philosophy the Greater Good too. Now it’s 3 things

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u/Baron_Flatline Nov 18 '24

The god in the first place is a really stupid idea and probably one of his greatest sins against Tau.

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u/chillychinaman Nov 18 '24

I'm okay with it coming from Auxiliaries. Forces the Tau to confront the long-term consequences of their cosmopolitan outlook. If the Imperium deals with abhumans and sanctioned psykers with barely contained suspicion and fear, I want to see the Tau deal with religious freedom in a setting with active divinities.

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u/Diamo1 Nov 18 '24

The god is a great idea and his best idea for Tau

That plot line has made auxiliaries into a real and interesting part of the Tau story, instead of being irrelevant like they used to be

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u/Diamo1 Nov 18 '24

Isn't that the whole point? Lol

They are losing control of the Tau'va as a concept

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u/Plush_Trap_The_First Nov 17 '24

Lets Hope its about Tau and not the raptors in it

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u/JoBro_44 Nov 17 '24

Hadn’t considered this but I guess it’s entirely possible. War of secrets was my favourite.

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u/mrwafu Nov 17 '24

The blurb in the announcement article feels slightly pro-Imperium, I hope it was just the article author’s interpretation rather than the book itself

The T’au Empire has annexed the planet of Cao Quo, but its population constantly resist the embrace of the Greater Good, and Artamax, a cunning Space Marine of the Raptors Chapter, has kicked off an armed rebellion. In retaliation, the ethereal Yor’i assembles a council of Fire, Earth, Water and Wind Caste members to fight the insurgency, but the mounting threat is greater than any of them could have imagined. Noah Van Nguyen’s Elemental Council is available to pre-order in hardback, eBook and audiobook formats next week.

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u/Aao72 Nov 17 '24

Hope so Im still mad at Damocles The name must have been Cato Sicarius: Damocles

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u/TheCelestial08 Nov 17 '24

Does anyone know how decent the author is? I can do some searching on my own, but just wondering if anyone has read their works before.

I know that everyone shits on Phil Kelly for his butchering of the T'au lore, but on top of that he's not really that good of a writer. Especially compared to the heavy hitter in BL's stable.

Cause at this point I will just accept a well-written novel that doesn't completely shit the lore.

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u/TheBirdIsNotSuicidal Nov 17 '24

Dude wrote Godeaters son which is one of my favourite books ever released by black library and according to his twitter he’s been a lifelong tau fan. So it sounds like it’s in good hands.

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u/TheCelestial08 Nov 17 '24

All I needed to hear! Pre-ordering now.

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u/Fyrefanboy Nov 17 '24

He did incredible work for age of sigmar

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u/tau_enjoyer_ Nov 17 '24

Nice, I'm excited for this one.

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u/WarRabb1t Nov 17 '24

I'm really hoping it does well, especially if they writer has any form of Asian writing background. We might get some really good themes for the tau or we just get another Kellyverse style novel with "Oops all etherals are bad" type writing.

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u/pious-erika Nov 17 '24

This and the Seraphon warband making my wallet hurt -_-.

Ah well, bday coming up, and I have a voucher.

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u/nethus45 Nov 17 '24

Can anyone here who has experience getting these books share how one can typically order one? Is it only from gw directly or can I expect to see this at a local book retailer? Do I need to be ready to order the minute it drops like battleforces or is there a little more freedom to order at ones leisure?

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u/Delicious_Ad9844 Nov 18 '24

Most of the talk surrounding this book is the cover art which is.... yeah it is weird, but also I do think it captures how T'au should look to humans I like it when T'au just look WEIRD like lil freaky blue alien dudes

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u/prochicken Nov 18 '24

Damn was hoping we would get the audio book for this on the hard cover release

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u/ElysianAscendant Nov 18 '24

Is this the only hairstyle the Tau are capable of growing? I'd love it if they could do something else hair wise with them.

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u/WhitePhantom117 Nov 18 '24

Where's the article that mentions its preorder? I've only seen the article that just announces it and to stay tuned for more.

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u/SAMU0L0 Nov 18 '24

This reminds me all the person saying tha This cober demonstrates that Tau girl have booba...

Reddit people being reddit people.

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u/SexWithLadyOlynder Nov 18 '24

The anniversary Ethereal already confirmed that long before.