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aun' shi who?

Fri Feb 15 2008, 01:38AM

[ Shas'ui ]

Joined: Sat Dec 01 2007, 09:22PM
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Good People!!! I bring you an interesting question that begs your intelligence and knowledge of Tau!!!

"Why can it be said that the Ethereals served as a Deus Ex Machina?"

Keeping in mind that they're obviously not angels.

SNOOGANS!!

"There ought to be limits to freedom. We're aware of this [web] site, and this guy is just a garbage man, that's all he is."
- George Bush, discussing a web site that parodies him

Let your enemy close enough to bear arms against it, but do not let your enemy close enough for them to bear their fists.

Ethereal Shas

Fri Feb 15 2008, 01:55AM

Aun'o'T'olku'Ol'kak'Shas

[ Shas'vre ]

Joined: Wed Nov 07 2007, 03:53PM
Posts: 261

This is really nice, i never thought about them actually being 'gods from a machine' but if you look at how they where used in stories from the ancient greek times, they are very much the same. They appear out of nowhere, in a hopeless situation and resolve that situation. It's indeed not necesarry to call them angels, we do not know if there is any godlike diety behind the appearance of the ethereals.

I also think this is where people get into problems with what they like, for the ethereals are an external solution for the problem of the mont'au and not an internal solution. So they are in most cases very hostile towards things like pheromone control or psychic abilities, for they all could show that the ethereals are not from amongst the Tau.

Shas

One caste for the protection of our race,
for their skills and strategies will defend us all.

One caste for the construction of a safe place,
for without their technology our empire would fall.

One caste for our faraway travels,
for their ships will bring us through the galaxy.

One caste for the talking at all levels,
for their smooth words will pave our road to victory.

In our galaxy there will only be the Tau’va.
One caste to rule them all, one caste to guid them,
one caste to bring them all, and in the era of the Mont’au, bind them.
In our galaxy there will only be the Tau’va.

aun' shi who?

Fri Feb 15 2008, 05:08AM

[ Shas'ui ]

Joined: Sat Dec 01 2007, 09:22PM
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for they all could show that the ethereals are not from amongst the Tau.

I concur. 10 points to whoever can guess why.

SNOOGANS!!

shasocastris

Fri Feb 15 2008, 07:41AM

[ Shas'ui ]

Joined: Tue Dec 04 2007, 01:42PM
Posts: 112

What would be interesting is a story by GW about an ethereal getting captured, and its DNA (or whatever Tau have), being compared to a normal Tau. Then we discover that they are in fact a seperate species. Actually, I wonder if the different castes are different species. They haven't bred with each other for a few thousand years, and I wonder if that is long enough to not be able to interbreed anymore. Hmm...

Cheers!

"The gue'la will either except our destiny, or die!"
-Shas'o Castris

Infantryman

Fri Feb 15 2008, 08:39AM

[ Shas'ui ]

Joined: Tue Jan 08 2008, 02:45PM
Posts: 59

In a literary sense, and as far as the fluff goes, the ethereals are certainly a Deus ex Machina for the reasons already given.

What exactly they are we can only speculate. I don't suppose GW will tell us any time soon (besides mysteries are cool!).

My memory of the fluff is that all five Tau castes are sub-species of the same race.

jais

Fri Feb 15 2008, 11:00AM

"I, I, Im driving in circles, come to my senses some time."

[ Shas'vre ]

Joined: Tue Dec 04 2007, 09:35AM
Posts: 271

I think that all the different castes are one race,
but have evolved different,
because:

They lived in different places when the Tau almost died (about when the ethereals came)

So they are very different from echother.

aun' shi who?

Fri Feb 15 2008, 11:43AM

[ Shas'ui ]

Joined: Sat Dec 01 2007, 09:22PM
Posts: 39

Ooohh!!! I can't keep it bottled up much longer...

but all I will say (for now) is that the Ethereals are MUCH MUCH more than what we expected.

Just ask the Eldar.

SNOOGANS!!

P.S. I have a good reason for not blogging anythiing in my blog recently... I've been painting my Armoured company for the past week for a tournament that is on today. Everyday I have been waking up at 5:00 am, paint for 2 1/2 hours, go to school, come home at 4:15 and paint from then till 10:30.

Today I woke at 2:30... after going to sleep at 12:30...

Hellios

Fri Feb 15 2008, 12:13PM

[ Shas'ui ]

Joined: Sat Dec 01 2007, 09:46AM
Posts: 110

Random farseer *Whistles* I don't know what your talking about.... Quick Warlocks to the Webway dinner dinner dinner dinner dinner dinner FARSEER! Don't blame us the its alll the Slaans fault!!!! >.<

littleblueman

Fri Feb 15 2008, 05:59PM

[ Shas'ui ]

Joined: Thu Dec 06 2007, 02:41PM
Posts: 117

Because they were a solution not bred from or relating to the warp? They were removed from that repository of emotion?
I dunno.

Turtles for the Turtle God!

Shas'Vre Kauyon

Fri Feb 15 2008, 10:13PM

Shas'Vre O'Rion Kauyon M'Yen

[ Shas'la ]

Joined: Tue Dec 04 2007, 10:39AM
Posts: 29

I am beginning to see things that i had not noticed before....and they are disturbing me greatly....

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