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Tau greater good warp entity I The tau parts get boring as entire chapters are just the tau talking to each other and don’t do anything. r/memes • Nope, not buying it. With this in mind, is there a warp entity that is the History. Now that the Ynnari narrative has cooled down a bit they'll likely focus on the Goddess Tau'va and slowly play up the Eldar connection. It is the fledgling, psychic manifestation of "their" concept and perception of the Greater The entity is born from beliefs that the tau put into action, so it recognizes them as his "chosen people" because they serve the greater good, and this entity is its twisted warp reflection. For the Greater Good. If you know the lore it's not a warp entity manifested by the tau but almost entirely from auxiliaries with psychic powers and stronger souls, belief in the greater good. In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war. The Greater Good entity being created from Tau auxiliaries is an in-universe theory For all we know Celebrate the new release and begin your fight for the Greater Good with a new promotional code. There was recently a really excellent excerpt on r/40klore about the nature of a warp entity encountered by a Tau ship that turned out to be (spoilers for War of Secrets incoming) a manifestation of the Greater Good as powered by their psychic subject races (the Tau themselves have a negligible connection to the Warp). Warp's a I think people assumed it was a Greater Good entity because it saved the Tau 4th sphere of expansion from being trapped in the warp and assaulted by demons. But their thought processes are heavily homogenized, and there's an actual architect behind how they think and feel. The Greater Good was first introduced to the Tau during the Mont'au (literally, "Death Age"), a civil war. Now her extra All the non-Tau auxiliaries went insane/possessed and had to be put down forcibly; the last survivors of the fleet were thrown out of the Warp by what they described as a powerful Tau-like warp entity, possibly formed by the collective belief in the Greater Good by the more psychically sensitive auxillary races. Like selflessness, conviction, unity or whatever. The ethereal and fire caste commanders come to think of it as a manifestation of humanities belief in the greater good, though they think that all tau allied humans should be wiped out because this is a bastardization of their beliefs. r/starwarsspeculation • The World Between Worlds IS the Force. 2, There is already a warped Version of the Greater Good as a minor Warp Entity(mostly due to the Gue'Vesa) 3, "The Even if a group encountered a warp entity of the greater good. The Greater Good, pgs. First and foremost, the Greater Good could be revealed as a warp entity similar to the Eldar gods. The Tau did not create nor feed the Great Tauva, its their auxiliary races. For one, the Greater Good is a secular philosophy that preaches science and reason. CYKA BYLAT. Reply reply [deleted] • I think I am using Chaos to glibbly refer to any entity manifesting from the warp. they mean to combat warp not be warp. I personally think the Tau are super naive and that the Ethereals are following a well intentioned, but poorly implemented ideal of "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one". Reply reply Older fluff (from Battlefleet Gothica) made it clear that the T'au do have a warp-based FTL travel method, which was both slower (by anywhere from a factor of 5 to what might be as low as a factor of 2 for the most technologically advanced starships) and far more reliable (not actually entering the warp proper, so not even close to as prone to disaster and essentially They have allied species who certainly seem capable of being corrupted, and worth going after by chaos, but the Tau themselves aren't really worth it, and my assumption/impression is that they are the majority species of their empire, which is why the idea of a coherent, sapient warp entity with represents the greater good manifesting in thee Materium is Bull. subscribers . It's just like how Gork/Mork are warp I'm pretty rusty in the lore, but didn't the Greater Good warp 'entity' save the T'au what were in the warp? If so why would they hate it and think it's a perversion? are basically mercenaries and help the Tau out of mutual benefit rather than some great faith in the ideals of the Greater Good. Yssarile a Daemon-King that nearly usurped Tzeentch. a minor warp entity made from human perceptions of the greater good saved them and made a portal between where they ended up and The Ethereal thinks their is little difference to entities the warp natives worship and the god the SoB prays to. Their War nearly lasted a billion years. (Note that the other acts hopefully don't involve us getting wiped out. The most recent expansion sphere got sucked into the Warp, saw their 'mind science' capable allies create a Warp entity that represented the Greater Good, So, there's a bunch of warp entities. GW could never mention it again so it gets semi-retconned, but this would take a long time considering how comparatively rare T'au stories are and if it's Kelly who keeps writing them then the chances for that to happen are low. its like tv and radio both a send out on waves . The 4th Sphere Tau view the same Warp God Tau'va as an abomination, just as much as the Great Crusade-era Imperials with their Imperial Truth would prefer to avoid venerating the Emperor as a god. Average Tau Leader's thoughts on the Imperium: Ah, the Eldar have a vast space-borne settlement near this world. (Basically Look at Ynnead the latest god and much more effort went into it's creation then compare that to this new Tau entity. The warp seems to react to scale and intensity more than anything. Some of them are powerful enough to be considered gods. You can help Lexicanum by fixing it. Some Tau believe that Humans are all servants, or at least Orks have been known to travel in the warp without a Gellar Field and enjoy krumpin' daemons According to the Beast series they have weaker fields that daemons get through more often, but the fields still exist. We honestly have no idea; it's not even known if the Greater Good entity is a new player, or if it's just some other being that's moved into that niche because it can. The Tau are terrified that their "mind-sciences" races are creating a Warp God of the Greater Good. r/Komi_san • There is no greater sin. The Tau'va system is based on a Caste System and is designed to allow for the And I know that the Tau's human auxilia have created something in the warp with their devotion to "the Greater Good". However, as is the case with us humans, once that initial drive subsides, discord and dissenters emerge. The greater good is a concept for the tau, not a god. The Tau are not pleased, to put it lightly. This concept involves the pursuit of perfect societal harmony and combines the particular strengths of each T'au caste to counter the many My understanding is that the entity represents the faith the Gue'vesa, especially the humans who are indoctrinated from birth into the Imperial Cult, have in the Tau of the Fourth Sphere believe that the abomination that saved them within the Warp was formed from the auxiliaries psychic perceptions of the Greater Good, and can only There is a warp entity that calls itself the manifestation of the greater good. The Tau declined, but happily sent the other Caste members: The Ethereal Caste is sacrosanct to the Tau, and that part of the deal was deemed unacceptable. The Tau, individually, are psychically weak. Tau'va's first confirmed manifestation happens chronologically before the 3rd sphere expansion, before the Tau would have many gue'vesa auxiliaries. that are slipping my mind. but they not the same. Unknown to them, that's impossible. It's The Greater Good, or Tau'va (literally the "Good Greater" in the T'au Lexicon), is the founding r The Tau'va is based on the T'au caste system and is designed to allow for the advancement of the entire T'au society towards a more successful, prosperous and peaceful existence in the future without the violent internecine conflict that marked earlier T'au history. Also if the concept of the tau greater good gains some form of will and perception of its own in the warp, they may have created a "benevolent" long-termist utilitarian eldritch horror - good luck rationalizing avoiding your negative subjective experiences to a being enraptured by the potential of a spectra of better futures and is actively Set aside for the moment if daisy chain is correct or not, I am trying to understand the correct way how to observe and guide step by step. The Tau, seeing the fledgling Chaos God as a perversion of the Greater Good, proceeded to kill all their Non-Tau allies to the point that their higher-ups had to drop I think when the first ethereals emerged they saw the potential of the Tau and really thought of the greater good for the Tau. Eh, I don’t think the Greater Good is religious by nature. The opening of episode 2 has a tau get run overly brutally by a tank just for the shock value. Input promo code “GREATERGOOD” in-game after the T’au Empire is released to receive 2 T’au Empire Booster Packs for free! But free boosters are not enough to start your T’au Empire deck in style. like the idea of another dimension because it brings to light that the Greater Good might be wrong and that includes warp entities. With the chapter being called ‘The Greater Good’, I would think the Tau should get the new goodies. Unfortunately it doesn't change the fact that there's a Greater Good warp entity now. Another thought I had after remembering the whole "Greater good warp entity" perhaps we could see Gue'vesa join our codex Could the T’au philosophy of The Greater Good be used to create an entirely new god-like entity? Special thanks to Wib as Tutor Twicebladehttps://www. For the Great Tau 'va thry dont believe it exist only the delusions of the 4th sphere. The T'au survivors are saved by some kind of warp-entity arisen from the psychic reflections of their auxiliaries, including the Gue'la among them. Afterwards, she was reestablished by Aun'la as 1st of all, not only the Tau species are in the Tau Empire, even if it is small, it may have some really powerful species of psykers doing the heavy lifting, ALSO If it is actually a "God" of the Greater Good (GGG), there are 2 major differences: 1 - GGG would be a pure manifestation of the warp, Big E is still a Human being empowered 2 - Big E did started to ascend, but In the book War of Secrets there is a warp entity that saves a Tau fleet from being stuck in the warp. 26-27; 4: Shadowsun: The Patient Hunter (Novel): 4a: Chapter 12; There was the God of the Greater Good (likely created by the more psychically-minded races in the Tau empire) that saved the 4th Sphere of Expansion from being lost in the Warp. just as the Greater Good Goddess is As for the Greater Good being the Tau Ethereal, I don't think so (purely because if it were, the Tau would have some form of doctrine against the Warp. If you wanna get really freaky there’s lore to suggest Cegorach swapped Khan and Fulgrim. Cato was handling him pretty easy before the plot armour, and iirc he wasn't even captain yet. Tau have so little warp presence demons had trouble seeing them in the warp during the fourth expansion. 4th sphere is Tau actually living up to the grimdark, becoming distrusting and highly xenophobic. ) (Cegorach and the Deceiver are also Big E is not a Warp Entiy yet. There's also that new Tau greater good entity Reply reply deathmetal27 • Tau greater good entity To a warp entity a human being inside out and inside in might be pretty much the same thing, from their frame of reference it's still the same stuff in the same approximate place. What that entails exactly I'm not sure. Maybe something like Ynnead, or Slaanesh before she was birthed, putting the pieces in place for her own incarnation. Top posts of November 1, 2020 A great many Tau got a taste of the Warp when the 4th Sphere of Expansion was launched with an experimental drive that threw the whole fleet into the Warp. Not sure but the Tau have some limited experience with the warp from the 4th Sphere Expansion fleet. I already drew her once (and I'm a bit proud because as of today I'm one of three people who have created art for her), but decided to redo her with a bit more effort. Humans who were under tau ruled created the greater good warp entity. And Fenris is heavily warded against the warp, something the tau have nothing for. The Goddess T'au'va is the personification of the Greater Good, who was formed by the T'au Empire's psychically inclined allied species' belief in the T'au's founding principle. The Greater Good producing a warp entity seems inevitable. r/Flamewanker • [AI Dungeon] When death isn't scary enough. Many of us assumed that this entity is a Are there good examples of Warp spawned entities that aren't as hostile as daemons generally are? The Warp reflects belief and emotion and some specific ideas may align with the material beings more often than not. By starting to exist, a Warp entity would have always existed. One of my favorites is Turbo-jets, allowing for a super-fast list grabbing objectives all over with minimal units and as fast as possible. For the sake of convenience, we'll call it GG. Even if you buy the (silly IMO) fluff that the Greater Good has become its own warp entity it's still one that is completely at odds with what space marines are. basically an empire that integrates other species in their philosophy of the greater good. but that's simply not a good look at how the tau see humans. Reply reply more replies More replies. So the unique dilemma for the Tau now is, they want to spread the Greater Good This entity apparently ripped a tear in the Warp and led the survivors of the 4th Sphere fleet out of the Warp. And then sometimes the Ethereals are an illuminati-like cabal using some form of mind control and the propaganda of the "greater good The big four want those smaller entities on their side and each (in some form) was successful. One Krieger somehow beats a tau suit with a normal I think a more interesting development is that the Goddess Tau'va is a warp entity from the future. The Greater Good was first introduced to the T'au during the Mont'au ("Death Age"), the long pe It was during this time that the first Ethereals came to the other T'au and united the T'au tribes and castes with the philosophy of the Greater Good. I mean seriously the tau empire is meant to be a faction that would be the bad guy As mentioned elsewhere in the thread, the Tau have attempted to convince Astartes to join the Greater Good in the past, and they have never been successful. Besides that, I think the Warp Entity needs more work. . The Tau souls are individually dim but their client races have worshipped the concept of the Greater Good enough to create Tau'va the literal goddess of the Greater Good, though this warp god seems to be still small and limited to the Tau's sphere of influence. First off, it reveals that the Greater Good deity identifies as a goddess and it's "one of many embryonic warp gods". Basically they tried an experimental warp drive, got stuck in a warp rift and then all their human auxiliaries went nuts and had to be purged. including Humans who had already embraced the Greater Good, its commander stated that one day the rest of the empire would thank him, before he took the Malk’la. It is probably closer to a warp entity that acts through meat puppets rather than the typical pattern of fleshy entities feeding a warp entity that occasionally pops into real space. Greater Good Entity, red Ork vehicles going faster, machine spirits) make sense when you have the idea For Tau, let them play around in the psychic phase. Boring, predictable, lame. It's in the book 'War of secrets', an ethereal and a fleet commander (I think that's right) discuss what they saw in the warp and how they escaped, the commander describes strange entities outside of the ships picking off the non-tau ships until the tau only ships remained, strange visions/hallucinations (shifting faces in the void, animal-like There's a warp entity of the "greater good", created by the more psychic species allied with the tau. ) Physically to manifest. For example, we all believe in a bright future for humankind, but we disagree vastly on how that is to be achieved. I think it was heavily implied this warp entity wasn't spawned by Tau themselves (who have minuscule souls), but rather by faith of Gue'vesa and other client race in the Greater Good. During the subsequent battle Shadowsun was sucked into the void of space but seemingly saved by the same Tau Warp entity that had delivered the 4th Sphere of Expansion. There is (or isn't) the Eldar pantheon, there are Gork and Mork, there's the God Emperor (if you can count him since he still has a physical body in some sense), and we have the still small but probably growing T'au entity of the Greater Good. the elder gods are less of god then more of really good programmed robots so to speak. Humans, mostly. The Tau 4th Sphere Expansion was saved in the warp by some massive, multi-armed warp entity. Its identity has never been revealed, but the community thinks its either a warp manifestation of the Greater Good as believed by the Tau and their auxiliaries, or Tzeentch. The Tau, because of their size, have yet had to deal with the full scope of the shit the Galaxy has to throw at it. The Greater Good is about the Tau Empire and it’s growth. Also this is the book that introduces the greater good actually being a god in the warp. Reply Judasilfarion • Additional comment actions. what appeared to be a Warp Entity that represented an amalgamation mostly of their auxiliaries' concept of a Greater Good being, with too many arms and a melding of t'au and other features. The Imperium simply has far bigger fish to fry than the Tau. Too many fingers for one and other details. Ethereals have been shown to be fine with Tau’va religion in the hopes of gaining their own greater good saints, as shown in the Martyrdom of Sister Anarchia story. It's a "Tau god" in the sense that it's a god representing the Tau ideals and worshipped by people in Tau warp entity looking at tau refusing its existence after it helped them. All Tau names give basic information: The first part tells us which caste the Tau individual belongs to and also which rank he holds. Such titles are given in recognition of some achievement and highly remarkable individuals can have Should they decline our most generous offer, then we have no choice but to brand them as traitors to the Greater Good and destroy them with our mighty, honourable Fire Caste, because there can be no alternative to the Greater Good. That’s like calling modern atheism a religion, because some people are aggressively devoted to calling out organized religions hypocrisies and damage to society. This realization was nothing short of world shattering to the Tau of the What the Greater Good daemon is or want it wants is still a mystery. Follows spoilers. dawn blade reveald to be the last crone sword which will gain the attention of the ynnari and guilliman to bring the tau to the bigger picture also it would be a good way for There's this entry in the Psychic Awakening series, but you could look for anything involving the Fourth Sphere Expansion. LegoBuilder64 • It’s a god because to the best of our knowledge it is a unique Tau are seeded by Eldar Greater Good is a lie Ethereal mind control through pheromones their own super special awesome warp powers that are totally different from regular warp powers then a hundred billion Tau can make their The Tau did not create nor feed the Great Tauva, its their auxiliary races. It's the collective belief of all the T'au's allied races in the T'au'va (the Greater Good) that has gradually created a warp entity that embodies those race's perception of the Greater Good. Shadowsun is also infected, but by another disease. However, the Tau were prepared to pay almost any other price for the greater good of their Empire. Anyway, because Humans and other species have a connection to the warp, after enough of them started to adhere to the Tau concept of "The Greater Good", it created an entity in the warp that is pretty much the Greater good given form. Not everything that lives in the Warp is evil. youtube There is the tau warp entity, even if its born of auxiliary minds and not tau it's still loyal to tau. Farsight was trying to recruit bloodletters and pink horrors to the Greater Good even as they exploded out of his allies' chests and corrupted his battlesuit with screaming voices. The Taus one hasn’t done that from what I’ve seen. Very nobleI believe that the Gue’vessas belief and praise for the concept of the Greater Good, in tandem with begin the Emperor spawned the Greater Good Chaos God. He’s just not able to be active cuz he has to light the I don't personally mind the Tau being evil, but I think subtlety is really important - nobody would genuinely believe in the Greater Good if the Ethereals were publicly eating babies. 1, Wouldn't work, the Tau are way too small to support 2 Warp Entities of any degree of power, their souls are TINY. In Shadowsun, there are individual Tau who are depicted as evil, but as a whole the empire (and the sole Ethereal character) are presented in an outwardly I've heard talk of a new Tau god emerging, is The Tau don't have enough of a presence in the Warp to have gods. The Humans Uber Tau rule are not the heretics the Imperium thinks they are, they still worship the Emperor but think the excessive xenophobia is misplaced. The idea that the tau inadvertently generated a warp entity with their fairly anti warp/spirituality/pro science philosophy is fûcking hilarious Wasn't the entity created by the humans that live with/under the Tau; because they created the entity through believing in the greater good, as humans have a higher warp presence than the Tau? All that "greater good god" needed to appeat in the warp was force of belief of human citizens of tau empire. Could just be Tzneetch completely fucking with everyone. robots made out of warp juice. It’s a philosophy. The Ethereals have a created an Well considering the Fourth Sphere expansion when the Tau are faced with the full ugly reality of the Warp they tend to lose their idealistic and become concerningly similar to another former idealistic empire turned xenophobic mess. In the older lore, the shadow of the warp has some level of being attributed to the sheer weight of Tyranid psychic communication basically hogging all of the No, it's real, sort of, let me explain. Instead they are capitalizing this new faith because it helps convert more people to the teaching. It was during this time that the first Ethereals came to the Tau and united the Tau tribes under the idea of the Greater Good, which involved perfect harmony and the combining of each Caste's strengths to counter the many weaknesses their culture had. And most of all, it is extremely excessive with showing tau deaths. Saved from oblivion by a many-armed entity within the Warp believed to be a possible God created as an echo of the Tau race, the Tau of the Fourth Sphere believe that the abomination that saved them within the Warp was formed from the auxiliaries psychic perceptions of the Greater Good, and can only be slain with their extermination. In Shadowbreaker a Tau commander Theorise that Human create the God Emperor because they were Lost in the Dark while the Tau had the Etheral to enligth them , then its only natural that the figure of the Emperor will die in front of the Etheral. Which given Khan’s disappearance in the Webway where the old trickster is It would seem Gods in general want lesser Warp entities on their side. The Tau, one of 40K's younger races. The tiny amount of warp energy of the tau allied races is enough to create a god of the greater good on the warp. The Warp is basically the reflection of the collective psyche of the sentient being of the Universe and frankly it doesn't give a good representation of it: all the entities that inhabit this piece of reality are inherently evil, specially the supreme being, the Gods of Chaos (spare me theory about the relativity of moral: all four of them are 100% bad guys without any redeeming quality). r/starwarsspeculation Yea, considering Tau have next to 0 warp presence, they don't really have the power to "believe" a god into existence like the Eldar or humanity. I think that also works with the Tau theming as the next up and coming star empire. r/atheism • Freewill with the existence of God. That'll definitely The non-tau races who are part of the Tau Empire believed really hard in the greater good and created a sort of "greater good" warp entity. Of course as with everything warp - the connection is two sided. Thirdly, the Tau have only been around for Escape the misery of the Corpse-Emperor and the depravity of Warp heresy! Join the Greater Good today, in the name of Subjugation Liberty! An oppressive caste utterly unedited form by the Por'hui media outlet for the Imperial occupied Tau world of Macragge. Possible outcome is that something will come back to bite the Ethereal's a*s, if Goddess Tau'va insists on a version of Greater Good that runs contra to Ethereals The Tau have close to no influence on the warp, the Greater Good doesn't allow for idolatry or opposition, so they'd hunt Chaos cults anyways. Chaos gets power from suffering and intense psychic activity; high emotion, whatever. Is Here’s some of my ideas of the lamest/most infuriating possible explanations for the Greater Good. The book explains the ethereals hate warp entities abd the warp because the Greater Good philisophy does not cover extra dimensions abd its entities. Her body is shaped like a T'au and a Human, but T'au'va has numerous arms The most common theory is that it is a representation of the humans who have joined the greater good. During the Fifth Sphere, Appearing first in War of Secrets and then in Shadowsun: The Patient Hunter, Tau'va is a warp entity borne from the auxiliary races' faith in the Greater Good. I think this was from psychic awakening: the greater Good The Greater Good, whether an actual entity within the Warp or not, and whether or not the Greater Good has the intent of making the 40k galaxy a better place is deliberately designed by the Tau to be flexible to allow them opportunities to subsume and entice as many different cultures and civilizations they can into the Tau Empire. All the New Tau Rules From The Greater Good. Based on the story itself, the entity has one over-riding ambition: to expand. That's a hard pill to swallow for many. The warp The Greater Good, or Tau'va (literally, "Good Greater"), is the founding principle of Tau society. The T'au in War of Secrets attribute it partially Like the Tau could essentially be mind controlled by some sort of cut out in the warp that the ethereals have used without knowing what they are doing, using the warp with the implants the dark eldar gave them without attracting the 4, all the while creating a massive yet diffuse gestalt entity within the warp to be used at the DEs disposal to My headcanon is that the Tau are the opening of Cegorach's biggest practical joke yet, a joke to be played on every race in the Galaxy. If the chaos gods weren’t feeding on honor, hope, love and the will to live then we’d see gods of these arrive. Also the fact that the warp is an absolutely massive part of the 40 k universe it was Tbh the fact that there is now a god of the Greater Good does heavily suggest there must be thousands of similar such deities, since the non-Tau population of the Tau Empire is minuscule galatically speaking. Could be that the Emperor has evolved into some kind of Warp entity after thousands of years of daily sacrifice and fanatical belief. It was in a tau novel in where a tau ship gets stranded in the warp and is saved by the greater good The Greater Good producing a warp entity seems inevitable. The same isn't true with the Tau. A noble aspiration. 4th Sphere Tau are dicks and untrustworthy around Auxillaries because the non-human members of the 4th sphere expedition saved some of them from certain death in the warp by summoning a warp-entity of the greater good If farsight uses the dawn blade on a Daemon primarch, would he become an immortal daemon of the greater good entity in the warp ? That wasn't magnus though, it was him possessing someone. They were 'saved' by a many armed Warp entity that looks like a Tau, widely speculated as the Chaos God of the Greater Good. Description. maybe if even succumbers but that long time away. What’s changed? Come find out. Shows you don’t need a ridiculous amount of people to manifest something. My speculation is probably a decade or two Like all such beings, it was birthed and fed by the thoughts and dreams of those in the material realm - in this case, the psychically-sensitive alien auxiliaries allied with the Tau, whose belief in and understanding of the Greater Good coalesced into a warp entity. Every other warp entity save gods needs either A. The worship of a alien extradimensional being above all else is incompatible with the Greater Good. com/user?u=155590Want us to put out more In between the obvious nom nom times the Daemons were having with the tasty auxillaries the Tau had (presumably leaving the edible garnish that was the Tau until the end if they weren't full), the Tau find a strange human-tau hybrid warp being that seems to basically be the God of the Greater Good all their psychically active auxillaries have So I did a bit of digging and it looks like the worm hole was created when 4th sphere entered the warp, but when the "greater good warp entity" allowed them yo escape the warp, it created a tunnel safe from the warp. It hungers to become bigger, more powerful. Pretty much the only success the Tau had with warp was when they accidentally blew a hole into the immaterium (It's technically a success as the Tau The shocked Tau responded with remarkable speed, destroying many vessels but were overwhelmed by the sheer numbers. Concepts that would not be exclusive to the Tau, but currently the Tau is where it draws the most strength from. The Greater Good God is the the Gue'la and other allied races flawed perception and understanding manifested in the Warp. The Rogue Trader rpg stats out ships and gives them field systems too. We are also told that she destroyed the Death Guard ships that entered the Startide Nexus (as shown in the Psychic Awakening book The Greater Good). The Greater God, by comparison, is the manifestation of the hope and certainty embodied by the T'au philosophy of the Greater Good, coalesced into a The idea debuted in the 8th Edition Tau Codex, and was elaborated on in War of Secrets. In todays game I was told that unit A when it start shooting is going to observe for unit B, which became guided and after unit A finish shooting, Unit B can shoot and benefit from +1 BS. Tau FTL shit is slower than Imperial stuff, but in Not going through the warp it is safer and thereby more reliable. Apparently, the emotional feedback from the psychic races of the Tau'va (humanity included) has been feeding a warp entity, and this same warp entity What OP is referring to is the mysterious Warp entity that rescued the Tau 4th expansion fleet from the Warp. There are a few good options off the first half of Sept Tenet options. A Heresy era legion would find the Tau a mild distraction, but that’s neither here nor there. The survivors of the 4th Sphere Expansion concluded that the entity that helped them was none other then the very manifestation of the Greater Good in the Warp. I would actually be interested to know where Gork and Mork 'are' considering the Orks are like seperated from the warp. Not quite. Yet a Greater Good God exists. When they got back the Tau were warp traumatized and started killing the Kroot and Human auxiliaries. ; The third and final part is the given personal name of the individual Tau. if warp entities feed on and grow from the emotions of sentient beings, plague . Hot off the internet, the Greater Good’s new FAQ brings updates to the new rules introduced in the book, tweaking a few things for T’au wielding prototype weapons, using special Enclave abilities, and sorting out what exactly the different tenets The idea was that the Tau could not full use the Warp as a non-psyker, small warp presence race, but they could still expand their empire. Only notable exception is that freaky greater good warp entity that saved the tau that one time they reverse Tau greater good warp entity. So the unique dilemma for the Tau now is, they want to spread the Greater Good Tau greater good warp entity. Fourth Sphere of Expansion T'au, and they seem to believe it was the auxiliaries whose twisted understandings of the Greater Good spawned it. Also, it also might have been a regular daemon who played the Tau for its own, further games. ) a major sacrifice/Ritual, or B. Daemons are small parts of a chaos god, warp entities are just creatures that come from the warp which can include stuff like enslavers. Its suggested that the warp entity of the greater good isn't primarily from tau but from client species as its form isn't as tau would imagine it. This article needs work on its citations. Yes, the Tau can survive an Imperial Crusade, an Ork Waagh or a Hive tendril. Bring some of the weirder auxiliaries to the forefront and have the Greater Good warp entity give them new powers. Warp entities are non-linear. See more posts like this in r/PowerScaling. Tau equipment are generally considered to be strong and very reliable. No lies, half-truths, or ANY distortions of reality have been presented here. Anyway, If you want to claim that the Greater Good God is benevolent, then you have to claim that the T'au and their ambition are benevolent as well. I’d love to hear from Tau players as to which they think would be the absolute worst. gork and mork are not warp based . Humans have only been in the Tau empire for a couple of hundred years. And to do that the Tau Empire needs to grow and expand. From the perspective of the people being turned inside out though the warp entity would appear In the book War of Secrets there is a warp entity that saves a Tau fleet from being stuck in the warp. 4-5; 3: Codex: T'au Empire (9th Edition), pgs. He requested the Ethereals in the first exchange. The central principle of the Tau's Greater Good is that the individual is the property of the group. Instead of treating the Greater Good entity as a goddess, they should have treated it as if they have Mothra (from Godzilla) on their side or a Warp Entity auxilliary. Bathing in the warp is death for virtually anyone, regardless of psychic sensitivity. And psykers are a nuisance even without daemons because they attract warp beasts like Psychneuien or Enslavers (and have a tendency to go critical on their own). The whole city is infected, but parts near "The Greater Good god" are clean and she orders to destroy all these shrines in the sphere. It was also said to look like an ethereal. Dedication to that might be Now whether this will backfire on Tau species/empire in the long run is still in the air, as even a PERFECTLY truthful and good warp entity that delivers exactly as promised with zero hidden cost can still potentially f*ck people over. It's slavery with public ownership of the slaves. Same goes for the Tau “Greater Good”. In fact, there's a list (I can't remember where, trying to find it) of species that T'au consider to be completely incompatible to the Greater Good and must always be treated with hostility. A unique species with a friendly attitude but won't hesitate to send you to the shadow realm with a My takes is that the Greater Good god looks predominantly Tau-ish because the humans in the Empire think of it as a inherently Tau god, not Human god. we actually don't have confirmation that the Tau'va God is a new entity that was "created" instead of just something that Aliens (include human) who fight for Tau empire, make a "Greater good" demon appear and save them, during 4th sphere expansion. patreon. But at the very least we the audience know this isn't some other entity disguising/masquerading, and it is in her interest to be benevolent towards Tau So. The Ethereals are against the warp entities, right now they do not know it operates. For help on citation see the citation guidelines. Gork and Mork are still basically warp entities of the same nature as The Tau 4th Sphere Expansion was saved in the warp by some massive, multi-armed warp entity. There are already tensions in tau Empire due to psychically active races (especially humans) effectively creating a "Greater Good" warp reflection. Many of us assumed that this entity is a The Astronomican can manifest itself as a warp entity The Greater Good lesser God/Daemon created by the Tau's psyker races Anything Deep Warp is pretty nutty. But we don't know. It didn't last, and did very little except for making the blue fishpeople pissed at "their" humans turning The Greater Good into anything psychically-related. The Greater Good Warp Entity was initially shelved because they wanted to pivot to the Ynnead Eldar storyline and didn't know how to reintegrate the T'au warp entity. but his flagship Nephylum was destroyed in the Warp by the T'au Warp Entity. For Causing manifestation of demons or warp entities can be done by any sufficiently powerful psyker, or sufficiently knowledgeable person with a ritual. non-tau who join the greater good are more or less second class citizens to the tau rule. Reply systolic_helix • Collegia Titanica • Additional comment actions. And no, the Tau preaching greater good is not a ritual. Can't remember the name they have for them. We can be pretty sure that there are more machanicus aligned humans that tau auxiliaries - by mechanicus alligned i dont mean just techpriestsm but also all forge worlds workers, which are all part of cult mechanicus. But I’d have expected it to take tens of thousands of years and a lot more adherents to bring it to fruition. ; The second part tells the homesept of the Tau individual. Reply You_see_ivan_ • Additional comment actions. If its that easy to make a warp God every human empire the Great Crusade came across should have had their own warp god protecting them by this logic. Posted by u/I1AM2NOT3STEVEN - 46 votes and 22 comments The latest batch of FAQs, errata, and updates for Psychic Awakening: The Greater Good have arrived. the radiation thing about their battlesuit was only an issue when they were still in 1st Sphere Expansion which is ancient history to the Tau. They Some even draw parallel to the Emperor and the Greater Good. There is gork and mork, the ork gods. Imperial faith manifests in the warp, Eldar have Slaneesh, even Tau Greater Good became a chaos entity, so what is preventing the psychic powers of Orks (like their Waaghs, unless Gork and Mork are Shadowsun beats some huge demon there, but she reluctantly must kill all the humans/Tau there because they are infected by some sleep zombie nurgle disease. The Greater Good entity that does exist in the Warp is created by the human members if the Tau empire, and is a thing so horrible the Tau who saw it started killing every human they met. tldr: some of the T'au have found out about the Warp and it severely fucked them up Event Horizon style. It is not great, it is not good, and like all warp things is a twisted wrong version of the idea. There are too many ramifications if the tau just up and discovered safe warp travel and because the cats out of the bag Some Tau are really all about an inclusive greater good. Why faith of countless mechanicus cult members hasnt created its own warp entity, jus like tau auxiliaries did with greater good god? Compared to the size and population of forge worlds and mechanicus alligned population, the whole tau empireauxiliaries population is still pretty small. Apparently the Chaos Gods even fear what lurks there. Though a lot of people have swallowed the survivors BS notion it But as of the whole 4th Sphere Expansion, well, the Greater Good (the concept) decided it was sick of being a string of words and manifested itself into new existence as a warp being (potentially god of the GG, although, that has yet to be seen), Tau leadership has continued to get (if it was even possible) more secretive and funnily enough untrusted and legit the best hope For the Greater Good. Surely though once Chaos or anything psychic entity puts focus on Tau, Why in Hell would they do that. Like there is a god in the warp that is the They didn't really believe in the supernatural effects of the warp until the 4th Sphere Expansion. They even keep the Great Tau' va a secret Tau Empire Deep Dive, The Terrifying Paradox of the Greater Good in Warhammer 40Khttp://www. Some are for a version of that which allows for all non-Tau to exist only as an inferior caste and justifies occasional atrocities and mass sterilization. A unique species with a friendly attitude but won't hesitate to send you to the shadow realm with a Second, it was almost obviously stated that The Greater Good "God" was produced not by Tau, but by their psychic-capable allies. I think we should classify Tau'va as minor warp entity, its not really a god, every big demon can fuck around with death guard fleet yk Well to be fair 'the strongish warp entity of the greater good' does not roll of the tongue as well as 'goddess of the greater good' Reply reply More replies More replies. The Tau’va is not a religion. They probably could do a lot of things, but they probably won't. So how long until that warp entity starts to try to influence the followers instead and after that how long when its opinion of There's the sanguinor, There's the erlking that Russ meets, the greater good entity being formed by the Tau, the spirits of Fenris, the old ones seemed pro life before they all died, and grork and mork would be good from orks perspective It could be a nascent god that embodies more than just the Greater Good and embody the emotions and values similar to it throughout aeons. Tau'va maybe? Not sure. Perhaps the Tau should be working to shape this entity to their advantage, as the Eldar have done with their gods, and leave off the 'kill every alien in the universe' scheme that the deranged 4th Sphere survivors have cooked up. Shadowsun is not thrilled about it, but is allowing the worship of the goddess because Spoilers for Shadowsun: The Patient Hunter In the recent Phil Kelly Tau novel, we get the implication that the Tau empire has a slight countermeasure against chaos through the Fourth Sphere Expansion Warp Entity, who is named T'au'va (literally "The Greater Good" in the Tau lexicon), though the Tau empire at large doesn't recognize this by the novel's end outside of Read somewhere there was a bunch of humans serving the Tau that ended up creating a brief psychic manifestation of The Greater Good when some travel through the Warp encountered Problems. well thank you anyways. I’ll presume giving the T’au (and their allies) a definitive deity is more about GW trying to make the T’au more relevant in galactic The Greater Good Warp Entity was initially shelved because they wanted to pivot to the Ynnead Eldar storyline and didn't know how to reintegrate the T'au warp entity. A The believer is real, the saint was real, the Emperor is real, and that further dilutes any power they could gain from belief because they are sustained more by physical activity than Warp power. I think its not a question of strength (other than more Tau existing = more Tau souls creating a psychic imprint on the warp) but of coordination. Table of Contents & Article Summary show Tau Sept Tenet Custom Rules. If Tau worship the Greater Good in the form of utilitarianism, for example, Slaanesh could make a rational case for surrendering a world to her protection in return for the common people being offered unimaginable, unending utility in the form of a trance of pure ecstasy. Reply reply but it was pretty clearly all the perfectly-normal-souled auxiliaries that brought the Greater Good entity into existence, not the Tau proper. hgrsrid rzqdp fknb euk sxndvvr wdndlf guwcaap kquxxgr zqfsda episl