Most notably though, Farseid makes the Book of the Beast, which is very sus by Tao standards
because you're not allowed to write if you're in the Firecast or play with LEGO or read.
You're all illiterate, you have guns.
When Anwar catches the baby Firecast playing with Mega Bloks, he sends in the drones you're
wearing. Is this literally the meme of like back when you were all reading I was studying the
blade? Yeah and so Farseid starts getting allegations of being bashed, yeah, because if you do
something else outside of your cast they don't like it. Imagine like in a high school you know
you got like the Earthcast and like some mechanic is studying for some test and then Farseid comes
and pushes them in the lockers. You're doing nerds reading. He's got a head in the toilet
he's coming out of their weird nose.
Hello ladies and gentlemen and welcome back to Law Crimes. Today on the Beginner to the Expert
podcast we are discussing something a little bit different than usual. We talk a lot about humanity
and the space marines and all the other fun things that you know everyone loves about
Warhammer but occasionally we have to talk about the stuff that is a bit more
niche. We've got to cater to the weebs occasionally. The weebs? No, no. It is the non-weeb
telly the raider. And today we are talking about the Farseid enclave so we're talking about some
dirty Xenos. Yeah, yeah let's go. But first...
Okay everyone so what was the question last time and it was the hashtag lawlies where you had to
tell us some obscure lies about what was going on in the 40k universe. We've had some pretty good
spicy look through this thing. It's always a joy to look through just all the responses and then
try and pick some of the ones that we particularly enjoyed. I've picked out a few very different ones
of varying types of comedic prowess shall we say. So I'll start off with a very short and sweet but
strong one from Irish wristwatch. Hashtag lawlies the emperor's original crusade against AI saw him
named the Secunder Bomber. I think that one was quite good. What was his name? I just need to sit down for a moment there.
The Secunder Bomber. Famed criminal Taddeus Kazinskis.
I think as Elo mentioned in a bit of a past episode briefly and I was like yeah that reminded me of Elo's comment.
Oh my god. Good work. Irish wristwatch.
Abominable intelligence has been a disaster for the human race. That's right.
It's consequences. We ready for another one? Hit us. Hit us. Let it rip. This one's a bit more fun.
It's a bit less hard but it's also fun. It's from Leyte22 and he said worst kept secret of the
Imperium is that all the space wolves are secretly multiple corgis stacked on top of each other in a power scene.
See that's good but I have to disagree because corgis are the best dog on the planet and the space wolves are awesome.
Corgis are awesome. I mean I like all dogs but you know corgis are amazing. This is 100% written by a British person because they know it was the queen who stacked all the corgis in a suit.
Well you know what mystery British person you and your corgis rock on. Corgis are awesome.
Oh my god. I had a fat corgi named Rocky. He was the dumbest creature on the planet. He was also the fattest dog ever.
He would get excited and run but when he would try and turn a corner he couldn't stop because he was so
fat and dumb so he would just plow into the wall. Don't you basically think he was a fluffy marshmallow with legs?
I think he was more like a red loaf because when he would like where he lays down his legs would just disappear.
So he just looked like a red loaf of the head.
I love that noise.
Was he like not very stealthy like breathing from a Bible?
I mean yeah whatever he moved he would just and we took him on walks like we didn't just over feed him. We fed him. We've always fed our dogs.
We took him around. He was just he just fat.
Fat dumb happy corgi.
Stomped dog. He's living the life dude.
Dude he was the happiest little guy on the planet.
Now put him in space green armor. Oh my god.
Yeah yeah.
Okay and the last one I have picked out is from Stephanie Schwartz which is hashtag Lorelies.
The worst kept secret in Warhammer is that Evrein has actually not been spending the time since the fight with the demon recovering.
He's actually spending every second letting Gillamann put his battle barge in her weapon.
That joke was going the moment you said Evrein.
I just knew it.
There's only one way those jokes do go.
Oh man.
Loki kind of true.
I mean Colin's always whining we don't talk about the Eldar enough so there we go.
That's exactly what I want. I got what I wanted out of these questions.
He truly infiltrated him.
You think the Ultramarine chant is playing when Gillamann's smashing?
Oh stop.
I reckon it's not that it's playing I reckon he has an Ultramarine choir standing at the side of the bed just encouraging him.
Just shouting theoretical and practical.
Oh my gosh.
You're flat. Need to be a bit shatter in your intonation.
Yes my lord.
Evrein!
I'm practically Colin.
I am enjoying this very much. Theoretical I am enjoying this very much. Practical.
Evrein give me a practical and a theoretical.
Theoretical. Eldar and humans cannot have children. Practical. Only one way to find out.
Oh god it's too early in the video.
Stupid Eldar let's stop talking about this.
Okay okay.
I end in church.
We have a new question of the week.
Themed specifically after today's topic.
And that question of the week is hashtag greater good for what is one aspect of 40k lore you would remove for the greater good.
Controversial dumb or stupid answers only please and that's hashtag greater good.
The dumber the better.
There's one bad answer to this. I started shooting the knee.
Alright.
May I give my example answer for the crowd?
I would remove everyone's knowledge of the emperor.
I wouldn't remove the emperor just everyone's knowledge of his existence.
Just because I think it would be funny for mid battle at Garzun to be shouting for the... what?
And their brain just like just blue screens for them like what am I fighting for? What's going on?
That would make an entire setting awkward.
Traitorly just completely forget why are we rebelling what happened? I know I hate them why do I hate them?
How would that affect the emperor's children because that's their battle cry and it's also their name.
There's no way we're shouting we're gonna go fight the children in Warhammer.
They're just called the apostrophe S children now.
I think the tower would win if that happened.
Imperium breaks apart there's nothing holding them together anymore.
The only thing that keeps people from joining the tower is their belief in the emperor.
And even then they still join the tower all the time so...
Hopefully we'll cover some of that.
A little heresy going on here.
Jesus it's the real emperor.
Zeno W.
Real, real. 100, 100 fire emoji, fire emoji.
I'm gone.
We'll be covering some of the most recent Farcite Enclave lore with the Arks of Omen stuff.
So we'll hopefully see if we get the emperor raised later on in our discussions.
Okay and with that done I believe Hal you're doing the beginner section this week so take it away.
Thank you very much and I can't wait for Andy to suffer through this.
If everyone who...
Headphones in, listen to some you know Mariah Carey or something.
For those who don't know... I'll go ahead and say Colin.
Andy's gonna just be editing his own videos he's done before crime.
Officially retired.
For those who don't know Andy is a Imperial simp so therefore we're gonna...
He's strapped in as you are strapped in and we'll be listening to Commander Farcite of the Farcite Enclave.
Woo!
Excitement, excitement boys.
He's blue.
He is in flat blue.
He's blue indeed.
I have a joke about that later but we'll get to...
Let's just start off easy, we'll start off slow here and then we'll get a little bit heretical, a little bit separatist shall we say.
But let's just start right at the beginning and this is the character Commander Farcite.
Now you might be thinking Farcite seems like a very normal name perhaps for a Xenos and that's because it's not his real name.
And you have to excuse me here whilst I flub and I absolutely butcher his true name.
I think Eli might have to come in with an assist here.
But his true name which actually is titles, his name is Schaas O. Viola Schova Keis Montiour.
So he's got a bit of a title thing going.
It's like a German car factory.
It does sound like something that's been yelled at me on a holiday.
If I can say that without getting cancelled.
Perhaps for saying that I'll in one go.
I know.
I practice that by the way.
So if you're new to Warhammer you're probably thinking what the hell is going on.
So Commander Farcite comes from the species of the Tau and you're probably thinking who are the Tau?
The Tau themselves are a Xenos race that hail from the Ultima segmentum within the Warhammer Unifer slash Milky Way galaxy.
About 6000 years ago in the 35th millennium.
So obviously we're set in 40k.
It was sort of first discovered by an Adeptus Mechanicus explorer fleet.
They found this I would say pretty crappy homeworld.
The homeworld of Tau.
Funny enough that will come up again.
And they found this Xenos race and it was extremely primitive.
They were dull creatures.
They were at like a Stone Age level supposedly.
They commented saying they'd only ever like mastered fire.
Some of us here obviously we're all Warhammer fans watching behind our comfy desks.
So maybe some of these Tau are a little bit more useful in the wild than some of us.
Not calling anyone out there.
Ignore that.
He's making fun of me because I die in the wild in 10 minutes.
There's no insulin plant, Barry.
His pancreas.
We have free insulin.
All is covered by the greater good.
I thought we need the...
Is everyone here seeing Hot Fuzz?
The greater good.
We just need that to come up every time.
Everyone just has to say the greater good.
The old lady behind the check-in at the hotel just being like,
fascist and it's just the emperor just going, hag.
Oh, that movie's good.
It has the guy who was the hound in Game of Thrones, didn't it?
But before he was like, Europe.
Oh, it says him?
How do you know?
It's got Bill Bailey in it as a twin.
It's great.
Morning angle.
Anyway, I should see this movie.
You haven't seen...
Oh, please.
Come on.
Okay.
What do you think?
I'm not going to move on from that because I'm just going to get upset.
Let's move on.
That's what you get for a Xenos loving man.
So the Tal themselves were obviously with most of the way the
Imperium works, it was about to get crunked immediately,
cleanse the way for humanity.
But no, this was not their fate because behind the scenes,
behind the warp storms, sorry, behind warp storms,
this kind of isolated home world would be trapped and only be until
the 41st millennium that the Imperium would,
unfortunately to Andes, just pure hatred,
they would discover a spacefaring Xenos race.
And for the Tal themselves, I mean, we often joke they're the cow men,
and we'll explain a little bit why.
The Tal themselves are actually a multi-species caste system.
The actual ones that come from the home world of Tal themselves.
They do look kind of humanoid, I'd say.
Some of them obviously are vastly different,
but today we'll be focusing on the Firecast,
which is the cast that Commander Farsight himself comes from.
You know, they breathe through that weird slit in their forehead.
That's what it does?
Yuck.
They can breathe through it.
I did not know that.
Anyways, keep going.
It's like headbutting them, like choking them.
Sorry, I don't know where I'm going with that.
Moving on.
So the Tal themselves, they have many different species and subspecies,
but they mostly have some shared features, such as blue skin.
If you're imagining Blue Man Group, that's an old reference there now,
but they kind of look like Blue Man Group, but a lot of them.
They often have like hoofed feet.
I made a little, I guess, assumption that they probably definitely watch
Sword Art Online, like Colin.
I'm going to kick your ass.
He has seen it, by the way, people.
Get him.
Someone did put a comment.
Never seen Sword Art Online.
Someone made a comment on a previous podcast episode,
like they said, stop talking about Sword Art Online
and come here for Sword Art Online.
Shout out to you, Greg.
Of all the things to make fun of before, and there are many,
you choose one of the few weeb things I'm not into.
I know, but this is a weeb focus episode, so you're at home here.
So the Tal themselves, as I said a little bit there,
they are much a caste system, but the subspecies of the Tal
are very much isolated into all these classes,
and they have particular roles themselves.
So the Firecasts themselves are the Warrior class.
All of that change I put here when the Fire Nation attacked
because of the other Firecasts.
And the Firecasts themselves are a little bit taller
than some of the more stouter and shorter Earthcasts themselves.
They are a bit more muscular.
Definitely not as muscular as a human.
Even an average weeb could probably take one in a one on one fight.
You're saying that the Tal skip leg day. Of course they do.
They probably do.
They're pretty shared.
They are like, they do have...
A camp jungle fighter just like, you call them muscles.
They're both strength three on the tabletop, so it can go either way.
They're a little bit shorter. They're like Short Kings.
Let's say my Short King Tal. And the Firecasts themselves,
they lived on the plains of Tal, and they're originally nomadic hunters, warriors.
They often fought between themselves. They're pretty aggressive.
And this was all, again, this all changed with the Tal species
when the mysterious Ethereal caste came and they united all of Tal
and turned it into this spacefaring Xenos race
that it's known for in the 41st millennium.
And this is where we get to perhaps the gigiest of chads,
if that's the right way of saying it.
This is where we get Farsight.
And Farsight, I put here as a reference to beloved Colin.
He's basically the arbiter from Halo.
You'll basically see why it kind of follows that story a little bit.
I don't know if that's... Is that right, Colin?
I mean, I can see some connections. There are...
Now that you mention it, I can see some connections.
However, Thel Vadim is at a whole other level of awesome than Farsight, I must say.
Well, hopefully we're going to change your opinion of that.
So Farsight himself was, of course, not born as the legend that he became.
He's originally just born as Shas or Shas-O.
Basically just saying he was born in the Tao-set world of Viola.
And what was special about this unique...
Well, not really unique, actually, but this fire warrior was that
he was a little bit of a cut above the rest.
Obviously, he's Xenos. Sorry, Andy.
Don't mean to... Not as good as humans, of course.
Boo-boo. Terrible.
But what was unique about the fire-cast warrior that would become Farsight
was that he'd learned from his mistakes, which many of us do not do,
let's be honest with ourselves.
Definitely Xenos.
Definitely. So his ability to self-analyse and to improve was a cut above the rest.
And this led him to sort of gaining a meteoric rise through the fire-cast ranks.
And this obviously would come up, his ability to be a little bit better,
a bit stronger, to learn from his mistakes.
That would all come to be on display as we get to some of his more notable wars
as he began to get older.
Unfortunately, Tao don't live as long as humans, but Farsight has...
Let's say he's been around long enough and there are reasons why he lives so long.
So he kind of made a name for himself in the... Excuse me if I mispronounce this.
The Akashawashina War? Akashawana War?
Akunashcha. Akunashcha.
The Emu War of Australia.
If anyone's editing that, it has to put a picture of an emu. I'm so sorry.
This was kind of the Tao Empire's first true meeting with the Orc species.
As in this is the first time they actually had to fight on a scale they had never really experienced before.
And after many battles, the fire-cast warrior that would become Farsight,
he stood out from the crowd, shall we say. He became a symbol for the Tao forces.
And much of the ethereal cast, they actually allowed this to happen
because there's nothing as inspiring as a Tao man who crunk orcs beautifully, shall we say.
And what was also incredible about him was that his ability to obviously learn from his mistakes meant that
Farsight was one of the first to actually tree-write down how battle doctrine would be used to fight orcs
for even long after he is no longer with the Tao Empire.
And then some more notable things that happened to Commander Farsight as he grew older and he kept slaying, shall we say.
Yars Queen, he's on the runway.
So he was also involved in famously the Damocles Crusade, which was the first contact of the Tao Empire with the Imperium of Man.
Poo!
I know, I know, Poo. So sorry, Andy.
What's that row come and the white scars, baby?
Everyone got bloodied in that one. We'll go into that a bit more later.
And this came out worse.
Debatable. Debatable.
We'll see. We'll see. This is for the greater good, shall we say, the greater good.
And this was the first conflict where there was some tension between Farsight and the ethereal cast.
And this will be a big theme generally throughout his story.
And there's actually many events that happened in the Damocles Crusade and Damocles Gulf, which is a location near the Tao homeworld.
But we'll get more into that later.
And this kind of accumulated and this kind of tension between Farsight and the ethereals led to the incident at Arthus Moloch,
which was the genesis of much of what happened in his story.
And it was on the world of Arthus Moloch. There was some orcs involved. It was a bit spicy.
There had been fights with the Imperium. Farsight was obviously just absolutely crushing it.
And this is where they eventually would find demons would emerge on this world.
And the Tao themselves are a very ignorant race. So this was just not expected.
It ended up killing all of the ethereals on this expedition. And this is also kind of, yes, everyone, it's more Xenosh death.
And this was where Farsight found his iconic blade. If anyone has seen the model of him, he has that gorgeous dawn blade.
We'll get more into that later.
And this also led to the famous breaking away from Tao society with Farsight kind of rejecting the overlordship of the ethereal cast,
which led to the birth of the Farsight Enclairs, which I guess they're kind of the good guys.
I don't know what everyone else thinks maybe about them. They're kind of the better...
Go ahead, Colin.
So probably about as close as he can get to in this setting, because Farsight doesn't really do anything.
He's not a warmonger. He doesn't seek to conquer. He just kind of sits in his corner and says, just leave me alone. It's all I want.
He's been getting a little sus lately, but we'll talk about that in the future.
May I make an observation about what you just said?
Go ahead.
So you said he found a sword that was not made by the Tao, and then he left the Tao.
So what you're saying is Farsight is the coolest Tao by how much he rejects everything about the Tao and doing his own thing.
Amazing.
You could say that. That's definitely someone's opinion.
He's still aware that Tao Empire is very strong.
He's still believing in Tao.
He's a guy who goes away for university or college. He's come back a little different.
Farsight's on a gap year is what you're saying.
Pretty much, yeah. He's grown his hair out. He's rocking like a tash for some reason.
It's the equivalent of getting dreadlocks done for the Tao. Yeah, it's a new look. Do you like it?
I just really found myself. Oh my God.
He's been in a bit of a role, shall we say.
With the breaking away from main Tao society and his rejection of the ethereal caste, this is the birth of the Farsight enclave,
which is ruled essentially by Commander Farsight and I guess like a ruling elite, it sounds really bad.
But it's different from the Tao Empire and we'll get more into its uniqueness, shall we say.
And this has completely avoided any sway or influence from the ethereal caste.
And it's still following the greater good, as Eli mentioned,
but it's a unique faction that we'll be talking a bit more and a bit more in depth about him as we progress into the expert section.
Does anyone have any questions before we move on or any kind of thoughts other than Xenos hate, Andy?
Well, not anymore. Now you've said that.
Fair day. He's like, I'm doing my thing. Tough crowd.
I was going to ask how many Tao does it take to change it, but now you've said that. OK.
All of them. They all work together.
All at once for the greater good.
Change the bright bulb for the greater good. The greater good.
So now I'll pass over to Eli to talk about something.
Eli loves his Xenos for anyone who's kind of new.
Oh, you could say was it?
I love hate relationship with Xenos.
I do like the Tao. I do like Tao and I love hate the Eldar.
And you don't love him as much as Necrons.
Oh, I love Gene Steelies. That's true. I'm a hypocrite. I love Gene Steelies.
So we'll say the true emperor. Don't worry about it.
No four armed emperor today, unfortunately.
And actually I really like Necrons. So you just don't listen to me.
I just love his heresy.
Necrons are the true rulers of the galaxy.
I love this Xenos. I love this. I love chaos. It's like anything that's like heretical.
I love it. Everything is alive.
I just love Warhammer. I don't want to tell you.
I like the funny tabletop guys. What can I say?
I have a hard time hating on any specific faction. I just like it too much.
Unless they're... Oh, who's the dwarves now? What are they called?
Vulture? Yeah. I don't want to talk.
I'm more disappointed that they made a new faction before updating all of the old ones.
Plastic Phoenix Lords. Give me my plastic Phoenix Lords.
Oh no!
Can you talk about what?
Speaking of Tau, I'll pass over to Eli to helm our expert section as we talk about Commander Farsight.
Take it away.
Yeah. All right. Farsight is probably top three favorite characters in all of Warhammer for me.
Maybe top five. It's hard to say. I like Warhammer too much.
I will apologize to the viewers because in order for this episode to not be three hours,
we kind of have to skim through things kind of quickly, but I'm going to try my best to be detailed.
Farsight is one of the three Tau that you're allowed to like without being a weeb.
Otherwise, I got bad news for you.
If you can like Farsight, you can like Anshi, and you can like Kace. That's it.
The other ones are just they're cringe, bro. I don't know what to tell you.
Mummy's Shadow Sun.
Are you a Dark Strider fan?
I was going to say Shadow Sun is the one I get like occasionally hear about. I'm like, oh, cringe. Shadow Sun.
She can be kind of cool. Anshi is Jim Burrow with Uriel who fights in close combat.
And Kace is just like the most OP character in all of Warhammer.
He's Doomguy just blue.
Yeah. You should read Fire Warrior if you haven't. It's a really old book, but I love it.
He sold those like entire space marine squads and stuff. He's ridiculous.
He's so he's too epic. But we're not talking about him today.
We'll talk about him in the future maybe if I am lucky enough to.
Provigandor against the great impair of the man is rubbish.
So Sho or Shova, I guess, first name was born on Viola, which is basically Cad-Chan but for Tau,
except Cad-Chan for Tau is like one fiftieth of what Cad-Chan actually is, I guess, because you know, Cad-Chan is a lot cooler than Tau.
I'm not going to lie. But the Orleans are famous for their hot bloodedness.
They're martial pride to fire cast planet. They're very speedy, great warriors.
It's very hot there. The weather is pretty intense.
And every two years it goes through a trial by fire, which is a very big fire cast thing.
And there's like plasma storms and stuff.
They're very famous for their anger, which farsights anger burns very bright.
It's one of his biggest flaws probably, but also a big strength, I guess you could say.
He has a pretty classic prodigy backstory.
You know, he's started training the moment he could walk like every fire cast warrior.
He starts his training early, three years early to be exact.
He becomes known amongst his peers very quickly and he games the nickname Sho, which means inner light.
It's a classic prodigy story. Nothing overly fancy.
Top of his class, gets in trouble with the instructors because he's unorthodox and kind of wacky, etc.
But he graduates under Pyrrhotide.
Pyrrhotide doesn't teach them, but Pyrrhotide oversees their training.
Pyrrhotide is a famous Tau commander who was part of the second Sphere expansion, if I remember correctly.
He's basically just Tau Sun-Zhu, Sun-Zhu, whatever you say that.
Is this kind of like...
Art of War guy.
Is this like he's like farsights like Zuko and he's like the Pyrrhotide's like Uncle Iroh?
I guess, kind of.
He's a bit...
Kind of.
There's no Ang yet, but that's how I kind of see it.
Pyrrhotide wrote the Tau Art of War. Let's just say that.
Anyways, you know, next after graduating from the Baby Firecast, you join the Regular Firecast and you serve for four years as a Shaz-La, if I have that correct.
A La-Rank.
Which is just basic foot soldier.
And Farsight quickly proves himself to be very efficient and good at his job.
Everyone's crazy about him.
He surprises everyone because he fights so close up and he's so fast.
He's always fast to take the advantage whenever possible.
And his skill with a pulse rifle in close range is like insane and never seen before.
So his Overseers and other higher-ups start placing him in the like thickest fighting and the most dangerous war zones to kind of test him.
And he starts leading his squad basically, even though he's not a Shaz-We yet.
Eventually, you know, fighting, blah blah blah, goes to his first trial of fire, which is the Firecast way of promotion basically.
You have to go through this test and if you pass it, you get promoted.
Of course, the test is pretty intense and violent.
And his Overseers, once again, maybe the ones in the past who are a little salty that he passed their tests so easily and he outsmarted them all the time.
They put him in a simulation in which the simulation he sacrifices himself and in order to pass the test, he has to die.
And his squadmates who also died would pass the test and those who didn't sacrifice themselves did not pass the test.
He was also a thing in his training.
He was popular for getting around all of his teachers' tricks and he would basically try to see into their minds.
He would think of all the tricks that he would place as a teacher and then plan accordingly.
And I guess he's one of the only intuitive Tao to exist if he's the only guy doing that.
The only intuitive Tao, Christ alive.
So then he gets promoted to Wii rank or yeah, yeah, yeah.
Give him a Nintendo Wii? What?
I thought it said no weebs, right? No weebs in this story.
But aside from that, he eventually gets the honor of donning the hero's mantle, which is a battle suit.
And in order to kind of get him to put himself under control, get his temper under control and his violence under control,
they put him in the broadside teams, which he's quite disappointed about when he first shows up for duty.
And he's put with this fellow named Obletai, who becomes one of his best friends in the future.
Obletai is just like this veteran Chaz Vray, if I have that correct.
Chaz Vray or I don't think he's a Chaz though. I think he's a Chaz Vray.
And so basically he teaches Sho how to be patient and fight at a long range and not be crazy.
Sho's him the ropes.
Sho gets the nickname of Young Executioner in this time as he's just massacring things with his big gun.
He hates being in the broadside though, because as one of the broadside, you stay in the back while younger,
less experienced, less equipped warriors do all the hard work for you basically and you're just a support role.
So it kind of hurt him a lot to do that.
So then we move on to the Arachan War, which I guess was part of his training with Obletai as well.
But he gets promoted to a...whatever the bodyguard rank is. I guess he's probably a Chaz Vray at this point.
He's a bodyguard to Commander Dawnstone, and he's just too good.
So they put him through another trial by fire so that he can become a Chaz...it might be Chazel, something like that.
But they put him through another trial by fire, and this time they're returning from this fight on the ship.
And the ship is invaded by Arachan Skitterlings, which are like Ripper Swarms basically for tier noobs.
And Sho puts his body in the way of the door and holds off the Skitterlings and is like eaten alive and goes through this horribly painful death.
But it's all faked again, as Tau Simulations are crazy.
And he gets promoted again because he did his job so well. They were testing him and he was a good job.
So now he's a commander in training.
I have to say by the way, Tau VR chat is really different.
It's a little intense.
It reminds me of...I've only ever seen a clip of it where a guy is just saying in a VR chat room,
Wow, my granddad stormed the beaches of Normandy and I'm here in VR chat. Oh Christ.
In this time, him and Commander Dawnstone launch some really good Maut'Ka strikes.
Maut'Ka is Firesight's favorite way of war that he later learns to master under Commander Puretide.
And I guess put into his name because he's so good at it.
Maut'Ka is basically like a spearhead strike, kind of like what the Black Legion does.
Teleport strike, kill the enemy leader in one swift stroke.
And hopefully things go right because if they don't, then you have to run away or you die basically.
But he's very good at it. Very swift. Very fast.
So he does that for a while.
And then he goes and trains with Commander Puretide.
He climbs up Mount Kanji, goes through a whole lot of trials there, and he trains with Shaz.
Shazera, Commander Shadow Sun. That's who that is.
And Case. They become friends for the most part.
Case and Shaz are both kind of like...I don't know.
They're both very quiet individuals and they're both kind of crazy, especially Case.
He doesn't even see himself as a living being anymore. He's just a weapon.
But Case masters the way of Maut's...oh my gosh, forgot the name. Feels bad, man.
He's the one-man army, whichever one that was when it was called.
I unfortunately forgot what it was, apparently.
Starts with the Mauts, though.
Monat, Monat. That's what it is.
Shadow Sun masters Khaoyan, which is the way of the patient hunter.
And this is basically what it says.
You lay in wait when the enemy comes. You jump out and you kill them.
It's very patient. It's very less casualty-inducing than something like Maut's Kha.
So they've ripped off the Raven Guard.
It's just like regular strategies that you would think of, but they're just put into Tau words.
There's a lot of Tau words that I don't know. You have to forgive me. I speak English, not Tau.
As we all know, the Raven Guard invented the concept of stealth. No one figured it out before them.
So Farsight becomes a master of Maut Kha under Pyrtae's tutelage.
And he gets sent off, basically.
Unfortunately, Shadow Sun and Kays get put into stasis.
But I guess, let's see, I believe the...
I'm trying to remember if the Damocles Crusade happens with them.
Yeah, it does. It totally does. Anyways, sorry.
So we go to Arconashia.
Arconashia is this wacky rust planet with rust storms that are seemingly like...
There's murmurs that these rust storms are sentient, almost.
The Aetherials, of course, say no to that. That's just ridiculous.
And superstition is wrong. There's no gods.
There's a whole emperor to Horus spiel. We all know how that went.
Yeah, and they couldn't elect one person. They're like, right, we're all going to just have seven of them go, yeah, yeah, gods.
Spoiler alert, the Farsight Rebellion is basically... it happens for the same reason of the Horus heresy, almost.
As they just told them about chaos, it probably wouldn't have happened.
As a slight aside as well, just for if someone is new to Warhammer, the Tau themselves, when they had their caste system, we've briefly touched on it.
The Aetherial castes are the ruling caste, and they're very much just... the way Tau society works is you just follow your set path.
Correct me if I'm wrong, Eli, isn't it? Their name, even Farsight's name, is literally just the job he does.
And if someone's saying, my name is where I live, so someone's like, I am London cleaner.
I am Norwich broom sweeper.
Yeah, it is like that. Norwich broom sweeper.
I'm not going to lie.
I mean, to be fair, how many medieval peasants were named Smith?
Oh, it's true, to be fair.
Is there an equivalent in Halo, Colin, of like... because I'm not as familiar, but it's like...
There's a slight hint of what's meant to be a communist influence.
I don't know, off the top of my head, I don't believe there's anything super similar, although the elites, they do add the suffix E to their names once they join the military.
So the Arbiter's name is Thelvedom, but when he joins the military, he's Thelvedome.
That's kind of cool. He's voiced by Keith David, who is amazing in community.
The Covenant and the Tower are basically the same thing.
I mean, the Covenant are a little bit more cooler.
And the Space Marine's activating grump birthday party when they go to fight the Tau.
Basically, they're conglomerate of Xenos, just like the Covenant, and the prophets are like literally copy paste Ethereals.
I mean, I guess other way around.
The Ethereals aren't questioned at all, though, in Tau society.
They have absolute authority.
And questioning the Ethereals is unheard of, and Farsight does it more than once before he becomes a traitor.
Because he's such a hothead.
The Ethereals...
Oh, sorry.
Oh, you first.
I was just going to say, I don't know if I'm jumping the gun, but I've heard possibly propaganda that they have like a pheromone or something that they use to control the populace.
Still like unconfirmed, technically, I think.
More or less what I was going to say, they smell so good that they mind control everyone.
They distribute links Africa to all these essence.
Axe body spray for Americans.
I was going to say, yeah, they've got the perfect Axe body spray.
Right, we're going to off to war, get the Axe out.
That's how they counter the mind control.
They bombard the planet with Axe bombs.
Okay, so where was I?
Arkunasha, or to the Orcs, they call it Orkunasha, I'm pretty sure.
Oh, come on, Orcs.
I love Orcs, to be fair.
They're such good relief, comic relief.
I could not find my Farisite Enclave supplement book, so I couldn't read the whole conflict, which I was really sad about because it has cool lore.
But basically, from what I remember, the Tau people are all in domes because you can't really survive outside.
Otherwise, you just live in a mad Maxwell world and you breathe dust and you die.
And there's sentience rust storms all around.
And now there's Orcs on Arkunasha and they're overrunning the place and they're like slaughtering Tau.
And Farisite shows up and becomes the hero of Arkunasha, which is one of his titles, one of his names.
And I believe this is also where he gets the name Farisite, if I remember correctly,
because he becomes famous for reading the enemy and knowing what they're going to do before it happens
and counter-attacking them before they even know what they're going to do.
He's Jotaro, or whatever, one of them.
The guy who says, and now you'll say, yeah, Joseph.
That's Joseph.
Joseph, the best one.
Yeah, he's Joseph Jostar.
Marshall the Joske.
He literally fights battles where it's like 100 to 1, 1000 to 1, like insane odds.
And he wins all the time, but it's still like a grinding, horrible war.
And he's there for 10 Tau Seer, which is basically 10 human years, which is like one sixth of a Tau's life.
They only live to like 60, 70-ish.
They have a pretty low lifespan.
They can get surgery similar to Imperials.
They can't be like immortal though, like the Imperial surgeries can.
They'll probably die eventually.
I'm just imagining a custodian looking at him, just doing that meme where it just says, pathetic.
He has some really epic battles on Arkunasha.
We won't talk about them today in detail, unfortunately.
But yeah, Farisite is freaking so cool.
If you somehow magically get the chance to pick up the old Farisite Enclave supplement book, you should.
But I mean, I'd be surprised if you could.
I'm just really bad at pirating things, so I couldn't find it.
We don't endorse that on all crimes.
I'm just saying that now before we get in trouble.
We are redacting that statement.
We buy all of our Warhammer books.
I actually buy surprising amount, I'm not gonna lie.
Because I'm technologically illiterate.
Listen, a criminal came into Eli's house and downloaded all of these free Warhammer torrents.
And Sword Art Online.
I'm gonna be in...
Three weeks from the date of this recording, Hal, I'm gonna be in England.
I'm gonna come kick your ass.
I'm gonna film it.
Now, if I remember correctly as well, here Farisite also...
Farisite invents the way of the Short Blade or the way of the Broken Sword.
Those are two different things.
I think Monk calls the way of the Short Blade and then Farisite creates the way of the Broken Sword.
Which is basically just fighting more than 100 meters away from your enemy.
Whoa, crazy, crazy, don't do that bro, you can't do that around here.
To be honest, when you said the way of the Broken Sword, I thought you were gonna say...
And then you have to go into a room and you have to find lots of disparate items and then see what you can combine to solve a puzzle.
But that's a very obscure reference to an old game.
Most notably though, Farisite makes the Book of the Beast.
Which is very sus by Tao standards, because you're not allowed to write if you're in the Firecast or play with LEGO.
Or...
Or read.
Yeah, or read.
You're all illiterate, you have guns.
When Omgwa catches the baby Firecast playing with Mega Bloks, he sends in the drones your way.
Oh my god.
Is this literally the meme of like, back when you were all reading, I was studying the blade?
Yeah, it's called Vashjial, which means between spheres.
And so Farisite starts getting allegations of being Vashjial.
Because if you do something else outside of your cast, they don't like it.
Imagine, like...
There's like in a high school, you know, you got like the Earthcast and like some mechanic is studying for an awesome test.
And then Farisite comes and pushes them in the lockers.
Doing nerds reading.
Dumps their head in the toilet and you see the other one coming out of their weird nose.
So Farisite in this Book of the Beast, he decipher the Orc language.
Even more sus, you can't just do that.
You can't do the Watercast job or else whack.
Otherwise we'll return to the Mont Tao and everyone's gonna kill each other again and we're all gonna die.
Oh yeah, so basically in the Tao's past, they were all killing each other because they were so...
The cast are so different than the Ethereals came from nowhere and fixed everything overnight magically.
You know, it's not vicious at all.
With the brilliant idea of how about you don't stab each other just for five minutes.
Yeah, basically the Firecast and the Earthcast were killing everyone.
Because the Firecast were the only guys who could lift a rock and the Earthcast were the only guys who could put two sticks together.
So naturally the Watercast...
The Diplomatic...
The really good Diplomats and the really good Airplane Flyers weren't so great when there was no Airplanes to fly and no Diplomacy to be had.
So the Ethereals fixed it and now you're not allowed to do anything that your cast wouldn't normally do.
So don't play Airplane, because they're on to us, they're literally gonna kill you.
So he makes the Book of the Beast, which yeah, he gets allegations of Vashjafor, but it's basically...
I don't know, it's really huge. It makes them understand the orcs.
At least the orcs they fight on Arkunashah.
They're in for a bit of a nasty surprise when they find the cunningly brutal orcs instead of the brutally cunning orcs.
Because they only understand the brutally cunning orcs right now.
He also discovers that the biggest orcs are the leaders, so they start killing the biggest orcs.
Yeah, they win on Arkunashah.
Or sorry, they don't. Fawcite doesn't win. He actually gets cut pretty hard. Pardon the language, I guess.
He dons the red armor though, that's where the red armor comes from, is Arkunashah, because it's a red rust planet.
So he dons the armor.
In the book, him and Brightsword and Bravestorm who become part of the Aelita, and I think Oblatai, they're all chilling on a hill.
And it's the climax of the war, and the war can be tipped with the balance of one hunter cadre, which is like a formation of units of warriors for the fire cast.
And they're waiting these reinforcements, and this orca drops down, and Fawcite's like, alright, you can fit a few units of crisis battle suit to a couple commanders.
And that's all he needs to win this war that he's been fighting ten years for.
And unfortunately, all that comes out of the orca is Gigachad, Anshi, and with his two ethereal guards.
And Anshi's the only ethereal that Fawcite really ever has a connection with.
And he like, he's a real one, basically, Fawcite says. He can tell that he's genuine.
And that even when he's delivering bad news, his smile makes it all better, and he's a nice guy.
He also, he fights orcs 1v1 in close combat, which is frickin' epic.
Yeah, he basically comes to Fawcite, and he says, there's gonna be no reinforcements, and it's time to go.
Sucks, bro. And that's it. No one knew how to say no to the ethereals at this point.
So they all leave the war, and unfortunately for them, if you leave orcs, you know, the orcs just come back and repopulate really quickly.
The fire cast does come back to Arkunashah and wins though, which perhaps proves Fawcite's point correctly that they could have just won then and there with some reinforcements.
And this is the first time of a bit of a pattern that the ethereals don't give reinforcements to Fawcite, but it gets a lot worse in the future.
So he comes back from Arkunashah, and bam, the imperials are there now, because the goofy Tau expanded a little too far into the Damocles Gulf,
and took some imperials planets. Yeah, they took some lightly defended imperial planets, and the Scarlords and the Ultramarines, if I have that correctly,
were sent to go dispatch the Tau and kill them, and they steamroll the first few planets, and then they come to a grinding halt at Dalith, one of the core sept worlds.
Fawcite and Shadow Sun battle the imperials here, and Fawcite kind of baffles them because the Tau fight at long range, and now all of a sudden this guy is fighting at short range, and he's really fast.
What the heck do we do about that? So he fights a real good war against the imperials, and technically the Tau win. Technically!
But it's only because I-fleet, Leviathan or Behemoth or whatever, Tyranid Highfleet, entered the galaxy and was going towards the Imperium,
and so the Ultramarines and Scarlords have more important things to do. They have bigger fish to fry.
They got an assist. That's all they got. Just five points instead of a full ten.
So they negotiate a peaceful retreat, and the Watercast tells everyone that, hey, we won! Woo!
But in reality, the Imperium was very close to breaking Dalith, and if they broke Dalith, because it was a war of attrition and the Imperium doesn't lose wars of attrition,
then they probably could have just gone into the Tau Empire and literally destroyed all of it.
So they were probably like, oh, how many people can we send? Like ten. Oh, that'll do. We can't spend two. We've got more important wars to fight.
We'll just send this many. Oh, is it a bit of a pain? We'll come back later. It's fine.
So if the Tyranids didn't show up, the Tau Empire might not exist right now. Not gonna lie. Maybe not to that extreme of an extent, but I don't know.
Farseid has some epic battles, though, and they record all of them and they play Farseid's battle with his bros pretty consistently throughout all the town squares and stuff for like the next, well, forever, basically.
Farseid becomes like a complete hero and Shaz Shazera doesn't get much attention because obviously Kalyan strikes and whatever are a lot less flashy than Big Moth Ka'a.
One hundred battles he was descending from the sky to burn alive all the space marines and kill everybody. It's a little more morale boosting, I guess.
Is that the meme with the guy who's got his arm around his girlfriend and what's the Shadow Sun one? Like his arm is around that girlfriend and he's looking behind and going, oh, and then it's like the Moth Ka'a, however.
And he's looking back at the other girl. Moth Ka'a is definitely a lot cooler and more Chad. Farseid actually values honor a lot more than other Tau because obviously Tau combat is not overly chivalric.
You just kill someone from three kilometers away and you're big cake. Oh no, they're fighting smart. Yeah.
A bunch of campers, cowards, fire up close. Come on. Yes, exactly. Exactly. Please run into range of my chainsword. I know you have a gun that can melt me from three miles away, but please don't use it. That's cringe.
But yeah, it's kind of even when you're reading the Tau books and you're like, oh, the Tau are cool. When they're talking about the Imperials, you almost want them to lose because the Tau think they're so great and like they're the best empire out there and no one can beat their might.
And the humans are so ignorant and like barbaric. But then they fight space Marines and it's like, oh, we're going to lose. There's nothing. And then they do lose. Yeah.
The Gweraan Shah is what they call space Marines and they're pretty scared of them. But like I said, Farseid and Shadow Sun successfully fend off the first Damocles crusade.
I don't remember what Cais is doing. Unfortunately, Cais has like two books and the first one is like 20 years old and the second one, he just shows up for a little bit and it's like kind of cringe.
He shows up and it's cringe. Oh man.
He was on Carava fighting the Blood Ravens.
Yeah, he's in Dawn of War. I don't know if you can count Dawn of War, Lord, that well. I mean, you can. You can. It doesn't really fit Cais though because he's not really a commander.
I think they just wanted to put him in because he's in the first video game. But his way of war is literally the one man army. So like he's not much of a commander.
You send him in and then everything else disappears.
It's like sly Marble, isn't it? Of a Tao. Yeah, he is literally a sly Marble of Tao. That's a good way to put it.
In his recent book, though, he fights some Dark Angels and he just like loses. And it's like, what the heck? What was the point of that?
Oof. Yeah.
Anywho, on Dilith, if I remember correctly, one of the Battlesuit bros, Monat as well, they have this like time stasis field and the chapter master of the Scarlords gets trapped in this time stasis field with this battlesuit.
And like, yeah, it's a cool little monument, I guess.
Scarlords want to come back someday and get him back, but I'm pretty sure the Scarlords are basically dead now because of what happens coming up here.
Sad for them, I suppose.
After Dan McCleese, though, they put Shadow Son and Kace to sleep, which is a field spaff of Farsight because they're his two only friends basically.
Well, the two that he can really relate to because Commander of Pyrrhotai's training is like an inhuman, you would like no one would ever understand the things that they went through except for each other.
I guess before they put them to sleep, they have this little council, though, and they call Farsight and his buddies. All to the, what's it called, elemental council.
Shadow Son is there. Kace is not because who knows what Kace is doing literally ever.
Yeah, no.
But they tell him basically that they're going to retake the Dan McCleese gulf that was taken away by the Imperials and they want Farsight to do it instead of Shadow Son.
And Shadow Son has more victories under her belt and she doesn't have the stain of defeat like Arkunasha.
And so she's pretty grumpy and Farsight even says, why not Shadow Son? And they just said, because I said so.
And in this part, we meet poor Malkor, which is a watercast fellow who is a little weird because he can't lie.
And the watercasts are all about lying because they're diplomats and politicians, so it's all they're good at.
So they give him the worst diplomat ever.
Yeah, so he only tells the blunt truth. But naturally, Farsight's into that. So he takes him along.
Unfortunately for, I don't remember her name, but poor Malkor's mentor.
Poor Malkor talks out in the elemental council and he basically tells them that the Aetherials want to get rid of Farsight.
And he speaks out against the Aetherials. And him and his mentor get called to a summons and he doesn't show up because he's busy killing an Earthcast guy because he's insane.
Yo, what's going on, bro? Who is this guy?
He's, he's, he's, there's something about him that we'll talk about later.
I guess I'll come up pretty quickly. But his, this little scene where his mentor is talking with Anva, who's not Aetherial Supreme at the moment, becomes Aetherial Supreme later, he dies.
The Imperials kill him.
But at this point, Anva tells her to take out her bond knife, which is something most Tao have because they make bond mates with other people in their cast basically.
And it's like an unbreakable bond of brotherhood and sisterhood and stuff. And he says, take out your knife and kill yourself. And she does. And that's the end of her.
And this is the first little showcase of the Aetherials kind of, you know, you don't question the Aetherials or you disappear forever.
And she did it because like, I think I remember this, like she does, does it with the knife, but then she, she's even conscious of doing it.
She always like her body moves by itself, doesn't it? It's really creepy.
Oh, I should also say, I forgot to mention after the Damocles crusade, the Aetherials commanded Ovasa, which is one of Farzai's buddies.
He's an Earthcast genius. He's, but he's kind of like the friend that you disagree with on everything, but you're still friends. Even though you like, he ticks you off all the time.
And he makes Farzai angry all the time. He like kind of like ignores. He misses the point a lot.
And in like sensitive situations, he was just kind of like, oh, like we lost five million, billion dudes in this experiment.
That's okay, because I made this experiment for the greater good. And then Farzai's like, bro, now you killed five million, billion people.
That's cringe, bro. And Ovasa doesn't really get it and he doesn't care.
But he's a genius and he also is kind of, what's the word, eccentric, like Farzai. So Farzai keeps him around. He's like his personal scientist almost.
Ovasa creates this thing called the Pure Tide Ingram chip, which has Pure Tide's brain on it. And you put it into commanders.
And it's basically like kind of like the Codex Astartes, but for the Tau. And now they have a chip in their brain that lets them adapt to any situation and kind of have Pure Tide's vision to take over.
I love that. Like, oh, like Codex Astartes is like, we made this high tech chip, blah, blah, blah. And Codex Astartes is like, a book will do.
Right. You just need a book. It seems like so complicated for the parallel.
But this kind of lets them like, it kind of lets Pure Tide like, what's the word, possess them almost. Unfortunately, they can't really, there's some issues with the project and they can't really come back from the possession.
So the Ethereals order it to be removed. And in order for them to be removed, they have to be lobotomized and just become these grueling messes of Tau. Unfortunately, they are the blades of Pure Tide.
They're really cool. And then, you know, bad stuff happens.
But Shavastos, one of Farsight's friends who also becomes part of the Eighth Later, has this Pure Tide chip in him. And Farsight lies to Anva when he's supposed to be bringing Shavastos to be lobotomized.
And if I remember correctly, he basically like tells him that Shavastos was killed in duty.
And from Farsight's perspective, he claims that Anva knows that he lied to him. And like lying to an Ethereal's face is like, you die. Like it's a death sentence. It's unheard of.
And this is the first time he kind of lies to an Ethereal and it haunts him like forever. But he still does it and he saves his friend.
And Ovaeus is in on it too. And Ovaeus is okay with it, I guess, because he just wants to experiment on Shavastos because he's kind of crazy.
We do see Shavastos later. So he lies to Anva. That's a good detail to leave in, which is probably why they want him to go on the damn Luclis crusade.
Because they kind of just want to get rid of him and like go spend your last few fighting years fighting off the Imperials.
And then his last conversation with Pure Tide, he goes up for some wisdom. And Pure Tide tells him, don't trust them all.
Right after this, the Ethereals have Farsight bring up a little jellyfish mind device to put on Pure Tide so that they can trace his memory and make an AI out of him.
Because according to the Ethereals, he's not going to live for much longer, which confuses Farsight because he thinks, last time I saw him, he was old.
But he was like, he's like that invigorated old where you're at, you know, what's the interstellar guy, you know, go into the light fighting or whatever.
I don't know the whole spiel. But he's in the winter of his years, but he has a long time ahead of him. So Farsight's a little confused about this.
He puts the jellyfish thing on his head and it basically kills Pure Tide, unfortunately.
It traces his memory and they make it almost perfect AI of him. But it does lead to his death. So this also haunts Farsight.
And this is a common theme where someone who doesn't trust the Ethereals or someone who wants to speak out against the Ethereals just disappears.
Who knows what happens to them? I don't know, they died of old age or, you know, poorly photoshopped footage of them dying on the battlefield or whatever.
So the Ethereals are basically 40K's version of Stalin. Does people disappear? They're like, oh, they're crossed off from pictures.
Basically. So now we're going to launch the Danithes Crusade and it's this gigantic gathering of all the castes.
There's like, the sky is blotted out by aircast ships. It's a really cool little thing.
Farsight gives a little speech and the weight on his shoulders is immense. He can't even like...
Farsight's a little worried at this point. He brings poor Mal'Kor along with him, which is good to remember.
And his personal pilot, Kor-O-Li-Mao-Tang, who's this really kindly old guy who's just a really good pilot, but he kind of is more a little important later.
They go out onto the expedition and Farsight stays awake for the journey, which most Tau don't, because Tau don't live very long and they don't have faster than light travel.
Because, I don't know, they can't travel in the warp, but they use Zed-A-Far engines. If you must say Zed instead of Zee, which they do in the book, so I'll say it.
I'm Canadian, so I should say Zed anyways. I'm a Zee fan, not going to lie.
Be better than you are, say Zee.
What do you mean, World War Zed? That film.
Alright, first of all, book.
Oh yeah, because you haven't seen films, have you?
I have seen the film and it was nothing like the book.
Of all the films to have seen as well, with your track record.
My dad wanted to see it, so we watched it, my grandma's, and it sure was a zombie movie.
And you haven't seen Short of the Dead before? Oh gosh.
I mean, I never said I didn't see it. I also very pointly didn't mention seeing it.
Far Asight stays up for the long haul. They call it like the...what do they call it?
The something of years, the price of years, something like that.
Which the aircast nobly takes, because obviously your pilots can't really go to sleep.
I mean, they kind of can't. Doesn't matter.
Poor Mal'Kor stays awake and kills another guy.
He's living his best life and he got bullied because he couldn't tell lies, so he kills this guy.
He wakes him up in cryostasis and overloads him with stimulants and drugs.
And the guy bashes his head against this window until he explodes and dies and bleeds to death.
It's something. There's the Warhammer. There's the grimdart five.
There's the Warhammer we all know and love.
I will say Fire Warrior, the case book, is like a perfect Warhammer book.
We should say that. You should read it. It's a perfect grimdart, really gritty, bloody book.
You don't get that as much anymore. It feels like...
Is it still with the video game cover where he's like sat...
Oh yeah. It's only Pirate's Calls.
...he's nailed on a big pyramid of skulls.
Yeah. It's such a cool book.
To be fair, I read it when I was like 12 years old, so it might not be as good as I remember, but I like to think it is.
Anyways, we should probably keep talking about Far Asight.
I'm sorry, viewers, if you came for an hour and a half long episode, I have bad news. We're gonna be here for a while.
So on the...the Dawn Pioneer...
Wait, no, no, no. Is the Dawn Pioneer a Halo ship? Or am I right?
Pretty sure the Dawn Pioneer is the Flay ship that fires up at dawn.
Yeah, no, that's the Door of Mordem that's forward onto dawn.
Yeah, okay. So the Dawn Pioneer is the Tau ship.
Far Asight spends most of his time studying and talking a little bit with his psychic...this Inquisitor, who is a Biomancer.
The Tau don't know that, though.
She used to say Gwaevesa, which is a human helper.
Is that right? I think so.
But her name is Vikala Niv Harat.
It goes by...oh man.
Something Dalak. They call her Mistress Dalak.
She's an Inquisitor of the Ordo Zenos, and she's undercover kind of investigating the Tau.
So she's there. She talks with Far Asight a bit. She has, you know, the Tarot card on her forehead.
I didn't know how big the Emperor's Tarot was until recently.
I guess a lot of people take it really seriously. Makes sense.
But she's a cool little Psycher who hangs out with them and helps them understand some of the Imperial stuff.
She was on Dalith, and they captured her.
And being the silly Tau that they are, just assumed that these prisoners would be fine to take on as advisors.
And they have no ulterior motives whatsoever.
I mean, the Tau seem to have naivety as a character trait more than anything.
They're extremely naive.
I should say, poor Malkor, before this all happened, he was investigating an Imperial warp drive.
And he was there to translate the Imperial Ruins on it, because he translates foreign languages as his thing.
And he touches the warp drive by accident, and then he starts killing people all of a sudden.
And he cuts his tongue into two like a snake.
Ugh.
He's a fun little guy. Goofy little guy.
All of a sudden, oh no, the Scarwarch showed up, and they're gonna kill us all.
And they launch a boarding assault on the Dawn Pioneer, and I have a bit of a hard time understanding this part,
because the way it was worded, the Dawn Pioneer was like, hours ahead of the rest of the fleet.
For some reason. It's the flagship, which makes sense.
But they don't have time to get reinforcements to the Dawn Pioneer, because it's so far away from everyone else.
I don't really know why.
It's because Tau had terrible strategy, I suppose.
They shoot from the back, and they took that two literally with the space warfare.
They're like, we'll stay all the way back here.
I maybe just misunderstood something. I guess, I don't know.
Korol Lee Mountaing is flying the ship, though. No, he's in a Manta.
There's another pilot who's a little bit important, but we'll ignore him for now, I guess.
So the Scarward Lords show up with the Chapter Master with his command squad, launches a boarding assault on the Dawn Pioneer.
Unfortunately for the Tau, everyone is asleep, except for a few people.
Mainly Bravestorm and Oblitai.
Those are the only two guys of note who are awake, plus a few Firecast bros.
I guess we should say another character. There's a lot of characters.
Bravestorm on Dalith.
He 1v1s lots of Imperial tanks and stuff with an honor gorgonlet, which is just a power fist for a battlesuit.
They got some melee. They have a little bit of melee.
Him and Brightsword, which is a clone. Brightsword died in the battle against the Imperials originally.
Brightsword uses the fusion blades, which are fusion blasters, but they're always on, and their blades are melee weapons.
But Bravestorm is alive.
He was mortally wounded, though, and now he's basically in a dreadnought.
But for Tau, he's still alive in the current lore, so I assume it works like a regular dreadnought where he just lives forever.
If it's a Tau dreadnought, could you call it a Treadnought?
Yuck.
Bravestorm is this very noble, self-sacrifice kind of guy.
He has a huge hatred for the Imperials, so he gets kind of crazy when he fights them, and he's very headstrong.
Headstrong is a very common theme amongst Farsight and his buddies.
Bravestorm and Oblatai go to intercept the Imperials where they can, so they split up.
Bravestorm does a really good job at first, but then he gets his butt kicked by the Chaffee Master and some other guys.
As it should be, because they're space marines and they're in Terminator armor.
Oblatai does a good job for a while, but then he loses to a squad of space marines as well and uploads his consciousness into a stealth suit.
And he kills some other characters, goes back, whatever.
So he's a VTuber now.
Farsight was told by Ovesa that there's an experimental battle suit that he's working on prior.
And this experimental battle suit happened to be in the hangar, and Ovesa basically tricked him into using it as a test subject.
Ovesa's asleep right now, mind you. And Farsight gets a blip from poor Malkor, who conveniently knows about warp drives,
and that the Imperial ship came out of translation too quickly, and if Farsight damages the warp drive, it'll cripple the entire ship.
Farsight doesn't know how he knows this, but he trusts him, because he's blunt and he hasn't heard him lie yet.
So Farsight takes the experimental battle suit, which is a Coldstar battle suit, which is just on the tabletop, it's just really fast.
I don't know if it's the same anymore, but last edition you can move like 60 inches in one turn with it if you want to.
Shite. That's a lot.
Yeah. Farsight takes this battle suit, and he goes out into space to literally 1v1 the entire Imperial battle cruiser of the Scarlords, like their flagship.
He throws up to the ship, and Coldstar is an AI, and he eventually becomes friends with this AI, they have a little dynamic.
Excuse me. He times it correctly so that he can enter the ship through the gun hatch, or sorry, through a gun, like a cannon.
That was sick.
Yeah. He goes in there, he takes the burst cannon and like slaughters all the Imperial Navy men, poor guy.
And poor Mal'Kor also conveniently knows where exactly the warp drive is, and how to get to it.
So Farsight gets to it, he has to leave his battle suit, he has a bit of a tassel with these giant servitor things, and he gets them to kind of destroy the warp drive for him.
And then, oh, these wacky, spooky, weird Xenos creatures that look like they're made out of shadows and nightmares are all of a sudden appearing on the ship, and I don't know where these came from,
but there's definitely not another dimension, and demons don't exist, so it's just a weird Xenos race that's somehow here now.
And it starts to invade the Scarlet ship, Farsight flees, gets a bit of a tassel with a Hell Drake, which has also appeared from the warp now, after the warp drives are damaged.
And then, while this is happening on the bridge of the Dawn Pioneer, not the bridge, just wherever the watercasts are, poor Mal'Kor showed up to kill another guy, and I think he actually does successfully, but space marines show up.
And poor Mal'Kor fends off the space marines with some real sus magic that Tau aren't supposed to have.
Yeah, I wonder where that's going. Mind science, they call it. It's so tilting. The Tau call psychic powers mind science, and it perplexes them every time, because they have no idea how they're doing it.
There's no logical explanation.
They're like, what are those things? They're just mind ghosts? Science ghosts? They're science ghosts. It's fine.
The true mind science is knowing how to do your taxes correctly.
Yeah.
Hardly a far shot from what the Emperor was saying. Yeah, true.
What are those things? Ah, they're aliens. Why do they keep appearing across the galaxy? Don't worry about it.
Fine, don't worry about it. You got a bolter. You'll be fine.
So, yeah, Farsight causes a demon incursion. And when he touches the warp drive, I'm pretty sure he touches it. He touches something and he gets this flash of a vision and he sees himself kind of as this melting statue.
And he sees Shadow Son pointing her gun at him with the intent to kill him and shattering him as a statue, which later does happen in the future after Farsight's betrayal is made public, even though it's not like...
His betrayal isn't really even a betrayal. He just doesn't come back home. And so the Aetherias are like, oh, he's a bad guy. We hate him now.
I mean, that is going AWOL.
Yeah, it's true. I don't even know if they expected him to come home though, because like, that's for later. Whatever.
So he has visions of the future and this odd symbol of a hexagrammaton, which he remembers for later, which comes in handy.
He leaves, obviously, fights with the Helldrake, survives. Li-Mao-Tang actually picks him up in his big manta, which is a cool little moment.
And while he's unconscious in this manta, because he was rendered unconscious and basically dead from the fight, the Aetherials... sorry, Epistolary, the Epistolary of the Scar Lords senses the warp breach on their ship and decides that there's nothing they can do about it.
So they have to abandon ship basically. So naturally, like a true Imperial, they set the ship for a ramming course to the Dawn Pioneer.
And the Dawn Pioneer cannot escape this because there's no time. I don't know, I think you can say whatever you want in space combat and it counts because it's technically never happened before.
Our ship's gonna bash.
Yeah. So I guess the Imperials go towards them and the Dawn Pioneer can't escape for whatever reason.
And the Aetherials have all the higher ranks evacuated from the Dawn Pioneer because the ship has the majority of the Tau fleet on it who are just sleeping.
They have everyone of We Rank, if I'm correct... yeah, that's correct. They have everyone of We Rank and higher evacuated, but not any of the basic troop ranks.
So how they still have manpower after this is kind of hard to tell, but they do, I guess it is said that they lose a third of their manpower in this.
When Farseid comes to, they've crossed the gulf. Everything's fine because, I mean, they did destroy the Imperial ship. The Scar Lords had to run away.
But Farseid discovers that the Aetherials commanded this evacuation and let thousands of Tau die and he was extremely angry and he publicly gets mad at the Aetherials and yells at them.
It's unheard of and everyone's shocked and it's insane. It doesn't seem much to us, but I don't know what a good anthology would be.
Well, he's just like, oh, you can't criticize the Supreme Leader. How dare you? That's naughty.
Yeah, I guess if you were just some bro and you stood up and went to Kim Jong-un and told him that he's...
I was thinking, yeah, if you lived in North Korea and you were like, hang on a minute...
The Aetherials forgive him this one time, but they say if he does it again, then he'll be publicly exiled or executed, basically.
They also tell Farseid after killing a third of their fleet that there's no reinforcements on the way either.
Wow, that happened again?
Yeah. He has to make do with what they have because it makes a little bit of sense.
It is almost fair because they Tau lost a ton of manpower in the Damocles crusade with the Imperium, obviously,
and the Aetherials already sent basically everything on this third sphere expansion, so they don't really want to commit anything else.
So Farseid has to make do with what he has, but it is enough through Farseid's wacky means, thinking outside the box.
They arrive on Viola, which is not Viola. It's Viola's sister planet, basically.
It's this world covered in volcanoes, and there's some jungle, and it's just really hot.
It's the energy breadbasket of the system, of the enclaves, is what they call it.
Perfect for the Imperials, who create these factories inside of the volcanoes, basically.
The Tau were enslaved on this planet, and every time they've tried to start an uprising, they fail.
There's little scenes where they have conveyor belts with Tau prisoners on them, and they're getting thrown into the lava,
basically becoming energy for the Imperial factory.
Sounds about right. Sounds efficient.
Obviously, Farseid's not too pleased about this.
They make planetfall on Viola, because I guess there's nothing keeping them from doing that.
I still don't understand how void warfare works, so maybe I'm just stupid.
But they make planetfall, and they meet up with Shadow Sun's pupil, Moata, who is master of Khaoyan.
We'll work well with Farseid, because Farseid's bad at it.
They work together in guerrilla warfare, destroying armored convoys and other such things where they can.
Then they assault the factories, and they have these big battles with the Ajmec.
The garrison on the planet still outnumbers the Tau, like 2 or 3 to 1, I'm pretty sure.
They try to defeat them one time with a big, fast assault. Farseid's relying on these horribly impoverished...
The classic Imperial worker who's downtrodden and enslaved and has the worst life ever.
Farseid thinks if they launch a big Monte-Kha on one of these factories and start fighting,
that the factory workers will join them and have an uprising against their overseers.
Unfortunately, as they're fighting, the Imperial workers just keep working, even as they're getting gunned down and everything by the crossfire.
It's a very depressing sight for the sad dogs of the Imperium.
But hey, they're doing their due diligence.
They're doing their daily prayers, and they're doing a good job.
That's right.
But they fight the Ajmec and quickly find out that the Ajmec and Imperial guard have unlimited resources.
And even though they're creating mountains of bodies on the other side of the room, they're starting to lose the battle.
So they have to retreat for a while and think of a new plan.
So Farseid decides to do some little Vashia stuff and works with Ovesa to come up with this plan to use these seismic fibrillator-type things
that will trigger volcanic eruptions all across the world.
This would basically render the world useless for the Imperials because all of their factories are in the volcanoes,
which the Tau are quick to criticize because it's inefficient and brutish and whatever.
And so they do this in a bit of a close battle.
Farseid and his team put the seismic fibrillators and have to defend them for a while.
And Epistulaire, whatever his name is, I forgot, the Psyker of the Scarlords, comes down and brings the command squad
and fights Farseid and his guys. And they almost win actually. They're really close to winning.
It's a nice little showing because sometimes the power scaling of Space Marines is so like inconsistent between authors.
And previously we kind of saw Battlesuit's wrecking house when it came to Space Marines.
But now that the command squad is here, they're kind of kicking butt and they're pushing back Farseid and his buddies.
And Farseid 1v1s this Psyker and the Psyker becomes, I don't know, like air, like water basically.
And all of Farseid's attacks are just passing through him and stuff.
While this is happening though, poor Mal'Kor is delivered. He works with poor Mal'Kor as well.
So again, this Vashjast stuff is working with the Watercast and he's working with Ovasa, the Earthcast, to get this done.
Poor Mal'Kor, they sneak into a broadcasting station basically.
And he causes an uprising with his blood's truths towards the workers.
They have an uprising going on which is helping them a lot now because that was the original plan.
And he's fighting this Psyker. He eventually kind of wins and he pushes him into the lava.
But the Psyker has this epic moment where he emerges from the flames.
He has this big giant flame avatar and he's like the Emperor's Angel and yada yada.
But then Nicola, the Psyker, and poor Mal'Kor with some, again, sus magic kind of neutralize him.
And the day is eventually won when the seismic fibrillators go off and the entire world erupts in magma.
Like doomsday basically.
And obviously all of the humans that they got to get into an uprising are instantly killed, but they don't care.
The Tiles don't actually care. You can join the Tiles if you want.
That's why you don't help the Xenos.
Yeah, join the greater good, bro. You definitely are not going to be castrated and enslaved and put on the front lines.
Definitely not.
Because the guard doesn't do that.
No, they certainly do.
This whole episode. Okay, go ahead, Undy, sorry. Go ahead.
I was just going to say you can tell that the Scar Lords weren't going to win though because when you look at their wiki page, they don't have like any designs.
You're a filler chapter.
I was going to say this whole episode though is basically like dunking on Andy's favorite and then suddenly being like, actually, we're just as bad.
It's like, oh God.
It's a thing. It's like they're chipping away at like a tenth of a tenth of a tenth of a tenth of a millionth of the Imperial war effort.
So it's all right. It's fine.
They killed a chapter with no logos. I don't care. Send the white scars.
Yeah, the Eli giving lore and then me and Andy taking pot shots over.
Yeah, it's our unfortunate because they fired off the Space Marines like, oh, it is so great.
We fought off the Imperium.
And but like the reality is they fought one chapter and out of like thousands of Space Marine chapters.
Yeah.
Is it true that the first Space Marine that they ever saw they fought was the Emperor?
I don't know. I think it was the first I think the first chapter master they killed.
Like, oh, we killed the Emperor.
Now you didn't.
I'm a Tao fan.
Not going to lie, but only kind of only kind of.
Yeah, you like them and then you read their books and they're so arrogant.
Like the LR at least have some base to be arrogance.
Like they have they can kind of have an actual empire.
The Tao Empire is great, but they can't see the bigger picture.
I can't believe Andy is saying that about the LR.
Oh, yeah.
Wow.
So some got past the internal sensors.
People in the chat need to remember this day.
So the chapter master, the Scar Lord, sees that his command squad died, which is actually it feels bad kind of because they're cool.
And he decides to order exterminatus classic because I mean, to be fair, the planet is useless now to them and the towers going to take it back.
So he decides to order exterminatus.
Somehow, Farseid sees this plan already happening and he sends Oblatae who might be Oblatae is now an AI.
He's not actually I didn't say that before.
He's an AI. He's a perfect replica of the old Oblatae who taught Farseid.
And this the old Oblatae died in an experiment where Ovesa tried to like resurrect an orc basically in this experiment went a little bit wrong and the orc broke his shackles and killed Oblatae.
So, again, a little bit of clashing between Ovesa and Farseid.
They have little arguments about that, actually.
But Oblatae gets sent up in this like one man ship and he detonates, he like shoots the exterminatus warheads before they can get far enough and he destroys the Scar Lord's fleet, or at least their ship.
And I'm pretty sure that's the end of the Scar Lords to my knowledge.
I'm not sure if they're still alive today, but I'm pretty sure they're all dead.
Luckily for Oblatae.
I'm in the BK, who cares?
Luckily for Oblatae, he's able to upload his consciousness to another thing and becomes the next incarnation of Oblatae, which is like, I think, four.
Oblatae 4-0.
Nowadays, Oblatae is 9-0, so it happens quite a lot.
But I mean, like it makes sense.
If you had if you can just sacrifice yourself over and over again, you might as well.
So that's Viorlas.
They've taken Viorlas and they it doesn't really explain the taking of the other steps world.
I'm not sure if there is much of an imperial presence on them or not, because they just kind of take them and that's it.
So I guess it wasn't.
But there's like four main sceptre worlds that they take and they're pretty neat.
They're Seleshe, Tenecla, Lub-Gral, and then of course Viorlas.
I think Hal had a favorite two, if you wanted to talk about them now, Hal, or you can wait till later.
I can. I've got a pick two that would definitely off my end, shall we say.
I'll start with the Tenecla, if I'm saying it right.
So this one is probably my favorite because this is a crystal world.
And the idea of that is like Warhammer worlds are usually like it's either like dirty, like grin, you know, it's just basically mud and brick most of the time.
But this is kind of like this hits like a new level of sci fi.
It's kind of a bit more like is anyone here play Stellaris?
It's like a bit more like that vibe, shall we say.
I love Paradox's war crime simulators. I'm a big fan of them.
Luckily, you'll be right up there on this one.
It's a little bit weird this one where like the different cars, they live in like different places.
So the air car and like floating pods that like are kind of above the planet.
And then there's apparently the planet is also like transparent, which is like really bizarre to me.
Like I don't quite, could you imagine an entire planet?
Like you know when you're a young girl, you look over, like if you showed like a room with your sibling, your sibling is giving you the middle finger across the room or something.
Someone could do that for an entire planet.
And like the Earth cars themselves, they've stripped the planet of like any like things that get out of the way.
So it's kind of the whole planet is basically a geometrically like perfect surface.
Dude, they turned into like perfect hexagons the whole planet around. It's really cool.
It's pretty, it's pretty out there to be fair.
And my other favorite one was, I'm not going to pronounce this right, Salashii Hey, which is basically.
So is it Salashii Hey or Salashii?
Salashii.
It sounds the same in the book, I just assume that's how.
Sounds like a something you put on, you know, a packet or something you pour on your meal.
I don't know. I thought it sounded like you would go to like an Irish pub and they have a cocktail and it's like you want to Salashii?
Yeah, that would be good.
Well, this planet is again weird because basically just it describes it as like a collection of giant moon signs, moon sized globes of liquid that orbit a sun, which obviously is mental, isn't it?
It's insane. And apparently like it states like when like meteors like pass into one of them, like basically it breaks up a little bit essentially.
So I don't even know how even it's basically just a massive. It's my sci-fi universe. I get to decide the physics.
I mean, there are massive blobs of like, I think they've seen massive blobs of water in space.
Like it can happen.
Why? What's the point?
It's a natural phenomenon. It just happens sometimes.
I thought they built it.
They needed a reason to say that this is the watercast planet.
The watercast kind of just this is their home a bit on the nose.
But to be fair, we're into Warhammer. So a bit on the nose is kind of our thing.
I like the fire cast as being like, and this is our fire cast planet.
And then the salamander is going cute. Look at our planet. This is the real fire planet.
Since you brought it up.
Oh, sorry. Were you finished?
I finished. I finished. Go ahead.
Since you brought it up, I have to ask, do you have a favorite favorite Stellaris war crime?
Oh, this is tricky.
My personal favorite is the guy who went to war with an empire captured some of their planets,
turned the species on the planets he captured into food and then sold that food back to the empire he conquered it from.
Yikes.
That's awesome.
I'm kind of more of the like, you know, the world, like the disaster events, you know, the one where like,
oh, you are kind of you meet the planet and it's full of like little it literally is like lizard men that are tiny.
And they're like, they're very primitive.
But then if you let them onto your ship or by accident and they're like, yeah, they're monsters.
They're so aggressive and like tiny.
My war crime is not that my war crime list is not heavy, though.
That's a shame. You're not a true paradox player.
Oh, David, my Crusader Kings.
Let's just say incest is wincest.
Oh, no.
I don't want to play the game. It always ends up that way.
I may I may like the Zenos in 40K, but in Stellaris, there is no war crime or two heinous, two heinous not to justify in some way.
You would make the Imperium blush.
I wouldn't make I make the Imperium look like rookies in the field of alien murder.
So I made a mod for it, didn't they?
If the primitives didn't want to be annihilated, they wouldn't have been born on a planet that had rare resources on it.
Lord. But those are those like my kind of they're kind of the best ones, you know, basically crystal planet.
You're not so fancy. You're lost. It's just the jungle volcano place.
And the other one, Love growl, love growl, love growl, I think, is the Earth planet.
Like that's it. There's ravines and it's desert.
The Earthcast like it because it's good for testing weapons and, you know, bombing random locations because there's nothing to bomb.
It's just dirt, you know, little little Earthcast stuff.
Those are the main planets. There's more.
But I don't think they're really mentioned much, at least we see a new player into the game now.
And this is war boss Grog Iron Tooth of I don't remember what clan he's part of.
He's just a free booter, I believe him and his bros, his boys, I guess I should say, fought on Arkunasha.
Also, the orcs call Farsight to the Red Runt, which is nice, and they call the Tao Gun Runts, which is fun.
So boss Iron Tooth and his buddies are parlay with Captain Badruck and they hire his services to try to battle with the Tao in the War of Daka.
Because their dream is to out Daka the Tao and beat them at their own game.
Because the orcs, they freaking hate the Tao. The Tao are like the worst opponents ever.
It's true to you, it's so lame.
But they have some skirmishes in space and Farsight actually accompanies Li Mao Tang, his pilot, on the fancy Manta on a bit of a scouting mission to go check out the orcs.
And they have a bit of a tassel. Things go kind of badly and there's an issue.
But we see Farsight try to save Tang's young pupil, whose name I can't remember for the life of me.
And there's kind of like an other aircast girl there, she's just like this normie who doesn't really get it.
This normie.
Like Li Mao Tang and the other guy and Farsight are all talking and she keeps being like, what? That's crazy. That's fast. Yeah.
You can't say that about that and blah blah blah.
And Tang, in secret, over the little comms feed, when they're talking about the ethereals, he tells Farsight, he basically says, I have some opinions about our glorious leaders myself.
Which he shouldn't have said over the comms feed because they're always listening.
To be another thing, I guess, Oblatae made this frequency that emits kind of like this wacky white noise that disrupts all the recording devices around.
And he turns it on whenever they talk about things that the ethereals wouldn't like.
That's kind of how Farsight gets around saying things he's not supposed to.
But he can't use it very often and they actually do take it away from him eventually because I think they find out that's what he's using.
But the ship has some damage to it from the orc asteroid and Farsight risks his life to save Tang's pupil by cutting him out of his chair.
And the one lady on there is like, you have to go, you're too important. You're the head of the expedition. You can't die here.
And Farsight says, no, I'm going to save him. Even though in the back of his head he knows he has to save him.
She points her gun at him. That's to the point of how important she sees it. But whatever.
Farsight then takes his Cold Star battle suit and 1v1s an entire ship again.
Not going to lie, I was having a hard time paying attention in the like five minutes that this happened in the book.
So I don't know all the details, but it happened. He 1v1s the ship again.
And that's the important part of that.
The orcs, he then goes back to the ethereals and the ethereals tell him that the orcs are going to this planet called Atarivo, which is another city.
Or sorry, another planet. And they say, you can't go. You have to stay here and make sure that the Sephiroth, like the main Sephiroth, are defended.
And in another unspeakable act of treason, Farsight decides to not listen to this and go to Atarivo to help them.
And multiple times, whenever he disobeys and does something he's not supposed to, and like Brightsword is like, bro, you can't do that.
And Farsight's like, yeah, I can. And it's too important, so the watercast will just make something up and make it look like it was supposed to happen so I can get away with whatever I want.
And he's right. He knows how to play the system.
Brightsword is his main pupil. I should say he's a part of a cloning program, a classified cloning program, because he keeps dying because he's very headstrong and goofy.
But they have him on call to be cloned.
And he talks really weirdly. He gives everyone a nickname. I don't know how to describe it.
Like whenever he talks to Farsight, depending on what is happening, he'll say, like, I don't know, greetings, bold one.
Or like when he's missing an arm on Arthas Moloch, he's like, he calls him armless one.
Or if he's talking to me or calling, he'd say balding one.
Balding one. Target the hairline. His true weakness.
All ships fired will.
Burn that receding hairline.
Yeah, he's, Farsight basically tells him everything. He's close. He's very close with him and Bravestorm and Obelisk Eye.
The other members of the Aids are kind of like newer to the setting, which we see with Shazzo Arakan, who comes into the play.
And Farsight leaves Arakan to watch over the Seps worlds that he's about to leave, and he heads out to Atarivo. And it's an absolute horrible disaster.
So first, the orcs land and blow up this city with their big asteroid. And they don't know about it soon enough.
So the Aetherials command a retreat and they have everyone of like, I think it's like Vray ranking or higher, which so it's like pretty high ranking.
So millions of people are going to die. Only those ranks get to evacuate. The rest are like, they just leave there because they don't have time.
So all those people die. Oh, well, I guess the orcs don't care.
It was really cool in the book, though, because they had they had a poor connection on the feed.
So they actually recorded and used sound effects to make it like a cutting out comms feed.
They used they actually had a few parts in the book where it's kind of an audio drama.
So it's worth to listen to if you have audible or whatever. Please sponsor us. Please sponsor us.
Please like there are a few of those where they've like I've done the Horus heresy series when there's no no stuff like that.
But some of the collections like they did one the Knights Errant and they had like sound effects.
And there's a bit where Loken and Luthor are having a conversation is like it's in a dungeon.
There's like water dripping and noises of like cell doors. It's really cool what they do with those.
But they're kind of rare. You find. Yeah.
The first book starts out with an impute with a Tao propaganda commercial and it has sound effects. It's really cool.
Yeah. So they go to the idea of them going, I'm doing my part at the beginning.
Ah, good reference. Um, I might be committing a little crime by saying that the planets call Atari Ville.
Atari Ville might be the city. I don't remember. I don't think it's a big deal, though.
Um, Farseid shows up and they have a quarantine going for this big asteroid that ran into the planet to keep the orcs out.
But they don't want to engage with them so that they'll, you know, they'll just result in fighting or whatever.
And Farseid doesn't want this because he's used to the orcs of Arcanashia who they don't want them to kill everyone and spread like the orcs do.
And he has a lot of PTSD from Arcanashia and he really just doesn't. He does not want to lose the orcs again.
So he watches his big Mothka strike. Unfortunately, these are the cunningly brutal orcs, not the brutally cunning orcs.
Big mistake, Farseid. So Captain Badruk and Grog hatch this trap on Farseid and his guys.
And they have to wait until Farseid and his hunter cadre are in range of their asteroid thing.
And they activate the force field and essentially like trap them and kill them all.
And they have a lot of flash kits with them. So there's tons of Daka. So they're just like obliterating these poor Tau.
And in the end, only Farseid and his commanders escape basically.
And there's huge casualties. It's like this huge shame on Farseid's record and it's very, very bad.
And he's like, he's put to shame as well because he dissipated the ethereals and then he lost as well.
But yeah, it's one of the first times that we actually see Farseid lose, which is nice because you don't see characters lose a lot in Warhammer novels.
I feel like he's won all the time. He is a genius, but he has not.
It's another example of the Tau not encountering something before. So they had no idea it was going to happen.
He didn't know that orcs could be smart. They are actually about to kill the leaders of the orcs, Badruk and Grog and whoever.
But then they just mysteriously teleport away. I wonder where they're going.
And Farseid returns to the Enclave worlds. Atari Vo was too far away for messages to get through because they don't have astropaths.
They don't have astropaths, so they don't know what's going on on the other side of the gulf.
It takes a long time to cross the gulf as well because they don't have warp travel like the orcs, which they don't know that the orcs have warp travel.
And uh oh, the orc fleet used their capabilities to cross the gulf and go to the other sept worlds while Farseid and his lads are busy on Atari Vo.
Farseid returns to utter horrible disaster and the orcs have invaded all the sept worlds and it's absolutely terrible.
Everything he has fought for, they are about to lose and they're losing the battle on every planet.
So Farseid relents command for a while to Shavastos, which we meet Shavastos and he's hanging in this stasis thing in Ovaeus' workshop basically.
And his head is carved open and his brain is just out and it's like held in different pieces.
And Ovaeus like presses a button and wakes him up and he talks to him, but he's also talking to Pyrtide because he has the angram chipping him remember.
So he kind of like goes in and out of lucidity.
So he leaves command with Shavastos, who's technically not supposed to be alive, so he just has him like pretend to be someone else and stay in a battle suit.
And he goes and he meditates on the bottom of the ocean in Vyorlas I believe.
And he thinks for a while.
And then he says, you know what, I know what to do. I'm going to go, I don't know, be one with the elements.
So he goes into like volcanoes and burning forests on Vyorlas and he thinks for a while.
And he goes to the bottom of the ocean again and he thinks for Seleshe and he goes way high up in the air for Tinecla.
And I don't remember what he does for the earth one, just some earthy thing.
He meditates, he has a little avatar, he has a little avatar, the last Airbender moment.
And he has just like this random spark of revelation. That's good.
Yeah. So he knows what to do because of this, I guess.
It's another another Vashia moment kind of proving the ethereal is wrong in that being between casts, between spheres might not be such a bad thing.
Because maybe maybe we should let the little fire cast babies play with Lego and they'll, you know, learn a couple skills.
So he goes to Seleshe. This is not an order, by the way. I don't remember the specific order, but he goes to Seleshe.
He matches the plan with Oveza and he gets the seismic Fabulators, which is he uses like all the time, I guess, it's just magic.
But he drops them at the bottom of the ocean.
They make this like special battle suit casing for him so that he can go to the bottom of the ocean without exploding and being crushed by pressure.
And he causes, there's actually an Orc submarine captain character for a little bit, just like a chapter.
But he hears this like thrum on the bottom of the ocean and he's like, what the heck is that?
It's a little off-putting. And then they turn around and there's these giant tsunamis coming and the tsunamis engulf all the Orc war fleets on Seleshe.
And they're done with. Then he goes to Tenakalab. He has the Aircast bait in the Orc air fleet.
And then they kind of fly up, leaving all their propellant gases.
And Faraset ignites the propellant with his plasma rifle and the Aircast like rides it on top, I guess, and it incinerates all the Orc fliers.
And then he goes to Viorlas and he causes a bunch of firestorms and he actually kills Grog on Viorlas.
I guess Viorlas is the last one.
He also causes a mass Talarissa bond on Viorlas, which is a big thing for his Faraset enclaves on the tabletop.
Back in the day, at least, you would have to take the bonding knife upgrade for one point per guy because all the Faraset warriors have bonding knives because they went through the Talarissa bond.
It's very morale boosting and whatnot.
And then they fight off the Orcs from Viorlas.
And lastly, he goes to Le'Gral and he megaliths all the Tal colonies into the air, I guess.
And using fibulators again, he has all the chasms and whatever cave in on the Orcs and kill all the speed freaks who are chilling there.
Yeah. And he wins. Hooray!
This is like in one montage. Holy crap.
Yeah, I was just going to say it sounds like you could make a montage out of that.
He goes here and he's just like, yeah, he was basically a montage in the book.
Yeah. And he Jatt Black just screaming in the background with heavy guitar riff.
Just and then, Matt, he sounds so badass. I'll be honest.
He's like, I have this. I have one. Smart fellow. He's a smart fella, not a fart smeller. That's for sure.
A fart side enclaves. Oh, no. Heresy. Go throw it all away now.
Grog Dian was kind of a feels bad. The head of the old boss on his shoulder was like a pain boss or whatever.
And this head would just like scream stuff all the time. He was just a head in a jar.
And it was a little fun, but they're all dead now.
So he masters the elements. The other Orcs went to Arthas Moloch though.
Which was just as old relic world. And I don't quite remember why.
It was part of the trap still. They sent them there. The trap failed.
Obviously in the end, it almost works. So they almost actually the worst, almost outsmarted far side, which is kind of embarrassing, I guess.
But you know, work gets you sometimes. Orcs, Orcs are stupid until one of them learns how to count to five and then you're in trouble.
Truly. So he wants to get rid of the last of the Orcs, which are on Arthas Moloch and the Ethereals keep saying, oh, why haven't you?
They're like a nagging. I don't know what I can say on this.
They nag a lot. They're like, oh, far side, there's still imperial presence on Arthas Moloch and it's still imperial presence on this one little planet.
That doesn't matter. Why would you save all these people? They're Karens.
The Ethereals first. The Ethereals are Karens. Why don't you get a job?
Stacey's husband is a chief executive officer. You just have a dumb sword.
Basically. So they nag far side a little bit more, but he still goes to Arthas Moloch.
And this is where things get a little spicy for our big man and the most important part in his story, arguably. Sorry that we took so long to get there.
I just wanted to showcase how epic he is. He goes to Arthas Moloch with the plan of just fighting Orcs because there's nothing else on Arthas Moloch.
There's no such thing as ghosts, obviously. His friend Shazera talks about ghosts a lot, though, but him in case it gets goofy.
Ghosts and Moloch. They're fighting the Orcs. It's basically a free win because there's not that many Orcs on there because the Orcs didn't really care about going to some dumb relic world.
They spill blood on this dais. And all of a sudden this wacky glowing circle appears and it starts raining blood, like the Slayer song.
It's pretty metal woman, actually. And this blood starts congealing into these red horned aliens, corn demons, obviously.
But they don't know that. And so they call them Molochites at first. And they're fighting them off.
They don't know what the heck is going on because like where the heck did these things come from? They can't be negotiated with.
They're not like they do crazy. They don't have any guns. They find themselves in a mosh pit.
Yeah. And so the demons start killing the Tau and the Orcs. Farcite is like ordering a systematic retreat.
It's going like, oh, hey, until Farcite puts his gun in one of their faces and pulls the trigger and nothing happens because they're demons.
And like the end, it's basically random chance if you get to kill them or not with your guns.
And Farcite gets critically injured and is kind of spirited away back to the fleet.
But before this, oh, sorry, I messed up a little bit here.
The reason he goes unconscious is because he looks into the portal and he sees many, many visions.
The most important things that he sees, though, are his visions of these giants like glowing white beings.
And they all are looking down on these countless like millions of Tau who are all grinning so hard that their mouths are bleeding.
And all these Tau are chained up in slavery, but they're like willingly doing it all.
And whenever one dies, there's like this Uruk-hai birth scene where this amniotic sack gets opened with a new Tau in it.
And it grows up really fast and it clamps itself into the chains and enslaves itself willingly.
So he sees that and then he kind of sees himself as a warrior king.
And he's like throttling both Kace and Shazera and killing them.
And he has this bone armor on and these bone helmets.
And he sees just like chaos visions and he looks into the warp almost and sees the realm of Khorne.
And then he goes unconscious.
I'd love to see him try and take on Kace.
The Doom soundtrack would have started hammering away.
I just like how you were like, oh, these red armor.
And I'm just like, Khorne just looks at it and he's like, it's a nice shade of red.
I'm a big fan of red myself.
Yeah.
I guess actually I love the pretty important part.
The beginning of the second Farsight book talks about literally how Xeinch and Khorne are competing for Farsight basically.
And on Arthas Moloch, both Xeinch and Khorne demons appear,
making it seem that almost maybe they're working together in a loose ally to just get Farsight on the side of chaos or corrupt him at the very least.
Because for Xeinch, he causes a lot of change with his rebellion, which tears like a whole empire apart.
And, you know, Khorne is pretty obvious. He kills people.
But Farsight goes unconscious after seeing these visions and a few other things and wakes up in the Luke Skywalker Star Wars back to tank.
And he says, let me go. And the Earthcast says, the Aetherials say you're not allowed to go.
And then he convinces them otherwise, whatever, and he leaves.
And he meets up with his commanders and finds out that the Aetherials made them all leave the planet.
And there's like random hunter cadre scattered down on Arthas Moloch getting killed.
And so he has this bit of an argument with the Aetherials because the Aetherials, he's going to go back no matter what, even in his critical condition.
And the Aetherials kind of argue with him. I left another thing out. Sorry.
Before this stuff happens, in the end of the first time they fight Veorlas, on Veorlas, he encounters poor Malchor trying to kill Nicola Harat, the Psyker Lady.
And poor Malchor finally reveals to be the demon possessed Tau. He was possessed by a herald of Xeinch.
And Pharsight has his flash of inspiration and carves his hexagrammaton into poor Malchor's flesh and banishes a demon.
He somehow knew that that symbol could banish demons.
And poor Malchor tells him, before dying though, the demon tells him that the Aetherials are playing him for a fool.
And Pharsight knows that he's never heard this demon lie. He tells himself that it's lying, but he knows deep down that it's telling him the truth.
This demon then doesn't really get banished, but it possesses Nicola Harat.
And Nicola kind of gets coaxes Pharsight going down to the planet again.
The Aetherials go down to the planet with Pharsight because they think that they can negotiate with the demons, goofy Tau.
And they use the word nemesis, which Pharsight then thinks about later, because he thought that they didn't know what they were.
And how could the Tau race have a nemesis that they've never even seen or heard of before? Pretty sketchy.
So more demons come out of the portal, and now there's a lure of change, and there's bloodthirsters, and everything's going wrong.
And all three of the Aetherials die, and Moatta dies trying to defend the Aetherials.
Pharsight almost dies, and then he picks up this big fancy sword from a statue beside him, because his fusion blaster arm got torn off.
So he just has his plasma gun arm, but his plasma gun got destroyed as well.
And he goes up to deflect the bloodthirsters' axe, and the axe shatters on this sword that is just really OP for some reason.
I mean, we're at the sword. If you'd like to talk about the sword, you can talk about the sword.
Yeah. So this is obviously, everyone here has seen the new Pharsight model. It probably dates this.
Pretty beautiful.
Oh, this is not just any blade. This is the Dawn Blade. There's a lot of Dawn, I realize, in a lot of the town naming things.
Man, they're already like, they're like, morning people, maybe.
But the Dawn Blade itself is essentially Pharsight's iconic weapon, and it's kind of, its design is not, like, relates to anything that's really in the Warhammer setting.
It's supposedly of like a way, like pre-human, Xenoth civilization. Like, its design is unique. No one else has anything really like it.
And this thing just cuts, this thing can cut through pretty much, like, you know, it shatters like the demon's, like, you know, axe, basically, essentially.
This thing is, along the lines, a little bit OP, a little bit OP. But it's supposedly, like, I think it even states, like, it's forged from a chronophagic alloys, which I think-
Yeah, it's a made up word.
Yeah, Warhammer. But supposedly this, its unique ability, which he finds, which I don't think Pharsight's really aware of it, but we know as like, kind of, maybe the reader, but this can, like, absorb life force from Pharsight's enemies.
So, I mean, to be fair, if he found out about that, he'd probably feel guilty, but also he wouldn't put it down, to be fair. It's like, it's too good.
And this blade again, it's ginormous by it. This thing is huge. It's like, literally like carrying a person, like, by the feet and like two handed, whacking them violently.
But this is kind of, yeah, this is the genesis of where he gets that unique weapon. He just sort of finds it.
Obviously, maybe it's a plot from some intervening gods, shall we say, but yeah, he obviously, on Arthur's Moloch now, this is his iconic weapon. I'll pass it back to Eli to state how that goes for him in this battle.
It's also a sword of all.
All I'm saying is people finding swords in Warhammer 40k is usually a bad thing.
Yeah, he actually, there is a little bit I have in my notes that he starts getting some little sus Fulgrim thoughts where I think at one point when he's fighting, it might be in the new lore, actually, I don't remember, but whatever.
And yeah, and someone like wins a battle and he has this like spike of anger. He's like, I should have been in that battle. I should be mine. Like I should win that battle. I want to kill those things. Kind of a little moment. It doesn't really go on past that though. So it's not I don't think it's complete Fulgrim situation. It's more like Jendor Skryvok the Nightlord. He's like, I've got this sword and I keep chucking it away and it comes back somehow. It won't leave me alone, but it's really cool.
If I remember correctly, when he looks at the sword, he can see his own reflection through the battle suit, which is really cool. And the Earthcast has no idea what this what the heck this wacky sword is. But yeah, it's the Dawnblade. He fights the Bloodthirster with it. He almost wins actually, but he's about to die.
The entire time Coldstar is yelling at him that he's about to have a cardiac failure. He's gonna have a heart attack and die. Luckily, Bravestorm and Brightsword come in at the last moment and save Farsight after he kind of battles with these with this demon for quite a while.
And Farsight gets up, he goes and kills some orcs and all of a sudden, he feels really good. He feels a lot better. He's not his heart attack is gone. And things are going well. So he kind of commandeers this counter attack and things are going well.
He also spots an amulet with the same symbol of the hexagrammaton. And he notices that the demons are not going towards these amulets. So he has all these cadras or whatever, all the squads gathered these amulets from the statues on Arthas Moloch in their area in the city that they're in.
And he takes them all and he goes and flings them into the portal and the portal explodes and all the demons are gone and everything's better. So that's the good ending for Arthas Moloch. They then clean up the orcs.
Nikkala Harat was possessed by the demon. She actually shape changes herself to look like poor Malkor so that she can fit into Oblatae's command suite, like his little harness place, which is kind of like Bracehome and Brightsword are not huge fans of this, but they wanted her to be down there because she seemed to know what was going on.
She fights a hound of corn and she puts the collar on to get the demon of Zech out of her. Yeah. And it's like the most, it's very agonizing and brutal for her, but she does it and it works out good for her.
And she survives, surprisingly. She talks with the Lord of Change though, before that thing goes away. So they went on Arthas Moloch and Farsight goes back to the ship. And mind you, at this point, Farsight was well beyond the natural lifespan of a Tau.
They were already used longevity surgeries and stuff and treatments to keep him alive, but he's an old guy at this point. He's very, very, very, very old. Probably the oldest Tau alive at this point.
He's the Clint Eastwood of the Tau society.
It just won't go.
Get out of my lawn.
Yeah. He comes back and they discover that he looks like he's in his prime years again. He doesn't look young anymore. He's still the same on the inside. He looks in a mirror and he has a Bilbo Baggins moment where he's like, I feel so stretched like butter on bread.
He doesn't say that specifically, obviously, but he feels old. But when he looks himself in the reflection, he looks young. And when he's fighting with the Dawnblade and killing things, he feels really good.
And that goes away after he's fighting things, obviously. And yeah, he has no idea that the Dawnblade is what's extending his lifespan. But it's said that if he were to ever found out, he would probably kill himself, apparently. That's not like, that's just a theory that they say, but it's like official lore theory, I guess.
I think some people think the Dawnblade has Necron background. It's not confirmed though, last I checked. I'd like to think it was something like before that even would be cool. I guess Necron's like the beginning. Doesn't matter.
So yeah, they find that out and then Ovesa wants to study it and Farseid's like, again, Bilbo Baggins. Why should I give it to you? It's mine, my own, mine. And he doesn't let Ovesa have it because it's his. But he decides that that's enough fighting for him.
He's caused the death of three Aetherials. And that basically means like, he expects to be fully exiled for this and killed. He has to go through like this trial thing. But none of that actually happens.
He does go into exile though for a time because having three Aetherials die under your command is like the most ultimate horrible failure ever. Even though he's found out the truth of these Aetherials. And now that he knows the truth of the Aetherials, unlike Horus, he doesn't want to spark an entire huge rebellion because he still believes in the Tau'va.
He still wants the greater good to flourish and the Tau'va race to do well. So instead of sticking around and telling someone, he tells no one and he goes into exile. And he waits to die basically. Just living, hunting, and chilling in the Viorln like wastelands and whatever.
And then he doesn't die. And he just keeps living. And so he comes back. Alright, I've already talked about them a little too much and I stole some of Hal's stuff. But I'm going to let him talk about his favourite characters in the Eight now.
Yes, these are kind of like the like the Fellowship of the Ring in a way. I hate to say it, but I had to get that reference in there because I do. The Tau'va saying potatoes. Probably the Mashem stick of an Astu. We all know that's from. Sorry, what was the war crime? What was the lore crime? You did Andy with that.
Oh god, forgot about that. That is not a small mistake. They were both talking about food and their fantasies related.
That was egregious. Not as egregious as some of these names that we're going to go through here. So I picked two of my favourites to go with. So Eli has mentioned them a couple of times. I think just a few of them. But the ones I've chosen was, sorry for the pronunciation, boys. This is going to be atrocious. But it's Ob Lotai-Zero.
And this one's a pretty unique kind of member of the Eight because he is one of Farsight's honour guard and he is in a broadside battle suit, but there's no one in it. There's absolutely no one in it. This thing is empty, kind of like the jokes on this channel.
And this one, I know, I know. True, true. This one is an A.I. engram of the original owner, which was actually the original Ob Lotai. So this is essentially just a robot. And obviously, any Imperium boys out there know this would be very heretical. Pretty terrible.
And that one's pretty cool, to be fair, because it's kind of like the member that doesn't really fail you. So he's pretty good old reliable. The other one I chose was also Torchstar. Not going to lie, entirely based on the name, because Torchstar just sounds pretty cool.
This one is the youngest member of the kind of crew. I want to say Follish of the Ring, but they're not going to any Mordor in this lore, unfortunately, though. But this one was actually a Tao defector. He's also known as, I'm sorry for the names, so sorry people, but Vior Lahn, I think.
It's kind of in, obviously, like most Tao names are related to their jobs or what they've achieved. And I think it was something to do related, sorry, I'm flubbing all my words here. It's related to how she would emulate hundreds.
So take that as you will, because obviously Torchstar, you know, torches people, torches, as in like actual torch. Sorry, YouTube, don't get angry at me. Burned. And apparently she has like fire tattoos across her body, which is obviously, that's pretty cool.
And I'll pass it over to Eli quickly. You're forgetting the most important aspect, Hal. I'll go for it.
She's a female Tao, which means you look up her name and the first image will be canon art. And then immediately after that, Tao tits as far as the eye can see.
It's even worse because there is no canon art of her. There's one little picture.
I looked it up. There's a picture of her battle suit and then it immediately goes to tits.
Thanks for the fans. Thanks. At least she has cool tattoos though, T-Fair. And I'll pass it over to Eli to fill out the rest of this elite fellowship.
I did mention them mostly already. There's not much more to say, but I mean, it is interesting to say that Torchstar, to my knowledge at least, he arrived in Orca dropship that was owned by Aung Shii.
So not all the Aetherials hate Farsight. Aung Shii seems to be on his side, which was an Aetherial from Viora Lus. He's a G.
Anywho, Shavaslos is the Dreadnought guy. We talked about him a little bit. He has a big power fist. He destroys a Titan at one point.
In the new lore, he fights off a Tyr and a Titan with his big fist. So he has a lot of fisting, you could say.
He's like carrying the entire setting, isn't he, at this point then?
Apparently. There's not much more to say about the rest of them, being honest. Alucon is just a commander guy who's really smart.
Javastos is the guy with the pure tide ingram chip in his brain. Bravestorm is the Dreadnought guy. Bight Sword is the cloned guy.
Yeah, we talked about them. They don't have as much lore as you'd want, but I mean, there's eight characters that they have to like slush into books. You can't be that picky, I guess.
Orvace is the main scientist. He gets a Riptide battle suit, which we'll talk about shortly here for the lore.
They have very like anime side character energy. Extremely. Extremely so.
If they develop these characters, how will they have the time to write more Cato Sicarius books?
Truly. Truly. I, Cato Sicarius, am not a side character.
He's the main character of 40k, don't you know?
True, true. I feel like we need like the TTS boys just to come in here to scream.
Hey, Cato Sicarius!
Oh my god, I hated that.
Yeah, you didn't even know my voice grew that high, did you?
No. Was that you? Christ.
I think I did forget to mention a while ago that the ethereal skilled Farsight's pilot, Li-Mao Tang, who was just like this old nice guy, when he said that he had some criticisms for them,
they never got to talk about it in the future because they showed Farsight some poorly photoshopped footage of his manta being struck by a missile.
But the missile curves randomly and goes into the ship and then explodes like five seconds later.
No, that reminds me of, it just made me think of that episode of South Park where it's like Japan and it's like, see?
And it's the bombers with the dolphins and the wedges and the pilot seats. I don't know why I thought about that.
Oh man.
Yeah, you'd think with Tao technology they could make better fake death videos, but I guess not.
Who's the Warhammer equivalent of Cartman? If that should even be said in a sentence, that's pretty cursed.
Can I have a confession?
You've never watched South Park, have you?
I don't watch South Park, I'm a Simpsons fan.
Bro, we're on the other side of the Atlantic and we've seen it.
The Simpsons is a much better show than South Park. Or at least it was until it started eating shit.
It used to be, and then it wasn't.
And then after the Simpsons movie everything went downhill.
I remember.
There's a little South Park reference there that no one knows.
I don't watch South Park, I just try to get it.
Oh god, we should probably, we're having Farsight.
Our viewers are two hours in and we're talking about South Park and Simpsons.
Farsight went into exile, which is where we left off I believe.
And then he didn't die because he had the Dawnblade and so he lived forever.
He left the Dawnblade in his badass suit back behind Inovace's workshop type place, but he left its shield generator on as a symbol to not touch it. It's mine.
He saw the signs of a tier-9 invasion starting though on his planet. I don't think he really knew it was Tier-9s at the time.
Just a guy being nibbled by a really small one like that doesn't look good.
The floor and stuff was exploding and doing all the weird alien stuff that happens to planets when tier-9s show up.
So Farsight returns in his people's time of dire need.
They do the DNA tests and whatever and they're all hyped that Farsight's back and he's somehow like 200 years old.
I don't know if he's at all by that point because his eight are also still alive.
I don't know how half of them stay alive because they're not Dreadnoughts or AI, but just let it happen I guess.
Is it the end character that anyone cares about?
Ovesa, it's said that he just takes drugs and it keeps him alive.
Chad.
So that works. But the High Fleet invades Viorla's. Not Viorla, his home planet Viorla, the other one.
I couldn't find which High Fleet it actually was. So just tier-9s, just antics.
But the tier-9s invade the planets and everything's going badly because it's a tier-9 invasion obviously.
Farsight's mounting the best defenses that he can and he's killing them pretty well,
but he's finding that his Moth Ka strategy of eliminating leader beasts doesn't, it's not really doing the job because they just make more leaders and big monsters and they send them back down.
So everyone's dying and everything's going very bad and kind of as a last-ditch effort he plans a Kalyan,
which is the patient hunter ambush tactic, with Ovesa and four of his Earthcasts.
Him and his eight stay behind as the rest of the planet is evacuated and they stay in this secluded science research base place
where the Earthcast scientists work tirelessly to find a way to destroy this entire High Fleet.
And after 12 days, I think it said, something like that, the Terenas find them and they start their assault on this little science base.
So this is, they have like an hour left before they're all gonna die so they have to, you know, go fast.
The guy in the Riptide dies, I don't know who he was, I think he's just some random guy who Farsight liked at the time, but he's dead.
So Ovesa jumps in the Riptide and starts kicking butt as the four Earthcast scientists finally finish their project
and the eight would evacuate the planet on a big manta.
They evacuate?
Yeah.
Oh boo!
What's going on buddy?
Boo!
I just mentioned Farsight 1v1s a hive tyrant and Bravestorm kills a bio-titan, so that's cool.
So they leave, the Earthcast scientists sacrifice themselves and are eaten and torn to bits, very dead.
But their sacrifice was not in vain because the Earthcast scientists placed a time-released necrotic poison inside themselves
and when it went to the, I don't know, DNA gene pools or whatever of the Terenids, I don't remember what they're called,
it spread to the high fleet ships and they could see in space this black goop eating the Terenids alive
and they basically 1v1ed an entire high fleet with just four dudes and eight guys in battle suits.
It's a bunch of goofballs. They sure did it though.
In a spicy pond as well with a little...
Yeah.
It's like the idea that the Terenid does, I've got a bit of an upset stomach, oh!
They go to the Terenid doctors like, what's going on? And just vomiting weird oozy stuff that kills them.
What have you been eating? The Tau.
Oh, figures, yeah.
It's coming out from both ends. The Tau. Oh my god.
So sorry boys.
I've got the weeb sickness.
So it's pretty high, far sides back, he's deeply moved by the sacrifice of the Earthcast
and his flame is reignited, his leadership is reignited and he rebuilds Vior Loss and kind of bools for a while
with his buddies, you know, retaking planets, fixing up everything, building monuments on the Earthcast planet
for all the guys who sacrifice themselves. So it's a pretty good time.
After this, the timeline is just far side fights a bunch.
He goes back to the Tau Empire, I think, two or three times to help them fight.
I believe he goes back to help them fight against the Terenids and he also obviously goes back to help them fight in the third...
I don't know if it's the third.
Third or second Damocles golf crusade conducted by the White Scars and the Raven Guard.
And I believe the Ultramarines are also there.
I told these guys they're lucky because I didn't get to read the whole book, sadly.
I only got to read the first one, which doesn't have Farseh in it.
So this episode will only be two and a half hours instead of three and a half hours.
More Farseh.
White Scars are cool, Korsarakan is a beast, Shadow Sun...
The first book is pretty good though.
It kind of looks into Shadow Sun's view of Farseh as he's a traitor and gives a little bit of envow and stuff.
Shadow Sun and Korsarakan, I think that's how you say his name, play kind of cat and mouse but it's more like cat and cat where they're just trying to kill each other.
De Kahn actually does basically kill Shadow Sun.
He slashes her in the chest and pierces her heart and jiggles her unconscious and he glax her buddy in the stealth suit.
So give him some credit. He's a cool guy.
De Kahn, baby!
They do have a lot of bite charges against gun lions, which to their credit sometimes kind of works, but at the same time...
You gotta get your adrenaline rush somehow, you know. After a while, circus rides don't do it anymore.
De Kahn, also there, which is cool.
Like I said, I unfortunately don't know the whole story, sad times.
Farseh does show up as the Imperials are kind of wrecking the Tao Empire as they do because Imperium is better, not gonna lie.
They're more powerful though, that's for sure.
They have more industry is what they have.
They have more industry points than the Tao and more science points.
But when your enemy has...
Bigger pecs, bigger abs, bigger muscles.
They used to have more science points. Now light bulbs are the fucking mystery.
But when your opponent has a galaxy-spanning empire and the Tao only have a few solar systems, it's not exactly an even fight.
Like the United States of America going against sea land. Yeah, good luck!
Farseh does show up and he helps them and he literally rescues them and saves them.
And in this battle, I believe he fights with an Eversaur assassin, which explodes and almost kills him.
I believe he fights with Hu actually.
And Darkstrider kills a Vindicaer assassin and Shadow Son fights against a Caladis and a Calaxis.
I'm trying to remember all the assassin names. There's new ones now too.
Don't the Eldar describe one of those assassins as the most heinous thing that's ever existed?
Probably the Eversaur.
Those things are pretty messed up.
For newbies to Warhammer, these assassins are literally the most heinous purge.
There's nothing good about them. They're just the worst thing humans can create.
And the Tao are like, yikes.
People are like, I'm around the Sisters of Silence, they make me feel a bit iffy. And then there's these guys and they're like,
I want to pull off my face! They're not nice to be around.
Yeah, these assassins are pretty cool.
And Anva dies in this conflict. I don't think Farseh actually knows that he dies though.
I think only pretty much Shadow Son knows that Anva dies.
The Tao race doesn't really know that Anva dies because it's a big deal.
So they kind of just keep him as a hologram to pretend that he's okay to not create cataclysmic consequences for the Empire
because their glorious leader has perished.
But Shadow Son is sent out to hunt Farsight as well.
She's woken up at first I think to hunt him, and then she conducts the fights on a Grelian Prime and all that.
And she does find Farsight and she lets him know that she's going to hunt him wherever he goes,
but she does let him escape and live.
Thanks Shadow Son.
She also at the beginning of the expansion destroys a statue of Farsight,
which Farsight saw in a vision a long time ago when he touches the warp drive on the Scar Lordship.
So that was a cool little tie-in.
So after that, Farsight goes back to the Farsight enclaves,
and the War of Daka continues because the Orcs don't just leave like that.
They're back and they're having a good time.
The Alpha Legion is also monitoring all of this because why wouldn't they?
They're the Alpha Legion and they're there.
They're just observing going, this is fun. Look at this.
We are in Arcs of Omen lore now.
So the new stuff, which is pretty exciting.
Let's see, Farsight, basically he's just fighting Orcs for a while.
He sees a vision come out of an Orc weird boy, which is odd,
and it's just more like corn stuff basically.
But Nasdreg is the big mech war boss, who's the big bad guy now.
And Nasdreg is making these things called Pellifragas,
which from what I can understand is like a portal gun kind of,
but like on an artillery scale.
So you choose something and then it teleports it into the warp,
and he's like mass producing these to just blow up planets
and teleport chunks of planets into the warp, which is kind of fun.
That is cool.
Is that like a reference for there's like a potato battery somewhere here as well?
It was a gun portal.
For real.
Oh man.
But yeah, the war is still going on.
Farsight enclaves obviously don't have a lot of resources
and a lot of reinforcements other than the odd defectors that they get
and then the generations of Tau that go by,
because Tau don't live for that long, like I said before.
Farsight learns of these Pellifragas and launches a Monte-Ca on the planet
which Nasdreg is on.
He battles with the orcs for a time and tries to lure Nasdreg out,
which actually works, but he has this crazy technology
and he turns it on and he makes this big giant portal
and he teleports, he drives his truck, his like war truck through this portal
and it lands in the middle of the workshop that Farsight and the eight are invading
and trying to destroy the Tellifragas.
They have a big battle and if I remember correctly, Nasdreg is killed by Farsight
and all the eight are wounded pretty badly, but it works out.
Unfortunately, before they can retake the planet and destroy all the bad things,
they discover a fleet of Chaos Space Marines in orbit
and they have the Ark of Omen, or a Ark of Omen.
I'm actually, war crime confession, I barely know what the Arks of Omen are.
I know that they're big ships, but that's about it.
I think Bastor made them and was like, hey Abaddon, cool ships huh?
He's like, yeah, and then Absom's like, here, lieutenants have these big ships to do stuff.
Like, pit my ride, but Abaddon's like, yo dog, I hate you wanting an Ark of Omen.
I got you an Ark and an Omen.
You get an Ark of Omen.
And you get an Ark of Omen.
The Alpha Legion though are posing as Death Watch.
They're on a Death Watch ship. They've infiltrated it pretty well.
They're working for this guy called Lord Glass and they're shadowing Farsight.
They want him to go to Arthas Moloch.
I think they just want him to conduct this big, to get everyone to fight there
so that the Alpha Legion can go in and steal this key for the Ark of Omen.
Which also, they're working for Bastor, but also this demon prince guy, Ugalax,
who has the Ark of Omen is working for Bastor, I thought.
So I don't really know why Bastor wants the Alpha Legion guys to get the key
and not Ugalax to get the key.
Don't ask questions, I guess, it's the Alpha Legion.
I'm a pharise.
Yeah, Farsight regrettably leaves because he can't fight all the orcs and the chaos.
They're already low on manpower. Things aren't going so well.
He decides that he's going to launch a Khaoyan on both the forces and they're the bait.
They're going to go to Arthas Moloch and try to lure them in to fight each other.
And they're going to set their base of operations up on the Star Daos
as a last resort option to summon all the Khorne demons and just kill everyone, basically.
He actually sends a message to the Tau Empire, which was really cool.
He sends it straight to the Ethereals and he offers a surrender of himself
if they will come and help their people.
And he begs them and he hopes that they haven't completely abandoned the Tau people,
even though Farsight has kind of abandoned them.
So, you know, he offers contrition, says that he'll sacrifice himself
and offer himself up for surrender if they send aid.
And he hopes that that works.
It takes a long time for Tau things to go through space, so he doesn't get to know until a bit later.
So they head to Arthas Moloch and they set up shop and things really don't go very well.
It's like a cataclysmic war.
There's titans and knights and orc gargants and like air fleets and it's crazy.
Tau are fighting where they can and surviving when they can.
And people are starting to get a little sus, a little more bloodthirsty than Tau are supposed to,
which is kind of sketchy.
Farsight, oh sorry, Oblatai and Bravestorm both take critical damage and are out of the fight.
Oblatai is an AI, so it doesn't really matter that much.
But Bravestorm has to be taken out of his Iridium battlesuit in his life support system
and placed in stasis until they can get him a new one.
And the seventh generation of Brightsword is killed as he sacrifices himself.
So they have to make a new clone later on, but that hasn't happened yet.
Farsight gets a message back from the Aetherials and they say no, unsurprisingly, because they're kind of jerks.
And Farsight is not happy, to say the least.
He gets flashes of anger and like murder and like killing the Aetherials and this makes him feel good.
He's throughout the time on Arthas Moloch, the Tau are seemingly being corrupted by Khorne, which is neat.
Throughout the whole Arcs of Omen book there's really wacky pictures of Tau with weird mechanical bits coming out of them
and they're screaming and they're looking all chaos-y. It's cool.
Farsight also has a new battlesuit at this point, which is called a Supernova battlesuit.
It still has his Coldstar AI in it, she just has a new name now.
I don't really know what it does, but he has the amulet of Arthas Moloch, the hexagramaton thing, in his battlesuit, which is neat.
Still using the sword, because the sword is cool and he likes it. Why would he get rid of it?
So, now after getting this news of the Aetherials, he's very angry and he does a whole bunch of stuff,
so I'll read this little paragraph from the book because he does, I don't know, it kind of shows off how good of a warrior he actually is.
Let's see.
On a more personal level, O'Shova's anger saw him lead the most dangerous offensive.
Never one to command from the rear lines, still Farsight's sheer aggression bred disquiet amongst those who had known him longest,
even as it inspired his line warriors to greater heights of aggression.
It was Farsight who met Sledrak, the swordsman, blade to blade amidst the burning wrecks of the Gull Tor Offensive
and lopped off the Sleneshu Champion's head.
It was Farsight too who cut his way onto the command bridge of Captain Freyja Stompa,
Direkka, and drenched the war engine's controls in the warboss's blood, fighting his way to the heart of the traitor's Vostok 816th
and hacking down their commanding tyrant, felling Baroness Nykdarr's nightly steed, Infernal Turmentor,
then claiming Nykdarr's head, serving as the lure to draw warboss Dakbad Badaka into a murderous Tau Crossfire.
Farsight was ever at the forefront of the fighting, and the crimson hue of his bow soothed little to hide the blood that spattered it from sensor head to toe.
Damn.
So he's bullying pretty hard.
Was this all in like an 80s montage where like the music was blaring?
Jesus Christ.
Brutal.
Yeah, so Farsight's ramping it up a bit and he's starting to get a little too fond of fighting, I think, and a little too bloodthirsty.
Let's see, the Tau actually finds the key though for the Ark of Omen.
The Alpha Legion guys have coordinates already.
Ooh, Glahax doesn't know where it is, so he's just looking.
By the way, I think he's part of the Black Legion.
Well, maybe not. He's just a guy, I think.
But he has world leaders and thousand suns and word bearers with him.
So this is like a very sizable force of Chaos Space Marines and a very sizable force of Orbs.
So it is like a classic apocalypse war with all the crazy stuff going on.
The Tau find it though. They don't know what it is, so they just leave it there because, you know, they're busy fighting this desperate war.
So the stealth teams just like leave and, I don't know, kind of quarantine it off so they don't touch that because it's all crystal-y and gross looking.
But the Alpha Legion guys hear this up in space.
They kill the Royalist Deathwatch guys that they're with and go down to the planet and take the key and leave.
And that's it for their story.
Far Sight starts to realize that this is their last chance to survive the war.
So he orders a retreat to the Stardaeus where they all get picked up by the Aircast and ferried off as their carry-on is done and they're getting the two forces to fight each other.
The retreat goes kind of badly though because the Tau are en masse seemingly being corrupted by Chaos, at least a little bit.
Because it describes how the Tau are unusually bloodthirsty and unlike them they're letting the flow get very close.
And some even break ranks and like charge into battle against world eaters, corn berserkers, which is insane.
They obviously lose immediately, but you wouldn't expect that from a Tau.
Start saying hooves for the Hoove Guard. What are you talking about? What are you doing?
It's like a teddy bear charging like a fully grown adult and it's just getting like, you know, a spiral and kicks it as far as you can.
Hey man, they gave their all. They tried.
They did in fact try.
They probably shouldn't have tried, but they tried.
Yeah, the Tau are, it is pretty subtle. Arthas Mala clearly has an effect on the Tau and the Warp clearly can touch Tau even if they don't really know, they don't know what it is yet.
They still think it's mind science. They still use the words mind science. So, Far Sight still doesn't completely understand chaos even though he knows it exists.
Oh yeah.
I have a quick question. Do you think that's because the Far Sight enclaves are not necessarily oppressed by the Ethereals?
That they're a bit more, like obviously you have to feel more emotion to be connected to the Warp.
So do you think maybe the Far Sight enclaves, the Tau who live in that are a bit more emotional?
So maybe there's a bit more of a pull there, maybe, Eli?
Yeah, I can see that. They're not under the influence of the Tau Va, which is seemingly its own Warp entity.
I like the idea that the freer they get, the more susceptible they are to corruption from chaos. Like, ah, we're not being controlled by the Ethereals. Who wants this? Mmm, chaos.
That's the whole idea behind Imperials' Elytry. Like, they pray to the Emperor so that they can't hear whatever else is going to whisper at them.
You don't get to vary back and forth between the Emperor's and God's, but also, no, it's not this. No, it doesn't work like that. You gotta pick one. It's one or the other.
In the Dean's Sericults, I'm pretty sure the guy said that they pray to the Emperor so they don't hear the voices of everything else that talks to them. It's pretty important to be a Zealot in the Imperium.
Otherwise, if they weren't all Zealots, the entire system would crumble and they'd turn to chaos and fight for Tau.
But there's your answer to all the people who wonder why the Imperium is so zealous. It's actually quite necessary.
We go now to the final battle on the Star Dias, which the Tau have been leading their enemies to.
And Farsight waits till the last second and lets the World Eaters and Orcs close in on the Dias as they shed blood, demons appear once again, and start causing carnage.
Farsight has a literal demon prince moment though. And let's see, we can read that, because it's cool.
Sure, sure, we'll read like a couple paragraphs here.
The King of the Dias for aid crackled, tinny and feeble, through the Cadranet, and he desired nothing more than to tear his way out of his command cocoon to escape them.
He leapt and fought, hacked and cut, yet even as Begel and Goyla and Malachites all fell beneath his blade, still Farsight's rage grew.
There would be no retreat. What right did his followers have to expect salvation from him?
He saw many of them, through the swirling smoke and the thunder of blossoming explosions, laying down hails of fire or charging madly into their own fights.
He was glad. Let the strong survive, Farsight thought. Perhaps he would be worthy to fight on in his shadow.
He meanwhile would finally fight only for himself. He would fight alone, the way of the Monat, the army of one.
It was that thought that cut through the blood madness clawing Farsight's mind.
World Commander Pyrtide had three great pupils, Oshuzaer the cunning huntress, Oshova the swift keen blade, Kais the loner, the one who stood and fought apart from even his own Talarissa bondmates.
Farsight had never understood Kais's methods and had always pitied the lone Talon on some level, for he would never understand the bonds of loyalty or duty that gave battle his purpose.
And then Farsight felt all better.
Yay.
He drank the khalnate kool-aid.
It's cool that he just was like, no, I'm ignoring the corn thoughts in my head, I'm ignoring the corruption, it can go away now.
Before this though, he has a vision where the Dawnblade is replaced by a colossal axe more befitting his station.
As a bloody handed lord of war, skulls rattled on chains against his gore caked armor, amongst them those of every ethereal who had ever lied to him or his people.
That would be pretty cool to hear.
I wonder where that vision came from.
So yeah, we see Farsight very very much by corn in this book in the Arks of Omen, which is pretty cool.
And it's cool to see that he resists it, otherwise he would just get turned into a demon prince chaos lord and he would be less of a good guy than he is, which would kind of suck.
I don't know, as cool as chaos is, in the end they're still just slaves to the dark gods, you gotta admit.
Not Farsight though.
That's right. They do escape Arthas Molloc though, thankfully, and he orders his eight, well five at this point, because three are wounded or dead.
And he tells them that they're not allowed to fight anymore because they're also losing it to the bloodlust.
And they ferry off all the fire warriors and fire cast that they can and get off the planet.
And then, you know, I believe the orcs release a big warp blast on the Stardaeus and destroy it.
And later they come back after a long time, because they actually see the Chaos Space Marines leaving the system, as I guess they discover that the key isn't there anymore.
So they leave the town Arth Pursued and the orcs follow the Chaos Space Marines to battle them.
So they get out pretty unscathed in the end, other than the bajillion casualties they take on the planet.
It's like the idea of the orcs just being like, where are you going? Come back! We haven't finished fighting yet, come on!
Yeah. So things work out in the end. It wasn't like his very pure victory for Farsight.
But him and the Enclave do survive to fight another day, and they think they're kind of always struggling and clinging to life for what they can.
I don't know, I guess Anshi needs to send them some more help, that'd be nice.
But they do go back to Arthas Moloch again after everything is destroyed.
And I think Farsight just wants clarity, because Oveza asks him, like, why don't we just send the Earthcast and we can, you know, take our life signs and investigate these anomalous life signs and energy spectrum, whatever.
But Farsight doesn't want to. I think he wants closure.
And he feels that something about the planet has changed.
He goes back and he finds the star Dyas destroyed and a weight is lifted off of his shoulders, because there's no more demonic corruption on the planet, it seems.
In the time though, time does seem to move faster, or decay moves faster on the planet, and they find the war gear to be rusted and all the bodies to be like completely decomposed.
In the end, in an orc skull, he finds a little green sprout of plant and he starts to find them in more places around the planet. So there is still hope for Arthas Moloch and the Farsight enclaves.
And that's all. The end.
Ooh, damn, he's been through a lot.
I think his story is quite, it's weird to say about a Xenos, but he feels very, like a lot of the characters in Warhammer are pretty, and then he just giga-chatted up and then he just won the day.
Whereas Farsight feels like he just struggles with it.
He's always, he doesn't always, it's nice that he doesn't always win, and he's always actually human. It's a bit bizarre to compliment him that way, but he feels very human. Like an actual battle rather than a one sided slap.
He's an actual character, not an archetype of his faction.
Yeah.
He's not, you know, it's not, this is a, you know, a white scar. He is this, this and this. Does he have other character traits? No, they're all the same person, just with different names.
How dare you.
Wicked jab at my beloved white scars. How dare you.
Name one character that isn't fast in the white scars.
Oh wait.
Moving on.
That was a, that was really good though. Thank you. That was, I think definitely, because I'm having to tackle Farsight myself in the future and I'm hype, because his story is pretty, pretty good isn't it though.
I think compared to a lot of the characters we talk about here, they're like, oh, like a lot of characters are neat, but Farsight is probably like now top 10 for me, I'd say.
I do have a question though about Tao and the relation of Farsight, like, because you've covered obviously a lot of lore about Farsight.
How much, if you were to approximate a percentage of all the lore there is for the Tao, how much of it is just Farsight?
Probably like literally half their lore.
I might not be completely right, but at least like 33%, I'd say.
A very noticeable chunk.
Yeah.
He's like the, he's the contrast. He is the depth though within that faction for people.
He's the only other side of the coin, because the Tao side of the coin has like all their bunch of different characters so they can't focus on them as much, I guess, right?
Tao have been getting a lot more love in the lore lately, I feel like though, they've gotten a lot of books and stuff.
Well, we appreciate the, or hopefully people who like Farsight or like Tao have been appreciating the massive lore dump that we have just given them in their laps, because that was, oh.
Hefty.
Hefty. I hope you guys have enjoyed it so far.
And if you, you want to leave this and you'll know exactly everything about Farsight, I think, which is too fair.
I think we did a good job in the last section. We did it. Eli did it. So, drop a comment below for people who enjoyed that.
Next time guys, I think we're doing a little bit special something next time, aren't we, Colin? Would you care to discuss the next topic?
Well, it's just that I have a confession and an apology as to what's coming next.
The confession is that while Warhammer Fantasy is probably my favorite fantasy setting, 40K is not my favorite science fiction setting.
The apology is, if you're hoping for anything resembling unbiased debate, you're going to be disappointed, because we're going out on a new journey with our first versus episode.
You'll see, you'll get more information about that when it comes out.
And what we'll be doing is the Spartan IIs versus the Space Marines.
And yeah, nothing but bias here. I'm not even going to pretend like I'm going to hide that fact.
It's going to be an argument. An argument between friends. At least one.
Oh, always heating up. Just remember everyone. Space Marines die in droves, but Spartans never die. They just go missing in action.
Propaganda. Propaganda. I've seen Noble Sixes go out like...
Oh no, that's only for Spartan IIs. Spartan IIIs are fucking disposable.
Alright, George died on the ship. He blew up. He was a Spartan II.
And then George teleported away.
Even if he had a magnificent moustache, it doesn't count.
He did technically teleport away. It was a slipspace bomb. Just teleported to hell.
Yikes. Well, all this and more. We'll save this for our next video.
Thank you all for listening. Hope you all enjoyed it.
If you want to see more of the Xenos, sorry, Xenos don't really get the most amount of love in Warhammer, but if you want to see more Xenos factions or more characters in that area, please let us know in the comments below.
I beg of you, please. More Xenos.
Eldar. Eldar.
I think Farseid probably has the most love out of all Xenos in the game.
Probably.
And we just, we want to celebrate that because he deserves it 100%.
Shout out to the Yanari for getting no love. Negative love.
Pain. Pain.
And the Avatar of Cain.
Alright.
Avatar of Cain, more like Avatar of Cuck.
Avatar of Lame was right there.
And you like the cuck.
If this is what the first episode is going to be like, I'm winning handily.
Okay. Thank you all so much for watching and listening and we'll catch you all next time.
Bye, love you. Peace. Take care everyone.
Oh dear.
Bye.