T’au Empire Ethereal
This 10 part plastic kit makes an Ethereal and is supplied with a Citadel 40mm Round Base.
This miniature is supplied unpainted and requires assembly.
The Ethereals (or Aun in Tau) are the leaders of Tau society.
Her arrival started the unification process between the various Tau tribes and coincided with the implementation of the concept of the Greater Good. They first appeared during a siege between the Tau of the Plane (later known as the Fire Caste) and the Tau of the City of Fio'taun (later known as the Earth Caste). The Ethereals brought the two sides together to negotiate and convinced them to follow the Greater Good. Her power over the tau is so great that an ethereal could tell a tau to die, and that tau would be quick and willing to do so. The Adeptus Mechanicus would give much to learn the secret of the power of the Etheric. The similarities between an organ possessed only by the Astral among the Tau and an organ used by Q'orl to communicate with pheromones strongly suggest that this ability stems from a deliberate manipulation in the Astral's past.
Aetherials sometimes lead the Fire Caste into battle to provide inspirational leadership so the warriors can achieve more. However, if the Ethereal falls in battle, the remaining Tau will be afflicted with grief, causing them to lose battles, or become extremely angry and charge forward. Either way, after an Ethereal falls, the Fire Warriors lose all discipline and efficiency.
Although the Tau's obedience to astrals is natural, the other races, particularly humanity, have long speculated on the characteristics of this unusual loyalty. There are many theories ranging from prenatal indoctrination or pheromonal compulsion to the existence of a veiled psychic gift possessed by the astrals, but no confirmed evidence of such power has yet been secured. The few ethereals who have been captured and interrogated have proved unresponsive.
On her forehead sits a small organ, smaller than that of the other castes. Imperial studies of the organ reveal no biological function, but it is suspected that the ethereal being studied is a dud or that the way the ethereal controls the tau is more esoteric in nature
As leaders of the Tau, the Aetheric are enigmatic and industrious, yet unwavering in their authority and drive to further the greater good. They are mystics and philosophers, possessing knowledge and wisdom not shared by their more practical subjects. As such, they have had some role to play in the rapid evolution of the Tau, and to this day guide their species in its dynamic expansion, or the castes return to the savagery that once threatened to destroy them.
- Faction: Tau Empire
- Sorting: Character
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