The T'au Caste System (Warhammer 40k Lore Video)

If you enjoyed this video then please don't forget to like, subscribe, and comment! It literally helps make more of these! Clarification Some of the Demiurg of the Leagues of Votann are auxiliaries. My mistake. Should've written that better.

The moment T'au gets a chaos faction, the caste system will be: The Greater Bad Fire - The Greater Blood Water - The Greater Cuss Air - The Greater Brrrrrrrtt Earth - The Greater Flex

Than everything changed when the fire nation..... decided to leave and do its own thing. Random Ethereals: DAMM YOU FARSIGHT!!!

There are some moments of dark humor in the history of the T'au, like the time a T'au diplomat thought he would be the one to tame the brutal Orks and add them to tbe empire. He even spent time learning the Greenskins language. Let's just say that he failed.

I sent this to the players in my D&D game. 2 of them are playing Tau with an Earth Caste Mech Pilot and an Air Caste Ranger

1:57 Water Caste (poor) funniest line in the whole video

W-Water Caste Tau p-pretty... Jokes aside, awesome video. A really good introduction onto what a Tau is.

I really want more Auxiliaries like a full army's worth, I love the idea of them so much they just need more lore and models other than the Kroot.

Let a Klingon insult a water caste and see what happens.

Love the Tau, great faction and I'm a weeb so Alien Gundam are appreciated

Covenant: I am interstellar alien Empire that is made out of 11 different alien species! T'au Empire: Those are rookie numbers! I have way over 45 different aliens as part of my faction! Covenant: Well shit that is impressive. Are they just as fleshed out as ours? T.E.: LMAO, NAH! All of them putt together have roughly the same amount of lore and art as the Drones.Remove the Kroot and the freaking Yonhet have more stuff than them! Covenant: Damn, that's...very sad actually. Seems like a complete waste of potential as well T.E.: It really is...

Not even 30 seconds in and the intro got me

I love this series. Keep up the good work.

Man, I love the art, the presentation, each character was really cool.

The Tau have one of the best aesthetics in the franchise.

Love your art and lore, great video

Love your narration good work 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

The tau is such a cool faction

good job on the watercaste voice actor earned you a like

I love this video and the cute art. But there is a detail about the Ethereal that i find many tau lore video forget to mention. See it is very true that the Ethereal hold all political powers that when they speak, everyone stops and listen. However, this is only true to a certain rank. Those rank apprentice, prince and prelate do not hold such power except only to those of other caste of the same rank or lower. This means that an Earth caste Overseer (rank 4) can order an Ethereal caste prince (rank 2) and the Ethereal will have to obey. But then again, an Ethereal caste prince has more connection to a Ethereal Supreme (max rank) then anyone on the earth caste can have. And the earth caste member who gave such an order will have to explain to an ethereal why he gave that order (Say, the prince was about to press a big red "DO NOT TOUCH" button and had to be stopped?). So events like these are situational and rare. But they do happen as this is how a young Ethereal caste member learns how the society around them works over time. Despite popular beliefs, Ethereal are not born all knowing and with unlimited political powers. They are born young, learn over time and then earn the ranks like anyone else in Tau society. I bring this up cause i seen too many people say that the Tau caste are "just like the Indian caste system" (where a child of a upper caste can order an elder of a lower caste around) but that's simply not true here. Even the highest rank of the ethereal caste listen to the equally ranked members of the other caste before making the final decision. They can't just barge in and demand the impossible right away without knowing what resources they have first... this isn't the Imperium! And don't get me started when two equal ranked ethereal have a disagreement (see how the ethereal of the core septs reacted to the disastrous Fourth Sphere of Expansion and finally decided they had to send Shadowsun to stop them physically). But that's another story. Also not a really important detail but regarding the auxiliary forces, it is true that they are allowed to work for any of the caste branches (and even earn ranks!). However, they rarely choose these positions. It is mostly chosen for them based on their skills, attributes and if the situation calls for more members of that caste (example: the earth caste needs more engineers, the air caste needs more pilots, ork invasion is coming and we need more fire warriors, etc...). It's for this reason that the title "Gue'vesa" given to the human living in their society literally mean "Human helper". And fun lore bits too, a human regardless of their faction affiliation are called "Gue'la" in general and a space marines are called "Gue'ron'sha" (literally "engineered human warrior"). If you are curious, humans in tau society who has commanding power, be it politically, military or as engineer team leaders, are called "Gue'vesa'vres" (literally "trusted human helper"). Technically the other xenos races also have a similar system but it is mostly the humans, vespid and the kroot who fall in that rule... at least that we know of (Come on GW, give us an auxiliary codex or more stories about them!). Still over all, like it is said in the video, xenos living in the Tau empire have more social mobility then say the average human in the Imperium have. But all must live under the whim of the Tau ethereal caste, with their good intentions or evil ones.