Could you imagine any circumstances under which either like a Tau planet or a warrior cadre or whatever comes under the influence of chaos, and is that even possible?
Could you imagine any circumstances under which either like a Tau planet or a warrior cadre or whatever comes under the influence of chaos, and is that even possible?
I do believe Tau register at least some presence in the Warp, so perhaps it is possible, if very difficult, for a Tau to turn to chaos.
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Edit: On a serious note; I personally don't see why anything can't declare a worship of Chaos under the right circumstances. It's not as if Tau were given a 'We Never Accept Chaos' clause in their existential fabric.
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The Tau should remember their Greater Good.
If there's no ethereals around to remind them...
Of indeed if it was an ethereal who was corrupted in the first place
Tau could certainly be manipulated by agents of Chaos (they have been in the past). Whether that would result in (or require) taint is up to you. So far, the Tau seem to have dodged that bullet due to tactical/strategic expediency and cosmological/metaphysical hurdles.
If you want to pursue "taint," then I suggest you do more reading on the Tau concept of Mont'au. It's not exactly the same as Chaos, but it forms the basis for what the Tau find distasteful in a culture.
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as far as i can remember the tau can't suffer the predations of the warp because they have no major psychic power , unlike space marine librarians or eldar warlocks. however it is possible for them to be influnced by already corrupt characters/ artifacts. sad really that the tau cant be possessed as a slaaneshi tau ethereal would a) be fun and b) give the poor blue no nosed freaks a remotely interesting facet!!
the only other mention i vaquely remember is some kroot which ate a dead chaos marine and became mutated/ possessed, please correct me if wrong
ps wasnt chaos mentioned in the background or rumours for commander farsight??
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I'm fairly sure the tau wouldn't become corrupt by themselves but I can see a possession being forced on them - If a demon can be trapped into a sword why not a tau?
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thing is i don't think tau have any sense of worship to begin with, as there is no concept of religion or elements in their culture that points them towards identifying with 'more holy than thou' entities. the GG is a societal philosophy, hardly anything to be considered a religion.
with an exception to tzeentch, i doubt any major god would even bother with the tau, who have little to know warp presence...they probably register on the same level as a grox might. oh no chaos space-cow-lizards.
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@Warsmith: You do not require psychic powers to become possessed or corrupted. Think of all the non-psychic guardsmen who have been corrupted. And all the aspiring champions who become possessed in order to summon a greater daemon.
Concerning kroot, they refuse to eat chaos-tainted meat, IIRC. Or maybe that's tyranid meat.
If a tank's hull can be corrupted (which has zero psychic potential), I don't see why a fleshy tau couldn't be.
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In a word - yes.
There have been chaotically corrupted Kroot, and there's a daemon-possessed Tau Ethereal in the Daemonhunter Codex - once he falls, it's only a matter of time.
Certainly, they wouldn't be disposed to forming cults as humans do - it would be a far more forceful conversion, caused by direct exposure to the warp. Their mindset and physiology means that Chaos as the "Enemy Within" is far less likely.
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I think a kroot would make a great friend.
Its amusing that the most simple of races are the least corruptable.
So be single-minded.
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The best I can came up with is the zombie plague, I do not think they can get more chaos into them than that.
However, with all the humans they're forcing into their domains they're definitely asking for chaos trouble
Which is where you get chaos necrons
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Tau have a very weak Warp presence so that makes them rather uninteresting to the Chaos gods. So they could probably be seduced to serve another follower of Chaos, but they wouldn't really be able to harness the power of Chaos for themselves.
On the other hand, I see no reason why they'd be immune to physical corruption, so I guess Tau Mutants and maybe even Possessed are possible.
The tau are naive, but i think they're wise enough to practice infanticide on the mutated. If not for the protection of the species, at least as an act of humane behavior. The tau certainly put the Empire before themselves, and I'd imagine before others.
So I think that the tau would try to prevent any physical chaos whether or not the Ethereals are around, because its not natural. I mean if you got a cancerous growth on you arm that was growing teeth and eyes would you:
A. See it as a sign of divine intervention.
B. Ignore the risks and watch as it begins to talk.
C. Cut the arm off and burn the thing in a blast furnace and get a shiny chrome augmentation.
Tau are IMO atheists, so A is out, and they're not stupid despite being childishly innocent and curious so B is out. I think they'd go Imperial route and exorcise the limb right off the body. (The Imperium would just kill the guy, but tau are specialer.
I don't think the arm would just start talking to you after it had manifested though. You most certainly would have fallen morally before you begin to degrade physically, unless you obtain the mutation as a result of some encounter with a mad psyker on the battlefield.
Oh, infact:
http://oz.games-workshop.com/games/4.../daemons/b.htm
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Where's Bregalad? That's supposed to summon him.
I know this topic comes up every 2 or so months. And while I have my own opinion (which is Chaos Tau isn't going to happen for quite a few reasons, most of which have been spelled out before), I have another question thats on topic: Why must everything be corruptable by Chaos?? Chaos Tyranids! Chaos Tau! Chaos Squats! Chaos Chaos Space Marines (yes, you read that right)!! Is Chaos, and by extension the warp, powerful? Yes, undeniably so. Are there reasons for certain races to fall to Chaos, or are suceptable to falling? Yes. But it isn't all powerful (otherwise humanity would already be dead).
Necrons aren't suseptable to chaos. Everyone agrees with the fact that Chaos is anathema to them. Scratch that; the C'Tan are allergic to Chaos while Necrons themselves are sentient robots. So why is it so difficult to believe that another race is just as hard to corrupt? Why can't Necrons themselves be corrupted? They're not C'Tan, shouldn't they be just as corruptable as another race? Yet Chaos Necron threads are close to mythical.
The Tau have a very low signature in the warp; whether by design or by evolution. While still having a signature in the warp, they just aren't that appealing; picture a hungry person trying to choose between a steak dinner and a granola bar...yes both are going to sustain you, but that steak dinner is more of what you want so you're going to pursue that. Can a Tau be corrupted? Yes. I'll be the first to admit it. Is it rare? Hell yeah. Would it be as widespread as a cadre-wide epidemic? Extremely doubtful to non-existant. It just wouldn't get that far. And I'm of the belief that an Ethereal is just as incorruptable as a Grey Knight; utter faith in the Greater Good combined with a very low warp signature means that if (and a big bloody if it is) a daemon comes a-corrupting...he/she would die first before submitting (you want a fluff source, check out the book Fire Warrior).
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