My Tau characters

[luy22]

Name: Shas'O Cammander Taka

Player name: Luy22

Race and gender: Tau, Male (Fire Caste)


Age: 41

Hight & build: The same height as any other Fire caste member.

Description: Has normal Tau features, no nose, blue skin, hooves, red line between eyes.

Career & general skills: Taka is the commander of a Tau army and armada from the nuvan sept, which was recantly created when the Tau gained it's third expansion. He canpilot any vehicle the Tau possess. He also can use mostly any weapon.

Armor: Normal Fire Warrior armor, no helmet/ Tau Commander Battlesuit

Equipment: A Command battlesuit, pistol at his side, a Tau sword hangs from his belt.

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Name: Ethereal K'oku

Player name: Luy22

Race and gender: Tau, Male (Ethereal)

Age: 55

Hight & build: A bit shorter than a fire warrior

Description: Has normal Tau features, no nose, blue skin, hooves, red line between eyes.

Career & general skills: K'oku is one of the Ethereals of the nuvan sept.

Armor: Ornate water caste robes

Equipment: (Ethereal pole thingies, truly sorry I don't know what they are >_<)

[gorthuk]

You know that Ethereal's aren't part of a caste? They are the leaders of the Tau race, they are the so-called fifth caste above the four lesser caste.

* Fire (Shas) -- The Fire caste are the military of the Tau Empire. It is their duty to defend the other castes, and as such are the Tau most often used in the tabletop game. They are slightly shorter than, but as broad as, a human. They have relatively large muscles compared with the rest of the castes, an evolved trait from their time as hunters on the Tau homeworld. Fire caste Tau are motivated by a code of honour, and prefer to use their advanced weaponry to defeat opponents, as opposed to brute force.

* Earth (Fio) -- The Earth caste is primarily made up of farmers, labourers, and technicians; responsible for building the machines, cultivating the food, and erecting the dwellings that allow the Tau to survive. The Earth caste also includes artisans, scientists, and engineers. Members of the Earth caste are stout of build, and tend to have calloused hands and a pragmatic outlook on life.

* Water (Por) -- The Water caste is made up of merchants, diplomats, and administrators. They are responsible for maintaining effective interaction between the castes, as well as communicating with and supervising the integration of alien species into the Tau Empire. Members of the Water Caste tend to be taller and more slender than other Tau, and their features are softer and more expressive. Water caste Tau will frequently adopt mannerisms and cultural habits of the races they deal with, although this is often done to promote communication with other races.

* Air (Kor) -- The Air caste of the Tau traditionally functioned as messengers, but now fill the ranks of the Tau Navy (Kor'vattra), working as pilots and starship crews. The Air caste lives almost entirely off-world, and as such have developed long, slender limbs, but possess a skeletal and muscular structure of reduced strength. Prior to the unification of the Tau castes, the Air caste were said to possess membranous wings, allowing them to glide.

* Ethereal (Aun) -- Aun is translated as either Ethereal or Celestial, and describes the mysterious Tau subspecies that ended the intertribal warfare of the Tau and established the doctrine of the Greater Good. The Ethereals are the leaders of the Tau, and appear to combine the roles of priesthood and royalty in Tau society. Ethereals resemble the Fire and Water Castes in build, but are marked by a diamond-shaped ridge of raised bone in the centre of their foreheads. Ethereals are obeyed without question by the other castes, and the Imperium suspects that this control is the result of a latent psychic or pheromone-based power.

Only in body-shape the Ethereal is related to the water caste.

[luy22]

The thing that's sad is that I read alot of books and fluf but I suck at 40k RPing :/

[gorthuk]

It's no point, everyone has to start somewhere and some develop faster than others. My critism may sound negative, but it's ment for improval.

I use often the games-workshop site for the basic fluff and the rest I base around them. Just a few descriptions of what those creatures are and how they look like, maybe you can try that?

[luy22]

A'ight