Elemental Council

Warhammer 40,000

De: Noah Van Nguyen

Narrado por: Emma Gregory

A Warhammer 40,000 Audiobook

Since the T’au Empire annexed the world of Cao Quo, its benighted human population has caused setback after setback for their new rulers, resisting the light of the Greater Good. Now, an armed rebellion has taken root, led by the ruthless but brilliant Artamax – a Space Marine of the Raptors Chapter.

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Explore the inner workings, politics, and challenges facing members of the T'au as they face a full-scale planetary insurrection from within their own empire. Can a selection of experts from across the castes come together to defeat this insurgency?

THE STORY

In a moment of crisis for the T'au Empire, the enigmatic ethereal Yor’i assembles an elite Elemental Council – a veteran Fireblade, a water caste spy, a peerless air caste pilot, and a maverick earth caste engineer – in the hope of curtailing the growing insurgency on the planet Cao Quo.

But as a full-scale planetary insurrection looms, enemies more cunning than Yor’i’s council could have imagined begin to surface from both sides, and Cao Quo soon finds itself teetering on the brink of being plunged back into a dark age of ignorance, and all-out war.

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Compelling characters struggling for a victory against the shadowy imperium

My first 40K book. Thought it was a great listen, especially for a Tau fan. I would recommend it to anyone interested in the faction!

An interesting look at Tau/human interaction.

Diplomatic battles almost as tense as the real one. a good look at the many methods Tau use for war. Perhaps not as grimdark as many 40k works but still interesting.

Finally a Great Tau Novel!

A great story with captivating insights into the Tau of Warhammer 40,000. The real treat is the characters. All of them are engaging with complex motivations and charm for days. This is NOT my usual experience with 40K novels, and I desperately hope there is more like this to come!

Not just good, it's a Greater Good.

A book for Tau fans. A warning, your enjoyment will depend on how you feel about the characters and their arcs. Thankfully those characters and their arcs are great. The only real flaw was the antagonizing forces were kept shadowed a bit too long for my taste. It all came together excellently in the end though.

A perfect Ten

Elemental Council feels like a love letter to warhammer fans as well as Tau fans specifically. The author uses the setting to address many of the myths and memes about the Tau, finding a perfect middle ground of making them true but not unreasonable, or formerly true but no longer. This is a story of living up to your own expectations, and the pressure of finding your place in a common cause. I’m very happy with how it turned out, and will be coming back to it again and again.

best Tau Book so far

haven't had such a good 40k book in a while. highly recommend it to everyone interested in the greater Good

The Battle for the Greater (Interpretations of) Good

This is one of the best 40k books in the last couple years, and there has been some fantastic ones. Nguyen has stood out in this, not just as a Warhammer author but an author in general. The way the narrative is structured, and the journey it takes you, the twists, the turns, the laughs, and the TEARS. What a fantastic book this was, the characters were so life like I was literally cheering at times. I usually listen to the audiobooks when going to bed but I honestly could not sleep as this was just so captivating. Elemental Council is seriously a superb novel and if you are a fan of fiction in general, you will like this. I can't say it enough READ LISTEN, whatever it may be, get this book! Thank you so much to the author for providing me this experience, I feely life is actually net-better afterwards. I was already a fan of the other T'au novels, but this is a league of its own.

The first good Tau book on audible, and a must read for Tau fans

Tau have a reputation for having bad books. While usually warranted, this book is the exception. Part hiest, part mystery, part war story, this book uses the Tau to their fullest literary ability. The story follows a group of 5 Tau, one from each caste, attempting to save a captured ethereal from a rebelling human world. The story has several exciting twists and the characters all came to grow on me. This is a must read for Tau fans.

Finally some positive Ethereal representation!

Glad to see the many faces of the Tau working together to solve a mystery and bring the truth of the GG to a former Imperial world! Take notes Kelly!

Great Tau book

Probably one of the best Tau books out there. Check this out if you want a good xeno read