Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-86.7.138.66-20130615215334/@comment-5860288-20190103090714

I can understand where you're coming from but the ethereals are definitely not the Old Ones, for one, they're more amphibian/fishlike than the Old Ones who are more reptilian, the closest the T'au gets to the Old Ones are the Kroot.

Also if the Ethereals were, or were created by the Old Ones then they should have access to psychic abilities, which as we all know, the T'au (alongside the Necrons) are one of the only factions who cannot harness the power of the warp.

Although with the recent developments the T'au have managed to venture into the warp so I would expect in 9th edition the T'au will have access to Psychic powers. The Necrons however will never have such powers, what with not having souls. Although they have proven their ability to inhibit psychic powers with the Canoptek Spyder Gloom Prisms, they really need to develop or awaken more technologies capable of disrupting psychic energies.