Board Thread:Warhammer 40k Novels/@comment-27376167-20151210113237/@comment-26420219-20160414211942

I have to back up Vforvendetta1 on that one. The Greater Good is a philosophy developped by the Tau Etherals, but as the events of the Great Crusade unfolded thousands of years before the Tau even mastered speech it is impossible for a Primarch to "turn" to the Greater Good.

On your theory about one of the Lost Primarchs being the initiator of the Greater Good, how exactly would the Primarch have communicated with the primitive Tau? If a Primarch had truly lived with the primitive Tau, this would mean that the civilised Tau would all have to be fluent in Gothic as some sort of sacred language, and yet they have their own language, why do so if you have an seemingly eternal and all-powerful demigod as your guide? If one of he Primarch had truly interacted with the Tau in such way the Tau Empire would have had a much greater knowledge on subjects such as Warp Drives, the existence of the Imperium at the very least (quite possibly the existence of Chaos), Imperial tactics and weapons and so on, which they evidently not had until the Second Sphere Expansion and their crossing of the Damocles Gulf.