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BluntmanDC wrote:

Sir Pseudonymous wrote:Blanks have souls, or rather more specifically a sort of a negative image of a soul/warp-presence, while Tau are more akin to rocks or machines without Machine Spirits.

Your statement is a load of rubbish with no actual amount of fluff at all

Blanks/pariah - are clearly described as soul less, it is the fact that they have no presence in the warp (which is due to having no soul) that freaks people out.
Tau - have a very low presence in the warp, but they still have a presence.
normal humans/eldar/ork all have a presence in the warp of varied degrees.

Blanks actively disrupt the warp; they don't lack a warp-presence, they have a negative one. Imagine the warp as a flat plane: a normal being with a "soul" would produce a depression in this plane, an empty space into which things can fall and occupy (a pysker would be this to a greater extent); a blank would produce a hill, or a column, an occupied space that is difficult to ascend, and impossible to occupy; something without a soul doesn't affect the plane at all. These effects are malleable, with things like blanks overriding nearby souls, unsettling the ones connected to them, and providing a barrier against psychic manifestations and warp entities, and there being devices which can suppress the effect of a blank, or mimic it. There's even a case of a particularly unusual variety of psyker eroding away a blank, leaving him either a normal human, or merely soulless, like an inanimate object, or a Tau.