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Yeah, i was just really talking about characters you would actually see on a table top.

How did I forget about Makari the gretchin?

Calgar to my scarabs, yes make 10 saves.

fluff wise, the origional commander farsight O'Shovah may have died and the new one just took over his title. Either that or he turned to chaos being a first for the Tau!

The strong implication, however, is that it is indeed the original Farsight, his life prolonged by his daemonic/Necron/weird alien tech sword.

For him just to turn out to be a descendant of the original Farsight would be terribly disappointing.

Shadowsun and Farsight were taught by the same guy(they have even been in the same room at the same time). Shadowsun taking over not long after farsight went rogue.

The Original farsight is still alive and according to some maths by the people at Advanced Tau Tactica, Farsight is around 46-48 years old. (Shadowsun being about 44 and Puretide[the teacher] being about 52)

Which is about the limit for a Tau.

40 years is their average life expectancy. Etherials may live slightly longer. Puretide is super old.

Asmodai, Dark Angels Interogater Chaplain.

Berek Thunderfist. The previous Wolf Lord of the Great Company Ragnar now leads.

TechMarine1 wrote:Asmodai, Dark Angels Interogater Chaplain.

Is he officially dead, or just absent from the present codex?

English Assassin wrote:

TechMarine1 wrote:Asmodai, Dark Angels Interogater Chaplain.

Is he officially dead, or just absent from the present codex?

I think he was the one who went toe to toe with ghazkull on Pinnacle 4 or something.

I think Yarrick will be dead by the next codex (some how i don't see him retiring)

Urien Rakath, several hundred times..

Keeping him dead is more difficult

JamesMclaren123 wrote:I think Yarrick will be dead by the next codex (some how i don't see him retiring)

And the return of Gaunt? Ofcourse then they would have to admit that there are other flavors of the guard other then the cookie cutters from the current codex.....

Warboss Tuska is dead

Deadish.

He keeps being reborn and dying again..

Chowderhead wrote:

FinalAnswer wrote:Ciaphas Cain was liek, 200 years old when he was called back into service during the Black Crusade, so lol at getting him in 6e.

That's like 45 years old, dude.

That's for Space Marines. Normal humans have more or less the same lifespan as people nowadays.

Shayden wrote:

Chowderhead wrote:

FinalAnswer wrote:Ciaphas Cain was liek, 200 years old when he was called back into service during the Black Crusade, so lol at getting him in 6e.

That's like 45 years old, dude.

That's for Space Marines. Normal humans have more or less the same lifespan as people nowadays.

Not if they have Juvnats avaliable to them. Then you can live for 300-400 years easily, even longer if you have any kind of Augmetics.

FinalAnswer wrote:Ciaphas Cain was liek, 200 years old when he was called back into service during the Black Crusade, so lol at getting him in 6e.

There have previously been characters already canonically dead included in codices; you would of course have known that, had you actually read this thread before posting.

Azariah Kyras and Indrick Boreale.

Grey Templar wrote:

Shayden wrote:

Chowderhead wrote:

FinalAnswer wrote:Ciaphas Cain was liek, 200 years old when he was called back into service during the Black Crusade, so lol at getting him in 6e.

That's like 45 years old, dude.

That's for Space Marines. Normal humans have more or less the same lifespan as people nowadays.

Not if they have Juvnats avaliable to them. Then you can live for 300-400 years easily, even longer if you have any kind of Augmetics.

Yeah, Colonel Schaffer is like 300 isn't he? And he's still in his prime.

Durza wrote:

Grey Templar wrote:

Shayden wrote:

Chowderhead wrote:

FinalAnswer wrote:Ciaphas Cain was liek, 200 years old when he was called back into service during the Black Crusade, so lol at getting him in 6e.

That's like 45 years old, dude.

That's for Space Marines. Normal humans have more or less the same lifespan as people nowadays.

Not if they have Juvnats avaliable to them. Then you can live for 300-400 years easily, even longer if you have any kind of Augmetics.

Yeah, Colonel Schaffer is like 300 isn't he? And he's still in his prime.

Schaffer is kept going by the admech who constantly add stuff to him

I was warhammer pic browsing on the web and found another statted hero that died, the badmoonz boss uzteef

Lynata wrote:

Skal098 wrote:Or will say the imperial guard have a new hero Commissar Caiphas Cain?

Given those novels' transgressions against studio material, I doubt GW would sanction them by adding this character to the setting promulgated in their army books, in spite of their apparent popularity.

What the hell was wrong with the Ciaphas Cain series? Those books are good.

Tau Ethereal Aun'Shi?

I remember him from the first Tau codex, but I dont recall him being in the current 'dex anymore. He was kinda cool, yet contradictory. A Tau warrior who fought with a double-bladed honour blade. As he was near 'retiring age' for a Tau, he's probably dead from old age by now

Now, I'm so sure of this one that I made an account just to feel a little smug. But wasn't there a Crimson Fists Cpt. in 3rd ed? Captain Cortez I think, isn't he dead now?

Cortez is just missing. Not confirmed dead.

I remember reading somewhere that Nork Deddog died of old age back on his homeworld. He was a hundred-something years old.