Poorhammer E174 - Elemental Council Book Club

Solely Singleton

On this week’s episode, Brad, Eric and Jen talk about the blue guys most beloved by Warhammer 40K players. No, not space marines. The T’au Empire. Why would they do that you ask? This is a patron-decided episode! Our patrons voted for a Book Club about the newest Elemental Council book, by Noah Van Nguyen and they nailed it! The book is very well written and the audiobook very well narrated. Tune in to find out everything we thought about the plot, lore and more! NOTE: NO SPOILERS UNTIL 36 MINUTES OF EPISODE.

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RELATED TO THIS EPISODE:

The Infinite and the Divine Book Club:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puQx2-n5KHg

The Lion Book Review:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNM7sAIFZrw

The Fall of Cadia Book Club:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWc1ss3JD84

Collecting T’au:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unaFDLa0lHk

TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 Hello and Welcome, How's it Going, Sounds Good

01:09 The Book is Great, go read it

04:45 Jen is our T'au Specialist

07:15 T'au Short Life Span

13:21 The Elemental Council

14:59 The Audiobook Quality

18:15 T'au Naming System and the Caste System

22:27 T'au Lore Background

30:18 T'au Language

32:13 Being Trapped in your Caste

35:07 T'au Relationships

36:07 FROM NOW ON, SPOILER ALERT!

36:51 Book Structure and Characters

42:01 Character First Impressions: Kay, Earthcast Engineer

43:18 Character First Impression: Say, Aircast Pilot

44:45 Character First Impression: Orr, Water caste

45:15 Character First Impression: Sword Light, Sixes

46:07 Character First Impression: Yor’i

46:56 Character First Impression: Jules Rare and Ghodh

47:26 The Plot

51:22 Space Marines Circlejerk

56:51 Brad takes a free jab against Black Templars

58:01 Worldbuilding

59:36 The Slums

01:01:19 Caste Roles Overlapping

01:04:46 Relo

01:06:24 The T'au Extremist Unit

01:08:53 Jules Death

01:09:50 Meeting the Kroot

01:11:00 Votann, Kroot and the auxiliary perspective

01:15:31 Genestealer Cults Mention

01:16:08 The Big Reveal

01:20:06 The Greater Good and the Ethereals

01:23:44 T'au Finally Submitted his Homework

01:24:27 Plot Conclusion

01:27:10 The Timeline

01:28:48 How old are the kroot

01:30:24 Everything Goes Wrong in the T'au Base

01:32:04 Plot Hole?

01:35:25 Pacing

01:36:29 Fire, Earth, Water... that's enough

01:38:32 Fire, Earth, Water... and Chaos, that's better

01:40:50 Really good ending solution

01:42:20 Brad blames the editor. Classic.

01:45:12 The Greatest Line, The Greatest Character

01:46:42 Final Thoughts

01:48:33 Alright Audio Audience

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