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Originally Posted by Torquemada Coteaz  Eldar created Ethereals? kindly do extrapolate I REALLY want to hear  !!! |
Basically,
Xenology insinuates that the Ethereals were created by the Eldar using Q'orl phermone stacks (the diamond shaped thing on their forehead). They stole away a Swarm Queen at the end of the 37th Millenium...typical cowardly Eldar!
Further reading basically shows that one of the remaining Old Ones (Qah-he who lingers) sped up the Tau's evolution but never finished (due to his death at the birth of Slaanesh) and so I reckon that the Eldar (being the Old Ones most trusted servants) upon seeing the Tau exterminate themselves tried to stabilise the race by creating the Ethereals.
Of course, some people think it was the Laughing God (who is an Old One) who sped up the Tau and by
de facto the Harlequins who stole away the Swarm Queen. I don't believe this at all since he would have made sure that the Tau would never have gotten into such a sorry state...unlike Qah who died later.