Demiurg

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[[File:Demiurg concept sketch.jpg|250px|thumb|right|This concept sketch by [[Jes Goodwin]] is the closest thing to a canon image of a Demiurg. And totally NOT similar to certain clone-skein phenotypes of the Kin previewed in Warhammer Community articles.]]
{{Topquote|'''DEMIURG BROTHERHOOD RESPONDING'''|From the Tau Empire trailer for the Battlefleet Gothic vidya}}

The Demiurg are a client race of the [[Tau Empire|T'au Empire]] and are described as short, rocky humanoids using huge mining ships to brave asteroid fields to mine.

[[Leagues of Votann|They're Squats, straight up]] <s>an alien species different from the abhuman known as Squat, though the confusion is quite common</s>. Reportedly they were created specifically as a compromise for fans who wanted the Squats back, <s>though GW ended up doing very little with them anyway and then retconned then back into relevance</s>. Prior to the League of Votann Codex, the most we ever see of them is in Battlefleet Gothic as auxiliary fleets, and that’s about it. As a side note, they sound frickin awesome though.

Their lore in BFG is one big fat reference to Homeworld Bentusi, not just in name, but the whole concept of ancient spacefaring race of traders, every fleet a brotherhood, and they are so hardwired to their ships that ship damage results in loss of captain mental capacity. And just like the Bentusi, Bentus'la, how Tau call them, have taught the young ones how to build ion cannons (for 400 resource units?)

Recent lore regarding the [[Leagues of Votann]] states that the Demiurg are a part of the Leagues (with at least some of them being called the Seran-Tok Mercantile League, who profited greatly from the Tau. Of note is that various other old canon materials such as Battle Fleet Gothic Magazine, Fanatic Magazine, and mentioned the "SrryTok" Demiurg brotherhood trading heavily with the Tau). We also have further confirmation with some of the Kin exhibiting similar genetic mutations to Demiurg (hardened skin scales). The Demiurg have provided Energy Drills to the [[Leagues of Votann]], according to Necromunda's Book of Judgement, which makes sense considering the that they are members of the Leagues themselves. Like the rest of the Leagues, they make use of ion technology as well; making the Mechanicus all but on the brink of proscribing them as hereteks (if they haven't already). Further reveals in their Codex say they’re simply misidentified Prospect trade fleets of Kin origin by both Imperial and Tau observation. Other mistaken identities include Gnostari, Kreg, Gnomes, and Heliosi Ancients. Part of the reason they’re misidentified is they’ve drifted culturally in the same manner the Ironhead Prospectors on Necromunda or the Vordini Squats under Imperial sovereignty have drifted.

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Men of Gold

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Men of Gold are a mysterious sect of Humanity that appeared during the [[Age of Terra]]. They were physically and emotionally superior than ordinary men, and used them to learn and spread across the [[Terra|Old Earth]], turning the anarchy of Nature into the order of Civilisation. To help them colonize Galaxy, Men of Gold created [[Men of Stone]], which surpassed their masters in population in M21. With the start of [[Dark Age of Technology]], most of them disappeared. Characteristic-wise, they might be similar to the [[Perpetual]]s. Additionally, some Kin myths mention a “group of gleaming golden figures” in relation to the first Votann (sometimes referred to as the Gilded One, the stonemind, and the primal ancestors). Some myths speak of them as being the wisest and eldest of the first ancestors, and are also depicted as shadowy presences that are ill-defined and shown in many different forms, both humanoid and otherwise, where they are depicted at all. They have also been said in some myths to look like a wheel of graven stone faces. It said in Kin myths that the Votann (an alternate name) raised the Kin up, and sent them sailing into the dark void – before oceans of fire and flesh rose to swallow them.

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