Editing Shas'O Kais (section)

==Criticism==

Thanks to his characterization in ''Dark Crusade'', Kais was one of the more well-liked and memorable non-Astartes characters of the series, and for a while embodied what the T'au represented at that point to the fandom in general -- well-meaning but generally naive newcomers to a galaxy worn down by near-constant conflict and cruelty.

While this kind of worked in the loose canon that 40k-based video games followed, especially given how he was a ''homage'' to a different video game entirely (Fire Warrior), transposing his brand of Noblebright to the really gritty grimdark lore of the print universe of the time... Simply didn't work, or rather the writers weren't good enough to shoe him into the lore in any way that would preserve said Noblebright.

Then there's the T'au Doomguy problem: how can one ''realistically'' show how a T'au slub can be a one-man army par excellance, without careening straight into parody?

In the FPS genre of video games that Fire Warrior is part of, silly over the top things like doing a [[What|jumping 360-no-scope to headshot an Astartes]] is not only possible, it comes with the territory (including teabagging said headshotted Astartes several times in celebration). Transposing the same set of movements into dynamic prose is HARD, and smothering the resulting suspension of disbelief even harder. More often than not it just results in [[Fail]].

Of course, then there's the Phil Kelly problem. The author had a trend of taking T'au characters and outright ruining them by sheer awful writing. T'au fans in general agree that Phil Kelly is the Matt Ward of the T'au: a blight upon the faction that makes them even more hated than they already are.