Originally posted by RE: BlaxicanI don't understand the problem with the Tau that you seem to believe exists.
Only the first half of the post was trolling.I meant Tau, not Tyranids. Tyranids are fine.
Which is irrelevant because if you pull back the
Nobody complains about Cthulhu because he is a character in a single, extremely short, story. He didn't need to have character development or any real flavor besides being horrific because Cthulhu wasn't designed to hold people's interest long enough to sell more shit down the long. Gaunt's Ghosts, the by far most popular and best selling book series in the black library, consists of thirteen full length novels. Could Cthulhu with the mannerisms that he had in The Call of Cthulhu, carry 14 novels as the primary antagonist or protagonist? Nope. Ibram Gaunt can though, despite being a far less complex character. Buuuut that's just my point. There's a reason why, despite allll the fantastical and unique factions in the WH40K universe, it's the same old same old regular humans, the Imperial Guard, the Inquisition, etc etc, who are by far the most popular factions in the mythos. There's a reason why there's 14 Gaunt's Ghost novels, dozens of Space Marine novels and omnibuses, multiple ominbuses with Commisars as the Protagonist, and multiple Inquisition omnibuses, yet there are a whopping... zero stories that take place from a Necron perspective. There's like, 2 or 3 books that have Necrons in them at all. Again, there's a reason for this. GW is a for profit company. If there was a high demand for more Necron content then there would be more Necron content.
I could switch Cthulhu out with any cosmic horror, but that's really beside the point. And yes, Cthulhu could. Considering how he has become iconic and, despite not being the main antagonist in any more of Lovecraft's work, has been the primary antagonist in many other works, spin-offs, tabletops RPGs, etc. So clearly people are not bored of Cthulhu.
Because they are easier to relate to, but the idea that every character/faction needs to be relateable is a simplistic notion. Orkz do not have a book taking place from their perspective (Though I maintain a novel told from the point of view of a Gretchin would be amazing), same with Tyranids, or Dark Eldar. Dark Eldar in particular IIRC appear less often than Necrons actually. And wanna know why Necrons do not show up as, say, Orkz? Because if they showed up all the time, they would lose credibility as a threat. They are meant to be a looming, enigmatic threat that doesn't show up willy nilly all the time like the Orks do, while not the overall greatest threat in the galaxy at the moment, they are meant to be a very serious, frightening threat when they show up.
The Necrons are a villainous faction, beyond that, they are not even a somewhat sympathetic villainous faction, like the Thousand Sons are. They are monolithic, enigmatic, cosmic horrors, some change and expansion is good, but the notion that alien species should be humanised is frankly ridiculous. The Necrons were never meant to be a protagonist faction. Don't pretend they should be changed to make them one.