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Torchstar is a Tau Sub-Commander and skilled Battlesuit pilot. A member of The Eight, Commander Farsight's elite honor guard and war council, Torchstar is the youngest member of the group and a defector from the Tau Empire.
Appearance
Torchstar is noted to have fire tattoos across her body,[1a] and wears her auburn hair in a long braid with three metal rings to symbolise her greatest victories.[2d] She pilots a red XV-8 Crisis Battlesuit[1b] in a Flamestorm loadout.[2a]
History
Before defecting to the Farsight Enclaves she lived in Gel'byrn City on Dal'yth[2c] with her bond-mates Fio'Rabal and Rivertell.[2b] On Dal'yth was was a member of the Company of Inner Light; a secret society dedicated to the True Tau'va and Commander Farsight. Torchstar brought evidence to the sciety that the ethereals knew of a tyranid fleet approaching the Farsight Enclaves, and that they intended to not warn Farsight of it. However the Company of Inner Light deemed it a lost cause to try and warn the Enclaves themselves. Torchstar burst out at the other members of the society in rage and then endeavoured to defect to the Farsight Enclaves on her own.[2e]
Alongside Fio'Rabal and Rivertell, Torchstar hatched a plan to steal the ship Vision of Aun'Shi from its docks. Whilst attempting to make it to the Vision of Aun'Shi the three were apphrehended by guards. Shas'O Da'kai intervened in their arrest, and used a secret signal to indicate to Torchstar that she was a member of the Company of Inner Light. However the Shas'O's intervention only ensured that she was arrested as well. Torchstar was taken to a Vash'ala, a chamber which cycled propaganda videos. The chamber caused Torchstar to have a panic attack, and she clawed at its smooth surface to find a way out, causing her fingers to bleed.[2f] Eventually she was let out of the chamber by the guards. Torchstar suspected this was on the order of an ethereal. She then departed for the Farsight Enclaves with her bond-mates.[2g]
Upon arrival in the Enclaves Torchstar would save Farsight's life. She had arrived too late to warn the Commander of the Tyranids, but joined battle against them.[2h]
Conflicting sources
Torchstar is given two different sept backgrounds:
- The 2013 Farsight Enclaves Codex states she is from Vior'la.[1b]
- The 2025 novel Farsight: Blade of Truth (Novel) states she is from Dal'yth.[2a][2c]
