Chris Thursten
@cjpt.bsky.social
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Author and game developer. Stories for Black Library. He/him
https://linktr.ee/cthursten
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My post-layoff professional hiatus has come to an end and I'm looking to rebuild my contact book. If you're in need of: ✏️ Fiction! Produced entirely by my human brain and hands! 🧙‍♂️ Narrative design, worldbuilding or creative direction! 🎺 Comms, bizdev or marketing support! ...then get in touch!
6 months ago
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So sad to hear about John Blanche. Hard to say anything that hasn't been said about the impact his art has had on so many of us. For me, writing Warhammer means building out from - and always arcing back toward - images like these and all of the ideas and feelings bound up in them. Rest in peace.
about 1 month ago
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Thought I'd kick off the year by painting a Blood Bowl team, having never done one before. That was January. Now it's basically June. Anyway, here are some Bretonnians.
about 1 month ago
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It’s a shame to see the Black Library Weekly coming to an end, but I’m glad to have had the chance to contribute some book recs to this penultimate edition.
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3 months ago
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Great weekend of Age of Sigmar at the Big Bristol Brawl. Came away with Best Army, Best Painted, and Best Chaos! Potato for scale.
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My post-layoff professional hiatus has come to an end and I'm looking to rebuild my contact book. If you're in need of: ✏️ Fiction! Produced entirely by my human brain and hands! 🧙‍♂️ Narrative design, worldbuilding or creative direction! 🎺 Comms, bizdev or marketing support! ...then get in touch!
6 months ago
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The new Black Library app is now available, and my first novel Darkoath is free for the first month! Including the audiobook, if you’d like to hear Jon Rand’s excellent narration.
4 months ago
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Paul Scott Canavan 🔜 MagicCon: Amsterdam
5 months ago
SORE GUM'S SECOND EP DROPS MARCH 6TH!!! Here's a little teaser of the three tracks. Gordy Crawford and I worked hard on this and I think it fucking slaps 🙏
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There's a new Black Library app on the way, and if you link your account in the first month you can get Darkoath for free in ebook and audiobook! That's two of the different kinds of book it is!
www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articl...
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A new Black Library app is on the way – here’s what you need to know
Collect all your eBooks and audiobooks in one place.
https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/wugetgtg/a-new-black-library-app-is-on-the-way-heres-what-you-need-to-know/
5 months ago
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Wrapped up Brotherhood 2026 in Cardiff with two pieces of glass for army painting! First place in the player vote, second place with the judges. Really happy - this is the first time I’ve won the vote at an event. Please do not ask any follow up questions about my win/loss ratio over the weekend.
5 months ago
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I’m at Firestorm in Cardiff this weekend for team Age of Sigmar. First proper outing for Abraxia and her various hangers-on since I finished my Slaves to Darkness project at the start of the year.
5 months ago
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Grombrindal: Ancestor’s Burden is out now in paperback! Some of these stories have previously been available as six magazines, a hardback, an audiobook, an ebook, and a Word document on my computer. This is perhaps the most convenient iteration yet!
5 months ago
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Cinderfall Gaming
5 months ago
In today’s Black Library review we check out Abraxia, Spear of the Everchosen by
@cjpt.bsky.social
, the first full length story focussing on the everchosen’s herald.
youtu.be/A4AEusMVX5g?...
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Age of Sigmar Black Library Review: Abraxia Spear of the Everchosen by Chris Thurston
YouTube video by Cinderfall Gaming
https://youtu.be/A4AEusMVX5g?si=ccMgUTQtJxXdpEaF
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Graham Smith
5 months ago
A new website about PC games, from me,
@brendyc.bsky.social
and
@jonhicks.com
. Reader-supported, which means no ads, no guff, and lots of games blogging about delightful things to play. If you liked our work on RPS, we think you'll like
@jank.cool
.
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Jay “Lorehunter” Kirkman
6 months ago
The 2025
@goonhammer.com
Book Awards! Who will win Best
#BlackLibrary
Writer? Nominees are: >
@johnfrench.bsky.social
>
@guyhaley.bsky.social
> Robbie MacNiven >
@aptshadow.bsky.social
>
@cjpt.bsky.social
VOTE NOW!
www.goonhammer.com/the-2025-goo..
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#Warhammer
#BookSky
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2025
@goonhammer.com
Book Awards Who will win Best Age of Sigmar Novel? > Abraxia, Spear of the Everchosen by
@cjpt.bsky.social
> Starseer's Ruin by
@aptshadow.bsky.social
> Ushoran, Mortarch of Delusion by
@dalelucas.bsky.social
VOTE NOW!
www.goonhammer.com/the-2025-goo...
#Warhammer
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Paul Scott Canavan 🔜 MagicCon: Amsterdam
6 months ago
I painted Minilla for my friend Chris. You're welcome, sorry
@cjpt.bsky.social
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Tom Francis
6 months ago
I've been running an indie games studio for 15 years now, and it felt like a good time to boil down what I've learned into 4 pieces of advice:
www.pentadact.com/2026-01-08-1...
I hope it's of use, not least because goddamn I forgot how long blog posts take to write.
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My post-layoff professional hiatus has come to an end and I'm looking to rebuild my contact book. If you're in need of: ✏️ Fiction! Produced entirely by my human brain and hands! 🧙‍♂️ Narrative design, worldbuilding or creative direction! 🎺 Comms, bizdev or marketing support! ...then get in touch!
6 months ago
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After maybe 15 months (!) of sporadic effort, I’ve finally finished painting Abraxia and her entourage. I wrote the novel faster.
6 months ago
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Happy to have made two contributions to the Black Library in the last year. Thanks to everybody who read Abraxia or Grombrindal - the community response to both was really fun to watch. Unlikely to be much new fiction from me in 2026, as I'm currently working on novel number four. 2027, though...
6 months ago
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Happy New Year, all. I'm glad to put 2025 behind me, on balance. But this was also the year that I had a game dev stress dream about herding cats so vivid that it led obliquely but inexorably to the adoption of my golden son, Potato. So thanks, 2025. Thanks, game development. Thanks, Potato.
6 months ago
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It’s a dreadful privilege to be so Known. Thank you, friend
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7 months ago
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Paul Scott Canavan 🔜 MagicCon: Amsterdam
7 months ago
Was very happy to contribute some thoughts to this excellent article 🙏
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Marsh Davies
7 months ago
Hard to think of *any* issue in my life on which the public have been so uniformly opposed to the govt's agenda. The unanimity exceeds any anti-war movement, even. What could the govt even propose that would less popular? Excited to see Starmer try!!
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Just finished More Everything Forever by
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- really thorough and humane joining-of-the-dots between AI, effective altruism, SF, cosmism and plutocracy that arcs, as most things should, toward the inevitable conclusion that Le Guin was right about everything
7 months ago
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Both Grombrindal and Abraxia are up for 2025's Black Library Book of the Year! Delighted if either of them to get your vote.
www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articl...
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Vote for your favourite Black Library book of 2025
May the best book win.
https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/xk95c67a/vote-for-your-favourite-black-library-book-of-2025/
7 months ago
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For what feels like every possible reason this has been a slow, slow hobby year for me. But I've finished something! Here's my take on the Helsmiths of Hashut Spearhead.
7 months ago
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Abraxia: Spear of the Everchosen is now available for preorder in hardback, ebook and audiobook! Hardback:
www.warhammer.com/en-GB/shop/h...
Ebook/Audiobook:
www.blacklibrary.com/prod-home/ne...
9 months ago
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Very happy to be contributing narrative design and worldbuilding to this new project at Anego Studios! Goblin is a powerful, powerful designer -- perhaps too powerful -- and it is a delight to get to work with them on something new after our long stint together on Hytale. Cool things to come!
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9 months ago
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My own Cities of Sigmar project stalled out a little bit, but they’re still some of my favourites to work on. So much storytelling in each mini, and it’s rewarding to put your own twist on them - converting a Khainite whisperblade, for example, or a Morrda-worshipping war surgeon.
9 months ago
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For all the amazing centrepiece models that Age of Sigmar has had over the last ten years (not least Abraxia!) my vote has gone to the Freeguild Cavalier Marshall. It’s such a beautiful sculpt - it sells the world as well as a specific character. 100% Warhammer, but full of little subversions.
9 months ago
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Unutterably proud of my boy Paul, and his boy, which is… this…
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9 months ago
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A fair and much appreciated write-up - thanks!
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10 months ago
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Jay “Lorehunter” Kirkman
10 months ago
There is a story, even in failure.
@cjpt.bsky.social
finding richness in the small details here. -from Abraxia: Spear of the Everchosen
#Warhammer
#AgeOfSigmar
#BookSky
#BlackLibrary
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This is such a lovely response, and the first I’ve seen since the limited edition came out. Thanks so much, really means a lot!
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10 months ago
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As someone who has spent a fair bit of time with both Age of Sigmar’s duardin and its take on Chaos, I’m really enjoying what I’ve seen of the Helsmiths so far. I had no foreknowledge of them when I was writing Ancestor’s Burden, but tried to keep the door open for Hashut and Valaya all the same.
10 months ago
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The limited edition of Abraxia: Spear of the Everchosen is out today! Cover art by Valera Lutfullina, treatment by the Black Library team. Words about awful people making each other worse by me.
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10 months ago
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The limited edition of my latest novel for Black Library - Abraxia: Spear of the Everchosen - is now available for preorder!
www.warhammer.com/en-GB/shop/a...
11 months ago
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Black Library do such lovely work with these limited edition hardcovers and it’s really exciting to see my first in the wild. Abraxia: Spear of the Everchosen is up for preorder next Saturday!
11 months ago
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Paul Scott Canavan 🔜 MagicCon: Amsterdam
12 months ago
A little Pale Tides writing, as a treat đź–¤
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Happy 10th birthday, Age of Sigmar! Silver Tower and First Edition got me back into Warhammer after a decade-long hiatus. I'm grateful for everything the hobby has given me since then, and it's still surreal to think that I've had the opportunity to leave my own mark on the setting. More to come!
about 1 year ago
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Following the cancellation of Hytale, I'm now looking for work after seven years at Hypixel Studios. Please reach out if you'd like to talk game design, worldbuilding, or creative direction. Or books, obviously. I also write books.
about 1 year ago
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DARKOATH is out in paperback today! It’s the perfect size to be carried in a small bag, a large pocket, or perhaps among the mass of skulls and bloody trophies with which you gird yourself.
about 1 year ago
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I’m spending the weekend at Birmingham CommandFest helping my pal
@abigbat.bsky.social
run a little shop where he signs things and I attempt to shift prints of that one Furby horse he painted for some reason. It’s a living!
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about 1 year ago
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My third novel for Black Library, Abraxia: Spear of the Everchosen, was announced today! A return to Chaos, albeit on the opposite end of the Path to Glory to Darkoath. As someone who got into AoS with books like Call of Archaon, this was a real treat to write. A grim treat, but a treat even so.
about 1 year ago
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Paul Scott Canavan 🔜 MagicCon: Amsterdam
over 1 year ago
Some Magic: the Gathering cards I painted which are really special to me đź–¤ Info in the alt text!
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Hytale
over 1 year ago
In our Spring 2025 Development Update, we highlight progress made in the first months of 2025! Later, we lay out the aspects of Hytale we’ll be playtesting internally, and we reveal a new addition to an old faction!
hytale.com/news/2025/3/...
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Really happy to have won Judges’ Choice with my Slaves to Darkness at the Warhammer World Age of Sigmar GT this weekend! It was a sprint to get Abraxia and co. painted in time - proper photos to come.
over 1 year ago
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I'm only just finding time to paint minis again after a frantic start to the year, but the first unit of my rebooted Slaves to Darkness project for AoS is finally done. Here, have some Chaos Warriors.
over 1 year ago
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