Chris Thursten
@cjpt.bsky.social
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!
✏️ Fiction! Produced entirely by my human brain and hands!
🧙♂️ Narrative design, worldbuilding or creative direction!
🎺 Comms, bizdev or marketing support!
...then get in touch!
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.
January 31, 2026 at 12:47 PM
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.
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!
January 31, 2026 at 12:37 PM
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!
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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.
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Age of Sigmar Black Library Review: Abraxia Spear of the Everchosen by Chris Thurston
YouTube video by Cinderfall Gaming
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January 29, 2026 at 3:08 PM
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?...
youtu.be/A4AEusMVX5g?...
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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.
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.
January 27, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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.
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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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...
#Warhammer #BookSky
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...
#Warhammer #BookSky
January 17, 2026 at 10:36 PM
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...
#Warhammer #BookSky
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...
#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
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
January 17, 2026 at 10:26 PM
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
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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January 6, 2026 at 3:56 PM
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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.
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.
January 8, 2026 at 6:02 PM
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.
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.
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!
✏️ Fiction! Produced entirely by my human brain and hands!
🧙♂️ Narrative design, worldbuilding or creative direction!
🎺 Comms, bizdev or marketing support!
...then get in touch!
January 5, 2026 at 12:14 PM
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!
✏️ Fiction! Produced entirely by my human brain and hands!
🧙♂️ Narrative design, worldbuilding or creative direction!
🎺 Comms, bizdev or marketing support!
...then get in touch!
After maybe 15 months (!) of sporadic effort, I’ve finally finished painting Abraxia and her entourage. I wrote the novel faster.
January 3, 2026 at 8:39 PM
After maybe 15 months (!) of sporadic effort, I’ve finally finished painting Abraxia and her entourage. I wrote the novel faster.
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...
January 1, 2026 at 11:54 AM
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...
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.
January 1, 2026 at 11:47 AM
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.
It’s a dreadful privilege to be so Known. Thank you, friend
I painted one of my favourite little freaks for my dear friend @cjpt.bsky.social 👁️👄👁️
December 24, 2025 at 12:36 PM
It’s a dreadful privilege to be so Known. Thank you, friend
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Was very happy to contribute some thoughts to this excellent article 🙏
We spoke to a dozen professional concept artists who are currently or have previously worked in game development about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs any easier.
Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder.
thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/conc...
Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder.
thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/conc...
Concept Artists Say Generative AI References Only Make Their Jobs Harder
“The ‘early ideation stages’, when worlds are being fleshed out by writers and artists, are literally crucial to the development of a game’s vision,” said one artist.
thisweekinvideogames.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Was very happy to contribute some thoughts to this excellent article 🙏
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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!!
🚨 The UK government just published a breakdown of the responses to its consultation on AI & copyright:
- 95% of respondents want AI companies to pay for their training data (made up of 88% saying strengthen copyright law, & 7% saying leave it as is)
🧵 1/2
- 95% of respondents want AI companies to pay for their training data (made up of 88% saying strengthen copyright law, & 7% saying leave it as is)
🧵 1/2
December 15, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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!!
Just finished More Everything Forever by @adambecker.bsky.social - 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
December 17, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Just finished More Everything Forever by @adambecker.bsky.social - 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
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...
Vote for your favourite Black Library book of 2025
May the best book win.
www.warhammer-community.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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...
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.
November 28, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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.
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...
Hardback: www.warhammer.com/en-GB/shop/h...
Ebook/Audiobook: www.blacklibrary.com/prod-home/ne...
October 18, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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...
Hardback: www.warhammer.com/en-GB/shop/h...
Ebook/Audiobook: www.blacklibrary.com/prod-home/ne...
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!
Surprise! The project I'm working on for Anego Studios got announced - check it out!
www.vintagestory.at/blog.html/ne...
I'm so excited to finally tell folks about Project Glint, and overwhelmingly grateful to Tyron and Anego Studios for the opportunity and their support!
www.vintagestory.at/blog.html/ne...
I'm so excited to finally tell folks about Project Glint, and overwhelmingly grateful to Tyron and Anego Studios for the opportunity and their support!
Development update, September 2025
Dear Vantastic Vintarians Vividly voicing for you the ventures we’re forging. I've been trying to write this blog post for the last 2 weeks, surely didn't help catching a cold in the middle of all of ...
www.vintagestory.at
October 4, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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!
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.
October 4, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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.
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.
October 4, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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.
Unutterably proud of my boy Paul, and his boy, which is… this…
As an unapologetic Furby-enjoyer, it was a real pleasure getting to work on the Furby Secret Lair.
Shout out @evynfong.bsky.social for recommending me on this set 💖
#mtg #furby #secretlair
Shout out @evynfong.bsky.social for recommending me on this set 💖
#mtg #furby #secretlair
September 28, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Unutterably proud of my boy Paul, and his boy, which is… this…
A fair and much appreciated write-up - thanks!
Happy Lore Friday! In my latest review for @Goonhammer, I take a look at the new #AgeOfSigmar novel Abraxia, Spear of the Everchosen.
Special thanks to @zufosfatebreaker.bsky.social as well! 🤘
#BlackLibrary #BookSky #Warhammer
Special thanks to @zufosfatebreaker.bsky.social as well! 🤘
#BlackLibrary #BookSky #Warhammer
September 19, 2025 at 8:16 PM
A fair and much appreciated write-up - thanks!
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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
-from Abraxia: Spear of the Everchosen
#Warhammer #AgeOfSigmar #BookSky #BlackLibrary
September 11, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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
-from Abraxia: Spear of the Everchosen
#Warhammer #AgeOfSigmar #BookSky #BlackLibrary