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Noah Van Nguyen
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Writer. Black Library author of "Godeater's Son," "Yndrasta: the Celestial Spear," "Elemental Council," and more.

Check out my blog, The Lingual Fantast! (noahvannguyen.com)
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They say if you're good at something, never do it for free.

Which is why I continue to write rambling fanfics :)

www.thelingualfantast.com/post/the-ide...
The Identity Problem, Part 4 [T'au Fanfiction from Noah Van Nguyen]
A drone intelligence asks questions, as EPM's base intelligence tells Teacher of an unseen threat.
www.thelingualfantast.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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Friend is looking for Space Marine novel recommendations for her son. Anyone vote for anything in particular?
October 22, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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And of course, credit where due to MikiFanMusic
October 12, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Okay, so — holy moly. Is this song about Yndrasta done with AI?

Whether it is or not, 'tis metal AF

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Celestial Spear - A Yndrasta Song | Warhammer Age of Sigmar | Stormcast Eternals
YouTube video by MikiFanMusic
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October 12, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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This YouTube channel, @DeadliftsForTheDarkGods, publishes content I've been devouring these past few days. What got me is the guy did some voiceovers with sound effects for Elemental Council. A contact sent one my way, I was entranced, and now I'm just down the rabbithole. 10/10
September 30, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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😅
September 22, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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I get the logic, Dept of War sounds more warriorly than Defense. But why stop there? Why not the Temple of War or Cult of Annihilation or Murder Inc or something? Tons of rebranding opportunities being missed right now smh
September 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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"Without the lore, what would Warhammer even be?"

Really apt finding from @rosgakori.bsky.social's work in "the Psychgeist of Pop Culture – Warhammer" (playstorypress.org/books/the-ps...).
August 2, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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Yndrasta was a fun one to write. I have this monster story that I thought would be cool for her: a horror story in Sigmaron where she's hunting down a beast that chews up Stormcast for fun. Kind of like "Murder by Moonlight" turned on its head.
sevvir.bsky.social Sevvir | The Mortal Realms @sevvir.bsky.social · Jul 30
What a better place to read @noahvannguyen.bsky.social’s Yndrasta than on a train through Alaska? It feels right. #BlackLibrary #WarhammerCommunity
A train window looking out into the Alaskan wilderness. In the windowsill is a special edition copy of ‘Yndrasta.’ The cover is an artists portrayal of the winged huntress.
July 31, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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I was glad to see @mehdirhasan.bsky.social's debate on Jubilee for this. In the post-interview clip you could really tell that the event was eye-opening for some of the attendees who realized who they were in politically bed with.
luciust.bsky.social Lucius Tuck @luciust.bsky.social · Jul 22
Okay, but they run our government. Seems like they completely own the debate right now, so someone actually needs to call them on how stupid and deplorable their ideas are to their faces in a public setting.
July 23, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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Thanks @dyslexicoedr.bsky.social !! Glad you enjoyed it
dyslexicoedr.bsky.social PatrickOC (Dyslexicoedr) @dyslexicoedr.bsky.social · Jun 25
I finally finished reading 'Elemental Council' by @noahvannguyen.bsky.social and I got to say I loved it. It reminded me of a scifi version of a Vietnam War drama. Theres so much more to it than that, but thats the short sell. God, those characters will stick with me for a long time.
June 26, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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Part 3 of my epistolary t'au fanfiction :) So much fun to just write

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The Identity Problem, Part 3 [T'au Fanfiction from Noah Van Nguyen]
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June 21, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Reposted by Noah Van Nguyen
theblacklibrarian.bsky.social
“Rompalicious, gambolific lunacy…”

*chef’s kiss*

-from Murder by Moonlight, by @noahvannguyen.bsky.social

#Warhammer #BookSky #BlackLibrary
June 21, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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I have a growing suspicion — and I'm only being half-facetious — that collectively we all imagine Henry Cavill playing every Warhammer character on TV

Emperor: Henry Cavill
Sanguinius: Blond long-hair Henry Cavill
Magnus: 1-eyed Henry Cavill
Alpharius: Henry Cavill in a Henry Cavill mask

et cetera
June 12, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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I work in fraud prevention for my day job. This is really impressive action from GW if you ask me. Honestly very proud to be associated with a company willing to do this
June 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Reposted by Noah Van Nguyen
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Hello? Is this thing on? Anybody from the #BlackLibrary or #GamesWorkshop trawling some hashtags? I would like to request a sequel to Godeater's Son, please. And a Held mini.
Assuming @noahvannguyen.bsky.social is willing, of course. #ageofsigmar
June 1, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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Coworker found out about my secret double life. He bought a copy 😆
May 30, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Don't like Trump, not by any stretch. I'll always consider him a traitor after J6, and his systematic attack on American rule of law disgusts me. But I'll stomach his presidency if he takes a hard line against Russia in Putin's war against Ukraine. Won't vote for him, but I'll support him in this.
May 26, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Been having a lot of fun with this epistolary. It's nice to just write in an exploratory manner and not worry too much about what goes on the page. Also, it's *definitely* been a nice break from the revisions I've been doing for an official project.

www.thelingualfantast.com/post/the-ide...
The Identity Problem, Part 2 [T'au Fanfiction from Noah Van Nguyen]
Disclaimer: Nothing in the text that follows is official Games Workshop material, and none of the content should be construed as official. Read the previous entry here.
www.thelingualfantast.com
May 26, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Reposted by Noah Van Nguyen
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Re-reading (more akin to skimming) Elemental Council a second time for a major project I’m working on, and I’ll be damned if it doesn’t just get better on each read. Hate to come off like a fanboy, but my word, @noahvannguyen.bsky.social …

#Warhammer #BookSky #BlackLibrary
a little boy wearing a hat that says respect is sitting in a crowd .
ALT: a little boy wearing a hat that says respect is sitting in a crowd .
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May 21, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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"Sydney Sweeney could have an entire career of choosing only hits, of never taking a break, and still not reach the kind of money the generation before her made more or less passively once their work was done."
You could be the most popular novelist in the world and not make $21/word to report. You could argue that no writer today is as good or popular as Hemingway was at his peak, but no writer today is even making half or a quarter of what he made, and writers only ever get so famous. If someone were paid $5/word in 2022—which is something I have never heard of happening and is a full $2 more than than anyone I know has ever been paid per word—that would be a quarter of what Hemingway was paid. That writer would be able to pay their rent and health insurance premiums and tuck some money away in savings off a standard-issue story per month, but again, that lucky writer does not exist. The money produced by art has not disappeared. The issue is not that the people of the world value television less than they did in the 1990s. The reality is that the people with the most money have devised, at every turn, new and more bulletproof ways for them to make and keep more money, and for the people who make things to make less. This is the eternal story of labor and management; it just has hot people in it, in this case. Here is the crux of the issue: If Sydney Sweeney cannot afford to take six months off, it is a safe assumption to make that no one in Hollywood without family money can. That means that even one of the most famous and in-demand actresses working right now is less secure than every nepotism baby who sauntered into an audition because their dad had been the legal counsel for Warner Bros. or whatever. It's easy to see how this makes the art those studios produce worse, but also easy to see how it persists. It's also not a world I want to live in. I don't want to exist in a place where the people who make the most money off art don't make it at all
March 9, 2024 at 12:53 AM
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Holy hell — that representation of depression and mental illness in Thunderbolts was soooooo good.
May 3, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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There's an idea that's been fascinating me for a while — so I decided to engage it in a kind of fanfiction epistolary, from the perspective of a T'au researcher.

Nothing official, of course. Just having a bit of fun and thought I'd start sharing it!

www.thelingualfantast.com/post/the-ide...
The Identity Problem, Part 1 [T'au Fanfiction from Noah Van Nguyen]
Noah writes a fanfiction epistolary from the perspective of the T'au Empire, his favorite faction. (It's not official, but it's fun.)
www.thelingualfantast.com
April 28, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Reposted by Noah Van Nguyen
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“You would love them. They are as literal as you.” 😂

-from Elemental Council by @noahvannguyen.bsky.social

#Warhammer #BookSky #BlackLibrary
April 28, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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Tons of interesting reflection here — but one that really struck me. @lastpositivist.bsky.social mentions the Sherden Pact being efficient enough to maintain multiple planetary wars.

When we're discussing economics in Warhammer 40k, it seems like a marvelous way to frame raw economic output:
lastpositivist.bsky.social lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · Apr 9
This morning rather than having fun like a normal person I wrote 5000 words on my thoughts on fictional political economy and its role in fantasy world-building, with reference to 40k.

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Sherden Pact
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April 26, 2025 at 1:58 PM