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Chris Thursten
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Author and game developer. Former Principal Creative Lead on Hytale at Hypixel Studios. Stories for Black Library. He/him https://linktr.ee/cthursten
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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...
The hardback edition of 'Abraxia: Spear of the Everchosen'. A horned warlord rides a barded monster against the backdrop of a burning city.
October 18, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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Grand Moff Tarkin says that the target area is only two metres wide. It's a small thermal exhaust port right below the main port. The shaft leads directly to the reactor system. A precise hit will
October 8, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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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!
goblin.cool goblin @goblin.cool · Oct 4
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!
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 ...
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October 4, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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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.
A set of Cities of Sigmar Command Corps miniatures including a number of small conversions. Cities of Sigmar leader miniatures including Galen and Doralia Ven Denst as well as a Marshall and his Relic Envoy.
October 4, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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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.
October 4, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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Unutterably proud of my boy Paul, and his boy, which is… this…
paulscottcanavan.com Paul Scott Canavan @paulscottcanavan.com · Sep 28
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
Distant Melody - FURBY EDITION. This is the card art with the frame. Shows a Furby leaping in the air, singing, with other Furbies in the background. A lush, mountainous landscape with big old clouds. "Choose a creature type. Draw a card for each permanent you control of that type. (Furby language nonsense)" Distant Melody - FURBY EDITION. This is the art. Shows a Furby leaping in the air, singing, with other Furbies in the background. A lush, mountainous landscape with big old clouds.
September 28, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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A fair and much appreciated write-up - thanks!
theblacklibrarian.bsky.social Jay “Lorehunter” Kirkman @theblacklibrarian.bsky.social · Sep 19
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
September 19, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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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
September 11, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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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!
zufosfatebreaker.bsky.social Zufos Fatebreaker @zufosfatebreaker.bsky.social · Sep 5
Hot damn the Abraxia book is great.

Like I would place it as potentially one of the best now having finished it. Maybe not since a Realmgate War novel has a book done so much to involve itself in the game world. Heavily nodding to all manner of other media AoS has produced. Loved it.

#AgoOfSigmar
The Limited edition of Abraxia: Spear of the Everchosen book
September 5, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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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.
September 5, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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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.
theblacklibrarian.bsky.social Jay “Lorehunter” Kirkman @theblacklibrarian.bsky.social · Aug 30
LIBRARY ACQUISITION 8/30

Let’s make it a double today, with this stunning treatment of @cjpt.bsky.social ‘s newest, Abraxia, Spear of the Everchosen. These #AgeOfSigmar Character Series LE’s are killing it.

#Warhammer #BookSky #BlackLibrary
August 30, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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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...
August 16, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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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!
A limited edition copy of the novel ‘Abraxia: Spear of the Everchosen’ by Chris Thursten. A stylised relief depicts a horned woman in armour flanked by a burning spear and her war-beast.
August 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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A little Pale Tides writing, as a treat 🖤
Text that reads: Beneath the pale moon’s glow, fractured memories of the earth awaken. They stir in deep forests and black lochs. In ruined forts atop frigid peaks. In labyrinthine cities that scream in the language of industry. Monsters. Manifestations of Nature - Her glory, and Her wrath. Echoes of a time when the world knew balance. When spirits, beasts, and humankind lived side by side. Not always in peace, but in understanding. Then came that great forgetfulness called Enlightenment. And with it, the unravelling of the Old Ways. The rise of the machine, of fire and steel. And the birth of its Church. They poisoned minds with fear and the promise of their Miracle. They shattered balance and awoke things that should have been left to dream. They burned the witches. Thus, are we called. We are Hexen. War witches. This is the calling for which we were exiled, while the world rotted away. This is the midnight summons of Her final war. Under a pale moon, our exile ends. Under a pale moon, we return. Text that reads: In the heart of the old forest stands a solitary figure. Her hair frames broad shoulders as it cascades down her back, crowfeather black, burnished silver in the fading sunlight. She is tense as she peers into the gloom. Her fingers drift instinctively to the wand of crooked ash that hangs at her hip. Yet it is her eyes that hold the truest danger: they are smouldering coals, low remnants of an inferno that threatens to reignite at any moment. As she searches the trees for signs of movement there is a whisper in the air around her. It is the sound of dry leaves crushed beneath a killer's stalking boot; it is the sound of ancient parchment turned to reveal something forbidden, forgotten. It is all of these things and none. It is danger. A moment later, she is joined by another. Lithe and graceful, their bare chest is a shifting tapestry of inked sigils. Rings bedeck their fingers, and their long, well-worn coat trails in the leaves, pockets overstuffed with herbs and stubs of chalk and bone. They smile, and their shoulders ease, taking on a measure of their friend's watchful burden, perhaps, but wearing it differently. The third member of their coven arrives – or perhaps he has always been here. He unfolds from the shadows with a motion like curling smoke, draws back his hood, and silently gestures into the distance. The blood witch lets his familiar speak for him. She is a coiled shape, languid and deadly, hanging about his neck. She hisses. She sees what they cannot. And. It. Is. Moving. In the space of a thought the witch draws his dagger, already slick with fresh blood. Fingers find the hilt of a wand, and grasp a fistful of herbs and bird's bones – And the fading sun loses itself beyond the horizon. And the moon begins to rise. And the forest explodes with life.
July 22, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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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!
Cover art for Warhammer Quest: Silver Tower
July 5, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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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.
Concept art for Hytale featuring masked warriors trekking through deep snow.
June 23, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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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.
A paperback copy of ‘Darkoath’ by Chris Thursten
May 24, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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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!
paulscottcanavan.com Paul Scott Canavan @paulscottcanavan.com · May 17
Having a lovely, normal time at Birmingham CommandFest 🤘

Huge thanks to @cjpt.bsky.social for helping and keeping me sane thus far.
It’s me. I sing the cards My pal Chris. He is helping me stay alive. Very good art
May 17, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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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.
Book cover for ‘Abraxia: Spear of the Everchosen’ by Chris Thursten
May 7, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Some Magic: the Gathering cards I painted which are really special to me 🖤

Info in the alt text!
Zhalfirin Decoy was a modern interpretation of Master Decoy, a card I had in my first ever deck. It was so fun reimagining that weird character. I've talked about this before, but Chain to Memory was an attempt to paint my experiences with depression and ADHD time loss. I drank a bottle of whisky and tried to put myself in that space while working on it, which is not recommended, but was a fascinating dive into my own weird psyche. I've painted a few Planeswalkers in cards (Kaya, Chandra, Wrenn and Six), but this was my first proper Planeswalker card and the first example of two appearing in a single card. This was a BATTLE - the composition was so hard to pull off and I really struggled with a personal goal to have their poses kinda mirrored (so they'd almost look like a single figure at a glance). I repainted this so many times. Faerie Vandal is still one of my favourite compositions ever. I remember really feeling myself on this, getting the storytelling into the character and I still think it holds up well. Not a very exciting card, but exciting for me, personally.
March 28, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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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!
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An in-game image of Hytale featuring lush trees with various colored leaves. Text is overlayed reading "Development Update"
March 28, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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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.
A glass award for ‘Best Army - Judge’s Choice’ with one of the winning miniatures.
March 23, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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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.
A group of five Chaos Warrior miniatures for Warhammer: Age of Sigmar. A group of twenty Chaos Warrior miniatures for Warhammer: Age of Sigmar.
March 6, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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Voting for Black Library Book of the Year closes tomorrow! If you’re considering voting for either Darkoath or Grombrindal: Ancestor’s Burden, I can personally guarantee that you will be voting for a book that has a guy with an axe on the cover. www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articl...
Vote for your Black Library Book of the Year for 2024 - Warhammer Community
Which will you pick?
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February 22, 2025 at 3:03 PM