Noah Van Nguyen

A digital concept art painting depicting a T'au Devilfish transport vehicle and three Fire Warriors in a snowy, icy environment. The scene uses a cool color palette of blues, blacks, and whites. One soldier sits on the side of the hovering vehicle aiming a rifle, another perches on the roof, and a third kneels in the foreground on the right.

A rough, faint line-art sketch of the same scene on a white background. Loose grey pencil-like strokes outline the geometry of the Devilfish transport and the gestures of the three soldiers, showing the initial structural phase of the artwork before value or color was applied.

After reading @noahvannguyen.bsky.social's fantastic Elemental Council book, I just had to draw something for my sept.

(Apologies if tagging like that is bad form. I don't really know how to use bsky...)

#art #oc #digitalart #tau #warhammer40k #40k

@lumi-nee.bsky.social Tagging me shall cost you merit ☯️

JK of course, thank you. This has codex vibes.

Also reminds me of my paint scheme. Although I use black instead of white for a night-ops feel.

Please do us all a favor and apply to one of GW's illustrator openings when one arises!

K-Pop Demon Hunters getting my six-year-old to ask me real easy questions like:

“Daddy what does ‘napalm’ mean?”

I read this and immediately imagined your conversation:

I don't think I would enjoy that angle, to be honest — it undermines a lot of what I love about the T'au. But I'd love to take on the goddess in my work!

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.

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...

Friend is looking for Space Marine novel recommendations for her son. Anyone vote for anything in particular?

And of course, credit where due to MikiFanMusic

YouTube video by MikiFanMusic Celestial Spear - A Yndrasta Song | Warhammer Age of Sigmar | Stormcast Eternals

Okay, so — holy moly. Is this song about Yndrasta done with AI?

Whether it is or not, 'tis metal AF

www.youtube.com/watch?v=APmn...

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

That meme is cracking me up

😅

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

"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...).

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.

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.

Oh not at all @drruler.bsky.social ! I even agreed with a lot of what you all had to say — and everything else was still very sensible 😃

@lastpositivist.bsky.social I did!! Jen's nickname for Ghodh cracked me up. Actually I lol'd throughout that podcast. Found myself nodding and chuckling a bunch, even during the more critical bits. @drruler.bsky.social @onekuosora.bsky.social The three of you have a great energy!

Thanks @squidvoivoide.bsky.social ! Always a pleasure to know when my writing resonated :)

Thanks @dyslexicoedr.bsky.social !! Glad you enjoyed it

I wish, nodeeper secret meaning here. I just love t'au and love writing and so that thread exists :)

😏 fair point

Hey — I'm still a fan! (Thanks!)

It really is though. This is me just stretching the muscles exploring ideas. I started writing like this as a kid and realized I needed to recalibrate everything and just have fun writing something. (There's no rigor here at all with the lore.)

New Blog Post The Identity Problem, Part 3 [T'au Fanfiction from Noah Van Nguyen]

Part 3 of my epistolary t'au fanfiction :) So much fun to just write

thelingualfantast.com/so/3cPUIAMNF...

“Rompalicious, gambolific lunacy…”

*chef’s kiss*

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

#Warhammer #BookSky #BlackLibrary

Fixed it, thanks for the catch again!

Definitely missing a line! I'll have to go back in there — it was basically along the lines of "new souls"

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

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

I might be overthinking it, but I'd hate to see the opposition side with Musk for expediency's sake, for example. Musk is an enemy of the people. Trump is an enemy of the people. I'm on the people's side.

So agreed. I hope they devour each other and the infighting creates need for real change.