Justin Hill

This looks great!

KINGMAKER SE with silhouette of Sycorax on the cover.

KINGMAKER back cover with Raithe rappelling from a Gothic arch.

ASSASSINORUM: KINGMAKER is getting a Special Edition release!

Absolutely love this cover with its characterful silhouettes and how it includes the knight death masks from Dominion’s Basilica.

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Morning of rediscovery…

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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩Early 1800s, from Russian.

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Morning of rediscovery…

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So early!

Finally, folks mentioned in this week's column include...

Vortex Magazine, @johnfrench.bsky.social @justinhillauthor.bsky.social @markalatham.bsky.social @guyhaley.bsky.social

#Warhammer #BookSky #BlackLibrary

Spent my morning with one of the great artists of the world: Hiroshige

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…This would be almost comical if the implications were not so potentially far reaching.’

Can 'China Studies' still be trusted? It is generally agreed that Britain needs to improve its China capabilities. But what happens when institutions responsible for building those capabilities are compromised by the Chinese Communist Par...

‘In other words aspiring diplomats and business people, looking to take on some of the most sensitive and challenging roles in business and diplomacy, are having their language skills (and probably much else) assessed by a CCP-front organisation.
www.spectator.co.uk/article/can-...

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LOVE the new Isstvan diorama at Warhammer World

#warhammercommunity #horusheresy #horusheresy30k #hardforheresy #isstvan

a rock and roll sign that is burning brightly ALT: a rock and roll sign that is burning brightly

😜 thanks man!

Great to see Minka in all her forms at the Warhammer World Museum this week.

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To cut or not to cut?

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early 15c., "to keep wet; to soak, saturate;" also figuratively "to cause to absorb" (feelings, opinions, etc.), from Latin imbuere "moisten, wet, soak, saturate," figuratively "to fill; to taint," a word of uncertain origin, perhaps from the same root as imbrication.

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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩early 15c, from French. Meaning has evolved to a more figurative meaning.

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Sometimes you need to tell, not show.

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general name for the hard, calcareous skeleton excreted by certain marine polyps, c. 1300, from Old French, from Latin corallium, from Greek korallion, a word perhaps of Semitic origin (compare Hebrew goral "small pebble," Arabic garal "small stone").

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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩c.1300 from Old French.

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Took my lad to warhammer world for a last game of Horus Heresy v2 and he crushed me 11-1 😱😱😱

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Signed copies @ Warhammer World!

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In praise of cut and paste.

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from German and Dutch nursery stories.

It is probably ultimately from the notion that storks nesting on one's roof meant good luck, often in the form of family happiness. It is a marsh bird naturally, the nesting on rooftops seems to be an adaptation to humans.

tall, stately wading bird, Middle English stork, from Old English storc

Traditionally a symbol of fidelity and amiability but also the subject of odd legends. The children's fable that babies are brought by storks (told by adults unready to go into details) is in English by 1854,

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"stiff, unyielding, inflexible, firm, not easily bent," early 15c., from Latin rigidus "hard, stiff, rough, severe," from rigēre "be stiff" (from PIE root *reig- "stretch; be stretched; be stiff").

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A simple way to improve any novel.

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Brilliant resource of Lidar maps of the UK.
www.archiuk.com

Here the lost remains of a medieval village near me.
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