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John French is a writer and freelance game designer from Nottingham, England. His novels include the Ahriman series from Black Library, and The Lord of Nightmares trilogy for Fantasy Flight. The rest of his work can be seen scattered through a number of other books, including the New York Times bestselling anthology Age of Darkness. When he is not thinking of ways that dark and corrupting beings could destroy reality and space, John enjoys talking about why it would be a good idea... that and drinking good wine.

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Ahriman: Exile (Ahriman #1)

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Your Questions, My Answers

Two weeks ago (ish) I submitted myself to question by internet. Here are the all the answers:
The Horusian Wars, Inquisitors, Incarnation, and all that stuff



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“The world goes quiet and warm.
I am dying, he thinks, I have failed and there will be nothing left, nothing but ash and hungering darkness.
Something within him dims, fluttering to nothing like a flame fading to cold embers.
He tries to raise his sword.
He is falling…
He was…
… running the ashes of a dead world through his fingers.”
John French

“But they are many and he is alone.
This has not come to pass yet, he thinks, this is not happening. I am not dying. This is my fate, what shall be. This is the future, it has not happened yet.”
John French

“The first wall of any fortress was the mind, and doubt could burn it from within before the enemy had even raised a blade.”
John French, The Solar War

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