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If you hadn’t heard of her, you weren’t from this continent. Or you were deaf. Her songs were on every young person’s lips. They were played in royal courts and pubs. They called her the Singer of Terandria. Her class was [Popstar]. Her name was Cara O’Sullivan. She looked down from the moving, decorated stage […]

[I am taking a ~mysterious break~ for one update on the 18th, and I will be back on the 21st of December with a chapter and explanation! Maybe. See Author’s Notes for details.]   Would you like to know a secret? A big secret. A top-tier secret. You could get someone to pay for an […]

“He was right, all along. I think I knew it, deep down, or at least, I thought he had a point. But he was right. Necromancy is just magic. It is all just magic. Everything we are…” The half-Elf hesitated. She took the circlet off her head and stared at it. She dropped it, and […]

Questions. They woke him in dreaming. Normally, he dreamed of nothing, not even ambition. The world ended in between the time his eyes closed and opened. Rarely, he had dreams. In this one, he was chasing something. Fighting through dark waves breaking on an endless beach. Chasing something. An idea. Something—which, in his dreaming state, […]

[Mother of Learning is out on Amazon! Consider buying it to support an amazing (finished!) web serial! The link is here!]   If you didn’t know that sad story, you were hardly to be blamed. It did not matter to most people. It just was one personal life that affected a family—a bit more given […]

There were many things that people affectionately liked to call ‘hell’, in this or any other world. Often, it was a rather subjective term that seemed to range from mildly-inconvenient to a genuinely nightmarish situation. Rhir was an excellent example of how the term could apply, in geography, event, and the simply nightmarish array of […]

[See that header up top? Book 5 on Audible. E-book’s also coming out on the 23rd. Consider buying it!]   (I am on break until the 30th for Patrons so I can go and visit family for Turkey-day. Apologies, and hope you have a good one yourself! I…don’t like turkey that much.)   Is it […]

[See that header up top? Book 5 on Audible. E-book’s also coming out on the 23rd. Consider buying it!]   (The Wandering Inn now has a fan-podcast! Read this Reddit post to learn about ‘No Killing Goblins’, which has an intro video here, and the podcast’s first episode here!)   The Meeting of Tribes had […]

It was everywhere and nowhere. That kind of riddle. Something you carried with you, the land that could be as vast as infinity or smaller than any island. Your safest home. A prison. What am I? No…where am I? The longer she asked herself, the harder she tried to focus, the more difficult it became. […]

(The author is on break until the 13th of November for Patrons! I am also taking Thanksgiving week off to visit family so bear that in mind. Thanks!)   The truth was he was just fast when he needed to be. Fast, and gifted. Think about what that meant. He was gifted. And old—that meant […]

Chaldion of Pallass was a bastard. Not in the original meaning of the word, which had everything to do with genealogy and was such a Terandrian word. Simply in the pure force of what it meant. There were other words that could be used. Chalk-assed, coal-hearted tunnel weasel were milder epithets. The really bad ones […]

It is a terrible thing for a child to exceed their parents. It probably happens to most children, if only in terms of physical strength or something as vain as beauty—when the child eclipses the adult. However, sometimes it becomes even more painful than that. The child accomplishes something truly extraordinary, and then their parents […]

Ksmvr of Chandrar was no naturalistic force in the world’s consciousness. That did not mean he didn’t deserve to be there. Only that he was made. Of course, he had to have the right stuff to appear, and it had to be the right moment. Yet not even Ksmvr would deny the fact that he […]

It was a strange thing they saw. Almost incomprehensible in that first moment, especially for many who were not familiar with the idea. Then it caught in the mind, like a burr to the imagination. A brilliant idea, a natural extension of something they had already been led towards. After all, it had flowed like […]

[The Wandering Inn is on its monthly break until October 16th for Patreons, when the edited chapter is due to be written! It may be delayed or the 1st Draft released then, and the edited version later. See you then!]   “The worst thing that could happen has come to pass. We are damned. This […]

[Barbara Clark will edit a chapter in October! Look forward to it! Also, vote in the Patreon poll! These two things are not related. At all.]   “One. Kiscre. Two. Highsword. Three. Seizhe. Four…” “I don’t know Seizhe.” “Mountain City Tribe.” “Mm.” “Four. Filthblade.” “Redfang. How many?” “Over three dozen. Held a hill.” “Mm. Not […]

A Gnoll and a Drake without hats walked into a casino. If you laughed, it was only because you had mistaken the smiles on their faces for something else. At roughly the same time, other important people gathered. Not fellows. Not if you called Navine Gemscale and Helessia Gemscale ‘fellows’. Magnolia Reinhart. The First Gardener […]

[I did another interview with the friendly Fantasy Inn! Check it out here!]   It was now time to ask questions, even if the answers were undesirable. Simple questions with answers like barbs, if you asked them right. If you got truthful answers. Each one of them knew all the little lies, half-truths, omissions you […]

“There are but two laws in this world as they apply to all folks capable of levelling, be they winged or finned, small or large. There is law for those of low-level. And law for those who level higher than the rest.” The Book of Levels, Chapter 4. On the whole, Teresa Atwood found it […]

All things considered, he had been extraordinarily patient. To a reason; and he did believe reason was a tenet that should be held in high esteem. He did use logic, and patience was an inescapable part of that attitude. There were reasons he had delayed. Wistram—the Earther connection—no, what he now dubbed the Earth connection. […]

He knew all the stories—or enough of them—and the history, from both worlds. Even so, the Goblins seemed so…different from any generic monster in a video game to Kevin that he never thought of them like that. They didn’t look like dirty, horrific evil placeholders in the army for the heroes to kill by the […]

[The Wandering Inn will be on break until the 14th of September for Patrons!]   …After all, what was the worst that could happen? Oblivion. Nay, worse than oblivion. A depth of horror and agony unfathomable. Death as kindness. Existence where suffering pitied you, and corruption—oh, yes. Corruption of more than just you and those […]

From the moment she was old enough to crawl, Serafierre val Lischelle-Drakle had been told that the day someone who wasn’t family or another Vampire found out what she was—she would die. Her family had, with well-meaning intent to keep her safe, and arguably bad parenting, traumatized Fierre with nightmares about being staked to death, […]

Unfun fact: of the countless illicit and legal substances over all of history, intoxicants to hallucinogens to medicines, mind-altering drinks, ingestibles, snacks, and every manner of potion and alchemical creations, no one ever made alcohol for Golems. Of course, many people would not naturally see the point of such a creation and its lack spoke […]