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[Will Wight is Kickstarting an animation for their Cradle series! The Kickstarter is already funded and I was not aware of it during my break, but shouting it out for people to see. Fantasy stories moving into other mediums is always great to see, especially newer ones! Check it out here!]     The next […]

Snow was still billowing down like great, thick blankets of white fabric draping themselves over Liscor. A final white sheet for the winter; a lie from the skies. After all—the days after would not be so snowy. The final month of winter, the sixteenth and last month of the year, was a battle between the […]

(Make sure you have read 9.70 Pt. 1-3 before continuing reading. All three parts of the chapter were released at once along with the Epilogue for Christmas.)   [I am taking a month’s break as well as Christmas off. I will be back February 3rd for Volume 10. —pirateaba]     The last vestiges of […]

It was all going wrong. Admiral Rosech lost his first fight that night against Titanguard Etrogaer. The two fought across the ship of the Golaen giantfolk, and he drove his blade into the man’s side, tearing apart mithril chainmail, huge links of metal. But Etrogaer was too large—and his roar of pain was followed by […]

“I never knew Aldrail was like that.” The passing of Plainsblood and Captain Aldrail shook Admiral Maxy a different way. The half-Elf kept her eyes fixed on the ship behind her. She didn’t want to say it, but part of her thought less of him. That Gnoll had it all in his paws, and that […]

It sounded like the falling rain. His heartbeat, that was. He could hear it as his rain-slicked hands worked, echoing from the tips of his fingers through his body. Rabbiteater’s heart drummed like the rain, a downpour that reminded him of the rapping beat of Calanfer’s drums during the procession. Fast and light. It sounded […]

“I’m meant to die, you know.” “Shush.” Ksmvr and Vofea were circumnavigating the entire maze from the outside, looking for a clue on how to find the other Horns—or just a less visibly trapped way in. He was moving deliberately, alert for traps. Vofea was more relaxed. Her hooves made a soft clicking sound on […]

(I am taking a break to get ready for the final chapter of the Solstice. I will begin working on the 14th, but I may give myself until the 19th of December to make sure the chapter is as good as it can be.)     In the days leading up to the Solstice. During […]

(This chapter has a trigger warning for disturbing content. Click here for details. This is not a light warning.) [A trigger-free version of the chapter, edited to remove the bulk of the disturbing scenes and describe the events therein, is located here. The password is ‘traumaFree’ without apostrophes.] <A summary of the chapter has also […]

“Serve me.” It was what Kasigna said again and again, and each time, they refused. Necromancers, masters of death no matter their form, stood before her. Not a single one knelt. “Who wakes me from my slumber? Have the Walled Cities died?” The Gnoll rasped in his coffin. His eyes were black, and he was […]

[This chapter has been split into two parts for easier readability. Given the length, I caution you to pace yourself reading. However, I understand wanting to read through, so I have elected to post both parts at once. For your reference, this is 47,000 words long.] (Given the length of this chapter, I will skip […]

“When I was newly born, with my first breath, I sentenced my mother to death. For she had been the Goddess of Death, and to create new life was anathema. They called my home Theiygiles. My pantheon ruled across lands far stranger than these; I remember floating isles upon the deepest of seas. If mortals […]

<Book 11, The Titan of Baleros is out now.> [The Wandering Inn is running the annual survey. Consider filling it out here.] (We are selling a poster of the Winter’s Eve Solstice artwork. Link is here.)         And then she woke up. It was pitch black when the young woman sat up […]

<Book 11, The Titan of Baleros is out now!>     One day before the Winter Solstice, now, and all the pieces were in a row. Did you see them? Were you even sitting at the board, or were you looking up and wondering if you could see the outlines of fingers against the sky? […]

The hour was coming, and they were still all moving towards their destination. Ships. People. Gods. Soldiers. The living and the dead, and the [Innkeeper] was counting, now, like a woman whispering numbers in a dark, swaying room, waiting for the door to open and a kind of reality to rush in. Sending messages out. […]

A [Witch of Second Chances] sat in her inn, and the night had settled early. It was barely 7, and the skies were dark; the Floodplains were draped in a cloth made of blackness. But fires lifted the darkness up, countless watchfires trying to defy the oppressive gloom and the shadows of the High Passes, […]

[MelasD is launching a Kickstarter for their book, Salvos! I am wishing them the best as one of the few authors I know! Check it out here!]     Then, as he caught his breath and felt the world moving with his arms and legs, he understood how to make the very earth his fist. […]

[Selkie Myth, author of Beneath the Dragoneye Moons has made an amazing collab between the characters of Beware of Chicken, Salvos, Melas, The Wandering inn, and his own story to celebrate Inktober! I know all the authors and encourage you to check out their stories if you ever run out of The Wandering Inn or […]

It might not look like much, a two-story mansion in Liscor. But that was because space was at a premium in a city like Liscor. Even with the new district, richness wasn’t just in having crystal-glass windows shining with magic like the Mage’s Guild. Richness was, as any city goer could tell you—space. The Watch […]