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(Author’s Disclaimer: The numbers contained within this chapter are entirely based on one person’s perception and have no necessary connection with reality.)   It was one thing after another, these wild days. It proved the Gnolls were right. They always were when the wind changed. More than [Historians], more than [Kings] and nations—Gnolls had successfully […]

(Trigger Warning: See the link here for details.)   Now you saw it. All the little lies added up. The face staring back at you through the mirror changed. It might be you, that pointed nose, the irises like cat’s eye stone, light brown and sometimes piercing. A fitting stare for a dedicated student, someone […]

Trigger Warning: See the link here for details.   Geneva Scala dreamed of the past, some days. She knew, then, she was in a memory. They called it ‘lucid dreaming’ on Earth, and the [Doctor] had, privately, always thought it was a hoax. Despite people claiming to be able to control their dreams, it bordered […]

(The Wandering Inn survey has a statistics page! Check it out here!)   When she woke up in the inn, Mihaela Godfrey felt like a young woman for the first second of every morning. In that brief moment—it felt like the inn hadn’t changed from when it first opened. Which was silly because it did […]

[The Merch Store has Halloween-themed merchandise! Like this mug! Check out the store here!] [Book 8, Blood of Liscor, is coming out on Audible and as an e-book soon! Here’s the pre-order page!]   (The author is on break until October 25! Are you getting tired of announcements? Are you clicking on the links?)   […]

There was something bittersweet about seeing them coming out the garden to cheers. Together, the [Innkeeper] and the Goblin. And the bee, but she didn’t count. Niers noticed, of course, but only because Apista was flying. He stared blankly at her. “Is that…fire? And here I was going to send her a leg. And a […]

[Andrew Rowe has come out with Book 4 in his series, Arcane Ascension! Silence of the Unworthy Gods (great title, we’re on the same page), is out now! Check out the book and series here!]   In Baleros, there is a [Doctor]. Her name is Geneva Scala, and she needs to be found. She is […]

As they drove away from Riverfarm, Erin was napping. A little witch curiously watched her face as Erin dropped off. One moment, she was full of energy, talking about her [Garden of Sanctuary] and promising to show Nanette around—the next? She quietly fell asleep. Or rather, began dozing. She began murmuring and nodding along to […]

For the daughter of a legend, Wiskeria’s eyes were too normal. They were yellow and green, the two colors separate, not some blend of the two, and quite resembled a plain field of grass and daffodils on a sunlit day in nature. Compared to her mother’s gaze—well, all Erin Solstice knew were stories. Numbtongue had […]

[I wrote an essay because…because. Check it out here. https://wanderinginn.com/essay-ais-and-the-future-of-writing/]   Some day, huh? What were you supposed to do after meeting a Dragon? Cold shower, lots of cuddling with significant others? Talk with friends and make sure you hadn’t gone crazy? The funny thing was that the instinct to run around in the streets […]

Now, the Dragonthrone. They called it different names, those Humans who had never looked upon a Dragon’s face except set in stone, captured in some snarling mural where their only purpose was to be a beast, mentor, or companion to Humans or other species. That was not the fault of later generations. Every species told […]

The life of an average citizen in Terandria was said to be better than most Izrilians, Balerosians, Chandrarians, and especially Blighted Kingdom citizens. Not because their levels were higher or any nation was more magically or technologically advanced, but because Terandria, as a continent, was safer. As a Human-dominated continent, the interspecies wars, such as […]

[I am on break until the 20th of September! Also, Blood of Liscor, Book 8 of The Wandering Inn is now available for pre-order on Audible!]     Archmage Valeterisa Imarris of Izril had met with the children of Earth briefly to understand their world and witness one of the great phenomena occurring in the […]

Memory was a dangerous thing. It played tricks on you, mocked you, showed you scenes of torment again and again, and, in theory, was also how you learned. Remembering everything was a curse. Remembering nothing was the opposite of bliss. Everything in moderation, or balanced, was probably the [Philosopher] or [Bar Drunk]’s takeaway on the […]

The Antinium really knew how to ruin someone’s day. And by ‘someone’, that was everyone. There was something sobering, in a truly unpleasant way, in seeing the distant Antinium threat on the wrong side of the High Passes. It told men like Calidus Reinhart that the Antinium had a route to the north. Not just […]

While Erin Solstice was learning a lesson about [Witches], the rest of the world had their eyes on Izril. Not in a grand sense of it being the most important part of the world. Arguably, the King of Destruction took priority there. He was now back with every living member of his Seven, and Nerrhavia’s […]

Inkarr the Traveller was what Gnolls called her. She was, to ask the Longstalker’s Fang Tribe, a sociable, kind Human. Someone who got exasperated by their rolling ‘r’s in her name, a wonderful emissary for her people. Brave, fond of a silly [Guardsman]—and Lehra Ruinstrider’s paramour, among about a hundred others. She didn’t…act like that […]

After so long, she was coming here. There was more than a bit of fate in it, but fate was such a fickle thing. As immutable as belief and mountains, and as fragile as both before will, chance, and magic. Even so, like belief, like a dream or a mountain, only the most foolish ignored […]

Vacation Report by pirateaba — Let me paint you a picture. Although I’m not much good at painting, I’ll try. I was once told that the United Kingdom in large and London especially was a miserable place (in some ways) purely on the weather. In that it rained constantly. I have been to London—once—but I […]

[The author is on an actual vacation for once, until August 20th! I’ll be out of contact until then.]   In an age of ghosts and reviving legends, in a time of uncertainty after the Goblin King and Antinium had struck Izril low, it seemed as though the world was once again poised to shift. […]

[Firebrand is a new story by a friend of mine, Quill! It’s about elemental spells, a magic school, and a journey to become the Firebrand. Consider giving it a read here! https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/56176/firebrand]   “Let me in.” A Drake stood like a [Beggar] in front of a [King]’s treasury. In every sense of the word, because […]

[The author is on break until July 30th! See the Author’s Notes for more things. There is an AMA on r/progressionfantasy on the 26th too!]   She did not appear in dreams often. Never for Mrsha before now, in fact. Which suggested that perhaps even dreams were afraid of Belavierr. There she stood, in what […]

Another day dawned over The Wandering Inn, and a few people started their day in very different ways. The sun was welcome these days, if only because the fall was getting cold. Cold enough that Lyonette had gone down to rekindle the fireplace in the hopes that it would warm up the inn. She’d doubled […]

“Hail.” A simple greeting yet, as with everything of their kind, the nuance had layers of history behind it. Meaning that even they had forgotten. Hail. The other Dragons spread their wings, answering the brief comment with motion, not words. He folded his own wings as he landed. A gesture of peace among allies, however […]