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“It’s working. It’s…working.” Geneva Scala closed her eyes as the first [Message] reached her. The [Doctor] sagged in her chair, as if someone had drained the energy from her. Relief meant that exhaustion took over. It was actually Idis that got her up to deliver the news. And of course, they had to make sure […]

(The Last Tide is now available for purchase! Please consider buying the comic, and thanks for making this possible!)   Now. The isle was known as Feru’s Paradise for reasons completely unrelated to the present. At some point, it had possibly been a verdant ecosystem, the kind your budding [Biologist]-[Naturalist] and evolutionary theorist would have […]

(The Last Tide is now available for purchase! Please consider buying the comic, and thanks for making this possible!)   Of the emerging forces in the world, the Unseen Empire was a fast-growing, fast-expanding proto-nation. It wasn’t fully large enough to call itself a civilization, yet. But it had unusual elements which were already testing […]

In the way of things, Selys Shivertail found she was bored. Not just ‘bored’, like she got during a slow period working at the Adventurer’s Guild, back in the ‘good old days’ when Liscor didn’t have a single Gold-rank team, much less five. Or the bored you got from being stuck in bed with a […]

(The Last Tide is available for preorder! It comes out in August! Check it out here!) (One of our subreddit mods, Akrasia, is putting on a poll for TWI-readers, like last year! Consider filling it out!)   It began with letters. A letter day—although they weren’t red. Nor did they come in envelopes—mostly. You had […]

(I am taking my week break for this month to rest and recharge after this chapter. I will be back on the 28th for Patreon readers! August 1st for Public readers!)   “Mage-Captain.” The Drake stood to attention and turned as Commander Cirille walked up to her post. At night, the [Necromancer] was one of […]

(Volume 2 is now out on Audible along with a 10-page preview of The Last Tide included! Check it out, and this trailer!)     Lord Hayvon, 5th most powerful [Lord] in the world…allegedly…rode for the walls of Rhir. For the border. He only stopped when the speaking stone lit up. “Lord Hayvon. By order […]

(Volume 2 is now out on Audible along with a 10-page preview of The Last Tide included!)   In Izril, Erin Solstice woke up to Rose screaming. Which was followed by Imani screaming for help. She ran out of her room with a knife and jar of acid as half the guests came out looking […]

In antiquity, the Walled Cities south of the High Passes had been constructed as a network. Not alone. Well, antiquity was a relative term. If you looked, you could clearly find a time when the High Passes weren’t so…high. When Harpies were an indigenous race. When there were more than six Walled Cities. But that […]

(A preview of Volume 2 is now up on Soundcloud! Check it out here! The audiobook will be release July 14th!)   Selphids. The Bodysnatchers of Baleros. Parasitic, one of the most mysterious races in the world. And one of the most reviled, distrusted— Well, not as bad as Demons. Not as bad at all. […]

(A preview of Volume 2 is now up on Soundcloud! Check it out here! The audiobook will be release July 14th!)   Another day passed. And whatever madness, glories, tragedies or acts of fate had passed, the next day the world remained. Well…for now. She woke up in the rolling, bumping darkness and realized she […]

(Warning: Last chapter for Patreons was cut by about 5,000 words. Check the ending so you’re not confused about this one!)   Mrsha had failed. The Fortress Beavers—the last remnants of the Defenders of the Cave—now occupied The Wandering Inn. The [Garden of Sanctuary] was their home. Lyonette had objected; Erin had overruled. The [Princess] […]

It started with decorations. As with every city, the Watch had places where the [Guards] liked to be posted. Places where you got less trouble, free food, or just a breath of fresh air. In every city, there were the good streets and bad streets. Good positions awarded to a [Guard] in need of an […]

(The Last Tide graphic novel will be coming out in August! More details in the Author’s Note below and on the page here. Also, the author is on break until June 23rd for Patreons, the 27th for Public readers!)   Wistram Academy had endured since time immemorial. It had been occupied, knelt to foreign kingdoms, […]

[Spearmaster Level 36!] [Skill – Recall Weapon: Spear obtained!]   [Guardsman Level 17!] [Skill – Eyes In The Back obtained!]   The Drake opened his eyes as the sun hit his head. Sometimes the announcement came in the mornings. If he fell asleep and it didn’t wake him up, it lingered in his mind. Like […]

To those who knew him, Archmage Viltach was known as ‘The Archmage of Terandria’. A curious title—but people would refer to him as the Terandrian Archmage and others would know what they meant. Not the ‘Human Archmage’, because there were three out of the seven. Six now, and only two Humans if you took into […]

Soccer. What a repugnant little word. Football, the sport of sports, was spreading across the world. You couldn’t put the Djinni back into the bottle. And you couldn’t get a Dragon in a bottle in the first place. The point was that the world changed with a game of kick-the-ball. Because, as scholars had observed—the […]

In Rhir, Tom the [Clown] was a [Hero]. Two classes of arguably different natures. Although he would call them the same. He was mad. Laughing, sequestered in his room when not killing things. And beloved. Beautiful women threw themselves at him. People had copied his face paint. He, more than the others, was an icon […]

(Volume 2 of The Wandering Inn is now available for preorder on Audible!)   The Dragon slept in his cave. It was not—unusual. Sleeping Dragons were part of myth and legend. It was only when they woke up that trouble started. Usually. Sleepwalking Dragons were their own set of problems. Or they had been. The […]

(Volume 2 of The Wandering Inn is now available for preorder on Audible!)     One Week Ago.   If you got the invitation, well, that wasn’t anything special. If you attended—that meant something. But not much. If attendance was a sign of complicity, then at least a quarter of Izril’s nobility were guilty. But […]

(The story is now on break until May 23rd! May 26 for Public readers.)   A new day dawned. And with it, a [Princess] rose from her bed. An [Innkeeper] rolled out of her bed and onto the floor. A Hobgoblin [Bard] yawned, checked the sun, and put the pillow over his head. A white […]

Warning: If you are upset by narratives involving consent, please skip this chapter.   For the brave, the dreamers who yearned to see that which no one had ever seen before, another world was a dream. Earth had so few places left that were unexplored. And of them—they were the depths of the sea, crevasses […]

It was so hot. A burning, all-consuming heat. Teresa Atwood gulped water, but it did little to quench her thirst. She felt as if she couldn’t cool down. Her blood was racing. And her heart wouldn’t calm down. The young woman kept drinking. And then she threw up. The water she’d gulped down so fast […]

“We have a new enemy. A name, among the countless species. Magnolia Reinhart.” Xrn spoke calmly to the images of the assembled Queens. Her voice was controlled, but her eyes belied her true state. Darkness crossed each of the colors. Black fury. Klbkch stood by Xrn’s side. Marveling. Not at her, or the unrest of […]

In the darkness, there was fire. And fire, that elusive, dangerous thing, was brightest as night fell around Invrisil. It was a horrible thing. It could burn the land to ash. But it was also essential. And it was at its most beautiful when the shadows closed in. Fire. A contradictory thing. It blazed in […]